Cosan (CZZ) This featured as a member pick last week. The stock continues to provide solid bullish action with Thursday's and Friday's action confirming $13.36 as support. The original stop from $12.79 can be raised to around $13.29. ... Go to Full Article

Stock Market Video 1/2/08 Review Solar was strong again today, but the overall market had a rough start to the New Year. looks like youtube has problems. Stock Market 1/2/08 Technical Analysis Review from brian shannon on Vimeo. Go to Full Article

Trading False Breakouts Excellent post (as usual) on Traderfeed LINK. Go to Full Article

Perception isn’t reality, but trade what you see anyway Sweet melons or a big hairy ass? Are objective realities conducive to trading? Or are they better suited to academic questions? (And, indeed, is academia better able to percieve objective facts than a practitioner? ... Go to Full...

Are We Rounding The Rally Corner? As I previously touched on, we had a 90-90 down day on Jan. 4th 2008. According to the Lowry’s study, all we need now is a 90-90 up day for a market bottom. 90-90 Day Today wasn’t it. Although the market went up, it did so lethargically. Volume did flow in...

links for 2008-01-15 Forbes.com - Magazine Article. via maoxian.com. (tags: stocks china toread). Why Technical Analysis is Nonsense - Seeking Alpha. poor guy just doesn’t know how to trade (via neuralmarkettrends.com ). (tags: humor stocks trading) Go to Full Article

Stock Chart Analysis FLIR Stock Chart Analysis FLIR FLIR Systems, Inc. (Public, NASDAQ:FLIR) FLIR's chart is looking interesting as it is showing a lot of bullish divergences. Take a look at how price is making new lows, yet all the indicators are making higher ... Go to Full Article

The More Wine Costs, the More People Enjoy It California researchers have found that people think more expensive wines taste better, regardless of how they taste. “We have known for a long time that people’s perceptions are affected by marketing, but now we know that the brain ... Go to...

Take the Fear Out Of Options With a Straddle 2DIME’S INVESTOR NOTES Monday, January 14th, 2008 A Simple Trade to Take the Fear Out Of Options How many times have you selected a stock, evaluated it, chosen an option strategy and entered the trade only to have the stock move against ... Go...

Wednesday's low for the COMP came close to testing the August lows ... Wednesday's low for the COMP came close to testing the August lows. Will it be enough? Note that on the monthly chart, the actual August low (2386) now corresponds to the long term bull market trendline. Very often, we...

Getting Inside A Brokerage House Brokerage houses are pretty much like offices everywhere, except for the presence of the fascinating paraphernalia of the market. The customers' room in the usual large brokerage house has a quotation board on one wall. Go to Full Article

Brief Hiatus Between battling flu bugs and an exhausting move I'm just not able to get back up to speed here in 08 as quickly as I had hoped. Posting will be light again from me this week but I fully expect to be back working my tail off next week ... Go to Full Article

A Simple Trade to Take the Fear Out Of Options 2DIME’S INVESTOR NOTES Monday, January 14th, 2008 A Simple Trade to Take the Fear Out Of Options How many times have you selected a stock, evaluated it, chosen an option strategy and entered the trade only to have the stock move against ... ...

Some Personal Thoughts on Embracing Trading Mistakes Some Personal Thoughts on Embracing Trading Mistakes. Go to Full Article

Building As you know, I woke up this morning in a good mood. I wasn't just in a good mood, I had been anxious all weekend to trade. I have to say, it has been awhile since I was so motivated to trade. Unfortunately, when I opened my software, ... Go to Full Article