Market Perception Rules Good morning. Very big gains in overseas markets, speculation of takeovers in the bond insurers, and positive news from Microsoft (MSFT) and Amgen (AMGN) among others have premarket futures well into positive territory. ... Go to Full Article

The Blog is Hot Chrisperruna.com may be hitting a tipping point here in early 2006 as the statistics blew away the slow holiday month of December. They even crushed my best month of November by a wide margin. The best part is that I didn?t have any ... Go to Full Article

Take the Trading Long View One of the most important keys to success in trading is to take the long-run view of things. If you are expecting immediate results you will almost certainly end up disappointed. This morning I came upon a forum post which speaks ... Go to Full Article

The Library Rules So after work, Judy left immediately to go to a dance performance with a friend and I took our daughter out to dinner with some friends. We got home, played, and then I put her to bed. This was at 8pm. I fell asleep until 10:30. ... Go to Full Article

TraderFeed: Emotionally Intelligent Trading - Part Three Emotionally Intelligent Trading - Part Three. In the two previous posts in this series, I advanced the notion that emotional intelligence?not the elimination or minimization of emotion?is essential to successful trading. ... Go to...

Flaming Lips, "Slow Nerve Action" Here's an example of why Youtube is great. I love this song, yet there's no official video. This guy made a really nice video for it, where before none existed. Kudos, moody walking dude. Go to Full Article

Daytrading As A Spiritual Practice The other day, in one of the comment sections here, I told someone that daytrading is analogous to a spiritual practice. Sounds funny, I know, but it's true. I mean, I write down these rules, all of the age-old daytrading adages, like, ... Go to Full...

Sentiment Overview: Week Of February 1st, 2008 Let’s take a quick look-see at the sentiment for this past week:ISEE Sentiment Index has backed off the low extremes considerably and hit 125 - so retail option traders are buying slightly more calls than puts. This is to be expected and unless...

Virtual Office, $2396. SPX +17.40, 1397.00. OBAT, $830 on 7600 shares traded. Evolution, $808 on 64800 shares traded. Retardo, $796 on 2 contracts traded. Me, $155 on 27600 shares traded. Dehtrader, $51 on 2328 shares traded. Wincity, $35 on 200 shares traded. ... Go to Full Article

Stock Market Close 2/1/08 I was "sick" today. Will have a video this weekend. How bout that semiconductor move above 365.00? Go to Full Article

31 stocks closed at all-time lows Symbol, Price, Volume, Avg. Volume, % Vol. Increase. PANC, 0.5, 2015890, 822592, %145.06. CAR, 13.63, 1173086, 966748, %21.34. EVVV, 8.75, 1132909, 875774, %29.36. RMG, 21.19, 464125, 0, %N/A. WRSP, 1.39, 439479, 184907, %137.67 ... Go to Full Article

Intuitive Surgical (ISRG), Flowserve (FLS), Dolby (DLB) & Micros ... Today's SelfInvestors Leading Stocks Moving on Earnings getting this out too late again.. one of those weeks UP ? Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) Medical Appliances & Equipment, fundamental rank , up 20%, gapped up above the 50...

Weekly Wrap It was an exceptionally good week for the market. With the Fed willing to give in to the market's demands for more interest rate cuts, the bulls manage quite a comeback this week. With the continued deluge of disheartening news ... Go to Full Article

49 stocks closed at all-time highs Symbol, Price, Volume, Avg. Volume, % Vol. Increase, High Alpha. HCBK, 16.38, 13021938, 6016670, %116.43. MFA, 10.2, 7833191, 2100210, %272.97. OI, 50.6, 7222224, 1317130, %448.33, *. TUP, 37.05, 3876436, 909563, %326.18 ... Go to Full Article

Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) does it again, sets a new record Exxon made more than $40 billion dollars in 2007, which is a new record for US profits. They beat their own record set in 2006. Revenue in the quarter rose 30 percent to $116.64 billion. For the year, the company pulled in $404.55 ... ...