Ben Bernanke Scares The Stock Market Let's just forget about the whole first part of the day. I traded very lightly and was up about $200. Then, the FED cut rates and the market freaked out. I generally trade FED days very lightly. While I like to trade when the market is ... Go to Full...

Over-Conservative Traders: Words from a Master schabacker.png In his book Technical Analysis and Stock Market Profits, Richard Schabacker - also known as ?The Father of Technical Analysis? - wrote parting comments to naturally conservative or risk averse investors that I wanted to ... Go...

Is A Recession Inevitable? As the Fed Funds futures indicated, we got a 50 basis point cut. And since this was what the market expected and had come to rally for ahead of time, we got a muted response. I wrote early this morning:“If we do get exactly 50 basis points, we could flail around...

January 30, 2008 Stock Market Recap The market liked the Fed?s interest rate cut for all of about 60 minutes today. Then it was back to reality as talk of S&P downgrading some $270 Billion in mortgage-backed securities made the rounds:. Standard & Poor?s on Wednesday said ... Go to Full...

Expert Traders Brett Steenbarger?s TraderFeed blog is a superb resource for data-driven market analysis as well as a review of many of the important psychological aspects of trading. I found two recent posts and a promised next installment on trader ... Go to Full Article

The Best of chrisperruna.com in 2007 I went ahead and developed an excellent recap of the ?best of 2007? chrisperruna.com educational articles. I am not including entries written about specific stocks as they can be found by doing a simple search using their ticker symbols ... Go to...

No FED surprise and markets react negatively. I feel it is time to start use short swing trading strategies again. Consumer staples sector (XLP sector ETF) looks weak and I prepared swing short setup in this sector. Here is chart: ... Go to Full Article

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Indices Testing Resistance Above S&P 500 showing 1360-1370 level which was previously a support now turned resistance. Technicals are pointing to the downside, at least for these 2 days prior to the Fed meeting on Wed. Tons of data coming out on the economic ... Go to Full Article

Virtual Office, $4200. Dow, -37.47, 12442.83. Sanglucci, $1425 on 47200 shares traded. Dehtrader, $1035 on 2100 shares traded. Evolution, $679 on 55400 shares traded. OBAT, $550 on 4800 shares traded. Me, $421 on 15600 shares traded. Denarii, $52 on 1000 shares traded. ... Go to Full...

More Earnings Related Weakness today's victim is Amazon.com, Inc.(Public, NASDAQ:AMZN) Click to read the full story from BLOOMBERG Jan. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Amazon.com Inc., the world's largest Internet retailer, said fourth-quarter profit more than doubled on higher ... Go to Full Article

Code Blue For Goldlocks Bernanke & the Fed gave in to the market's demands and handed the market a 50 basis point cut. Adding fuel to the fire, they even boosted expectations for more rate cuts down the road. Indeed, the Fed has put Goldlocks on the ... Go to Full Article

28 stocks closed at all-time highs Symbol, Price, Volume, Avg. Volume, % Vol. Increase, High Alpha. SRR, 20.49, 2857400, 591966, %382.69. AEM, 63.55, 2640120, 2430980, %8.60. WLT, 42.2, 2188674, 1118020, %95.76. ACV, 26.81, 2040010, 741438, %175.14 ... Go to Full Article

Update: The close was even busier I posted too soon. Just got a bunch more messages -- even more traffic records across more systems at today's close:. PSS 30 sec throughput record of 51173.0 messages per second established at 15:45:30. ... Go to Full Article

Wednesday Trade Review 1/30/2008 My head is spinning - The Primaries, State of the Union, and the Fed meeting to just name a few this week. Super Bowl and Super Tuesday are next week. I am just thankful that tomorrow is the end of the month. ... Go to Full Article