Weekend Reading - January 12, 2008 I?ve seen a growth in new finance and investment bloggers out there since the start of the new year. Good luck to all of you and enjoy blogging. It?sa great release valve and it?s never a bad thing to bounce ideas off hundreds of folks ... Go to Full...

Market At Long Term Support The market seems to be holding on for dear life at a long term support level. The mid August 2007 low on the S&P 500 Index (SPX) was 1370.60 and in mid March 2007 at 1363.98 - we closed today at 1373.20 But when I say long term, I mean really long term. As in ...

Market Performance in 2008 The market has behaved extremely poorly in 2008, but do you know how dramatic the decline has been for 2008? Let?s compare major US Markets on a percentage basis:. Both the NASDAQ and Russell 2000, which are more volatile and have ... Go to Full Article

A Few Market Observations for Wednesday TraderFeed. Keywords: largest, groups, bargains, updating indicators, post updating. Google News Search | Google Web Search | Google Blog Search. Source: A Few Market Observations for Wednesday, Brett Steenbarger, Ph. ... Go to Full Article

2030 Projections for the Oil & Gas Industry Oil & Gas Industry Perspective: What's Ahead by Robert Williams Although these industry perspectives are designed to identify companies actively involved in all oil/gas industry aspects this issue focuses on year 2030 projections and ... Go to...

links for 2008-01-17 AlterNet: Health and Wellness: The Poor Get Diabetes, the Rich Get Local and Organic. (tags: food nutrition poverty health). YouTube - Hemi-Sync / Brain Sync - Theta Wave w/ Fractals. (tags: video fractals mathematics) ... Go to Full Article

Up Down Up Today?s intraday action was quite nauseating, I thought, in terms of the early swing up, mid-day swing down, and then strong rally into the close. It made for an interesting chart, but also made many traders nautious. ... Go to Full Article

98 stocks closed at all-time lows Symbol, Price, Volume, Avg. Volume, % Vol. Increase. IQW, 0.19, 9955416, 802855, %1140.00. MGI, 5.57, 7810151, 2558580, %205.25. LINTA, 15.2, 5039811, 5220960, %-3.46. NMX, 103.98, 3530565, 1392020, %153.62 ... Go to Full Article

30 stocks closed at all-time highs Symbol, Price, Volume, Avg. Volume, % Vol. Increase, High Alpha. ABT, 60.5, 9650815, 5931020, %62.71. NLY, 18.72, 8735831, 5647810, %54.67. BAX, 64.91, 6703176, 3244840, %106.57. HET, 89.15, 6478079, 2905290, %122.97 ... Go to Full Article

Market View So Far ? Upswing in Progress Despite all the bad press and media in terms of ?recession? and ?bankruptcies? as well as technical analysis pattern breakdowns, the market has shrugged off all this news and rallied strongly the last two days. ... Go to Full Article

Apple Shocks the Shorts Apple Inc (AAPL) dealt some pain to traders who were short Apple stock or options today with a rambunctious end-of-day rally that took price where the proper ?short-entry? occurred. Typically, you want to short moving average (or ... Go to Full Article

A dummy a day: Knight Capital Group Inc. (NITE) NITE would?ve been easy to spot with the big gap up and lots of volume. A trade off of the 30-min candles would have worked, but nothing too exciting:. If you bought NITE when it broke above the 11:30 inside candle at $14.41 with a stop ... ...

Record 2007 for NYSE Euronext From a news release issued this morning:. Record Year for NYSE Euronext in 2007 -World?s Leading Marketplace in Overall IPO Proceeds- -New Record Volumes Across Products and Geographies- -Full-Year 2007 Cash Equities Volumes: + 47% in ... Go to Full Article

Apollo Group Launches Apollo Group (APOL) has shown amazing relative strength in the current market environment, and has actually ?launched? to new highs not seen since 2005. Having nothing to do with space exploration, the Apollo Group is actually an ... Go to Full Article

Stock Chart Analysis FCN Stock Chart Analysis FCN FTI Consulting, Inc. (Public, NYSE:FCN) Looking at the chart for FCN, you couldn't tell that the markets have been mired in a correction. It just hit new all time highs in December and has been drifting back in ... Go to Full Article