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

Virtual Office, -$3637. Dow, +171.85, 12778.15. Me, $149 on 4800 shares traded. Dehtrader, $102 on 1100 shares traded. Wincity, $56 on 650 shares traded. OBAT, $32 on 16800 shares traded. Retardo, vacationing Akalawoo, no trades. Denarii, -$25 on 600 shares traded. ... Go to Full Article

154 Expert Traders Right On Your Own Computer Anytime A fellow blogger referred me to the Video Education and Classroom section at INO.com, which contains video and audio lessons complete with workbooks and PDF file lesson hand-outs for over 500 videos available to you On-Demand. ... Go...

FCSX Continues to Continue Now this is a position trade. I have swing-traded (swung-trade?) some FCSX on the way up, but I still own the original shares that I purchased in November at $35.36. That’s about a 50% gain so far and I am confident that I can double my ... Go to Full Article

Trend Day Up – Market is a Broken Record in Reverse I wonder when this market will ever gets its head on straight again or regain its footing, whether up or down. Typically, trend day ups do not follow a trend day down. Often, following any sort of trend day, price consolidates or can ... ...

85 stocks closed at all-time lows Symbol, Price, Volume, Avg. Volume, % Vol. Increase. SPSN, 3.02, 8621134, 2365080, %264.51. JBLU, 4.67, 5898553, 6882840, %-14.30. XRT, 29.81, 2804918, 3681240, %-23.80. BE, 2, 2613025, 3619520, %-27.80 ... Go to Full Article

85 stocks closed at all-time highs Symbol, Price, Volume, Avg. Volume, % Vol. Increase, High Alpha. AUY, 16.98, 21475986, 8437300, %154.53. ABX, 51.48, 13238501, 8635810, %53.29. COIN, 12.3, 12290612, 422902, %2806.25, *. GLD, 89.5399, 10085036, 8197830, %23.02 ... Go to Full Article

A dummy a day: Mosaic Co. (MOS) High-flying MOS gapped up and formed a very nice base before breaking up smoothly in the afternoon. A nice and easy pattern to trade if you have the patience to sit with it for a few hours:. If you bought MOS when it broke above the ... Go to Full Article