i'm alive, really .. but barely. it's been a crazy few weeks with the gyrating market and a spike of new members here at selfinvestors.com but i assure you that posting will resume more frequently very soon. ... Go to Full Article

Here's a bank that has significant exposure to housing/construction loans that is approaching a zone of resistance that make sa short trade in the area a fairly low risk trade. Resistance by way of the downtrend is around $37.50 or so. ... Go to Full Article

On Wednesday, October 22 I said the following about the QQQQ: “One other scenario that could play out is a false bear trap in which the Q's fall below support-maybe to $29, suck in the bears and their short sales and then launch a move ... Go to Full Article

last days were full of fear . i think such times are ideal for entering counter trades. i entered short bond trade during this week and covered on friday as bonds made huge drop. i also entered and covered some gold short trades. ... Go to Full Article

my opinion is that cl futures can go not only to 100 as they did practically today but they are able to move down to 85-80 area. from technical perspective i see huge topping pattern in cl futures with possible drop target into 60 area. ... Go to Full Article

i received reader’s request to tell my opinion about aapl. when i see chart today i noticed these main points:. aapl acts better then stock markets , it has relative strength; aapl is trading between two important support and resistance ... Go to Full Article

technology stocks are not best performer in last weeks. but i have noticed that driv is presenting relative strength. it broke above important resistance levels during august. it is now on the road up . i think it is good candidate for ... Go to Full Article

Well, another painful truism from the excellent Despair site, which specializes in "demotivational" posters and products. What occasioned this skeptical look at self and colleagues was a recent post from Trader's Narrative, which points ... Go to Full Article

In the chart above, we have a plot of the Cumulative Adjusted NYSE TICK Line (blue line) plotted against the ES futures (pink line). Recall that this line simply adds together the one-minute readings of the adjusted NYSE TICK, ... Go to Full Article

Last week's indicator review concluded, "What this means is that we could see more broad, range-bound, whippy action as markets seek an intermediate-term bottom. Unless I see breakout strength in such indicators as money flow, ... Go to Full Article

If you click on the chart above, you can see the ES futures (blue line) from October 23rd and 24th plotted against a 2 hour moving average of the adjusted NYSE TICK (pink line). I've found this intraday moving average of the NYSE TICK ... Go to Full Article

I've spent a good amount of time looking at high yield corporate bond funds and their holdings; most of their charts look like Vanguard's VWEHX shown above: the majority of the year's price declines have occurred just since September. ... Go to Full Article

Traders hoping to put in a bottom this week were disappointed as weakness expanded through the week. The advance-decline line for NYSE common stocks, helpfully tracked by Decision Point (top chart), shows us breaking down to new bear ... Go to Full Article

The Futures Heat Map from Barchart shows red across the broad range of markets (above). Looking at a heat map of sectors within the S&P 500 universe from FinViz, as well as a world heat map, we also see losses across the board. ... Go to Full Article

Today, the S&P 500 (together with the Dow Jones, NASDAQ, and Russell 2000) made a new closing low not seen since roughly March 2003. Let’s take a quick look at this development on the monthly chart and look at a possible, simple Elliott ... Go to Full Article