Oil continued to surge higher this week, but it was a different story for the overall market as traders began to lock in profits following an impressive surge off the March double bottom. I talk about this quite a bit here, ... Go to Full Article

Happy Mothers Day to the few mom's reading Trading blogs on the Internets on Mothers Day. Hopefully you had a great day. No Charts tonight. Joey. Go to Full Article

The excellent Barchart site divides the stock market into 232 sub-sectors and tracks their performance relative to the broad market. The charts above represent the relative strength of the sub-sectors, not price. ... Go to Full Article

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Recall that the NYSE TICK is a measure of very short term sentiment across the broad universe of NYSE issues. When a stock trades at its offer price, that contributes +1 to the NYSE TICK. When a stock trades at its bid price, . ... Go to Full Article

Happy Mother’s Day! Let’s take a quick view at the Dow Jones Index, along with two key sectors which I’ll put in focus today - Materials and Healthcare. First, the Dow Jones ($INDU):. The market failed at the resistance provided by the ... Go to Full Article

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The sentiment landscape has changed much from just a month ago:Sentiment SurveysThe AAII sentiment survey came in this week at 53% bulls - unchanged from last week. Not only is this a very high bullish reading for this indicator, it is the level at which the market topped out last October....

If a commodity is hot, stocks of companies that deal in that commodity should be hot as well, right? Well, not necessarily so. To be sure, energy shares have outperformed the stock market indexes during the recent period of oil price ... Go to Full Article

Newsflashr Business Blogs - Excellent Site! If you want weekly Stock Links - Kirk is the Master! Trader Mike has Great Daily Stock Links; Tim Sykes has a Great New Blog Design; New Car every 10 years or Used Car every 5? ... Go to Full Article

China, India, and the Food Crisis Sat, 10 May 2008 15:57:21 PDT Today’s Chicago Tribune has an article that paints a worrying picture of food consumption trends. Although grain prices are already up sharply, the article suggests the ... Go to Full Article

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I have spent a good part of the week in Stavager, Norway on a sort-of recognisance visit in preparation to pack up our Canadian home and relocate. It is both a scary and exciting time. However, in between house hunting trips, ... Go to Full Article

The Importance of Keeping Score. How much do you know about your trading? * Take the absolute value of your daily gains and losses and divide them by your total portfolio value. How much of your portfolio are you putting at risk each ... Go to Full Article

I just received a call asking about a nearby proprietary trading firm that trains their traders. The catch is that they charge tens of thousands of dollars for the training. We got a taste of this particular scam when Devon was doing . ... Go to Full Article