Category: Charts/Essays/Reports

The indexes have been slow but select stocks and groups have been offering very good trading opportunities. Here are some stocks from the industrial metals & mienrals group.

On December 11 I wrote a report about the home builders saying they were leading the market. Here’s an update. The group is still doing great. I hope you got some of these.

Yesterday I posted numerous stocks that had broken out during the last week or so, but what I didn’t mention was that most of those stocks came from “safe-haven” groups.

Despite the quiet market and light volume, there have been many very good breakouts the last week+. There’s no way you can get all of these, but you can certainly get a couple.

Options expire this Friday, so let’s take a look at the open-interest on SPY, DIA, QQQ and IWM to see if they hint at movement the rest of the week. Here’s the theory: the market conspires to cause the most pain, to cause the most number of people to lose the most amount of money. […]

Home builder stocks have been leading the market recently. Several stocks from the group have broken out and done well. Here are 4 stocks that were/are on our trading list. I hope you got a couple of these.

Since MLB is moving the Astros to the AL, they should consider other changes that make sense. Here’s how I would re-align MLB’s leagues and divisions.

A story was published by Bloomberg last week that said then Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson told a small group of hedge fund managers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were doomed. This information, which was not public, was essentially insider information.

Yesterday six central banks announced coordinated effort to provide liquidity to the global financial system. Check out this press release. Does it sound familiar?

Two days ago I asked if everyone was having fun. Today I can ask the same question. We know we are in a market dominated and controlled by news from Europe – whether you like it or not.