Category: Charts/Essays/Reports

Today we check out the put/call open interest to help us determine what may be in store for the rest of the week. The market likes to cause the most pain possible – something that can only be accomplished with a close such that the most number of calls and puts will expire worthless. The […]

First I’m going to apologize in advance. I am about to insult all real estate agents out there. Here’s a personal story (very current) that I think you’ll find interesting, insightful or maybe just rude. …

This is a follow up to Business, Poker & Trading. —————————————————- by Tony Hsieh, CEO Zappos.com In poker, people spend a lot of time learning the best strategy to play once you’re sitting down at a table. One of my biggest “ah-ha!” moments came when I learned from a poker book a long time ago […]

Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com, is writing a book titled: Everything I Know About Business I Learned From Poker. Here are some of his notes in bullet-point form with my own trading-related comments thrown in. …

This is from Tom McClellan, editor of The McClellan Market Report. It was sent out to their email list. Unemployment Rate Rising on Schedule Tom McClellan Editor, The McClellan Market Report

The small caps usually lead. When they out-perform the large caps, the market moves up; when they under-perform, the market moves down. This chart shows the performance of $SML vs. $OEX and how it caused the $SPX to move. …

I read an article today about the health care debate, but it was more specifically about how people on different sides have totally screwed up thought processes. As I read, I couldn’t help but think that traders are no different. Their though process is, in most cases, backwards and a danger to their bottom line. […]

Another frightening chart…debt as a percentage of GDP…we are blowing away the 1930’s. …

According to TrimTabs, here the ratio of insider selling to buying going back to Jan 2004. The CEO of TrimTabs was pretty bearish in a couple videos posted in mid June. …

Very scary…building ourselves a hole we’ll never dig out of…