A scheme to flood the market with counterfeit stocks helped kill Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers — and the feds have yet to bust the culprits by Matt Taibbi, from Rolling Stones Issue 1089 – October 15, 2009
Before the Open (Oct 26)
Good morning. Happy Monday. Hope you had a nice weekend. Dare my sentiment be to the downside right now??? The small caps are lagging the large caps. Here’s a chart comparing $SML to $OEX.
Sector Performance (Oct 23)
This will be the last week the Sector Performance is posted because it doesn’t get very much traffic. I thought many the data would be useful for a quick glance, but perhaps traders already have the info. No biggie. Here’s how the market sectors performed today…
Before the Open (Oct 23)
Good morning. Happy Friday. My suspicion the market over-reacted to the intraday WFC down grade may be true. All of Wednesday’s losses were recovered yesterday, so other than 45 min of trading Wed, the song remains the same.
Sector Performance (Oct 22)
This will be the last week the Sector Performance is posted because it doesn’t get very much traffic. I thought many the data would be useful for a quick glance, but perhaps traders already have the info. No biggie. Here’s how the market sectors performed today…
Before the Open (Oct 22)
Good morning. Happy Thursday. On Sept 12, 2008 (a Friday), Dick Bove, a banking analyst said he didn’t think Lehman Brothers was headed for insolvency. (He has previously stated 3 weeks prior (Aug 22) LEH would attract hostile take over bids around $20/share). Three days later when the market opened Mon, Sept 15, Lehman filed […]
Sector Performance (Oct 21)
This will be the last week the Sector Performance is posted because it doesn’t get very much traffic. I thought many the data would be useful for a quick glance, but perhaps traders already have the info. No biggie. Here’s how the market sectors performed today…
Before the Open (Oct 21)
Good morning. Happy Wednesday. We didn’t have many very good set ups coming into this week – the charts needed to reset. Many stocks had already broken out and rallied nicely…others just weren’t interesting. So here we are after two days of trading, and my lack of good set ups turned out to be a […]
Sector Performance (Oct 20)
Here’s how the market sectors performed today…
Recent Stock Trades
The market trend has been up, so of course our focus has been on the long side. Here are several set ups that recently hit our targets (we’re still in several others and have others yet that haven’t broken out). …