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I go by the moniker Complacent Panda. I discuss topics, largely, in the economics field, with some tangents into politics, art, philosophy, ... the skills necessary for trading in the stock market, the forex market, or on the options exchange ... for future interest in investments, and was in first place for total profits. While the .com bubble [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 00:02:00

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Some Opening Comments September 10 2008

Prices of Treasury coupon securities have retreated in European trading reversing some of the outsized gains attained yesterday ... in Asia and are declining in Europe. Futures market trading ... the tone for fixed income market trading. Lehman Brothers stock declined 50 percent yesterday so it does [more...]

Date: 2008-09-10 11:06:18

Information On Market Investing

I completed that assignment, got paid, and then won another bid, a series of articles on stock market investing ... a trading account in any investing market has a responsibility of knowing what is happening ... to be successful in foreign currency trading if you intend to be successful at it. It was the mainstay [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 11:40:12

Online Investing, Is The Challenge Worth The Risk?

by Walter Fox I have worked in the manufacturing industry in India for over 30 years, my employer is among the top ten in India, ... market. I slowly realized that stock options trading strategies had progressed and I began ... in stock option trading system. A field which was alien to me became my part and parcel of my life. Unlike [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 08:36:19

Common Questions About Currency Trading

Although forex is the largest financial market in the world, it is relatively unfamiliar terrain to retail traders ... from other markets?Unlike the trading of stocks, futures or options, currency trading does not take ... .Until the popularization of internet trading a few years ago, FX was primarily the domain of large [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 21:21:00

Volume in Futures and the Stock Market

My approach to trading is based on the objective evaluation of the "Energies" in the markets ... in every trade - for example, you can't use volume to trade the spot Forex market since it doesn't ... in electronic format for home study (previously only taught in my live seminars). Please leave [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 20:29:08

Kungfutrader.com Portfolio positions

Each week, we will update current positions indicated by our proprietary trend following system for the futures markets and our Ultimate Stock ... Trading System.  Positions as of Friday in the futures may be seen in the accompanying spreadsheet.  At this point in time, due to continued bearish conditions in the stock market, there are no ... [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 01:47:55

Good Times

by hilzoy Ezra points to this article on the credit markets: "If you only watch the stock market, ... are now trading at 3.0% rather than the 7.0% high we saw them at earlier), but we’re a long way from normal. Lena Komileva, economist at broker Tullet Prebon, notes the premium for overnight liquidity [more...]

Date: 2008-09-30 17:31:00

HMS Walmart Warns

StreetInsider reports on Walmart December sales. I will grant one excuse I usually dismiss. The weather was bad in some regions ... futures and the stock tanked in pre-market trading. More evidence of containment not being ... market share or I don't know, Princess Ponies pooping pillow mints. It can only be hoped that bad news [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 12:33:00

the last post in this series, we took a look at the structure of price changes in the stock market ... as part of a conceptual framework for trading, it is possible to generate ideas of likely market action ... with oscillators and ideas about trading divergences in overbought/oversold; RSI; stochastics; MACD; etc [more...]

Date: 2008-09-09 13:03:22

A Quick Review of Stock Market Sectors

Last week's indicator review emphasized a lack of buyer interest manifesting itself across a variety of measures ... in uptrends, 4 neutral, and 29 in downtrends. Only 43% of S&P 500 stocks are now trading above their 50-day moving averages, down from 80% at the market peak. Only 29% of those stocks are now trading [more...]

Date: 2008-06-06 13:45:11

Karachi's experiments with circuit breakers in 2008

by Junaid Khalid, MCB Asset Management Company Ltd.In a world where volatility skyrocketed while stock markets fell, ... to the buoyant stock market index. Poverty, inflation and currency depreciation were all pushed aside ... ' (badla) on your side. In India, badla trading ended in 2001, and was replaced by a world of rolling [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 16:53:00

Finance And Business Articles | Comparing Forex to Stocks Trading …

When it comes to trading, two markets are always in the lime light and these would be Forex and Stocks trading. People who are not really that knowledgeable with these trades usually mistakenly think that they’re the same thing. [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 23:56:33

Stock Market Trading - Top 4 Trading Myths That Jeopardize Your Success

Do you believe buy & hold is safe? Or that selling short is risky? Read below the top 4 myths that are widely believed, and keeping people from their trading potential. When you properly understand these myths, you will be leaps ahead of everyone else [more...]

Date: 2008-12-21 04:00:35

Dow Directions 12/22/08

Dow Directions 12/22/08 December 23rd, 2008 by Uncle Mike Another wild day on Wall Street ... in the comming weeks. Technorati Profile Relevant Tags:candlesticks, day trading, futures, market directions, mechanical trading, momentum oscillators, moving averages, online trading, stocks and commodities [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 15:49:19

What’s Investing All About?

Forex trading strategy is also quite different from futures market investing and desired results - other than making money of course - are different ... of stock market investing. Through entertaining anecdotes and practical pearls of wisdom, the book ... . Online stock trading is without a doubt, one of most convenient ways to get into the stock [more...]

Date: 2008-12-25 06:02:28

Curious About How To Make Money Day Trading?

by Sam Lockwood Day trading is one way to make money by buying and selling stocks ... . The stock market at the moment is one of the best ones for day trading in more than ten years, since stock ... been properly trained. There are plenty of good online courses and seminars out there that’ll help you be sure [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 23:42:17

Stock Exchange of Singapore- learn to Make Money

by SingaporeReports If you want to make money in the stock market you are not solely ... all the information that you could ever need including trade themes, stock updates, stock prices,and much ... is just as serious. Is every trade idea one you should observe? Of course not. Even professionals [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 12:25:57

Abbott Bets Another $2.8 Billion on Medical Devices

Abbott Labs is buying Advanced Medical Optics in a deal worth $2.8 billion ... the stock has been trading, but roughly comparable to where it was trading before the market crashed ... surgeries to correct poor vision. Its stock was hammered last fall (see chart) amid concerns [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 17:10:00

Stock Market Dictionary - D

DFifth letter of a NASDAQ stock symbol specifying that it is a new issue, such as the result of a reverse split ... commodity, futures, and options markets are allowed to rise or fall in a day. Exchanges usually impose ... in the context of stocks to refer to the date trading begins on a new stock issued to the public.Date [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 16:33:00

When trading stops - Major stock exchange outages this decade

The recent world-wide financial chaos has reminded us how sensitive the stock market is, with sharp up- and downturns ... for more than three hours due to an outage caused by a software glitch. May 25, 2005: Moscow Interbank Currency ... -time stock prices to banks and brokerages. July 18, 2000: Frankfurt Stock Exchange Trading was stopped [more...]

Date: 2008-10-30 15:13:35

Stock Blog Posts of Interest

81 Stock Trading Ideas That Are Buys As Of Friday Calvin & Hobbes On Bailouts Down-Time How The Financial Crisis Has Hit Millionaires, ETFs Hedge Fund Indices for January EPIC Insights Weekly, Issue 11 Sunday Round Up And My Profile On FiLife Dividend Paying Stocks from The S & P, Volatile Stock Market: The Roundup [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 01:38:51

Markets and timeframes for price distribution charting

Have a trading related question? Submit it here. I received a set of questions following on my How to identify price targets for your trades post ... ? What about commodity markets like mini gold futures etc ? What about applying this method on US stock markets ... , like Nikkei or even Singapore’s small futures market, the SIMSCI futures. What I would [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 14:00:44

Weekend Linkage - January 11, 2009

Weekend Linkage - January 11, 2009 Market Recap Stock markets lost momentum in the first full trading week of 2009, ... Year (20 Tips Inside) @ Lazy Man and Money My Financial Goals for 2009 - What are Yours? @ Million Dollar Journey Tax Returns and eBay Tax Tips @ Money Smart Life New Year’s Resolution: Organization [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 05:31:14

An Introduction to Trading Options Effectively

This the second part of a series looking at understanding and trading options ... the market, economy or stock. Examples of market moving news: - Company is about to report their quarterly [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 07:27:00

TradingMarkets 10 Trading Rules: #8 - The Relative Strength Index: A Short Term Trader's Best Friend

Read More >> View All Recent Articles >> Market Updates 14: ... Stocks Seeing Further Downside In Early Afternoon Trading - U.S. Commentary 10:38 Stocks Under Considerable Selling Pressure In Mid-Morning Trading - U.S. Commentary 09:39 Stocks See Initial [more...]

Date: 2008-10-15 19:13:00

TREASURIES-Drop further in new year as risk appetite improves

U.S. Treasuries fell in Asia on Friday, extending losses on the first trading day of 2009 as a recovery in stock and credit markets spurred selling of safe-haven government bonds. * The surge in Treasuries stalled last week as bond investors ... in Tokyo and Shanghai among those still closed for holidays. U.S. futures markets for stocks [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 06:26:56

Opening Comments October 9 2008

Prices of Treasury securities registered bifurcated results in the overnight trading session ... percent to 1.50 percent. Trading in the futures markets indicates that US stocks will open with sharp ... yesterday and only alluded to it there. When the trading day begins I will develop some follow [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 10:54:23

Stock market internals - further headway in ‘09?

Stock market internals – further headway in ’09? As investors ring out the old year, trading volume should remain light until battle-weary traders return from the holidays next week ... , and the S&P 500 Index will probably not deviate a great deal from its three-week trading range [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 12:53:25

Yang Out at Yahoo!

No surprise here . . . Yahoo! Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jerry Yang will step down, following his failure to negotiate a takeover by Microsoft Corp. and broker an online advertising ... , California, fell 19 cents to $10.63 at 4 p.m. New York time in Nasdaq Stock Market trading. Ten bucks [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 02:26:12

Flawed system

11 November, 2008 General News/Issues   Source TheStar Tuesday November 11, ... trading on the world stock exchanges. These commodities are traded in the futures markets where ... changes. Hedge funds and other speculative investment funds control about 60% of the wheat traded [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 05:15:24

Market undergoes wild swings on volatility in RIL, Infy, L&T

In a highly volatile trade, the market rebounded from intraday low in late trade. Index heavyweights Reliance Industries (RIL), and Infosys triggered late volatility on the bourses. A fall in these two stocks in mid-afternoon trade had pulled the market sharply lower at about 14:25 IST. The BSE 30-share Sensex provisionally rose 101 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 11:54:00

Stock Market Bottom is Near or has Already Happened

For openers, let me say that I don't have any special skill in predicting market bottoms. If I did, I would be would make stock trading my day job:-) ... and are concerned about losing more money in 2008. Personally, I am still reluctant to add any new money ... to be in "safe" investments. When everybody was making money on tech stocks, it seemed the [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 03:37:37

Closing Comments December 01 2008

Prices of Treasury coupon securities have surged today in another historic trading session as yields once again plumb depths never thought imaginable. Stock market routs around the globe motivated early trading as did pervasive weakness in global manufacturing activity [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 21:14:03

Opening Comments September 18 2008

Prices of Treasury coupon securities have tumbled in overseas trading as the concerted efforts of central banks around the globe to reduce tensions ... to 1.5 percent. Futures market trading indicates that US stocks will open about 1 percent higher. Asian ... percent. The 2year/10 year spread has narrowed by 7 basis points to 169 basis points. The [more...]

Date: 2008-09-18 11:27:03

When and where will global capital markets bottom?

Global stock markets have been falling relentlessly for several weeks ... of trading in the past four weeks. This is de-leveraging by over-borrowed funds and everybody else ... of Germany’s biggest stock broker, says only a 15-20 per cent further decline can be contemplated until [more...]

Date: 2008-10-23 07:19:54

The Understanding Of The Spread Option To Make Money.

by Walter Fox Yes it is possible for a non professional stock option day trader to make money in these wild chaotic days of market swings using ... trading account with my something very good to make the big percentage gains in mild setback Is enabled. While China’s stock options trading strategy seems to be naive trading my professional success [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 23:29:40

Forex Trading - Sri Lanka stocks open flat, forex markets quiet - Lanka Business Online

Dec 29, 2008 (LBO) - The Sri Lanka stocks opened flat Monday with trading in Seylan Bank shares halted pending an official announcement regarding a ... Against Yen Using Breakout2 Dec 19 - British Pound Inverse Head and Shoulders Forex Calculator ... said Forex News Trading - Colleyville Courier Veteran Turtle Trader, Russell Sands, Will Auto-Trade [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 12:06:05

Ctrl BG: A Shortcut to Financial News 10/10

Wow, so much has been going on, I don't even know where to start! I guess to begin with, I'd like to thank everyone for sharing your thoughts ... that they suspended trading. Basically the stock market dropped and financial journalists are starting to run [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 22:58:00

Reassessing Roubini's Predictions

Unfortunately for Roubini, there is no Nobel Prize in Economic for being the best predictor of global financial markets ... , Nouriel predicted the potential shutdown of financial markets. A day later U.S. stock futures suspended trading after declines of more than 6% at opening tripped the circuit breakers. Nonetheless [more...]

Date: 2008-11-03 08:05:00

What Can We Trade In A Financial Crisis?

Photo by -bast- Since the chaos on the stock markets has begun, one of the most popular forms of trading last year has been currency trading and for a good reason. Even though investments like stocks may lost across the board, with forex trading, there is always [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 14:14:15

Daily Forex Overview

Previous session overview On Monday, the yen dropped against the euro and dollar on a surge in U.S. stocks as markets anticipate a U.S ... rebounded when trading resumed on Sunday, as the European Central Bank, Bank of England and Swiss National Bank said they were ready to inject as much as needed into the markets for US dollar funding [more...]

Date: 2008-10-14 08:05:10

4 Links I liked:

4 Links I liked: Posted November 7th, 2008 by itrade4real Financial bonds business commodities corn dollar ETF finance futures gold loss markets Money profit risk stock trading treasury Wheat Read the full article: http://www.itrade4real.com/2008/11/links-i-liked.html10vote Our catalyst today is the payroll data at 8:30 am. Not much [more...]

Date: 2008-11-07 13:46:45

Intel Warns Again (INTC)

Intel Corp (INTC) just announced it will miss its previous outlook because of ongoing weak demand and inventory reductions by its PC maker customers ... , when the stock was trading at $20.97. We had added the stock on our “Recommended” list back in early ... stock price of $15.37. We will be watching the market’s reaction closely as many like to scale [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 15:30:29

Daily Tidbits: Delicious gets some 'intelligent' competition

ZigTag, a social bookmarking tool that has been in the works for years, has finally launched to the public ... with Young Money to power YoungMoney.com's "Stock Market Game." According to UpDown.com, its trading platform ... footage schedule Monday for those who wish to view the event online. According to the organization, New [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 17:28:00

Technical Analysis

by Walter Fox A technique used to forecast the movement of stock prices based on past market data is called technical analysis ... the future of the markets and trading against those predictions. Fundamental Analysis does the same ... such as this, serve as graphic indicators by which an analyst will make trading decisions. Critics argue [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 19:10:02

S&P Deposit Receipts (AMEX: SPY) Breaks Support

January 13, 2009 Shares of the S&P Deposit Receipts (AMEX: SPY) have been holding above a rising trend support line since November 2008 ... as bond, gold, small cap, sector, ETF and stock trading strategies. ... bearish level of concern to an already worrisome stock market. The odds are now higher that a retest [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 22:33:29

Forex Report

Forex Report Posted By singapore trader reports on December 13, 2008 @ 4: ... known as currency, forex, or foreign exchange? While this is not the same as trading actual stocks ... that analyse the market daily and are able to make recommendations for the following day trades [more...]

Date: 2008-12-13 04:25:40

Mesa Air Seeking to Head Off Nasdaq Delisting

Mesa Air Group confirmed today that it has received a notice from Nasdaq stating that the company’s finances don’t meet the minimum standards to ... to regain compliance. Mesa’s shares are currently trading at about 29 cents, which gives it a market capitalization — the value the stock market currently attributes to the company — of about $7.5 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 17:23:35

RSI 13-3 Trading Strategy

This is an easy method that can make some sweet green. I am going to post two charts to demostrate how this works ... countertrend trading is hard unless in a sideways market. However I note that counter trades can be made ... and then the stock moved back uo as the trend would dictate then I will win this 50 pips [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 14:13:50

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