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When do stock market booms occur?
Over at The Capital Spectator, there's a link to a new research paper now available as a download from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: When Do Stock Market Booms Occur? The Macroeconomic an... more
What would Warren Buffett buy?
Given the current market uncertainty both home (concerns about a possible economic recession) and abroad (tension in the Middle East and North Korea), Nicole Bullock of SmartMoney.com asks an inter... more
Decoding the VIX II
On the heels of last weeks post about the VIX, I had a few more thoughts that might be useful to share. In the last post I described a very odd fact: many traders don't realize that the Volatilit... more
why is options trading growing so fast? 10 reasons.
No doubt about it: options trading has hit a real stride. The growth figures are impressive by any measure. Here are just a few statistics '“ with thanks to this SmartMoney article and the Options ... more
GOOG My Tube
Got to love Google! You know it always suprises me how people think Google is a search engine. Really it is an advanced ad network who's #1 property is the search engine. The YouTube acquisition i... more
American economist wins Nobel Prize
Edmund Phelps, now an economics professor at Columbia University, won the Nobel Prize in economics: American Edmund S. Phelps won the 2006 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences on Monday for e... more
Big-name hedge funds that can't even beat the Dow Jones Industrial Average
It's been a tough year so far for hedge funds. So tough, in fact, that 'some of the most hallowed names in the hedge fund world are producing very human returns this year.' Due to wildly off-the-... more
The partnership between Yahoo! Finance and Seeking Alpha
David Jackson, the founder of Seeking Alpha, weighs in on the announcement that Yahoo! Finance will now carry content from Seeking Alpha: 'Stock market blogs have reached the point where traditiona... more
Marvellous Bad Luck
So...I've already had the first stock that I bought on margin (YHOO) issue an earnings warning...guess what happened...the second stock that I decided to buy on margin warned on earnings. Marvell w... more
The new energy stock
I am feeling very strongly about the direction of solar energy. I have read in numerous magazines about how it will be utilized for portable electronic devices. I would imagine it to be embraced ... more
Oct. 2- Oct. 6
Account Value: $2,741.09 Weekly Change: $-14.46 Portfolio: GTW(x400) INTC(x100) Outlook: I'm sticking with both stocks at least until the end of the year. Life is a bit too crazy right now to m... more
DELL - Should I stay or should I go
My DELL call is doing very well right now..which makes me more nervous. According to Motley Fool, Dell could be great. Check out this article about their 1300 person research. http://www.fool.com... more
Investors take a trip to Fantasy Island
Virtual trading accounts, which allow investors to practice complex trading strategies with as much as $1 million in make-believe money, can be a mixed bag if not handled appropriately, according t... more
Stock market P.I.M.P.
The Tale of the Tape blog is looking to crown this year's Stock Pimp, an honor handed out annually to the best daytrading blog. This year's nominee's include Ugly Chart, TraderMike, Trader-X, Maoxi... more
How fast can the Chinese economy go?
In a commentary piece for Seeking Alpha called 'The Great Bubble of China?', Colorado-based portfolio manager Vitaly Katsenelson of the Contrarian Edge blog explains that the superheated Chinese ec... more
The Market and Sirius
The market is so weird when it comes to Sirius. The gained massive market share on XM which when initially reported sent the stock upwards on pre opening trading. Once the market opened though and ... more
now that's hilarious.
My buddy sent me this broadsheet, 'œHow to Make Money in Stocks' '“ now that's a thigh-slapper. May all your positions be 'œuppity-doodle', and may the time-machine not backfire'¦when you buy tho... more
MSFT Vista - What a view
We are about to see the second coming...no, I don't mean that one...the other one from Microsoft. Remember in 1995 when MS released the updated Windows? The exposure, the marketing, the $5million f... more
Economic forecasts are, apparently, for entertainment purposes only
The Crossing Wall Street blog points to an article from Marty Fridson, who demonstrates that most economic forecasts for U.S. GDP growth over the past 25 years have been 'all but worthless': 'The... more
