http://community.tradeking.com/blogs 2009-11-20T17:35:40Z TradeKing Trader Network tag:community.tradeking.com,2009-11-20:Blog/47904 2009-11-20T17:35:40Z 2009-11-20T17:35:40Z bigdog

Welcome to your weekend, traders! It was a mixed bag of financial news this week as we head into the short holiday week for Thanksgiving. Both gold and the U.S. housing market faltered; the former ...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2009-11-17:Blog/47602 2009-11-19T15:57:51Z 2009-11-19T15:57:51Z bigdog

I’m crazy about the new wave of financial infographics. (If you’d like a little money-eye-candy, check out my previous posts on the subject.) In that vein I wanted to share my new favorite site, Vi...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2009-11-18:Blog/47754 2009-11-19T15:57:15Z 2009-11-19T15:57:15Z optionsguy

What are options - and why add them to your investing mix? TradeKing’s Brian Overby goes back to basics, explaining options for beginners. This post continues a discussion of implied volatility, or...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2009-11-17:Blog/47562 2009-11-18T18:39:31Z 2009-11-18T18:39:31Z TK All-star

Doc Maher kicks off a new series on calendar spreads.  Today I’m kicking off a new series on one of my favorite plays, calendar spreads. Calendars offer great flexibility for income generation...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2009-11-17:Blog/47605 2009-11-18T18:34:56Z 2009-11-18T18:34:56Z bigdog

So financial news chatter seems to be buzzing about emerging markets again. Bloomberg reported recently that emerging-market stocks collectively saw their steepest 6-day rally since last July. Whet...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2009-11-17:Blog/47560 2009-11-17T17:51:16Z 2009-11-17T17:51:16Z StefanMcVeigh

Here’s the hottest Q&A among your fellow traders this week:Are the stock market and unemployment inversely correlated? Some sharp observations from traders like you here. What’s the definition ...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2009-11-16:Blog/47493 2009-11-17T17:03:11Z 2009-11-17T17:03:11Z optionsguy

What are options - and why add them to your investing mix? TradeKing’s Brian Overby goes back to basics, explaining options for beginners. This post introduces implied volatility, or IV, and explai...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2009-11-16:Blog/47461 2009-11-16T14:30:38Z 2009-11-16T14:30:38Z BigTrends.com

Stocks won four of the five daily battles this past week, in line with our bullish outlook (short-term) from last week.  However, our concern that the bullishness was on borrowed time also ...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2009-11-10:Blog/47031 2009-11-13T18:08:45Z 2009-11-13T18:08:45Z optionsguy

What are options - and why add them to your investing mix? TradeKing’s Brian Overby takes you back-to-basics, explaining options from the bottom up. This post continues a discussion of “delta”, the...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2009-11-13:Blog/47292 2009-11-13T15:53:26Z 2009-11-13T15:53:26Z bigdog

Hel-lo, traders! I’m feeling good this Friday, and I hope you’re feeling the same (or better, why not?). Markets keep on rockin’ and rollin’, drowning out the bears, at least for now. The Dow kept ...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2009-11-06:Blog/46717 2009-11-12T13:59:57Z 2009-11-12T13:59:57Z bigdog

Interesting article by Cam Hui on Seeking Alpha about Nicholas Nassim Taleb (market prognosticator and author of Black Swan), who’s claiming we live in an era he calls “Extremistan”. Extremistan is...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2009-11-11:Blog/47117 2009-11-12T13:58:58Z 2009-11-12T13:58:58Z TK All-star

Doc Maher follows up again on an IC in the real markets.  Welcome back to my series on Iron Condors. Remember our theoretical Jan RUT iron condor? We first teed up this example on 10/20, and n...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2009-11-06:Blog/46716 2009-11-11T15:27:52Z 2009-11-11T15:27:52Z bigdog

I’m always curious what stocks you guys have on your short lists, and what criteria you use to add (or subtract) names from that list. Can you give me some insight about your step-1-2-3 process?For...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2009-11-10:Blog/47008 2009-11-10T20:54:06Z 2009-11-10T20:54:06Z optionsguy

What are options - and why add them to your investments? In this back-to-basics series, TradeKing’s Brian Overby explains options from the bottom up. This post continues a discussion of “delta”, th...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2009-11-10:Blog/46956 2009-11-10T15:11:19Z 2009-11-10T15:11:19Z StefanMcVeigh

Good morning, traders! Here’s the hottest Q&A among your compadres this week:Why do you trade – for fun or to make a living? Most TK traders trade to pick up some pocket change – and have fun d...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2009-11-06:Blog/46715 2009-11-09T14:41:42Z 2009-11-09T14:41:42Z bigdog

What do you make of Warren Buffett’s $34 billion takeover of Burlington Northern (BNI) railroad, Berkshire Hathaway’s (BRK) biggest deal ever? I know a lot of you cats are big transportation fans (...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2009-11-08:Blog/46850 2009-11-08T17:51:08Z 2009-11-08T17:51:08Z All About Trends

By David Grandey All About Trends www.allabouttrends.net Our market has been running for 8-plus months now. Eventually all markets go into corrections. We are not saying it's going to right now ...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2009-11-06:Blog/46714 2009-11-06T17:27:15Z 2009-11-06T17:27:15Z bigdog

Welcome to your weekend, traders! We’re pushing through the last bits of earning season and starting to stare down the end of 2009. Where did THAT one go? Big news this week included the BRK-BNI ac...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2009-11-05:Blog/46681 2009-11-06T13:12:14Z 2009-11-05T21:07:11Z optionsguy

If you expect volatility to decline, how can you ride the trend to profits? Butterflies offer intermediate to advanced options traders the potential to capitalize on a decline in Implied Volatility...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2009-11-05:Blog/46678 2009-11-05T21:07:05Z 2009-11-05T21:07:05Z BigTrends.com

The Financial sector led us into the market meltdown of the past couple of years.  Since the market bottomed in March, however, Financial shares have led us higher.  So what is this im...