http://community.tradeking.com/blogs 2009-11-17T21:50:28Z TradeKing Trader Network tag:community.tradeking.com,2009-11-17:Blog/47596 2009-11-17T21:50:28Z 2009-11-17T21:50:28Z TK All-star

Fred Ruffy recaps emerging trends from the latest trading session.Market SentimentStocks opened lower Tuesday after the latest round of earnings and economic news failed to spur another round of bu...

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,2009-09-21:Blog/42746 2009-09-21T21:06:32Z 2009-09-21T21:06:32Z TK All-star

Fred Ruffy recaps emerging trends from the latest trading session. Market SentimentStocks opened lower on falling commodity prices and slow trading in overseas markets Monday. Shares were broadly l...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2009-07-15:Blog/33373 2009-07-20T13:12:46Z 2009-07-20T13:12:46Z bigdog

I’m always interested in scenarios where companies strive to “be good” and take the high road, in the belief that classiness and transparency is simply the best way to do business – a belief TradeK...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2009-07-15:Blog/33369 2009-07-17T14:14:30Z 2009-07-17T14:14:30Z bigdog

Hello, Friday! Here’s hoping you made it successfully through a week jam-packed with earnings announcements and options expiration. The big news, of course, was Goldman Sachs’ 65% jump in 2Q earnin...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2009-06-23:Blog/30646 2009-06-23T04:30:11Z 2009-06-23T04:30:11Z Mendelsaur

Why I Am (Or Just Was) Ranked Number 8 for 5-day Return:My previous entry, posted amidst analysts cheerily initiating BUY coverage of TRA and other fertilizer stocks, described a variety of overloo...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2009-05-10:Blog/25209 2009-05-10T06:06:50Z 2009-05-10T06:06:50Z ALPHAJC

With bank stocks now mostly back to levels not seen since last Summer...the million dollar question is "Are We Out of the Woods?"?That's a question that has a two part answer.I am confident that th...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2009-04-08:Blog/22240 2009-04-14T14:04:20Z 2009-04-14T14:04:20Z bigdog

I really enjoyed the brisk debate kicked up by my posts on legalizing pot and lowering the drinking age – so, at the risk of looking like Dirty Uncle BigDog, I thought I’d hit you with a few more s...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2009-03-31:Blog/21451 2009-04-02T15:51:19Z 2009-04-02T15:51:19Z bigdog

Here’s another one for those of you who chimed in on my post “Can legalizing pot fix Cali’s budget crunch?”. Not too long ago Stephen Colbert had John McCardell, former president of Middlebury Coll...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2009-03-28:Blog/21103 2009-03-30T01:22:43Z 2009-03-28T20:20:28Z Will Profit

Updated March 29 8:00 pm CT The musical chair marathon continues: {The regulator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is considering giving the government-backed mortgage companies another role: helping t...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2009-02-27:Blog/18643 2009-03-04T15:26:46Z 2009-03-04T15:26:46Z bigdog

Talk about wacky tobacc-y: the WSJ just reported a bill proposed in CA to legalize marijuana, adding $1 billion in tax revenues immediately to the state’s coffers. That’s serious bank that the stat...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2009-01-26:Blog/16548 2009-01-26T21:29:40Z 2009-01-26T21:29:40Z tradeking

Do you ever check out the TradeKing Leaderboard (how is performance calculated) and wonder: Who’s cranking out stellar performance stats like that – especially in these tough markets? We’re curious...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2008-12-03:Blog/14507 2008-12-03T08:38:17Z 2008-12-03T08:38:17Z bigdog

With Black Friday officially behind us, lots of us are racing to get ready for the next Big Holiday season – Christmas, Hanukkah and New Year’s. Since most of us aren’t in the splurging mood this y...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2008-11-12:Blog/13902 2008-11-13T08:23:56Z 2008-11-13T08:23:56Z tradeking

Talk about throwing out the baby with the bath water. On CNBC, there's been talk lately that the time-honored investment strategy of "buy and hold" is now dead. As we've seen over the past two mont...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2008-10-30:Blog/13437 2008-10-30T12:07:02Z 2008-10-30T12:07:02Z TK All-star

Nicole Wachs joins the recent discussion on inner market workings.   In continuing with Doc Maher’s recent topics on Order Execution and Level II quotes I thought I would step in and ...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2008-10-20:Blog/13061 2008-10-20T21:36:06Z 2008-10-20T21:36:06Z ALPHAJC

So aside from a potential "stimulus" proposal, the bailouts for America have pretty much come to an end.  India has cut interest rates, Korea spent 100 billion backstopping banks, and Netherla...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2008-06-28:Blog/10023 2008-06-30T09:21:59Z 2008-06-29T09:40:31Z Keepingitsimple

Sure all the media will have you believe that the end of the world is here.  Cramer's Crapmerica has probably been belittling anyone that has asked about a financial company on his show. ...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2008-06-01:Blog/9341 2008-06-02T02:58:01Z 2008-06-01T15:35:38Z corbinb2

It would seem that the discount airlines caught a break with the recent scuttling of the United/US Airways merger. One key reason is stated in a Marketwatch.com article:"That's likely to mean ...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2008-04-29:Blog/8165 2008-05-01T11:14:27Z 2008-04-29T16:11:08Z corbinb2

 Pardon the nostalgia, but I remember a time when going to Radio Shack was a treat for me as a child. It would seem that this is becoming a memory for less and less children in this ...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2008-04-29:Blog/8154 2008-05-01T08:50:24Z 2008-04-29T10:49:44Z EnglishTeach

Checking some stocks (MOS, MON, POT, SBR, PBT) and trying to figure out what is causing the pullback.  (Have no current holdings).  There is a short article at Market Intelligence Center ...