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,2009-11-17: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,2009-11-13: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,2009-11-06: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,2009-11-06: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,2009-10-29:Blog/45903 2009-11-04T20:26:35Z 2009-11-04T20:26:35Z bigdog

Lately a lot of the Trader Network action has migrated to the forums and away from blogging. Just curious: why? I imagine it’s because forums put you in the middle of an ongoing conversation, where...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2009-10-29:Blog/45908 2009-11-19T18:35:21Z 2009-11-03T21:29:02Z bigdog

My family has been nudging me for Christmas-gift ideas (already! Maybe this holiday-shopping season won’t be so dreary after all…) One idea I had for them was to make an Amazon wish-list of great t...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2009-10-21:Blog/45255 2009-11-02T16:07:32Z 2009-11-02T16:07:32Z bigdog

Wall Street and Technology just came out with its online 2009 Gold Book, a compendium recognizing a handful of top Wall Street companies whose innovative use of IT is driving the industry forward. ...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2009-11-01:Blog/46204 2009-11-02T00:45:59Z 2009-11-02T00:45:59Z All About Trends

The key to success in today's market is having a game plan and sticking to it. And we hate to sound like a broken record, but you've heard us say repeatedly, the game plan for success today is: "...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2009-10-29:Blog/45910 2009-10-30T13:21:30Z 2009-10-30T13:21:30Z bigdog

Welcome to your weekend, traders. Lots of pessimism afoot among prominent money managers and U.S. consumers alike. Bellwether money managers Jeremy Grantham and Bill Gross announced separately this...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2009-10-29:Blog/45901 2009-10-29T13:51:42Z 2009-10-29T13:51:42Z bigdog

I laughed out loud when I found this post from The Reformed Broker about this year’s Wall Street-themed Halloween costume ideas. My personal faves: dressing up as the National Debt Clock, a Zombie ...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2009-10-21:Blog/45252 2009-10-28T14:24:08Z 2009-10-28T14:24:08Z bigdog

Just got back from attending a truly interesting industry event, Future Forward, at the new (and fittingly named) Microsoft NERD (New England R&D) Center in Cambridge, MA. This amazing facility...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2009-10-21:Blog/45250 2009-10-26T18:32:59Z 2009-10-26T18:32:59Z bigdog

My father-in-law (and retired investment banker in Canada) Bill Koyle just forwarded me Calvin Trillin’s op-ed in The New York Times, “Wall Street Smarts”. In it, Trillin describes sharing a drink ...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2009-10-21:Blog/45258 2009-10-23T13:28:51Z 2009-10-23T13:28:51Z bigdog

Talk about a mixed-news week in the markets, eh? While giant stocks like AAPL and Dow component stocks like Caterpillar (CAT), Pfizer (PFE) and United Technologies (UTX) all reported better-than-ex...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2009-10-16:Blog/44875 2009-10-21T13:37:06Z 2009-10-21T13:37:06Z bigdog

Just clicking my way through my weekly “to-read” pile and wanted to share a couple of great financial reads:What’s the hottest toy for Christmas 2009? Zhu Zhu Hamsters! They’re priced right for a r...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2009-10-16:Blog/44873 2009-10-20T14:38:57Z 2009-10-20T14:38:57Z bigdog

First the banks tightened up credit standards for mortgages and loans of all kinds. Now individual Americans are starting to feel the far-reaching effects of their credit scores: a nice feeling if ...