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Onwards and Upwards! TradeKing’s Newest Product Updates
We’re forging ahead on much-requested upgrades to two of TradeKing’s most popular products, TradeKing LIVE and the Account Summary page. Even more flexible views in TradeKing LIVEWe know gett... more
We’re Celebrating TradeKing Moms for Mother’s Day!
Behind every stellar kid or adult stands fantastic parents – especially the moms. Having met quite a few of our employees’ parents through the years, I’d definitely say great moms have cont... more
What’s Up With American Airlines ($AAMRQ)?
Grounded Have you folks been following this very bizarre – and still unfolding – story of American Airlines (AAMRQ)’s disastrous flying record this fall? This story, “American Fail Lines” by ... more
It's taken a few months, but it pans out!
I always wanted to get into stock trading but never had some cash to just dive in till lately.. I saw my meager 1% interest gains on my bank account and thought, "surely I can find a few worthy sto... more
Market Pawn's Nowhere to Hide Blog - October 2011
Market Pawn's Total Holdings by Weight and YTD Performance Cash: 41% Short Term Bond Funds: 24% Long Term Investment Grade Corp Bond Funds: 13% Long Term U.S. Treasury Bond Fund... more
It’s the Econ…I Mean Earnings, Stupid. Why I’m Cautiously Bullish This Week.
Corporate earnings for last quarter have continued to be strong even though economic growth, according to GDP and a variety of other measures, was lower than expected. In my opinion, this is the s... more
The 3 Primal Forces in Options Trading: Part 2
Dan Passarelli continues his exploration of the 3 major drivers of options prices In part 1, I introduced the 3 primal forces of the options world: price of the underlying, time to option... more
Is Inflation Heating Up For Real This Time?
Economists and market-watchers are talking inflation again - and this time, things seem to be heating up for real. The EU's central bank raised their key interest rate to 1.25% to stem rising inf... more
Could 2010 begin the "Optimism Decade"?
If you ever feel like good news is in short supply - and who doesn't these days? - here's an antidote: science mags. Digging ever-deeper into the Bigdog's To-Read pile, I pulled up DISCOVER Magazi... more
Truth Tellers
There is an article I just read I wanted to share with the TK community. It reminded me of something we experienced in my home state of Missouri back in the mid-1980's. We passed a law in our Sta... more
Multiple Myeloma and Senesco Technologies (SNT) .295 at time of blog..
Certainly by now, most of you Trade Kingers know me as follower of Pharma... I have written many opines as of late on numerous companies that are showing progress in the fight and treatment of hum... more
Price Headley's Weekly Market Outlook
The unemployment rate’s move to multi-year highs didn’t seem to be too much of a worry for the market, as the S&P 500 closed up 3.2% - at 1069.30 - for the week. And, the odds now slightly f... more
More Credit Games aka BS
This story speaks for itself. How can anyone working for these mortgage divisions sleep at night? more
Market Thoughts Before Summer
Market Thoughts Before Summer It's nearly the end of May, and the indices are up a little more than 1% for the month. What happened to sell in May and go away? Of course, there is still anoth... more
Note to Self
Last summer when gas up to $4/gallon I thought for sure the new era of renewables was upon us. So I gathered as much money as I could, which wasn't much being a graduate student here at Virginia Te... more
Who needs liquidity?
Nicole Wachs explores why liquidity is important and what happens when it dries up. In my last post Is short selling bad for the market? I explained one of the positives short sellers bring to th... more
Opening Ceremonies of the PPIP Gaming Olympiad
Has the Gaming of the Public-Private Partnership Begun? By Yves It certainly looks as if Citigroup and Bank of America are using TARP funds, not to lend, which was one of the primary goals ... more
Outlook for the Week
Weekly Market Outlook After pretty much the worst February for the stock market since the 1930s, we enter March having broken key long-term technical levels on the DJIA and S&P 500 Inde... more
Oxymoron of the day: "AIG preferred"
Pelosi's list: Who's on her bad side?(AP)My good friend Lisa provided me with this answer: THE AMERICAN PEOPLE! AIG closed Friday at $0.42 a share. This morning they announced a loss of $14.17... more
The "Behavior Gap" separating average traders from great traders
In his recent TradeKing blog post about the difference between successful and unsuccessful traders, Price Headley of BigTrends.com pointed to "the mental game" as the key reason why some traders ou... more
