http://community.tradeking.com/blogs 2009-05-10T06:06:50Z TradeKing Trader Network 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,2008-11-22:Blog/14238 2008-11-22T21:24:44Z 2008-11-22T20:30:48Z ALPHAJC

Hooray to Barack Obama.  He helped avert a third straight day of Chris Cox induced meltdown in the markets by jamming the bear raid with the announcement of Tim Geithner.  Why were the...

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,2008-10-14:Blog/12952 2008-10-14T18:57:51Z 2008-10-14T18:57:51Z ALPHAJC

When the TARP was announced we thought the feds were gonna focus on buying distressed mortgages.  Because people demanded action now...they adopted the European Union Socialist plan and decide...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2008-10-12:Blog/12873 2008-10-13T00:03:54Z 2008-10-13T00:03:54Z ALPHAJC

We all know that futures mean squat but the heavy heavy volume capitulation we saw on Friday was very encouraging.  And I think energy may have bottomed as we saw Aubrey McClendon get margined...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2008-10-11:Blog/12859 2008-10-12T03:38:35Z 2008-10-12T03:35:00Z ALPHAJC

After watching my ROTH IRA fall more than 55% from my contribution balance, I have decided to take some extraordinary measures to try to get it off life support.I currently have a portfolio of thre...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2008-10-10:Blog/12842 2008-10-11T00:56:13Z 2008-10-11T00:56:13Z ALPHAJC

There was a mysterious crash in the spot market for silver and gold markets right in front of the G8 summit today. Even as the panic in the market was at all time high this morning both gold an...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2008-10-09:Blog/12805 2008-10-09T18:51:07Z 2008-10-09T18:51:07Z ALPHAJC

Now we finally realized how the short selling ban on financials was detrimental to the markets.  It allowed the longs to jump out at a fake bounce created on 9/19 (they said thank you very muc...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2008-10-08:Blog/12774 2008-10-08T21:41:46Z 2008-10-08T21:38:46Z ALPHAJC

I have to admit I was a bit greedy. I bought stocks that I thought were value stocks, but I didn't realize that the world was going to drastically change from 2007. I lost half of my net worth in...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2008-10-07:Blog/12743 2008-10-08T05:47:50Z 2008-10-07T19:10:14Z ALPHAJC

Let me start with a link to this CNN article "Pensions Lose 2 Trillion Dollars".Unless you are an absolute brilliant trader, you've probably lost a good sum in the past 2 months or stayed...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2008-10-06:Blog/12713 2008-10-06T17:21:21Z 2008-10-06T17:21:21Z ALPHAJC

The meltdown today in the markets (Dow down 800 at one point) was not caused by short selling.  Clearly it was from the grotesque and unprecedented imbalance between buyers and sellers.  ...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2008-10-01:Blog/12576 2008-10-01T19:38:08Z 2008-10-01T19:38:08Z ALPHAJC

The Senate today took the Socialism Bill (aka Wall Street Bailout Bill) padded it with even more socialism and passed it easily.250k limit on FDIC insurance?  So now commercial banks get 2.5x ...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2008-09-29:Blog/12511 2008-09-29T20:39:29Z 2008-09-29T20:39:29Z ALPHAJC

Today the house voted down the "bailout to end all bailout" bill.  In the meantime WaMu and Wachovia was dissolved by the FDIC and the market went down 777 points today.At this point...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2008-09-20:Blog/12310 2008-09-22T13:24:30Z 2008-09-21T01:17:59Z ALPHAJC

More details came out from the Bush Administration on turning the USA to the USSA.700 billion dollars of taxpayer money will be used to buy bad debts from US based financial institutions.   Ou...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2008-09-19:Blog/12253 2008-09-19T19:31:59Z 2008-09-19T17:56:13Z ALPHAJC

I am a pretty liberal person, I am the type to not like rich people but I also hate govt deficits and am in favor of letting people do anything they want as long as it doesn't hurt others.That bein...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2008-08-13:Blog/11349 2008-08-14T05:18:53Z 2008-08-13T19:09:32Z ALPHAJC

I heard on CNBC today that Quant Funds (Pools of Funds Traded Solely By Computers Using Algorithms and Formulas) are responsible for anywhere between 55-75% of all trades in the markets.These funds...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2008-08-05:Blog/11118 2008-08-05T18:27:14Z 2008-08-05T18:27:12Z ALPHAJC

Cisco Systems earnings historically ended rallies in tech, and never previously lead us higher before.  The after-hours reaction was pretty positive...but can't be completely expected to hold ...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2008-08-04:Blog/11081 2008-08-05T11:27:53Z 2008-08-04T19:19:54Z ALPHAJC

I appreciate all the comments to my "Obliterated Account Based on Bad Hunches and Theories" blog posting.  Obviously I got hurt very bad by this market...but I took a good shot at tr...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2008-08-02:Blog/11022 2008-08-05T12:30:53Z 2008-08-02T20:24:04Z ALPHAJC

Everything I believed in and traded around has blown up in my face.  As you can see by my trading stats, I've lost more than 50% account value in the past month.Theory #1, "This is finall...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2008-07-23:Blog/10711 2008-07-24T08:45:06Z 2008-07-23T20:05:14Z ALPHAJC

Today was Day 7 of the rally in financials, which I will call Orgasm of Subprime Past.  Today was an unusual day...nearly every analyst came out on CNBC and said financials rallied too hard to...