Here I thought the jokes about Bush would end once he left the office, but I came across this video while surfing and I absolutely couldn’t believe that he was stumped by a grad student. Looks like he didn’t have his earpiece in to tell him how to answer. Seriously, how can the leader of [...]

Via Vix and More. GDP will not improve until the previous two charts (consumer confidence & unemployment) show an uptick, or at the very least stop the bleeding. clipped from vixandmore.blogspot.com  

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As I was going over some indicators after the close I noticed that today was the largest volume day on the Dow Jones ever. I joked during the trading day on twitter that we were going to crash on Monday and that an virtual investment advisor from Ameritrade had informed me. I’m beginning to think [...]

It’s headlines like this that investors will read over their coffee this weekend that will plant a seedling of fear in their minds. Maybe then we’ll start to see the fear that these markets we’ve so badly lacked. clipped from www.marketwatch.com Short month, bitter markets S&P 500, Dow industrials drop a record 11% to 12% [...]

I guessing that the reaction of the equity markets to the Government’s gradual and methodical takeover of Citigroup isn’t the result they were going for. The writing is on the wall that Citigroup (and most likely all banks) are eventually going to be nationalized (disaster waiting to happen), everybody can see it and yet they continue to [...]

Market was down, yet there was more total upside volume than downside, 51/49. Small, but enough for me to raise an eyebrow over. clipped from www.market-harmonics.com  

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I heard about this method of using your subconcious to solve a problem that you may be stuck on and googled it. Here is the site I came up with that does a good enough job of explaining it. The version I heard is that Edison would sit in a rocking chair with a rock [...]

You’d better be looking for some shorts to get into. Because right now option sentiment is nowhere near an area where markets begin an up-move. Call option buyers are way to bullish right now and the crowd is never right in timing the market. In fact, it’s at the complete opposite end of the spectrum [...]