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Shorten Your Trading Time Horizon

on 05 13, 2010 | No Comments

Shorten Your Trading Time Horizon

After the market drops like it did last week, the one thing that a trade has to do it become protective.  By this I mean that you have to assess your portfolio as to what can happen.  I have bee

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Why Not to Use Stop Loss Orders

on 05 13, 2010 | No Comments

Why Not to Use Stop Loss Orders

Video Below Everyone has heard about the collapse in the market last Thursday.  Magically, the EU decides to create $800 Billion out of thin air to back the countries that are in trouble.  Spai

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Week Ahead 5-10-2010

on 05 10, 2010 | No Comments

Week Ahead 5-10-2010

First and foremost to all of those Mom's out there I hope you had a great Mother's day. Now let's get down to the nitty gritty! SILVER, JPM, Consumer Confidence, FDIC Banks Closures, Greece, EU

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Position Update – COP

on 05 7, 2010 | No Comments

Position Update - COP

In the week ahead from 4-26 we talked about taking profit in a oil stock -COP.  We had uncovered it via an analysis of the oil index and the technical picture jumped out at us. On 4-26, we sugge

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Hedging your Portfolio

on 05 6, 2010 | 2 Comments

Hedging your Portfolio

Today's market was the craziest market I have ever seen, both on and off floor.  The waves of selling that just kept coming were quite amazing.  Computer algorithms were being triggered left

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VIX Jump

on 05 5, 2010 | No Comments

VIX Jump

Most of you have been following my webinars with my former company and know that I have been a big believer in owning implied volatility.  The macro environment points to much larger moves and

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Week Ahead 5-3-2010

on 05 3, 2010 | No Comments

Week Ahead 5-3-2010

What a crazy couple of days we had last week.  Criminal investigations in Goldman and downgrades on Greece and Portugal were the big headlines.  This weekend the European Union and the IMF agree

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Housing Shadow Inventory

on 05 1, 2010 | No Comments

Housing Shadow Inventory

What is the Housing Shadow Inventory and How Big is it? Housing inventory is the amount of houses that are for sale on the market.  A number that is often used to calculate the real estate market

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Gold and Silver Potential

on 04 30, 2010 | No Comments

Gold and Silver Potential

Yesterday I saw that Silver had a nice positive move taking out short term resistance of $18.61 on the Silver Future to settle at $18.491.   This morning it reached $$18.795.  Our next resist

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Greece and Portugal Downgrade

on 04 27, 2010 | No Comments

I had to write a quick note that the market is slightly reacting to downgrades to Greece and Portugal's sovereign debt.  This has been on the forefront of our radar for over 3 months.  That is l

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