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Hot Stock Tip Of The Year

January 12, 2010

I spend an excruciating amount of time searching for and analyzing any given stock before purchasing it.

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Patience And The 30 Minute Time Frame – November 11, 2009

November 11, 2009

As a technician and with a desire to trade a longer timeframe I noted that the first natural downside 30-min entry point in more than a week has just materialized.  If you wait for the confirmation then 2:00 Eastern time will be it.

Just a note to those watching the market.

Patrick

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Seasonal Drop in U.S. Stocks May Just Be Delayed: Chart of Day – Bloomberg.com

October 20, 2009

I’ve been watching a complicated top forming since June.  That doesn’t mean that the market is at it’s top and is going to go down but rather it’s underlying technicals are failing to progress.  Too many bulls in the market are typically a counter-intuitive indicator and that’s been going on for a while also.  Usually this means that the upside will be limited with the market returning to June levels.  Then I come across this article today.

So what’s a trader or an investor to do in face of this information?  Protect themselves from the downside either by adding insurance (using a hedging strategy) or remain limber and nimble.  For simplicity I prefer the latter .  Just musing for the sake of my readers. 

Seasonal Drop in U.S. Stocks May Just Be Delayed: Chart of Day – Bloomberg.com

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