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  • Decision-Making: Why Is It So Difficult?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The answer may be simpler than it seems. Here's what you should be doing to make trading decisions less stressful

  • GERON CORP. Is it a short?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Geron Corporation announced, on April 1, 2003, that they had published research results describing the production of hepatocytes (basic functional cells of the liver) from human embryonic stem cells. As important as this announcement is for the medical w

  • General Motors Collapses -- Is It The Beginning?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When major companies start collapsing, is this telling us that the end of the financial crisis is in sight? Is this the beginning of the beginning of the end?

  • Gold - Is it All Glitter?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Where's the middle ground between buy & hold and short-term trading? If you find it, it could help you trade gold better

  • Gold ETFs: Is It A Good Time To Buy This Flashy Metal?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Gold had a stellar year. Could this asset be the place to be for the next few years? Here, we present a survey of gold-based ETFs and review some statistics and comparative return data to help you decide whether an allocation to one or some of these ETFs

  • How Sweet Is It?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's the near-term to medium-term outlook for sugar futures.

  • India Fund Breaks Down - Is It Because Of Election Results?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Most people think that the Indian market went through a crash because the government expected to come to power lost their elections, but technical charts show a different picture.

  • Intel Corp. - Is It A Corrective Rally?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The stock of Intel Corp. has plunged a few points. Is it a serious correction or a pullback?

  • Is It "Now Time" For Natural Gas?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A dead-cat bounce in a volume indicator suggests that natural gas may be headed lower.

  • Is It "Now Time" For Nokia?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Moving averages, envelopes and more moving averages provide questions, answers and more questions.

  • Is It Over For Gold?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Cycles and the futures volume open interest indicator will tell you.

  • Is It Time For Netflix?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...On June 25, I wrote that we should look at Netflix as a possible buy. Now may be that time.

  • Is It Time To Bite Apple?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Apple to start India manufacturing soon.

  • Is It Time To Buy 3-D?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The 3-D printing sector has been under pressure since the start of 2014.

  • Is It Time To Buy Amazon?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The stock of Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) is struggling to move back into its bullish zone. Is this the time to buy the stock?

  • Is It Time To Buy Ambac?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Has the time come to start nibbling at financials, or is it a case of "Fools rush in..."?

  • Is It Time To Buy Apple Again?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Those faithfuls who love Apple never ever sold.

  • Is It Time To Buy Banks?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Although not good for many stocks, rising interest rates are having a positive impact on one sector.

  • Is It Time To Buy Bonds?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The maxim is, "Buy when the blood is running in the streets." Should we follow it?

  • Is It Time To Buy Cirrus Logic?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...As the most recent rally has gathered steam, a number of sectors have put in strong performances including semiconductors. This semi looks particularly interesting.

  • Is It Time To Buy Cisco Systems?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When the technicals of a stock suggest a buy, do you buy?

  • Is It Time To Buy Citigroup?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Start preparing your list of stocks you would like to own, then watch and wait.

  • Is It Time To Buy Citigroup?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Citigroup has been receiving a great deal of publicity recently. Is it time?

  • Is It Time To Buy GoPro Shares?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Is it wise to buy a share as it lists on the market?

  • Is It Time To Buy Gold?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In the past, when the economy and the stock market looked bad, money moved to gold.

  • Is It Time To Buy Gold?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Gold is a protection and a hedge. Countries whose currency is depreciating are slowly buying gold, but with the London gold price falling from a high of $1887 is gold still protective?

  • Is It Time To Buy Gold?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...W.D. Gann's time cycle count seems to think so.

  • Is It Time To Buy Gold?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Gold crashed through $1,300 an ounce earlier this month. Is it time to start buying gold?

  • Is It Time To Buy JP MorganChase?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Is it time to start trusting the banks and buying their shares?

  • Is It Time To Buy Martha?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Lifestyle trendsetter Martha Stewart's television show, Martha, saw advertising soar.

  • Is It Time To Buy Morgan Stanley?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Investors are worried that history will repeat itself just two years after the banking sector spectacularly imploded.

  • Is It Time To Buy Oil Shares?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The price of Oil has dropped considerably. Is it reaching a bottom? Is it time to start investing in oil shares?

  • Is It Time To Buy Oil?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The question on everyone's mind is, "Have oil prices bottomed?"

  • Is It Time To Buy Orthofix International?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's a share that has given a buy signal as the market recovers.

  • Is It Time To Buy Silver?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Since peaking above $48 in April 2011, silver and other precious metals have been in correction mode. After hitting bottom for the second time in January, is now the time to buy 'poor-man's gold'?

  • Is It Time To Buy Solar City?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...With solar panels becoming more efficient, is it time to invest in Solar City?

  • Is It Time To Buy Sony?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Sony Corp. has been falling since January 2000, when it reached a high of $158.18. Why has it not recovered?

  • Is It Time To Buy Starbucks?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Howard Schultz, the chairman and CEO of Starbucks, partners with Oprah Winfrey. Does that mean it is time to buy?

  • Is It Time To Buy eBay?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The stock market has moved up strongly the past four days. Many investors believe that the move up is a correction in the bear market, but is it?

  • Is It Time To Buy?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Who would have dreamed that a market meltdown would be caused by an earthquake in Japan and the tsunami that followed? Is this the time to buy?

  • Is It Time To Clean Up Your Portfolio?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are you busy putting away those winter sweaters and coats and straightening out the closet? Maybe it's time to do the same with your portfolio and yes, it can be just as easy as cleaning out your closet. And maybe even less onerous.

  • Is It Time To Invest In The Housing Market?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...We all know that home prices have fallen badly with a recession created by banks who offered excessive mortgages, but is it time to start looking to reinvest?

  • Is It Time To Keep An Eye On The Nikkei?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Nikkei seems to have bottomed out for a while; look to enter a breakout for a decent move.

  • Is It Time To Look At DDD Again?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When an Elliott wave count synchronizes with an indicator does it mean it is time to buy the stock?

  • Is It Time To Look At Daimler?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Yes--I would love to own a Mercedes Benz, but...

  • Is It Time To Look At The Banks?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The bubble that burst in 2007 was created by the banking industry.

  • Is It Time To Look At UK Banks?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Banks in the United Kingdom, as we all know, took a big hit as the 2007 bubble burst.

  • Is It Time To Nibble At Gold?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The XAU i-Share is close to thinking so.

  • Is It Time To ROK And Roll?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...After six weeks of seeking a bottom, Rockwell Automation looks like it's in prime position to rocket higher.

  • Is It Time To Sell Pepsico?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When a share simply goes up and up and up, when is it time to take profits?

  • Is It Time To Start Buying Gold?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Gold is a currency hedge. When the US dollar weakens, gold shares should rise.

  • Is It Time To Start Nibbling At Gold?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has said, "buy gold."

  • Is It Time to Pay Attention to ULTA?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Ulta Beauty, Inc. (ULTA) is a large capitalization specialty retailer in the consumer discretionary sector. Its stock had been in a downtrend recently as earnings misses caused the market to punish the stock. But in a Q2 2024 13F filing, eagle-eyed marke

  • Is It Time to Sell Netflix?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...At the beginning of 2013, Netflix was selling for $92/share. By September it had surged through $300. But the stock has generated a bearish pattern. Is it time to sell?

  • Is It Too Late To Buy Stocks?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...This often-ignored indicator may have the answer.

  • Is It Too Late To Jump In?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When you notice momentum in the stock market or a particular stock, is it too late to jump in? HereÕs one way you can take a step back and look at the market as a whole to avoid being trapped.

  • Is It Too Volatile To Trade?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Traders profit from volatility. But what exactly is the tipping point where volatility crosses over into excessive risk? Here are tools you can use to measure volatility and determine that crucial point

  • Is It Worth Taking A Bite Out Of Apple?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...What does the future hold for Apple, now that cofounder Steve Jobs has passed away?

  • Making A Bet, Or Is It A Sure Thing?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...As a technician, I try not to let fundamentals influence me simply because I am in a hurry.

  • Market Rebounds, But Is It About To Go Higher?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The market has been pulling back during a transitional month, but is it about to go higher?

  • Microsoft... Is It A Buy?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Xbox -- a winner this Xmas for Microsoft?

  • Microsoft: Is It Worth Buying?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Microsoft has been very much in the news the past week. With its billions in cash, Microsoft speculation moves from offering its shareholders a comfortable dividend to a share buyback. Either way, it looks as though management's intention is to move

  • Nasdaq Composite Index - Is It Finally Shaking Off the Bears?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Is the Nasdaq Composite Index (COMPQ) -and the tech sector- finally out of the woods or is it just another bear rally?

  • NetFlix Sell Reversal - Is It Time to Buy Again?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In early May, NFLX was looking like it was about to put in a bearish reversal. Now, not so much.

  • SIDEBAR: IS IT TIME TO GO MAC?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...IS IT TIME TO GO MAC? Time was when virtually no software existed for traders whose machines were Apple Macintosh personal computers. Even Commodore had more software than Apple's machines, though retail technical analysis really got started with a lowl

  • Short Squeeze Alert - Is It Time To Buy Silver?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Precious metals have struggled of late and many are calling for a bear market. But here is some compelling evidence to the contrary.

  • So, Is It Time To Start Buying Gold?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Iranian nuclear threat seems to be fading.

  • Tesla Motors, Is It Time To Buy?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When an obvious head & shoulders pattern has bottomed, does it mean it's time to buy for a long-term hold?

  • The Bears Have Spoken. Is It Time To Buy?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When a well known bear interviewed on Bloomberg or CNBC and shouts, "sell, sell, sell", is it time to buy?

  • The Dow Is Down. Is It Time To Buy?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Dow has fallen heavily, but with so many companies coming out with excellent financial results, is it time to start bottom picking?

  • The Hewlett Packard Rally - Is It Sustainable?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Hewlett Packard had a tough time from 2010 through early 2013 but since then it has shown steady gains. It's recently flashed an impressive bullish chart pattern that's worth examining.

  • The Nasdaq Composite: Where Is It Heading?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Nasdaq composite has been trading sideways ever since its sharp drop in April. A question dwelling on most minds is "When is the Nasdaq going to resume its upward trend?"

  • US T-Bond: Is It Time To Be Contrarian?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The 30-year interest rate of this futures contract is at its all-time highs.

  • What Is It With Barnes & Noble?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...What's going on with the nation's largest traditional bookseller, which reported fiscal first-quarter results today?

  • What Is It With Gold?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A reader of Traders.com applied the cycle strategy I used of previous articles (Nasdaq And Cycles of December, 2002) to the London Gold price, and emailed it to me for comment. Below is my analysis.

  • What volume is it? by Richard W. Arms, Jr.

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...What volume is it? by Richard W. Arms, Jr. Markets often seem unpredictable and erratic. They give the impression of being disorganized because they do not always behave as we think they should. We live by clocks and schedules, yet all too often prices

  • When is it Safe to Short a Stock? Air Canada May Be Losing Altitude

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Since topping out at the $8 area, Canada's dominant airline is now in a potentially bearish pattern - a descending triangle.

  • With Shares Of Twitter Nearing Support Is It Time To Give It A Second Look?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Shares of Twitter (TWTR) closed on May 2, 2016 near support after several days of heavy selling. Is it now time to give the shares a second look for a possible long play?

  • Xerox - Is it Making a Comeback?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Xerox is a name that is synonymous with photocopying, in fact today one talks of "xeroxing" a document as opposed to photocopying a document. And yet the company fell on hard times and the share crashed. Is it making a comeback?







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