ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Amazon.com has had a good run off its lows and the ascending triangle is potentially a bullish formation BUT ...
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Blue Chips are large multinational companies with sound balance sheets and sounder reputations. They have been in their industry for a considerable amount of time and ownership of their shares are generally regarded as safe investments. They are usually
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...With California's power crisis and the recent volatility in oil prices, it's tempting to buy alternative energy technology stocks. But are they profitable investments?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are There Persistent Cycles? by E. Michael Poulos Most technical indicators use a fixed lookback length based on the idea that cycles are present in the price data. Should the same fixed lookback length be used for all markets? Are there persistent cycl
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Those readers who have children, and have been on a car trip with the kids sitting in the back seat, know the answer to this question. Unfortunately, it appears that most investors do not.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Just like the German proverb co-opted by finance which says that trees don't grow to the sky, so also can we assume that roots don't burrow all the way to the center of the earth? If one were to dig deep enough, we could probably pull out of th
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are there gaps in your thinking? by Richard W. Arms Jr. Usually in the use of technical analysis we are concerned with what happened and how it happened in order to predict what will happen. But there are times when what didn't happen can be as importan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are there patterns in financial ratios? by Clifford J. Sherry, Ph.D. Technical analysts strive to find patterns in the past history of the prices of stocks and commodities (using charts, moving averages, etc.) that will allow them to predict future pric
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...According to economist David Rosenberg, there is an 86% correlation between the size of the Federal Reserve balance sheet (read: stimulus programs) and the S&P 500. Quantitative Easing 2 ends in June. So what then?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...So, are the recently developed chatbot AI tools ready for the trading world? Follow along on this trader's quest to find out how ChatGPT might be used to support trading
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...We all know that that a correction is due. The problem is, when is it going to happen?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Having tripled in price since November 2008, does the Fidelity Select Sector Retailing Fund still have more room to rise?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Down by more than 76% over the past 31 months, shares of HPQ may soon test a major support level.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Once you've identified a promising trading system, you'll still be faced with a very basic question: When is the preferred time to begin trading it?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...What is the outlook for a recession? What indicators can be watched to continually weigh the likelihoods?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Well, it looks like the Nasdaq has taken a rough beating, rougher than what was imaginable.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here are two shares that were way up there and are now way down there.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Today, there is more gold out of the ground than is in the ground.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Last week I discussed the Dow and its cycle, the week before, the S&P 100 index and its cycle. This week I am looking at the Nasdaq index, its cycle and other technical tools.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...I am a firm believer in the first rule of the Elliott wave theory, that the chart must look right.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...I am a firm believer in the first rule of the Elliott wave theory, that the chart must look right.