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No no no, you misunderstood me. Without choosing such an option (by default) the current existing behavior remains. I.e. new and updated post are stacked at the top of its forum and the home page. If the option is chosen, the post only goes to the top of its forum but not at the top of the...

Shoud ET support a flexible option which allows a thread starter or poster to choose whether to bring the thread up to top on the front page? I protest ET moved my thread out of chit chat which discourages me to post any more.

After bouncing between 200 day moving average and the March high a couple of times, DOW finally followed other major market indexes to close at a new year-to-date high on the past Friday, just inches away from the high of last December. Mixed economic news did not make the buyers step back. The...

The drop on Friday erased a week's gain of major stock indices. The market was set to a re-test of the the previous resistance level which was just broken shortly. Slower than expected growth was made evident by the first quart GDP number. Business and consumer spending continued to show...

A week of earning parade passed by. Generally better than expected results in big names helped the market to stay in the "over-bought" area after the war effect started to fade out. Although people may argue that the expectations were low, some big companies still struggled to show year-to-year...

On the war front, the U.S. force took over Baghdad without a fierce fight. A symbolic statues of Saddam came down. Iraqi people are smiling, using shoes to hit Saddam's posters , and welcoming coalition troops. The market initially indeed tried to celebrate the victory that came so fast and easy...

The stock market ended a week of retracement and jumped back. Positive war news faded out negative important economic reports and company earnings, once again. The American led coalition force rapidly approached to Baghdad, destroying elite forces of Saddam's regime, controlling Baghdad airport...

Stocks indeed retreated four out of five past sessions, among which the largest decline so-far in this year on Monday ended the spectacular eight straight largest wining sessions in the past 23 years. This is not a surprise from both technical and fundamental points of view, especially when...

If we had called the week before the past week madness stampeding on the street, I have to admit that I already use up my vocabulary to describe the past week which extends the giant rally into the eighth day and tops as the best week since 1982. That is a twenty-one year historical record...

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The past week witnessed a tremendous rally in the stock market which brought the major indices to the upper range of their recent trading ranges from breaking-down lows. A delayed U.N. vote on Iraq did not drag the market down long enough on Wednesday before a strong rally started in the last...

A march madness stampedes the U.S. and European stock markets today. All major indices see biggest gains in the year. Although the economic news and earning reports are all negative earlier today, the markets seem enjoying a temporary relief from geopolitical concerns, the delay of the vote on...

March madness has not been taking place so far in the sense of a sizable rally. Major indices is trading at the bottom of their recent range. However, bulls never give in without a fight to squeeze out weak bears as many as possible. In fact both short-term bulls and bears has been in advantage...

The market has been volatile but moved relatively little in the past two weeks. As the showdown in the U.N. security council on Iraq is approaching, the market is likely to start to develop its next mid term trend. Traders and investors want to buy on brighter outlook. But the current...