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http://www.safehaven.com/showarticle.cfm?id=4331&pv=1 What's the Fed Up To With the Money Supply? by Robert McHugh Over the past two days, December 21st - when our first Hindenburg Omen (of whatever cluster is coming) - and Thursday December 22nd, the Federal Reserve has conducted one of...

I watch this thread since the trading style somewhat matches my own. Surely you guys cashed in on MRVL today, no? Just curious.

Gold rising b/c euro is falling. Euro is a significant reserve currency. Gold's small liquidity relative to the euro makes it sensitive to euro movement.

I mean the physical limit of production capacity of oil. Yes, the current price spike is speculative and short-term, but the long-term trend for oil is bullish due to physical limits in the rate of extraction (not the amount of reserves). Comparing stocks to commodities is asinine.

Big Al omits any distinction between ultimate supply and production capacity limit (i.e., "peak oil"). If you can't get it out of the ground fast enough to meet demand, lookout. Greenspan's job is to delay the pain for as long as possible by helping us delude ourselves as long as possible until...

Cathy: Not sure if you are abandoning trading altogether, or just day trading. Day trading is gruelling and gut wrenching, albeit appealing to a certain personality type. I have never been able to profit consistently from day trading, although I enjoy the rush (until I lose). I make money swing...

It sounds like most of the simulations described in this thread concentrated on just one vehicle (e.g., NQ). There seems to be some disagreement about whether fading the gaps is profitable. My experience says that it is. However, my approach seems different than most. Instead of looking at a...

We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we have something to say, but all the words in all the dictionaries will not suffice when we have nothing to say and want desperately to say it. Eric Hoffer

I'm surprised by the strong consensus that swing trading is more profitable than day trading, since the impression one gets from reading the ET forums is that 90% of traders here are day traders. I should clarify the following statement: I believe A SUCCESSION OF strongly trending (in one...

My swing trading has suffered in this sideways market, but I have neither the time nor the stomach for full-time day trading. I haven't really tried day trading long enough term to compare it to my swing trading results, which are modest but consistent. When I do day trade, I like to exploit...

Your broker is eager for your commissions.

Who cares if the market trend is flat, even long-term, e.g., 40 years. Find a vehicle, like the QQQ, for example, that oscillates a few % a week, and learn how to be on the right side of the short-term fluctuation. NASAQ has been flat the last few months, but it hasn't prevented me from taking $...

I backtested EOD gap up and gap down data to find optimum entry and exit points for trading such stocks at the next day's open. The analysis showed which trigger points were optimal for going long and short on these stocks. For example, if a stock gapped up more than 10% the first day (one of my...

Just be sure to sell it before the bell.