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Does anyone know a good book about market breadth, volatility, sentiment and related indicators? Any hint would be greatly appreciated.

"Being cute" is actually what I like about the Mac's hardware and software: its great combination of simplicity and aesthetics. It's entirely subjective, of course. That's subjective, too. I got my first cell phone around 1997 and since then I have owned six different models of five...

I don't think these methods are about predicting the market, but more about anticipating it. Look at how Murphy explains the major signals that preceded the 1987 stock market crash in his book. His whole point is not about predicting what will happen on an exact basis. The methods he's using...

I read John Murphy's book Intermarket Technical Analysis over the last couple of days, and I found it quite intriguing how all those markets interact and fit together. It seems reasonable (or at least interesting) to use at least some of these ideas in an attempt to get the "big picture": where...

Have a look at www.prorealtime.com. They offer free EOD data and it's Java software, so it probably works under Linux.

I'm running it on Debian (the "testing" distribution), on a Mac with MacOS 10.5 and on Windows XP. There are no obvious differences in functionality, it's stable on all platforms and tends to be slowest under Linux (fastest on the Mac). Biggest pro in my opinion is security: no malware to...

I'm running it on an Asus Eee with 1 GB RAM under Linux. Works fine, a little slow sometimes, but that could also be the Java implementation I'm using.

Thanks, your post made options a lot clearer for me!

Happy New Year to everybody! I've been trading stocks for several years now and I'd like to expand my strategy to options. I'm familiar with the basic theory (greeks, volatility, etc.), but when it comes to actually trading I realise that I haven't understood the "real problems", so here...