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    Pump and Dump

    I started getting emails from a penny stock pusher, how I have no idea, I do not trade penny stocks. I am wondering if anyone else heard of this crap, it sure seems like a pump and dump. Here is how it typically goes... Monday Night: "Check your inbox on Tuesday morning for a special...
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    Anyone know of a good database of ticker changes?

    Go to EOD Data you can download quotes for free. http://www.eoddata.com/
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    Need Experienced Input Here

    I work in .NET, SQL Server and Oracle. Take a look at C# .NET Microsoft has overtaken Java and C# can be used in all types of apps. I use it for client, web, and DLLs.
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    New to Trading, Good grasp of economics

    Forget about GM. When (IF) they come out of bankruptcy, then buy the stock. Take a lesson from KMart. Kmart stock was around $2 a share. They filed bankruptcy, issued new stock under a new symbol. What did all those people have for buying Kmart after it issued the new stock? ZERO...
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    Natural Gas versus Oil

    Papa Roach, I went to the USG board on Yahoo! finance and I see what you mean. There is a post from TheStreet.com that features some guy "on the street of NY" going on about how all the NG rigs have come off line, that there is a huge reduction in reserves, and as you said "NG should come...
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    Which Economic Releases Are The Most Important

    Joesph Ellis in his book Ahead Of The Curve said it this way... The consumer is king, if year over year consumer wages are increasing (real-wages deflated by CPI * the number of people employed) you will get a good idea of future consumer spending. Consumer spending drives the stock market...
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    SPY 88 Won't Fall For Months: A Contrarian Hypothesis

    Two of my favorite TA items to use is Z-Score which is reaching oversold levels, and when RSI diverges from price. Since Z-Score is reaching a +2 Standard Deviation, and RSI is reaching lower lows while the price is reaching a higher high. This two things say there is some upward risk to SPY...
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    Natural Gas versus Oil

    Take a look at the EIA data. There is a lot of NG in storage, so supply is way up. Crude is also at 9 year highs, but more sensitive to people thinking the worst is behind the market. So far this summer has been COLD and gas usage has to go up. I have bought iPath GAZ partly on this concept...
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    One of the reasons I like Position Trading

    Use InteractiveBrokers at a $1 a trade no worries.
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    Best Software for Designing and Backtesting a Trading System

    If you want an application that is very power, you can code any type of trading system, get AMIBroker. It only costs $199.00 and for stocks the data is free. If you want to trade futures you will have to get a data feed. I used AMIBroker to create a market timing system that produced very...
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    Nonfarm payroll 345,000 job loss

    Take a look at Year over Year employment rates. If you go back to the 1950's the numbers never looked this bad. http://blog.mtrig.com/mtrig/blog/post/Unemployment-Data.aspx
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