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remember its the rating change that moves stocks over the short term, not the absolute rating which is as you point out, heavily bullish overall upgrades still outnumber downgrades as far as I can see, but the gap has been narrowing in the last few months. More importantly, you can pick and...

I agree with this - I think there is a way to trade pre-market ratings changes shown on Briefing, even though we see them after the the big money has been given the heads up. Just don't trade an upgrade on ebay by Bill & Bob Securities from Des Moines. Now an upgrade by Merrill on a mid cap...

slightly off topic but, do you think wedge patterns (or any similar "patterns") have any validity? They are subjective to even identify. If you put a dozen traders in a room all looking at the same charts they will come up with different wedge formations on the same charts. I'm not...

His point of view seems sensible, do you mind saying who he is or what his newsletter's name is?

Perhaps you could start with a list of instruments (futures, stocks etc. ) that are of interest to the group involved. Follow that with a broad description of general styles such as 1) Break-out 2) Reversals 3) Trend following 5) Arb etc.. The define time frames, 1) Intra-day 2) Swing or...

I have been accumulating some great material on this subject lately and I will post names authors etc. at a later point (all my stuff is at my trading desk, I'm at home now and don't want to misspell or mistake titles). A key point it seems is the safety of the dividend. Its great to have a...

I'm in exactly the same situation as you Avalanche. I dropped First Alert for reasons that have nothing to do with what you are talking about here. Unfortunately for me, they were a good source of NYSE only price data (but they had other issues). I now use Tradestation but they use Composite...

I had a networking guy network my apartment computers, 2 with Win 2000 one brand new one with XP Home. Admittedly this was just after XP was released, but the 2 Win 2000 Pro machines networked like a dream. XP Home is still not properly configured. XP Home was not designed for networking. Simply...

He went over the usual stuff, "head and shoulders", "double tops" etc, and added some newer stuff such as 2-bar reversals (A long white candle followed by a black one or vice versa, of very similar size). When asked by one attendee whether any of it worked he shrugged and mentioned something...

I've been using Redi+ for about a year now and only in the last few days have been using an Excel spreadsheet with macros (provided to me, I didn't write the VB) to send orders directly to Redi+ for various strategies. I'm not a software guy but would really like to expand my capabilities...

I am referring here to NYSE tape reading , i.e. putting yourself in the shoes of the NYSE specialist. See The Q&A section of Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities Magazine. In many editions, Don Bright talks about this subject. The Bright guys do seem to know this subject very well...

In one chaper of this (overall pretty good book published just a month or 2 ago) Vic describes scatter-plots, regression analysis and most impotantly to your point, "spurious correlation" or seeming relationship between one variable and another where often there is none. A case in point (not...

ebay, amzn and yhoo I mean. See Barrons this week-end for a good rationale, but to summarize, amzn is a short's favorite at 75X forward p/e and still aggressive "pro-forma" earnings reporting and, for us technical types, big run up on the charts with the beginning of a rollover pattern...

See Chapter 12:"Boom or Bust" of the recently published "Practical Speculation" by Victor Niederhoffer and Laurel Kenner. Lots of good sources, even if you disagree with the authors negative views on REITS as an effective portfolio diversifier. The authors comments are addressed to investors...

Pretty infuriating. Where were the regulators when Pets.com was getting bid to the moon.

uptown (upper east and west side, Park Avenue, Turtle Bay etc.) is the most expensive. A ton of new buildings have come on the market all over Manhattan but especially in the Chelsea area of Manhattan, with a brand new 2 bedroom with doorman and high end facilities going for say $3,800 - $4,800...

How's the quality of the service? How about customer service etc.. Thx

Several small states in the Carribean have broadband now. The Cayman Islands being one example. The idea is to attract small high tech companies and provide an engine for economic growth. I'm baffled as to why such a pro-business progressive country like Ireland could have failed to come...

I am baffled by the absence of trading firms in London. I'm aware of withholding taxes on the retail trader as one reason (not a good thing, why do Europeans have one standard for institutions, and another more onerous one for the little guy) but I don't buy the "no trading culture" argument...

Hey Kicking, and others with knowledge of this: I am under pressure to leave New York and move to London (wife got job transfer offer) I'm a dual UK/US citizen, Series 7 licensed working in a prop firm here in NYC. Anyone know how it affects my series 7 status if I move out of the...