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You might be better off using the Market Profile to describe and anticipate trendiness instead of arithmetic mumbo-jumbo.

For what it's worth........It's possible that the contracts aren't exactly moving in lock-step with each other. The "calendar spread" can actually be reasonably steady but it might seem more volatile because the illiquid month doesn't trade as often as the active month in the spread. For...

g----relaxed loan underwriting criterion. Blame the overoptimistic bankers for that one. That's what eventually brings the least financially suitable people into the fray. Which leads to: h-----all of the above.

Re-read the part where I talk about it being "easier for professional investors to pressure markets where retail traders are believed to be active". The "fundamentals" won't matter because the pros will be selling into any bids. We'll see what happens.

Confirmation of the obvious..............start with the NYMEX and see where that leads.

How much can you lose? In your case, nothing! If real money were on the line, the correct answer is: "Pick a large number, a very large number."

I'll go first.................Stock splits tend to be bearish. It is believed that "retail" investors prefer to buy less-expensive stocks. It's easier for professional investors to pressure a market when the "public" is the primary buyer. If BTU gets back below $84/share, it could work its way...

Neutral?...........It ought to mean no change in rates for the near future. Consider buying deferred EuroDollar or Fed Funds futures.

Thanks for the screaming sell-signal.

Dude, you must have a lot of free time on your hands. (1) Anyway, some of that accounting-related data might be had from Value Line. Otherwise you could contact each company's investor relations department. (2) The short interest data could be had from the exchanges. (3) The analyst opinion data...

For what it's worth...............(1) Reduce your position size (2) Consider buying into a well-defined uptrend after it closes lower 2 consecutive days.............or...........maybe 3 consecutive days. Then expect and pray for the uptrend to resume. Do the opposite for downtrends.

How do you feel about your mother??...............For what it's worth, limiting losses is much more important than your method/system. If you trade speculatively for a long enough period of time, you'll eventually get yourself into situations that can bankrupt you; i.e. remaining short GOOG from...

(1) Nothing will come of it. (2) Institutional investors & regulators only bitch and moan about short-selling near market bottoms. (3) Thanks for the buy-signal Nitro!

Volume = zero? Open interest = zero? Hasn't anyone done any "pity trades" or wash-trades yet?? Didn't they pass out a lot of trinkets and souvenirs at the opening bell ringing ceremony?

Don't waste too much time with those books. I believe that Rollo Tape is from the 1930's and Humphrey Neill is from the 1950's. "It" was different back then. A public or university library might have them for check-out. There's an outfit called Frasier Publishing in New England that has lots of...

For what it's worth.............I think it's the one with the yellow cover, "The Day Trader". Go to Borders.com or BarnesandNoble.com for info.

Pier1.com?............CrateandBarrel.com?? As a barchart loyalist, I couldn't resist!

Why? CNBC and Business Week turned bullish on the energy sector at the "top tick".

For what it's worth...........(1) You could go to a public library and look at the Tuesday, 10-20-87, Wall Street Journal. In the stock tables, I believe even back then they printed an intra-day Dow Jones chart. (2) The episode on Thursday 10-22-87, with the huge sell order, was because of...

Sour grapes? The Yale guy works too cheaply. Anyway, it's slightly amusing that it's okay for upper-tier Ivy League schools to have huge exposure to equities in the form of hedge funds, buy-out funds, merchant banking funds et al while everyone else can only engage in passive indexation. As long...