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John Carter from tradethemarkets.com is big on what he calls the "squeeze". It occurs during periods of low volatility when the Bollinger bands narrow to squeeze within the Kelter channel. When volatility increases causing the Bollinger bands to go outside the Kelter channel, he calls this a...

I almost bought a computer from them after some favorable recommendations from a few ET posters. However, I was fortunate to receive advice from the illustrious Gnome (who retired from ET after his 10,000th post). He felt that their computers were over-priced and "over-clocked" in his terms. He...

I agree that the COT commercial index is long and stochastics is almost oversold on the weekly chart indicating a buy (see weekly chart attached), however, I am concerned that we are no longer in an uptrend due to the lower high (LH) made on 1-11-10. Instead of the most recent retracement being...

As the Federal Reserve works with foreign central banks to close its temporary liquidity swap agreements by February 1, the US dollar may continue to rally and pressure gold. Longterm, however, the US government is still swimming in an ever growing mountain of debt and will have to continue to...

Rogers states that he bought more silver and palladium. He is still bullish on Chinese stocks despite their real estate bubble. He is also still very bullish on agricultural commodities due to the lowest reserves in decades and farmers being unable to get loans...

I sincerely hope that we get out of this economic mess in an orderly and peaceful way. Everyone, including myself, will be much better off. However, a lot of intelligent people are very concernced about the US debt and the way our government is handling the situation. It is not hard to...

The book looks fascinating and has excellent reviews on Amazon. i just ordered it: http://www.amazon.com/Apollyon-Rising-2012-Mystery-Revealed/dp/0982323565/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264569312&sr=8-1 The other website you mentioned also has a lot of interesting reading material...

Thanks for the best laugh I've had today!

I have been reading this thread with interest because I was convinced that we were headed for economic armageddon last year. These concerns led me to purchase guns and ammo for the first time in my life, obtain my concealed carry permit, stockpile several cords of firewood for my woodstove and...

I am curious how you and others are planning?

Fascinating article. I cannot say that I disagree with his position: "The government took my money without asking me and gave it to the banks.. ..I owe the banks money, but they already got my money from the government, I say we're even." I thought it was very interesting that a collection...

Again, although I agree with your ideas in principle, the expense would be exorbitant. First of all, Medicaid pays very little to physcians for medical care. As a result, most physicians will not even treat patients on Medicaid alone. Since Medicaid does not pay well, I assume (but do not...

As a practicing physician for more years than I care to admit, I agree with portions of your statement. However, the cost of insuring all Americans or even all uninsured Americans with Medicare would have been prohibitive. Realize that Medicare is paid for primarily through payroll taxes...

Did you buy both the underlying and the covered call on a pullback or did you already own the underlying and wait for a deep pullback to write the call? The best place to buy the underlying is at point 1 after a pullback appears to be complete as price starts to turn up. But it seems to me...

Silver has taken an even bigger hit today, but is at support.

Maybe because UBS turned in all the tax dodgers: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32386100 Actually, he did mention goldmoney.com which has offices in Zurich: "The gold bullion purchased through GoldMoney is stored securely at the VIA MAT vaults in London, England and Zurich, Switzerland...

Thank you for the responses thus far. In order to clarify my question, assume that volatility is similar at all 4 points on the chart, that there are at least 3 weeks until options expiration and that no earnings reports are due. I realize that there are a lot of variables involved in...

I am learning about options and am trying to clarify the best time to place a covered call when I already own the underlying. I would appreciate responses from anyone who trades covered calls on either stocks or futures profitably. See the chart below for the numbering. Is it best to place a...

I watched an informative webinar today by callwriter.com. Has anyone read this guy's book: http://www.amazon.com/John-Brashers-Ultimate-Covered-Cd-Rom/dp/0615294545/ref=sr_1_fkmr3_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1263964185&sr=8-1-fkmr3 or subscribed to his website: http://www.callwriter.com/index.htm...

I don't agree with taxing the rich any more than I agree with bailing out the rich. However, if they are willing to be bailed out, they should be prepared to pay extra for it. Sure, many of these companies have repaid their bailout money and are now back to making profits and paying out large...