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The guy earned his money. NYSE:COF hasn't really done much the past several years. Oh well. Most of the big gainers are in finance, energy, technology and construction. No surprise there. It remains to be seen if those sectors can continue to hold up and if these guys can cash-out before a...

Thanks for the Nikkei "sell-signal".

Volatility is related to how much the market moves. Risk is what you're willing to lose. Focus more on risk instead of volatility and keep your losses small. Be sure to trade markets whose volatility doesn't exceed your risk tolerance. Trade sleepier markets before escalating into...

You have to do one option trade per quarter? You're in Australia? OK, does Australia have the end-of-the-quarter "window dressing" effect? If yes, buy an at-the-money, short-dated, All Ordinaries index call option the week before the end-of-the-quarter and hope that the buying stampede kicks-in...

Day Trading idea?.........learn to identify the "Noon Balloon" in the S&P and 10-Year note. You should make money with it atleast 3 or 4 days out of the week. Be very careful on that other day when it "explodes" in your face.

The correct answer is "c"-----------CNBC should issue a sell-signal on the MYMEX energy contracts. Instead of using nuclear-tipped bombs, conventional warheads would work just as well. Better still, the USA can let Israel do the job.

(1) On a localized and overall basis, there's definitely a "housing bubble" waiting to deflate. The areas with the greatest price appreciation should experience the most downside. When you look at mortgage statistics, home equity payouts, investment property participation, the number of real...

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Memorial Day should be a turning point. States might do away with (RFG) reformulated gasoline guidelines and state taxes as a politically popular thing to do to ease the burden for motorists. We'll see.

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Instead of using candlestick or bar charting, why not just use a line chart instead for maximum "smoothness"?

Getting into a position all at once and verbalizing being willing to lose 50% on it aren't good. Instead, initiate a 1,000 share position at $3 and then add another 1,000 shares at 4 and then 1,000 more at $5 and so on and so on in order to reduce your risk. Yes, it does reduce your profit...

(1) If a stock is trading at $50, the $50 calls and $50 puts are at-the-money. The call strike prices above $50 are out-of the money. The call strike prices below $50 are in-the-money. Vice versa with the puts. (2) If the stock is trading at $51 and the nearest strike prices are $50 and $52...

(1) Be willing to sell shorter-dated options. In silver, sell May instead of July. Same thing in rice. You'll get the time decay and volatility decay kicking in sooner. (2) You seem to be always bearish because you're only selling call options. If a market is in a well-defined uptrend, consider...

CHEESE-------------------You are a bastion of sanity in an over-optimistic world.

(1) Take these with a grain of salt---------------miramar-research.com, greentradertax.com & tradersaccounting.com. (2) Your clearing firm should be able to provide some of that info for you if you dangle the possibility of them landing a 6-figure trading account from you.

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Pay closer attention to the 4-year cycle. 32 is the 8th harmonic of 4. If you believe that the current 4-year cycle began in late-2002, you'd expect it to bottom out later this year, ideally in September or October when the market seems to have it's biggest meltdowns. We'll see what happens.

The ratio of heads-to-tails can remain at ~50% but the arithmetic difference between heads & tails can increase as you continue to do more flips, i.e. 5/5, 51/49, 510/490, 5100/4900. That can explain the variation from a zero baseline.

Quick Silver Messenger Service??............with Kevin Bacon and Paul Rodriguez. Kevin Bacon shorts a stock that receives a buy-out offer. He blows out and then becomes a bicycle messenger to earn a grubstake to get back into trading again. It has some good moments.