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Not too long ago, I had a dispute with a client... well actually, he was trying to rob me - literally - of some work I had prepared for him, and when I attempted to stop him, he threatened to "beat me up". I had to laugh. In reflecting on that incident, it occurs to me that there's this age...

Did I get this right? This is a *one* month test of this April, which was a great month for longs, and the "Buy Approach Criteria" is: close is between 20 and 80 Average Volume(90) is above 50000 Close dropped more than 6 percent over the last 1 day The "Sell Methods for exiting" is...

As a matter of fact, there was a study made of star performers (mutual funds), and the finding was that those funds with the highest returns for the one year period were also the ones that subsequently would underperform the next year. Think that was reported in Random Walk Down Wall Street. And...

This could cause ARCA's fuse to blow and their Commodore to crash.

For content. Audiences tune in because they love to be led. They love to know what the forecast is (even though no one can be accurate about that every time) rather than know how to trade. But the show doesn't care about that. The more people are hooked to watch, the more the show can charge...

Institutions deal with higher priced issues, making for nice movement in the price, but I'm thinking, if what you're doing is working for you, why change it?

Doesn't Scottrade's hold-muzak-while-you're-on-the-phone give you reason enough to change brokers? I can't even pass by the TV while their commercial is on. Yee-ech. I can tell you one thing about their JD Powers award they seem to repeatedly win for "customer satisfaction", and that is, JD...

That's where I keep my car overnight. "A strategy involving the purchase of convertible securities and the subsequent shorting of the corresponding stock. Conversion will offset the short position. The transaction may be profitable if the convertible is priced incorrectly relative to the...

You trade breakouts, I see. And not looking to see if it actually breaksout, at that. Any other criteria you like to see? BTW, how do you like the turtle strategy of not taking a trade (for 20 day highs) if the last breakout was a winning trade?

Although it's not excercise, stand in front of your monitor from time to time instead of sitting. This will make you somewhat active, plus help reduce the chances of getting e-thrombosis and big-buttism.

AdAware is great, but it works after the fact. adshield.org lets you select the ads to block as you encounter them and search for spywareblaster. Stops them in the first place

They all go down. It's amazing to me that these companies put themselves out there and then don't back themselves up with the resources they need for the amount of hits they get. Try barchart.com stockcharts.com

I concur with Banjo. Use an MA to signal an exit. MAs lag, so they'll get you out in due course when a position's turned around enough to warrant you getting out. Won't be on the mark every time, and it will give back some, but it may capture more than what you're getting out with now. You would...

Today's baby-boomers were also once idealistic twenty-somethings that viewed the previous generation as f-ckups. Of course, they didn't take into account that they themselves had yet many years left to be hit over the head with and run over with the exploits of humankind and of their own...

Not necessarily. Assuming that your system is (unbeknownst to you) actually a good system: What may be happening is that you're jumping in just when the system is picking a few losers, going into a drawdown. But now, unlike your backtests, the money stake is real so it makes you twitch when...

In real time, try dating a girl from Long Island, Brooklyn or Queens. She'll let you know if you're doing well or not.

If you don't know, then, chances are it is dumb luck. Can you imagine if you decided to try your hand at surgery 'cause you read a book written in 1919 about it and, not "knowing for sure" what to expect, all your patients in the first week of your practice did well? Couldn't attribute that to...

What happens to holders of KM's preferred stock? Isn't it so that preferred has some sort of priority over common when it comes to bankruptcies?

Walter, this sort of becomes like a black box since there's no methodology revealed. So, are you going to speak to the operation of your "indicator" so it's understandable to us, like Bollinger? Look what you could get in return: he's got websites, books, does TV spots commenting on the markets...

rather than set a number of stocks to follow, have you considered how perhaps better to bump up your setup so that the number of stocks to follow will be less, but better candidates?