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Sorry, forgot to attach a chart to my previous post. :)

TASR has been in an upwards channel since about mid-December, and appears to have now breached the lower boundary. Looks ripe for a downwards move.

Couple of comments. First thing I would point out is that you don't necessarily need to go with the CyberTrader Pro Premium platform, their CyberTrader Pro Basic platform is only $25/month. I would also suggest checking out TradeFreedom as another alternative, their pricing isn't all that...

TMTA was fairly flat until about 2:00 p.m. EST today, then it cranked on a whole lot of volume and ran up in a big way.

I think that most if not all Dells are using Samsung panels, so that could be what you are referring to. There are far more monitor companies than panel producers, so many monitors are based on similar or identical panels. For example, Acer and Viewsonic had recently launched a 19" widescreen...

This mini-review is going to sound fairly negative, but I just finished reading "Empire of Debt" by Bill Bonner and Addison Wiggin, and I have to say that I wasn't terribly impressed. My two largest gripes with this book are that it focuses far too much on politics, and that I didn't really...

Didn't read his article yet, but it sounds like the author must have read "Empire of Debt" recently.

Have you considered the new iUnits trust index ETF? Ticker is XTR, traded on the TSX. Seems like a lower risk way to invest in trusts, and the MERs are extremely reasonable.

Somewhat off-topic, but those are some genuinely beautiful homes (though the 5th one has an interior pic with some truly terrible wallpaper).

Transmeta held their year-end conference call February 23, their turnaround continues. I actually took on a pretty high risk position at $1.40 or so during the day of Feb 23 (yes, I know, holding into earnings can really be a gamble). I'm not quite sure what to make of the current chart...

Well, at least they are kind enough to provide a fairly specific date range for the "meltdown" to take place. :p

Hmmmm, are there are any websites that can scan/filter stocks by beta?

I'm interested to see what oil and gas are going to do over the next few months. I'm expecting some form of decline, which I think could lead to the Canadian dollar dropping a bit vs. the US dollar. Canadian energy stocks are also looking a bit shakey right now.

Okay well, Bank of Canada overnight rate is currently 3.50%, prime rates set by the big banks individually are at 5.25% (prime rate tends to be the reference rate for floating rate loans up here in Canada). If you visit the following link, you will see that the most recent reported CPI (total)...

We have an industry up here in Canada that always seems to be on the verge of being regulated, specifically companies offering "payday loans". Not quite sure where this issue stands in the US, but I know that the effective interest rates can be very high (partially due to fees). So it's not...

That's actually an interesting point, high frequency trading would have been much, much less common back in the early 1980s, unless you had a lot of money. I can only imagine how crappy broker commissions must have been back then.

Well, I wouldn't call your post stupid, I just wanted to clarify regarding how risk fits into the equation.

I'm not a big fan of random walk hypothesis. I'm a finance major, and basically everything I've taken in University thus far has stated that you can't do much more than diversify away some of your risk. In other words, they basically teach that the stock market is completely unpredictable, and...

Well, that's not entirely correct, it also depends on beta. The portfolio could have high beta and no alpha, or could have low beta and high alpha. You have to look at the risk of the portfolio, not just the excess returns above that of the market. For example, if you ran a fund with, say...

Good answer, though I would just like to add that the exact terminology is "Jensen's Alpha" (or Jensen's Measure if you prefer).