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Before I start I want to from the bottom of my heart thank everyone who responded to me with regards to Friday¡¦s edition of Random Rants and Idea¡¦s. I have literally hundreds of replies, and it means a lot to me to know that so many people care. I will personally reply to everyone, but it...

I’ll star this off by whining a little today: I’m as tired as tired gets. If you’re a political junkie like me you didn’t get to sleep till about 5am last night, by which time my eyes just failed me. On top of no sleep last night I’m starting to come down with a cold (Probably because...

Crude is over..just my humble little opinion. Specs are too long, supply is not as bad as it was etc etc etc. Brandon

I suspect that one person trying to apply the method and not having success has very little to do with how relialbe it really is. In Trader Vic he mentions having tried to teach a number of people, as have other successful traders, and most of them found it rather difficult. People have to...

I’m starting this rather early tonight, at least the initial part. It is right now 530 ET, well before we know who is going to be the next President of the United States of America. Very soon we hope to know if Mr. Bush will continue to be the commander in chief or if Mr. Kerry is going to...

I dont think the market will sell off much if Kerry wins. His wife has too much invested in the stock market for him to do anything to hurt it too bad. He'd be sleeping outside, and its cold in DC during the winter. But on a more serious note, my thinking is simply that there had been a lot...

Ive gone to cash. I think the R/R balance has shifted. Cleaned up on the longs. Brandon

I think the lawyers are being discounted today. We are going to have CLEAR winner tonight. Thats what the market has been saying all week..in any case i have my longs in and my stops trailed really close. I dont plan to own more than 1/3 of it into tomorrow. Brandon

Speaking of dudes with assult rifles. Before voting even began in Philadelphia -- poll watchers found nearly 2000 votes already planted on machines scattered throughout the city... One incident occurred at the SALVATION ARMY, 2601 N. 11th St., Philadelphia, Pa: Ward 37, division 8...

There will be more random rant than market idea tonight simply because things are tied up in the election right now. As you know I have liked the market action of late and have gotten long. I have some cushion in most of my positions, and on those that I do not I will be lightening up. Tomorrow...

Im pretty much one of the most risk adverse people I know when it comes to the market, but I dont see the coming election as being as big of a risk as most people seem to think it is. Either I'm missing something or they are..we will know very soon. Brandon

Volume pulled in on Friday as the markets continued to digest the gains from earlier in the week. While the majority have remained skittish ahead of tomorrows elections, there has obviously been very heavy institutional buying this last week. My feeling is that the market is not betting on a...

On Thursday volume was down slightly as the markets digested two days of stellar gains. This is normal and healthy. If I was to write a script for what I wanted to see in the market I could not have had better action occur than to have what we saw today. The S&P500 closed up 2.04 points...

The broader markets started the day in negative territory, looking for all the world like we would continue to see chop. All of the news coming out today seemed to be good though, and this helped stocks to power higher on heavy volume by the close. New Home Sales for September rose 3.5% and...

Those volatility explosion patterns are really some of the best in the market, for example AAPL from the other day. Start to tighten stops up on that one. Brandon

I'm pretty sure I suffer some form of ADHD because I do a lot of stuff :) Brandon

Things are, by my estimation, starting to look better at this time. The markets broke a five day losing streak on Tuesday, but most importantly they did it on heavy volume. NASDAQ volume increased 13% to 1.8billion shares, while NYSE volume expanded 22% to 1.68 billion shares. The NASDAQ gained...

I'm glad you are enjoying it. I have traded for the past 10 years. Mostly stocks, but I am also active in the commodities markets when they give something I find compelling. I tried FX as well through a retail firm and found it unprofitable and tiring since the Japanese hours seem to offer...

A Strategy for Daily Living by Ari Kiev (Not his trading books)

The major indexes spent the majority of the morning slightly negative, but managed to finished more or less unchanged from Friday. Yesterdays Nasdaq volume decreased 9% to 1.59 billion shares, while NYSE volume decreased 6% to 1.37 billion shares traded. The Nasdaq Composite lost 1.1 and closed...