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As recently as Tuesday US Equity prices had fallen to two year lows and fear of further failures in the banking group had a lot of people fearful of what even worse times lay just around the next corner. People have been getting checks from the new IndyMac Federal Bank, however banks are not...

I used to make a pretty good living sharing hard won market lessons with other people, and though I'm no longer in that particular business I still do like sharing lessons I have learned. Here's one I hope none of you ever have to use: If you happen to be in a situation where you must see an...

Since I'm the worst programmer in the world the easy scanning ability in Tc2k is not so easy for me. Would anyone here happen to have a scan that finds new 20 day highs on Worden's TC2k program and be able to tell me how to install it etc. Thanks. Brandon

Some of the better advice here.

FTI Consulting (Nyse:FCN) provides litigation, forensic, restructuring, finance and economic consulting services. This is a group of stocks that have generally held up well during the resent market meltdown, and FCN is a leading stock in the group. You can see on the chart that its generally in...

American markets ended the day Tuesday with mixed results. The closed under 11,000 for the first time since July of 2006, it lost 92 points on the day, closing at 10,963. Meanwhile the S&P500 lost 13.39 points, closing at 1214.91 (a two year low), while the NASDAQ managed to close slightly...

I'd hate to risk breaking my arm patting myself on the back, but I think that the blog I have @ http://www.brandonfredrickson.blogspot.com/ is fairly good. I have not been updating it all that often lately, but should be back into it with in the next week or two.

I've been doing some selling whole loans to various banks etc. We have our own list of 94 banks that will most likely fail, if your interested in it feel free to PM me and I'll send it to you. Include the email address to send the excel document too.

Operating a company in the public area presents one with all kinds of issues that would never occur in the private market. For starters as a public company the only thing anyone gives a damn about is last quarters and this quarters earnings. Growth, Growth, Growth at all costs. If you operate as...

A few helpful comments here, but as has been typical mostly trash. I will try to add my two cents here. My AUM is down substantially over the last year and a half as I have been dealing with a number of serious health problems. I started trading in the mid nineties and after I had some...

I'm not complaining about the market, I've done pretty well. It just strikes me as sad that the majority of people have been sold hard into buy and hold, and its doing terribly for them.

Someone once told me that stocks are the best investment for the long haul. Don't worry about trading in and out, just buy and hold on tight baby. Dont worry what the market does today, tomorrow or the next day, neither should I care about next month. In the long term it'll go up. REALLYY? So...

Well in the 1930's our army did not even have ammo to practice with. They would use bags of flower to simulate explosions, the overall size of the milatary was very small, its equiptment outdated and its soldiers not very well trained. Fast foward about 15 years and we defeated what looked like...

Would agree Jem, I really don't see what kind of pleasure one could take in reward they did not put any effort into getting. I think the poster was joking with his reply.

All of the people who think the American Dream is dead are lazy and or full of shit. I grew up a dirt poor farm boy in Iowa. We did not even have hot water or heat in our house until I was in 4th grade. I can remember spending half the summer chopping wood with my brother's and hating it. We...

I majored in History (but dropped out before I got the degree). Whats wrong with a History degree? Honestly I think it's helped my trading because you learn to research things very well.

There could be any number of them, IMB, DSL, WB...they all have terrible books and I cant see how any of them will survive without a bailout. I'm sure others do as well, but IMB, DSL and WB are the one's I've taken the time to really look @.

How can you be a real philantropist if your not rich? What what the Carnagie endowments be if he wasnt rich?

Her comments dont bother me so much, but the stupid ass faces she makes all the time drive me nuts if I watch for too long.

CASH is always a valid trade.