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I thought 50% short float was a bearish sign and it was time to sell. Wrong?

I don't get it. Why are they down after their earnings? Sounded pretty good to me. What's going on?

When I look at Yahoo Keystatistics for GOOG I see that they have a Short Ratio of 1.2 http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=goog What does this number tell me? Is 1.2 considered a lot? - Little? I see other stocks that have a short ratio of 5. Is that a lot? How do I read into this number...

Yes it's definately CANSLIM. This stock has been no. 1 on IBD's recomended list for a few weeks. The problem though is that he most likely didn't to the other half of CANSLIM which is to stop-loss at 8% of when you get in. I still say hold it though. Some people are going to be knocked out...

Hold it. It'll go back up. Before you know it'll be at 200 +. They are a very good stock. It fell today for no reason what so ever. Just institutional zig zag and play. Nothing negative in the news about them. As a matter of fact they just bought out another company. They are growing and...

What are some of the things you consider before shorting a stock? Must there be a general downtrend in the market -- the sector the stock belongs to? If so how long? Surely you never just say "Ok that has to be high enough for this stock, now I'm gonna short". There must be something more...

Are there any cheap (or free) good scanners out there? I've used the Java based scanner from Yahoo but don't like going to Yahoo all the time. Would much rather have a software I can download and run from my computer. How about it? Thanks Comp

Hydroblunt, Thanks a lot. I practically live on Yahoo, or so it feels, but I hadn't checked out the Key Statistics links. Thanks again Comp

This probably sounds silly to most. But how could I possibly tell if a stock has a "massive short interest" or long interest? I must not have the right software to be able to tell. Please tell me what I need for this. Thanks Comp

Coud you please recommend a decent scanning software? I am currently running a trial version of AmiBroker. I thought I could do some scanning in it but that doesn't seem to be possible. So, is there anything out there where I can do "end of day" and pay for the software once instead of...

...when people say that such and such stock is trading at "x times their earnings"? I hear this a lot and tried to look it up on investopedia but didn't even know what to enter. For example people will say that stock "xyz is trading at 16 times their earnings" etc. Thanks Comp

Has anyone tried the Market Mosaic from Money.net? If so what do you think? I'm wandering if I should get it and if it's worth the money. I'm considering the non-Pro version. http://www.money.net/products/products_mosaic.php Thanks Comp

I've seen VectorVest advertize a lot lately. Has anyone here tried it? If so what did/do you think? Is it worth it? I'm considering signing up for the five week 9.95- trial. Thanks Comp

This may be the worst thing that has happened to the market in a while. Consider the fact that most of the money spend was just plastic money. Come January deadlines on people's credit bills more and more people will need to sell their things or default on their credit cards. Or hit the bottle...

Is there a website that has charts with average volume for all the majors. I tried to find it on yahoo finance and big charts. The reason why I ask is because after market on Friday they said on Bloomberg that the NASDAQ had only 1.4 billion volume for that day but their average volume is...

don't you think? I'd like to see the Dow come down to 10.000 in the next couple of weeks.

This money is definately discretionary. The whole thing is not very serious and he couldn't care less if I loose everydime of it in one day. He was just going to let me play with it for a few years. Thanks for the 20% and the 10% suggestions. Comp

A friend is going to let me have little bit of money to invest for him on the stock market. We decided that if I make money I should get a percentage of the total profit and that if I don't make money I won't get anything. My question is how much do people usually charge for this? This whole...

Thanks for the suggestion. I will try them. When I went to what I think is their website I got a bit confused, could you please tell me if this is the right link: http://www.dtn.com/trading.cfm?sidenav=sn_trading_px&content=pr_prophx Thank you Comp

Isn't there someone out there that offers a product that does the same or more as Esignal does? Someone that's about the same quality, or better doesn't hurt, that doesn't charge as much as esignal does? I am OK with their software, have used it for a while, really don't think its anything...