15 Minute Trader Delivers a 95% Win Rate and Average Profits of $1,220 Per Trade! Did you know just 15 minutes of trading per month could deliver average profits of $1,220 per trade with a 95% win rate on your trades? Amateur traders completely miss this point: It’s NOT how often you trade; it’s how smart you trade. For example, I know one...

Phil’s Stock World Did you see 60 Minutes last night? This craziness is part of the “Fraudclosure” scandal that has been well documented by Barry Ritholtz over at The Big Picture so I’m not going to spend too much time on it other than to look at the overall trend.  37,000 people went to an event in Los Angeles for people who are...

John Townsend-The TSI Trader This article will examine the current up leg in gold price that originated in October 2008, present a study of the Fibonacci relationships of this price movement that are evident both in terms of price and time, and offer a projection of future price movement within the time frame suggested by the evidence. * * We...

Fallond Picks While dailies are keeping bulls happy, the weeklies are a little more cool. This week marked yet another low volume rally. The Nasdaq is a good case in point. Nasdaq via StockCharts.com But the Nasdaq 100 ably defended 2,217 a few weeks back and may have the strength to drag the Nasdaq and other indices to new all-time highs. ($NDX) via...

by Karl Denninger It’s funny how ordinary people are prosecuted for trading on inside information and other similar offenses, but when it comes to top dogs at firms like Berkshire…. not so much. When bankers from Citigroup Inc. met David Sokol late last year to talk about potential transactions, they thought they were dealing with...

By: Zev Spiro of T3Live The major market indices staged an impressive rally over the last two and a half weeks. Many individual names that were highlighted broke out with decent follow through last week, such as Sohu.com Inc. (SOHU), SM Energy Company (SM) and Citrix Systems Inc, (CTXS). The Russell 2000 Index is relatively the strongest of the...

I was starting to put on my bullish hat on Friday morning when out of the blue an ugly close has forced me to rethink my position. After viewing a few hundred charts, I have determined that while I am still leaning into higher prices at this point in time, I will not totally rule out a rollover on the S&P 500. In coming days the news flow will be...

Jesse’s Cafe” Americain The failed bear raid in the metals today was so clumsy that it was almost embarrassing. There was disappointment in those who were short the metals, or had lost their positions, and were feeling discouraged that silver and gold had failed to break down for them today and stay there as planned. 6 MONTHS OF TRADING...

High Chart Patterns The best two ideas we have for next week are swing long $GS and $GDXJ.  Both these names have been recently on our radar, as posted on change of character tweet as it lifted off the 200SMA on Tuesday and $GDXJ trend-line break that we have been patiently waiting for all week. Here are the updated charts: The 200SMA held and this...

by Tyler Durden While it is no surprise that there is nothing in this world that can derail the optimism of Goldman’s David Kostin (GS S&P 2011 target 1,500 until Jan Hatzius and his double Bill Dudley say otherwise), in his latest Weekly Kickstart he does provide a useful visual analysis of what happens in a period of rising interest...

Earnings season is upon us, so it’s a good time to delve into how earnings affect stock prices. Here’s an excerpt from Bob Prechter’s February 2010 Elliott Wave Theorist. It considers the conventional belief in a cause/effect relationship between earnings and stock prices. EWI’s 50-page Independent Investor eBook includes the...

From the desk of John Thomas The Mad Hedge Fund Trader Friday, April 1, 2010 If Demographics is Destiny, Then America’s Future Sucks. Desperate homeowners counting on a “V” shaped recovery in residential real estate prices to bail them out better first take a close look at global demographic...

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by Tyler Durden Remember, way back when, when the dollar was supposedly on its way to rediscovering the little engine of growth that could just after the monthly NFP number came in just 30k below where it should be for the US to regain jobs list since December 2007, and the Fed was about to end debasing the US currency? Look again. Click Here For...

Fallond Picks A brief respite in the buying with a drop in trading volume compared to Wednesday. The narrow trading may offer a swing trade opportunity on break of high/lows. The S&P fell slightly but is nicely set for a swing trade. ($SPX) via StockCharts.com The Nasdaq posted small gains on higher volume accumulation. Looks good to push higher....