point and figure charts

  • Why Support Lines Matter

    Suddenly stopping…from Belmar, NJ along the way to NYC. (…)

  • Point & Figure Charts Tell A Better Story

    There's a great story I read in the New York Times. It’s part business/part technology. (…)

  • The Bell Curve

    Recently, oil and commodities dropped 20 to 25% in four very fast weeks, catching nearly everyone off guard. But as fast as the drop took place, we start to see signs of a reversal back up. (…)

  • Jim Cramer: Doom Itself

    The line heard in every economic recession, and every single stock market pullback is: this time it's different. (…)

  • How can they keep missing this?

    Frequent readers have seen earlier posts where I have discussed option expiration week and the volatility that comes with it.  But there was scant mention of option expiration at all this week.  Options expired on Friday and the Dow Jones dropped 220 points. (…)

  • Market Sell Off This Week — A Pause?

    The market averages seem to be starting summer early. We saw a broad-based sell-off this past week, after several weeks of positive movement. (…)

  • How Smart is The Crowd?

    Do you remember the television program, "Who wants to be a Millionaire"?The show was actually featured in a terrific book "The Wisdom of Crowds" by James Suriowiecki. (…)

  • Why "Average Joe" Can't Make Money In the Market

    The period we're in now is not necessarily a "bull market" or a "bear market" but more like a structurally "fair market." I didn't make that up on my own — Tom Dorsey, from Dorsey Wright and Associates in Richmond coined that term. (…)

  • Recession Worse than Expected?

    There was an article distributed nationwide, written by the Associated Press, and carried locally in the Asbury Park Press on March 22, 2008. (…)

  • Goldman Stearns and Lehman Sachs

    All these firms hold the same investments.
    There is STILL considerable risk in the group.
    Why did this happen to just Bear Stearns? (…)

  • Bear Stearns, part I

    The news surrounding Bear Stearns on Friday morning was not good! There are several important elements to this story. (…)

  • Stock market yo-yo

    Another Weird Day on Wall Street
    Today, Tuesday, February 26, 2008 we received some negative economic news. (…)

  • Why Momentum Matters

    In the late ‘90s, when Internet stocks were starting to run higher
    and higher, there was no logical (fundamental) explanation why. 
    Those stocks were going up because “they were going up."  They had
    positive momentum. (…)

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