Archive for December, 2006

Festival of Investing

Well, in my firt forray into the investment/personal finance/money blog community, I’m participating in the Festival of Investing which is a weekly listing of some of the best articles on investing in the blogosphere. The article that was selected was my post describing A Simple Breakout and Trend Reversal System which I hope will be [...]

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Technical Indicators: Directional Movement Indicator (DMI)

The Directional Movement Indicator (DMI) is another statistic/chart developed by J. Welles Wilder who you may remember also developed RSI and Parabolic SAR. DMI like Parabolic SAR is derived from a relatively complex formula which we won’t discuss but if you’re interested please visit this tutorial on calculating DMI. The intention of the DMI is [...]

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Weekend Diversions: Slickdeals.net

Slickdeals.net has been a site that I visit daily for a while now. It recently underwent a little makeover and has since become even more convenient to use. The main page of the site, as always, houses an aggregated list of deals all over the web for all sorts of goodies ranging from flowers to [...]

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Technical Indicators: Money Flow

Money Flow on bigcharts.com is a bit different from the Money Flow that most people look at. Typically, when talking about money flow we are talking about the money flow index chart which is scaled like RSI (0 to 100) with the same overbought and oversold levels. The money flow index is essentially a volume [...]

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Curious Investments: Savvis (SVVS)

I realized that I often use graphs of certain companies’ stocks in my posts and that it may be misleading for some. While I do publicize my current stock holdings (click to see my portfolio holdings), the link isn’t really prominent (it’s in the right sidebar under the ticker) and I don’t really make it [...]

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Technical Indicators: Williams%R

The Williams %R oscillator is actually very similar to the two stochastic indicators we discussed earlier. It was created by Larry Williams, a very famous trader and financial educator. He actually still gives seminars and tours the world teaching how to trade in both commodities and equities. The Williams %R oscillator is designed to oscillate [...]

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