Archive for April, 2008
Guest Blogging at GrowYourFunds.com
A few days ago Aaron Smith of GrowYourFunds.com was kind enough to ask me to guest blog for his site. My post ran today and, in case you’re interested, I’d like to direct your attention to my little column on the state of the markets. It’s a quick piece putting the current correction into historical [...]
read more »Dow Theory (Part 3)
In the final post on Dow Theory, we examine how Dow Theory applies as a broad market indicator. If you need to catch up, you can read the other two posts – An Overview of Dow Theory and Using Dow Theory to Identify Trends – by clicking the links. To some degree, this is a [...]
read more »Portfolio A: VMW position initiated
Well, I didn’t have to wait long to spot an interesting trade, though it wasn’t one of the three I found the other day though all three – Vornado, Western Union, and AUO – continue to remain interesting. It just so happened that the day of my post, VMWare’s earnings surprised upwards and came along [...]
read more »Dow Theory (Part 2)
Back to the post series on Dow Theory. Today, we’ll look at how to use Dow Theory when examining an investment. Dow Theory’s basic tenets actually lend themselves to a very successful market timing strategy, though some argue that it is a little too reactionary and not necessarily the most efficient way of timing in [...]
read more »Portfolio A Update – Bye, Bye Centex
Apologies for not updating sooner. I actually sold this stock on Friday. It seems that I’m shaking off some rust for my short term trading skills. While my initial pick of Centex was correct, my upside prediction was quite wrong. The stock moved swiftly to about $27.80 before hitting hard resistance and cracking down. Beyond [...]
read more »Weekend Diversions: Video Learning
This one is for readers of The Curious Investor who are interested in trading and technical analysis. I recently found out about INO.com through FeedtheBull. INO is a highly diversified trading website which features everything from basic charts and news to trade scans and trading tutorials. For full disclosure, you may notice that I have [...]
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