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Case Study: J Crew Earnings Beat

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

To follow up on Monday’s post analyzing my prediction of an earnings beat for MEMC Electronic Materials, we’ll take a look at the first stock I bought using the strategy I discussed in “Picking Earnings Beats“, J. Crew. This post is meant to both reinforce my arguments for my aforementioned earnings beat strategy and to […]

VIX - CBOE Volatility Index

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

I alluded to the volatility index (symbol: VIX) about two weeks ago in my market commentary and today I’d like to expound a little more on what it is and how it can be used.
The Chicago Board of Exchange Volatility Index is a measure of the implied volatility of S&P 500 options. These index options […]

Technical Indicators: The Ultimate Oscillator

Friday, January 12th, 2007

And, today, we wrap up the series on Technical Indicators with another development of Larry Williams, the Ultimate Oscillator. You may remember the name Larry Williams from another ocillator which is named for him, the Williams %R.
The Ultimate Oscillator was designed as a smoothed oscillator in hopes of eliminating the false signals and wild […]

Technical Indicators: Directional Movement Indicator (DMI)

Monday, December 18th, 2006

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 […]

Technical Indicators: Money Flow

Friday, December 15th, 2006

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 […]

Technical Indicators: Williams%R

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

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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