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How to Use Volume to Make Winning Trades

Jun 21st, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technical Analysis
Sometimes, a stock’s price doesn’t tell the entire story. That is why it is so important to confirm a price breakout using additional evidence. The more evidence you have that a breakout is genuine, the more likely it is that any given trade will be successful. You can confirm a stock’s ...read more

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Selling in May and Going Away

May 7th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technical Analysis
Should you “sell in May and go away?” After Friday’s 1.6% drop in the S&P 500, I’ll bet that a whole lot more people are saying yes this weekend... The idea of selling in May and going away is an old Wall Street adage that’s based on the seasonality of summer ...read more

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What the Mega Millions Means for Stocks

Apr 2nd, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technical Analysis
What does last week’s record Mega Millions jackpot have to do with the stock market? Absolutely nothing. But you wouldn’t know it to look at the Wall Street Journal on Friday... After all, the lotto was featured as a major economic story in the WSJ this weekend. All told, I counted seven different ...read more

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Why You Should Be Betting Against Financial Stocks

Jan 30th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Technical Analysis
Investor uncertainty about Europe’s massive debt debacle is on the verge of dragging down the financial sector. Today, I want to show you why Europe still remains a threat — even though Wall Street seems to have forgotten about it — and how you can make one single move to ...read more

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Chart Smarts: Why July Could Bring a Rally in the S&P 500

Jul 14th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technical Analysis
The market has been a mess recently... Thumbing through the financial pages of any newspaper, I could pick out a half-dozen conflicting, convoluted, or crazy market predictions for the second half of 2011. And none of it is doing much good for individual investors. When the volume of noise on Wall Street ...read more

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Chart Smarts: Squeezing Gains From This Toxic IPO Market

Jun 16th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technical Analysis
To most people, the shares of recent IPOs – new companies that become publicly traded for the first time – look red hot... Yesterday the market’s latest IPO, Pandora Media (NYSE:P) rallied double digits. Back in May, LinkedIn’s IPO (NYSE:LNKD) rallied 47% in its first day of trading. Again, to most people, ...read more

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Chart Smarts: Generating 45.5% Gains With a Low Risk, 2-Day Trade

Jun 9th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technical Analysis
I realize that the idea of generating 45.5% gains in just two days sounds like fantasy. It sounds like the sort of gain number that’s reserved for the well-connected hedge-fund types, not for everyday retail investors. Worse, it sounds like a quick turnaround on an incredibly risky investment. But looks ...read more

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Why Now’s the Time to Buy the Tech Company Everyone Else Hates

May 19th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Over the Counter Markets, Penny stocks, Pink sheet stocks, Technical Analysis
You may have heard of “the cloud” before. No, it’s not a white, fluffy thing in the sky or the catchphrase in a recent mattress commercial — it’s the latest and greatest industry buzzword out there in the tech space today. And unlike most, it’s a buzzword that has significant ...read more

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A Trader’s Take: Should You Still Buy Silver?

May 3rd, 2011 | By | Category: Commodities, Featured, Investing Strategies, Over the Counter Markets, Penny stocks, Pink sheet stocks, Technical Analysis
At the beginning of 2011 I gave a special forecast to Agora Financial Reserve members (see below)… the resounding recommendation was for silver. Specifically I was quoted saying “I see more potential in silver [than gold.] I look for silver to double in price this year, again.” In retrospect that was ...read more

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Use “The Force”: Harnessing Volume to Predict and Understand Stock Prices

Apr 15th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Penny stocks, Technical Analysis
“A Jedi’s strength flows from the force.” — Yoda Dear Penny Sleuther, Although market volume is a crucial piece of investment information, the majority of the public is ignorant of it. Fundamental analysts do not consider volume, whereas technical analysts underutilize it. In my new book Investing with Volume Analysis I discuss ...read more

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