If 2011 is anything like 2010 we could expect to see more of a slow grind higher as de-leveraging and currency revaluation continues. The S&P futures closed up on the year though we really did not gain a ton of ground considering the pullback earl…

Last Day To Enter The Stock Picking Contest

Just a reminder that today is the last day to enter the stock picking contest.Enter for your chance to win the $50 cash prize. All of the stock picks should be entered by the close of the stock market on Monday. That’s January 3rd at 4:00 pm. If you have not yet entered, uou can [...]

Welcome to the last business day of the year showing of, “which rumor is true: the IMAX saga”. If you expected action like this out of a in play headline stock on a day like today you either have a sixth sense and you need to start a hedge fund based …

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Not looking good over in mamby pamby land… News of a Judge granting a class action lawsuit against NFLX brought on by WMT.

(Courthouse News) ”A federal judge granted class certification to Netflix subscribers who accuse the online DVD rental …

Are You A Keynesian Or A Friedman Follower?

Adam Smith may the father of economics but his economic policies are not largely followed today. The two main schools of thought discussed today are those of John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman. Both men had different theories on what builds wealth in capitalism and drives the economic engine that is the United States economy. [...]

www.CartoonStock.com Most recently the current investor sentiment got a lot of press around the blogosphere, regularly picking out the rapid increases in bullish sentiment and it’s most probably negative (contrary) implications for the market’s short- and intermediate term performance. For example: For the week ending 12/23/2010, the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) sentiment survey [...]

A subscriber inquiry brought this changing tendency to my attention and led me to investigate further. Below we see the last day of the year performance for the Nasdaq Composite.

The lesson? Sometimes market behaviors change.

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Yesterday’s late selloff was something that many chart readers might view as ugly on a chart. My research has shown quite the opposite. When SPY has closed near the bottom end of its range but still positive on the day that has generally been a good th…