General Commentary

Stock Market Problems

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

Image via Wikipedia “Investors often cause stock market problems” With the advent of online banking and online trading, the stock market has opened its doors to virtually every person willing enough to grow their money. And yet, despite this, not everyone has joined the bandwagon. The largest factor being the potential risk involved in trading [...]

With Great Profit, Comes Greater Risk

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

Image via Wikipedia So you have been trading stocks for quite some time. You feel that you have mastered the art of trading and want to go further. You reckon you can play with the huge boys now. Well then, step up to the plate and get ready for some advanced stock market trading. For [...]

Enter Stock Position

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

Many systems available out there, identify patterns in charts and the break out days. Last week CSL had an ascending triangle with a breakout day, as shown in the chart below. (click on images to enlarge)It seems like the boat has already sailed when a stock has went so much before entering a position. What [...]

XAO Downtrend

Monday, January 26th, 2009

As expected the XAO continued down this week. Monday was an up day that retested the resistance made by the flag. Once this line was respected the XAO spent the rest of the week heading down. There is now 3 consecutive Lower Peaks (LP) indicating the sellers now have control. There is strong weekly support [...]

Protect Yourself in The Stock Market!

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

Image via Wikipedia Unless you’ve been living in a cave somewhere, you’ve probably noticed the world is in real distress. Businesses are going bust, global corporations are bankrupt, people are losing millions (and in some cases, billions!) and markets around the world are falling off a cliff. Basically, the financial world is going to hell [...]

What a week!

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

Last week (6 – 10 Oct, 2008) saw some pretty wild happenings on global Stockmarkets. We had some record down days, with just about every market around the world capitulating on Friday. I’m sure by now everyone who takes an interest in all things financial will be pretty sick to death of reading about it, [...]

Euphoria?

Monday, September 29th, 2008

This one just cracks me up, and I couldn’t resist sharing it. Of course, Barron’s share this particular piece of genius with the world on a regular basis, but they don’t elaborate too much on what’s in it, and from a cursory glance – I don’t blame them. It’s called the CitiGroup Panic/Euphoria Model, and [...]