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“The last time I saw this many bearish signals reverse was in early 2007. The brokerage stocks had been running like mad, but I knew the balance sheets on these companies were rotten with souring mortgage bonds.
Additionally, all of the sector data pointed to massively overbought conditions.
I remember repeatedly attempting to short the brokers and [...]

Great artice by Chris Rowe. Based on this i’m lightening up a few of my bearish positions and hedging with some bullish ones.

“If you’re like me and just about every trader/investor I know in the market right now, you’ve been looking at one “false market signal” after another, one “whipsaw” after another, and one “head [...]

I follow todaytrader on www.stocktwits.com, and he produced this video on the use of some scanning software. Check out his trading service and watch list at http://www.todaytrader.net/Watch.html.

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This is the first of a series of articles on market type. For example, in the update for this month I said that the market type for the S&P 500 index was SIDEWAYS VOLATILE. That prompted someone to ask, How can you say that we are in a sideways market when the market has gone [...]

What i get out of this recent and very important email by Chris Rowe at The Tycoon Report is:

The long term trend is still down (or bearish)

The intermediate term trend is up (or bullish), and even with the recent sell yesterday, internal market indicators thell us that demand is still in control.
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Great article by Chris Rowe at The Tycoon Report. A must read for everyone.
“You’re about to hear lots of rhetoric from “Bulls vs. Bears” and it’s going to confuse the hell out of you if your ears are open and your eyes are not. So turn off the financial television and stop listening to opinions, [...]

Here is a great article from Tyler at www.stockscores.com. Make sure to sign up for his free newsletter.
I am getting a lot of email these days from people looking to be long Oil. I think their interest is motivated by the fact that Oil is scarce, it used to trade at $145 and is now [...]

I loved this article. Teeka talks about trading emotionally in the market vs using a system that controls your emotions and behaviours… to take the emotion out of it and make you a better, consistent trader.
I know this very well, and trading without rules to follow cost me alot of money… so i value a [...]

My own opinion… all bet’s are off in a market as volitile as this one. Even companies that fit these 7 criteria are getting whipsawed around on any given day. That said, it’s great advice in a bull market.
Excerpt: “Value and growth investors seldom agree on what’s important for evaluating a stock. But here are [...]

I have been posting articles at stockcapitalist on the need for bearish exposure to the market for a year or so, and it has proven to pay off big time. Here is another great article by Chris Rowe from The Tycoon Report explaining how to do that using ETF’s.
“Don’t be afraid to take bearish positions [...]

Strategy Labis MSN Money’s stock-picking challenge. Six top traders ran mock $100,000 portfolios for six months and documented every move they made.
One Investor Andrew Horowitz ends with a 13.4% gain over little more than six months while the market — as judged by the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index ($INX) — declined 34.5%. That’s a [...]

Profitable trading in the stock market requires more than good knowledge and strategies. So much of trading is mental, and it is often necessary to reprogram our brains so we can make money in the stock market. Here are some of things that separate those who make money trading stocks from those who don’t…
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Novice skydivers who don’t jump solo have an instructor that they dive with, strapped to their backs. That way, if panic sets in (or overwhelming wonder) and the new jumper forgets to pull the ripcord for the parachute, the instructor’s got his back.
Likewise, investors have a means by which we can prevent our positions from [...]

you can look at the stockscores of any company by going to www.stockscores.com and typing in the ticker.
In recent months I have devoted many of the weekly newsletters to discussion of trading psychology, risk management and trading strategies. But Stockscores was created in 1999 to simplify the market for investors. I created the Stockscores indicators [...]

Today I’m here to tell you that the market can, and probably will, trade another 30% to 50% lower before the next bull market starts. (NOT “BEAR MARKET RALLY”, BUT “BULL MARKET”). As this happens, you can make huge profits by taking bearish positions. But I want to make sure you TOTALLYGETwhat I was saying [...]