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The Naperville chapter of the Investors Business Daily group is hosting me for a talk this coming Wednesday evening, August 22nd at the 95th...

* What's Held Up - We saw some hunting for yield on Thursday; I notice that PEY--the dividend yield ETF--has held above its prior lows...

Suppose I told you that I had studied the market's present situation going back a large number of years. I examined the historical reco...

By now, most readers are aware that I post comments on the market via the Twitter application. The latest five comments appear on the blog h...

1) The Bodybuilding Principle - You only grow and develop when you work against significant resistance, lifting more than you can comforta...

Suppose you're contemplating a sailing trip. The weather forecast suggests only 10% chance of a thunderstorm, so you decide to set sail...

Research in psychology tells us that there are several important facets to subjective well-being (SWB): 1) Joy - Our happiness; the propor...

Selling in the Day - I noticed that only 13 of the past 30 day sessions in SPY have been up in price. Going back to 2004 (N = 878 trading ...

* Fewer New Lows - With each downthrust in the market, fewer stocks have been making new lows, as the chart from my latest Weblog entry i...

In my recent post , I illustrated that waiting for confirmed strength and weakness and then going with those trends in the S&P 500 Index...

Dear Readers, It's about that time when I devote time to writing another book. This one will be my fifth--I have two psychology texts a...

"I need to see the market making new highs to confirm an uptrend," a trader recently told me with a knowing air. "I'm no...

Well, I was all excited and went to show Mali the post about her , but she'd hear none of it. "The market was down big overnight y...

Our loved ones provide some of life's best lessons. I've written about wife Margie and what makes a trader's marriage work . ...

* A Market of Reversals - We had downside range breakouts on 8/3 and 8/6 that were sharply reversed, then an upside breakout on 8/8 that w...

Markets establish value; that is their purpose. When we trade within a defined trading range, there is relative consensus about value. A ...

I've received a number of positive responses regarding the intraday Twitter comments on the blog. These have been my attempt to add ob...

During the recent market volatility, we've had a number of sudden, sharp runs both to the upside and downside. One of the things I...

My recent post on "Becoming Your Own Trading Coach" referenced Josh Waitzkin's excellent book The Art of Learning . In his b...

Above you can see charts from today's action in the Yen and ES futures (click on charts for greater detail). When the Yen could not cat...