Is There Opportunity in the Market? | TraderFeed (Jun 30, 2009 00:17)
Understanding that volume-volatility connection is key for active traders. When volume decreases, it means that the large, directional players in the market are relatively absent.

A Look at the U-Turn Setup WR Made on June 25th (Jun 28, 2009 22:57)
I happened to catch this one too but off of the 30 minute chart

Hedge fund managers betting Twitter will give them an edge in rapid trading - Telegraph (Jun 28, 2009 22:36)
Traders are using software developed by US-based technology StreamBase to monitor "tweets" for price sensitive information.

What is the difference between a triangle and a pennant? | StockCharts Blogs - MailBag (Jun 26, 2009 18:42)
Triangles and pennants look the same, but their timeframes and expectations are different.

The Ladies of StockTwits: Technical Trader Anne-Marie Buttrick | Wall St. Cheat Sheet (Jun 26, 2009 13:07)
Anne-Marie is a statistics junkie who has expanded her addiction to include technical analysis. She is known around StockTwits for being friendly, willing to share, and a great technical trader.

Six Questions Worth Asking at the End of the Trading Day | TraderFeed (Jun 26, 2009 13:06)

Barry Ritholtz Podcast Interview | MartinKronicle (Jun 26, 2009 13:04)
Barry is a trader. He speaks like a trader. He’s flexible, affable, and no-nonsense. He speaks with 100% candor which is refreshing, and also shows IMHO that he has a lot of integrity.

Exotic ETFs Are Toxic ETFs | The Psy-Fi Blog (Jun 25, 2009 13:05)
From single country funds with markets no bigger than the market capitalisation of a newly downsized investment bank to Ultra Short ETFs that ensure you have a whole new set of ways to lose money thes..

4 of America's nastiest housing busts - MSN Money (Jun 25, 2009 13:02)
A look at other big downturns of the past 3 decades suggests that recovery from the current housing crash could take years.

Reverse Split Coming for the Mid Cap Bear 3x ETF... (Jun 25, 2009 13:00)
Fun times in ultra ETF land!

Regulators Urge Caution on Triple Leveraged ETFs: It's About Time | Bespoke Investment Group (Jun 25, 2009 12:58)

Data Traders Who Swing: Rejoice With Longer Term Filters | Trade-Ideas Software (Jun 25, 2009 12:56)
Trade Ideas Releases Start of New Filters Aimed at Longer Term Patterns & Trades

Chicago Trading Seminar: Details and Registration | TraderFeed (Jun 25, 2009 12:42)
Details on Dr. Brett's free seminar on July 17th.

Five Pitfalls of Developing Traders | TraderFeed (Jun 25, 2009 12:41)
I've been working with some new traders at firms; here are five observations about their most common mistakes and developmental pitfalls:

Interview with Victor Sperandeo | MartinKronicle (Jun 25, 2009 12:35)
Victor Sperandeo (Trader Vic) speaks with Michael Martin about the Fed, the Big 3, economic history, and trading. (via MaoXian)

Linda Bradford Raschke Podcast | MartinKronicle (Jun 25, 2009 12:35)
Linda Bradford Raschke speaks with Michael Martin in advance of her lecture on trading in Pasadena on Saturday, June 6, 2009. (via MaoXian)

VIX and More: On Twitter (Jun 24, 2009 23:30)
Unlike Bill, I've yet to make my peace with Twitter

VIX and More: The 1000th Post (Jun 24, 2009 00:16)
Congrats to Bill on a job well done. It's not easy to keep a blog going strong past 1,000 posts.

The Market Reminds the Fed to Keep the Easy Money Flowing | Dr. Duru (Jun 23, 2009 11:37)
Back when Alan Greenspan was giving away money on the cheap during and after the last recession, it seemed like the stock market would sell off going into every Federal Reserve meeting. It was as if t..

ETF Update: Sectors Reflect a Deteriorating Market | A Dash of Insight (Jun 22, 2009 11:58)
According to our ETF rankings, the modest decline in the broader market in the broad averages understates the breadth of the weakness.

Rise of the (Market) Machines - MarketBeat - WSJ (Jun 22, 2009 11:51)
The majority of stock trades now originate with fully automated “high frequency” funds, a phenomenon that has accelerated during the market turbulence of recent years because of the relative success o..

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS 101 - PART 9 | StockCharts Blogs - ChartWatchers (Jun 22, 2009 11:43)
A look at Price Channels, Trend Changes and Price and Volume Data Adjustments

The recession tracks the Great Depression | FT.com (Jun 19, 2009 13:38)
Green shoots are bursting out. Or so we are told. But before concluding that the recession will soon be over, we must ask what history tells us.

Three Big Reasons Small Trading Accounts Fail | The Essentials of Trading (Jun 18, 2009 19:29)

How traders killed investing - MSN Money (Jun 15, 2009 19:47)
That stock you bought because you thought the company was in good shape? It's a pawn in the hands of a computer model or some supertrader.

The Capitalization of Traders: Why It Is Crucial to Success | TraderFeed (Jun 15, 2009 19:35)
Dr. Brett responds to the comments on the previous post about capitalization

Capitalization and the Economics of Trading Success | TraderFeed (Jun 15, 2009 19:33)
Good post by Dr. Brett and some good points made in the comments, including one by Michelle B.

Median home prices drop below 1989 levels in some parts of Southland - Los Angeles Times (Jun 10, 2009 11:31)
In April, a home sold for $66,500. That's just over half the $130,000 it went for new in 1992. In 2005, that house sold for $330,000.

When the Thrill of Blogging Is Gone ... - NYTimes.com (Jun 9, 2009 13:56)
I'm sure that just about every blogger can relate to this

Are Banks Getting Ready To Flood The Market With Houses? (Jun 6, 2009 13:10)

Unemployment Data - Exhaustion Rate (Jun 6, 2009 13:02)
Don't be fooled if and when continuing claims numbers begin to ebb - it's likely a numerical manifestation of exhaustion of unemployment benefits

Boom Times Are Back -- Just not here in the United States (Jun 1, 2009 15:13)
there is a new world out there—China, India, Indonesia, Brazil—in which economic growth continues to power ahead, in which governments are not buried under a mountain of debt and in which citizens rem..

Ahem: NYT Reporter Who Defaulted On Subprime Mortgage Left Out Key Details (May 24, 2009 20:12)
d'oh!

Who Are the Richest People in Town? - BusinessWeek (May 20, 2009 13:35)
Some very interesting statistics

Twitter Quitters Post Roadblock to Long-Term Growth | Nielsen Wire (Apr 29, 2009 02:08)
Twitter has enjoyed a nice ride over the last few months, but it will not be able to sustain its meteoric rise without establishing a higher level of user loyalty.

Mark Penn’s Completely Invented WSJ Article on Blogging for Money (Apr 22, 2009 16:13)

America's Newest Profession: Blogging | Mark Penn, WSJ.com (Apr 21, 2009 21:23)
The best studies we can find say we are a nation of over 20 million bloggers, with 1.7 million profiting from the work, and 452,000 of those using blogging as their primary source of income.

11,453 Homes Offered For Sale on Countrywide Financial's Website - Countrywide Foreclosures (REO) Blog (Apr 7, 2009 00:01)
After a wild ride it's made a new 52-week low.

The real unemployment rate: 15.6% - MSN Money (Apr 5, 2009 20:53)
The official US jobless rate, now 8.5%, excludes millions of people -- among them those who have given up on finding work and those forced into working fewer hours than they'd like.

I.O.U.S.A. - One Nation. Under Debt. In Stress. (Apr 5, 2009 20:45)
Here's the full video. This also just got released on DVD

In New York, a second, silent 9/11 - Los Angeles Times (Mar 29, 2009 02:53)
poor NYC