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  • Setting Portfolio Stops for Shorter Term Traders

    People use StockTwits in different ways. People share trades, setups and charts, crowdsource breaking news in real time and post valuable news and commentary links. Some also share process and experiences while trading and investing. I love this one because the process tweets serve as a log for the trader posting them and for…

  • Greece and Dinner with Lydia

    Had dinner with Lydia Idem last night who many of you know as @FaithMight on StockTwits. She is a great follow – one of the best FX traders on the stream who calmy takes pips out of the market with discipline. We were talking about Greece and she laid it out plainly. “I’m done…

  • Brett Steenbarger Classics A Must Follow for Young Traders

    There are a bunch of young traders out there who are not aware of Brett Steenbarger and his peerless contributions to trading psychology and trader education. Dr. Brett stopped posting a year and a half ago but his blog is still on the web and is filled with hundreds of timeless and valuable entries…

  • Best Facebook Tweets on StockTwits

    Playing with Storify last night and created a List of some of my favorite Facebook ($FB) tweets from StockTwits after the S1 was filed. Very cool application  Check it out: [View the story “Best Facebook Tweets on StockTwits” on Storify]

  • Video: Eghosa Omoigui Bullish Facebook

    Eghosa is one of the smartest guys I know in this space. He sat down with The Street Signs Crew to discuss Facebook’s ($FB) prospects and provides real value.  

  • Seasonality: February Is The Worst House In A Great Neighborhood

    Back on October 31, I published a piece pointing to the Six Month Switching Strategy via The Stock Trader’s Almanac which highlights the bullish half of the year from November 1 to April 30. At the time, the mood of the market was not so bullish having fallen over 100 SP500 points from the…

  • Globe and Mail Interview: The Advantage of Day Trading

    I sat down with David Berman at the Globe and Mail in Toronto this week and discussed short term trading. Day trading gets a bad wrap and I think some of the criticisms can be justified. If you are not prepared to control risk or dedicate your professional life to the endeavor, then you will…

  • Its Not How Apple Reports Tonight, Its Do You Have A Plan

    Apple ($AAPL) reports after the closing bell tonight. There are few more anticipated numbers than this one. Everyone either has a position, an opinion or an allegiance. What’s more, Apple’s report and its price response will have a significant effect on the broader market, especially the $NDX, at least over the near term. Yet,…

  • Is Cisco Systems the Next of the Original NASDAQ Four Horsemen To Run?

    Back in the day, before NASDAQ 5000, Intel, Microsoft, Dell and Cisco were known as the 4 horsemen of the NASDAQ as they dominated the index and created incredible wealth for shareholders over an extended period of time. It will be 12 years in March since the NASDAQ crash began and these stocks have…

  • Coming to Jesus

      Over the course of 2011, The S&P 500 ($SPX) ended trade at 1257 precisely where it ended 2010. The resulting candlestick on the yearly chart is commonly called a doji among chartists. Its tricky making assumptions about the meaning of this or any pattern. Unburdened by interpretation, the candle represents a summary of…