- Does Selling The News Clear the Way For the Final Flush?
The worst case scenario played out on Friday, with market selling off on the news that the rescue plan passed with ease. Clearly, traders don't believe the rescue plan is going to provide much relief and almost immediately following the House vote, the market initiated a late day sell off more
Source: Self Investors
- British post-war painting
Close friends, it was inevitable that sooner or later each would begin to appear in the other’s paintings. Mr Freud was called to the studio for his first portrait by Bacon in 1951. This was unusual, as Bacon usually preferred working from secondary media, such as photographs. ...
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Source: The Economist: News analysis and views
- Links for 2008-10-11 [del.icio.us]
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- What a Day! What a Week! What a Month!
Each Friday, I calculate the preliminary allocations for our satellite portfolios based on information available at 3PM Eastern, but today’s market mayhem made it virtually impossible to come up with numbers that would come close to the final set.
Instead, all members received an email conta more
Source: Teresa Lo | InVivoAnalytics.com
- Critical Life Support
For better or worse, we just survived one of the the worst weeks in market history. For the week, the S&P 500 crashed -18.20%, Dow -18.15%, the Nasdaq -15.30%, and the Russell 2000 -15.65%. And, the damage we saw is... more
Source: The Kirk Report
- Dow's Worst Week Comes to an End
The Dow declined 128 points to 8451.19, capping the worst week in its 112-year history with its most volatile day ever. Down nearly 700 points early on, stocks gave up late gains as hopes for an international bank-rescue plan were overcome by a wave of selling.
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Source: WSJ.com: Markets
- A 'short' look at Proshares ETFs
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Source: BlogginWallStreet
- Short ETFs One of the Few Movers This Week
As the market continues its sharp declines, there is still a way that investors can profit from exchange traded fund (ETF) investing. Short-selling, or betting against the market, has become a strategy for many who want to hedge their losses in the current market conditions.
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Source: ETF Trends
- Off The Lows!
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- Global leaders race clock as IMF endorses G7 plan
Policymakers from around the globe are united in their resolve to avert a global financial meltdown, the International Monetary Fund says.
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- Market Week in Review
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- China Tries to Boost the Stock Market
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Source: China Stocks News and Analysis from Seeking Alpha
- 9 ways to tough out tough times
It's hard to find any good news about your money these days. The stock market is tumbling. Banks are failing. Home values are cratering. And you're watching your retirement disappear.
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Source: Business and financial news - CNNMoney.com
- A pause for repentance, or the end of big bonuses?
There will now be two kinds of Wall Street employer: safe and decently paid or risky and highly paid, writes John Gapper more
Source: FT.com - Comment and analysis
- Captain's Blog, Stardate: 3/3/08
THE SHOW: Are we having fun yet? Me neither. My old pal Deep Blue keeps writing me about various stocks and such that might have upside, but then acknowledges it's hard to imagine much of anything working this year. Except cash, and you better hope that's real cash and not some sort of 'cash equival more
Source: Market, personal finance, media, and technology expert commentary - CNNMoney.com
- Backtesting Your Trading
This is the fourth in a series of posts about how and why and how I started down the path of automated trading. Here’s the first, second, third, and fourth posts in the series (RSS). Our automated trading robot is available now. Trade your own strategy automatically with no coding required.
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Source: StockTickr Blog
- Wall Street joins global sell-off
Wall Street stocks were highly volatile in a dizzying session that saw the Dow fall more than 600 points before recovering to stand 4% lower. London's FTSE 100 fell 8.9%. European indices also tumbled. Japanese shares touched 20-year lows, leading Asia-Pacific down as fears of a global recession mou more
Source: FT.com - Asia Pacific Equities Market Data
- Should the NYSE Bring Back Program Trading Curbs?
While reading an article “Stocks: Time to Slow Things Down?” it occurred to me that I haven’t seen “curbs in” on CNBC in a long time. After a quick search I discovered that the NYSE scrapped curbs back in November 2007 (emphasis is mine):
The NYSE formerly implemented more
Source: Trader Mike