Archive for September, 2008

• Habits
  alphatrends, September 26th, 2008 at 6:26 am

  Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.
  ~Mark Twain

• Overconfidence
  alphatrends, September 25th, 2008 at 6:20 am

  Danger breeds best on too much confidence.
  ~Pierre Corneille

• Free Educational Trading Videos
  alphatrends, September 24th, 2008 at 10:34 am

  The most popular video I have recorded is the MACD TUTORIAL I think it is most popular because of its educational nature and it does not rely on specific prices in the market, it has a longer shelf life than a video about any days price action.

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• Luck
  alphatrends, September 24th, 2008 at 6:19 am

  When you push your luck, sometimes luck pushes back.
  ~Unknown

• Open Mind
  alphatrends, September 23rd, 2008 at 6:18 am

  Minds are like parachutes, they only function when open.
  ~Thomas Dewar

• Know Thyself
  alphatrends, September 22nd, 2008 at 6:17 am

  You don’t have to know your opponents, but if you don’t know yourself, you’re dead meat.
  ~John Vorhaus

• SEC SHORT BAN LIST
  alphatrends, September 21st, 2008 at 5:00 am

  The entire list of the stocks on the SEC list can be found HERE

  I did a little data crunching of the SEC list and refined it to a list of stocks which I would be watching most closely for upside over the next couple of weeks. Many of the charts of these stocks are not bullish on longer term timeframes but they may be good trade candidates after pullbacks and then renewed upward momentum. All of the stocks are under $50/share, trade at least 300K shares per day (20 day average) and have a short interest of at least three. The shares short as a percentage of float is also a consideration and all of the stocks have at least 5% of the float short as of the most recent reporting data.

  Here are the symbols
  ADVNB
  AMFI
  BBX
  BX
  CBU
  CMA
  CNS
  CRBC
  CVBF
  DSL
  ETFC
  EWBC
  FBP
  FHN
  FIG
  FNFG
  IPCR
  MBI
  NCC
  NYX
  ORH
  PBKS
  PJC
  PNSN
  PRSP
  RDN
  RJF
  SNV
  TFSL
  XL

  These stocks should all be considered risky trade candidates only. There are still big underlying fundamental problems for most of them. Trade them using the concepts in THE BOOK

• Gone Fishin’
  alphatrends, September 20th, 2008 at 12:20 pm

  Perfect timing for a vacation. The market expended quite a bit of energy on Thursday and Friday and uncertainty looms large. Good luck with the madness, risk management is job #1!

  I will be fishing with my Dad on the KENAI RIVER for the next week. We will be on the hunt for “TROUTZILLA” and staying out of the way of the guy in the picture below.

  Do check in though, I have some posts loaded to “auto-publish” throughout the week (including a list of financial stocks to watch which will be published tomorrow morning) and I will bring my laptop, just in case…

  

• Stock Market Video Trend Analysis 9/19/08
  alphatrends, September 19th, 2008 at 3:45 pm

  

  There are problems with the “uploader tool” at mybloop, so there is no high res video available. Put on your glasses and squint at the youtube one instead.

• Live Market Chat
  alphatrends, September 19th, 2008 at 2:41 pm

  Who wants to talk about these markets? I am not trading for the rest of the day (unless I see something really good, but for now the needle is out). So join me at 3PM Eastern HERE