Namecoin experiences massive gains from the 13th through till the 15th, more than doubling in value in barely a couple of days, but a powerful bear setup initiated a fifty percent retreat. Let’s take a closer look at the current NMC/USD H4 chart below (click to expand): I’ve performed the Fibonacci study from the last major swing low […]
Welcome to our daily roundup of top insider trades. Here’s a look at the most significant inside purchases recently filed with the SEC.Notable Purchases:
The billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn, a beneficial owner of commercial and military truck company Navistar International (NYSE:NAV), bought 1,027,789 shares of company stock for $34,205,404.
The venture capital firm Polaris Venture Management bought 1,470,582 shares of clinical-stage oncology-focused company Cerulean Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:CERU) […]
By Joy Arulraj, Justin Debrabant, Andrew Pavlo, Michael Stonebraker, Stan Zdonik, and Subramanya DulloorIn this joint collaboration between Brown, CMU, MIT CSAIL and Intel Labs, we explore two possible use cases of Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) for on-line transaction processing (OLTP) DBMSs.Evaluation of software systems using NVM is challenging due to lack of hardware. In this study, we use a NVM hardware emulator developed by Intel Labs that uses special CPU […]
Submitted by Economic Noise blog,How bad have markets been recently? If you are watching them day by day or week by week recently, they seem severe. Is this reaction because we have been spoiled and expect markets to always go up? Or, is something else going on?This chart shows SPY from January 2012 to the present. Each bar represents a […]
Bitcoin’s recovery continues, as the bears begin to lose their grip, for the meantime at least. I explained in yesterday’s analysis on Bitcoin, how we may see a drop to a certain level, posting this chart: Where I mentioned, “With the Stochastics now heading down from an overbought zone, we may see price hit 38.2% (from […]
Jim Meyerle is the co-founder of Evolv, a big data company that optimizes workforce performance.As a co-founder at a big data analytics software company, where recruiting talented data scientists and engineers often feels like finding a needle in a haystack, I regularly get asked about lessons learned in building world class, big data-focused R&D teams.Given that the market for these […]
As the bad news out of China and elsewhere continues to emerge, Litecoin, along with other crypto currencies are taking a battering. However, there is a major support zone not too far away… where Litecoin may attain some respite. Let us take a closer look at the LTC/USD chart on the Daily timeframe (click to expand): […]
Benchmarks snapped a three-day losing streak and ended higher on Tuesday after bargain-hunting investors bought momentum and technology stocks. Utilities stocks also jumped after investors favored less-volatile stocks.For a look at the issues currently facing the markets, make sure to read today’s Ahead of Wall Street articleThe Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) gained 0.1% to close Tuesday’s trading session at […]
Even professional traders and investors can’t always speak the language of colleagues working in a different segment of the financial world. With that in mind, we’ve introduced this weekly column, looking at one esoteric or potentially misunderstood finance or trading term every week. After we defined the wonderful word “contango” in last week’s inaugural edition, we’ll now tackle “carry trade.”What Exactly Is a […]
After two hard days down in the stock market I’m going to take a contrary position and say that this is just a normal profit taking event and that stocks are going to recover and head back up to new highs. I still think this market needs to have a final blow off bubble phase before the bull can die. […]
