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Wednesday April 30, 2014, Today Stock Market …

NEW! Download all of 2013 Performance: Click to Download!OR Download all of 2014 Performance to Date: Click to Download!Dow opens – 16 but our open trade dives to nearly -7k.Market Open (click to enlarge)LVLT (click to enlarge)IMMR (click to enlarge)The Dow closes + 45, This is what we closed out: CCIH -5780, EXK +495, CRUS -1867, DL +640, GST -900, […]

Thursday April 24, 2014, Today Stock Market | ShortTermStockTrading

NEW! Download all of 2013 Performance: Click to Download!OR Download all of 2014 Performance to Date: Click to Download!Dow opens +33 and our open trade goes to +10k.Market Open (click to enlarge)SHLD (click to enlarge)THC (click to enlarge)2 1/4 hours in (click to enlarge)CRUS (click to enlarge)WLT (click to enlarge)PRTA (click to enlarge)The Dow closes – 0, This is what […]

The chart that's adding to the misery of the Chinese stock market today

Chinese stocks have had an awful year. It makes sense. The country is basically taking important steps to reconfigure its economy away from the production-driven boom that has driven economic growth for decades, and manufacturing is slowing. Today’s HSBC Markit China manufacturing PMI showed the country’s manufacturing sector was still contracting in April. (The measure has been below the 50, […]

Monday April 21, 2014, Today Stock Market | ShortTermStockTrading

NEW! Download all of 2013 Performance: Click to Download!OR Download all of 2014 Performance to Date: Click to Download!Dow opens +9 and our open trade goes from +5k to +8k.Market Open (click to enlarge)INSY (click to enlarge)ADUS (click to enlarge)SHLD (click to enlarge)2 hours in (click to enlarge)PRAN (click to enlarge)The Dow closes + 40  This is what we closed […]

Thursday April 17, 2014, Today Stock Market | ShortTermStockTrading

NEW! Download all of 2013 Performance: Click to Download!OR Download all of 2014 Performance to Date: Click to Download!Dow opens – 32 and our open trade goes negative.Market Open (click to enlarge)TXT (click to enlarge)BITA (click to enlarge)75 minutes in (click to enlarge)SHLD (click to enlarge)RMBS (click to enlarge)MPEL (click to enlarge)SHLD (click to enlarge)3 3/4 hours in (click to […]

Goldman Sachs: 6 Reasons the Stock Market isn't a Bubble

The recent dip in the stock market has people talking about a bubble and a potential big decline in the market again.   I discussed my general view on this last November, but I think Goldman puts things in the right perspective – while there might be pockets of excessive behavior, this is still nothing like the broadly excessive euphoria […]

RealClearMarkets – How Much Stock Trading Should There Be?

A while back, I wrote a post about high-frequency trading and the Grossman-Stiglitz paradox. Today, Joseph Stiglitz gave a speech about high-frequency trading and the Grossman-Stiglitz paradox, and if you usually come here for your Grossman-Stiglitz paradox news, I guess you should go there. It’s his paradox. Half his paradox. It’s not my paradox, anyway. Read […]

Tuesday April 15, 2014, Today Stock Market – ShortTermStockTrading

NEW! Download all of 2013 Performance: Click to Download!OR Download all of 2014 Performance to Date: Click to Download!Dow opens + 47 and our open trade goes from – 2k to nearly + 5k.Market Open (click to enlarge)WLT (click to enlarge)The Dow closes + 89  This is what we closed out: CPE +90, EXK -2520, EXPE -1780, GTN -1520, LULU […]

Thursday April 10, 2014. Today Stock Market | ShortTermStockTrading

NEW! Download all of 2013 Performance: Click to Download!OR Download all of 2014 Performance to Date: Click to Download!Dow opens – 15 and our open trade weakens.Market Open (click to enlarge)The Dow closes – 266 This is what we closed out: ATHN -3121, ANAC -3015, CLVS -5150, ADEP -3375, CSIQ -2250, DDD -2125, EXK -945, CSUN -3275, GTN +5150, IMOS […]