New Market-Wide Circuit Breakers Coming
Circuit breakers are more apt to make us think about our houses electrical system than trading, but Bob Pisani has an interesting post about coming changes to systemic ‘circuit breakers’ in the stock...
View ArticleFinancial Transaction Tax—Story of Failure
This horrible idea pops up in the U.S. every few years, too. Apparently, politicians everywhere have a difficult time with the idea that there is chunk of money somewhere they aren’t carving a piece...
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US Rating Likely to Be Downgraded Again: Merrill
While not completely unexpected, this is not a fun prospect. Seems likely that many traders will be looking to gold for some capital appreciation in the coming months. Published: Monday, 24 Oct 2011...
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Jon Najarian Spots Unusual Activity In Specialty Retail
Mr. Najarian has a knack for using options activity to spot impending stock moves. Check this one out for American Eagle. Published: Monday, 24 Oct 2011 | 1:15 PM ET By: Lee Brodie Producer Trader...
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What Up, Dawgs? GE Now Part of the Dow Dog Pound
Published: Wednesday, 25 Jan 2012 | 12:04 PM ET By: Jeff Cox CNBC.com Senior Writer Sebastien Bozon | AFP | Getty Images The Dogs of the Dow – those high-yielding stocks that are supposed to...
View Article3 Semiconductors for Traders
By The Hot List | TradingMarkets.com | February 06, 2012 05:47 PM Symbols: NVLS, KLAC, TQNT Being a semiconductor stock is like being from the “technology wing of the technology party.” Whether it...
View ArticleConcerns Over Stock Trading Volume
Trading volume traditionally shrinks over the summer months. Market participants – whether the retail trader or the hedge fund manager – find more entertaining things to do than sit around fine...
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Thinking about trading Facebook? Might want to hold off a bit longer . . .
Facebook (ticker: FB) was perhaps the most highly anticipated (read: “over-hyped”) IPOs in years. Probably the most talked about this century. And, as everyone knows, it tanked horribly after a...
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For Those Who Love Irony: How Rising Taxes Drove Income Higher
What the . . .??? I thought tax rates had no impact on income or behavior or investing!! But here we see the impact of scaring investors and companies with higher tax rates: they take their money...
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