Two Small Biotechs With Hot Charts To Watch

ARCA biopharma, Inc. (NASDAQ:ABIO) and Somaxon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:SOMX) are on high alert based on their relative price and technical patterns.  Both traded substantially higher not long ago and both have solid bull flag patterns developing on their daily charts.  ARCA biopharma traded...

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Key Support And Resistance Levels On The SPY

The SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSE:SPY) is hovering flat to slightly negative on the day. When the markets opened, they gapped substantially lower.  This was quickly negative by a massive squeeze on some positive economic news and Friday manipulation action.  The below chart shows the key support the SPY...

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Economic Data Sends Market On A Wild Ride

The big earnings announcements have subsided over the last week, but the economic reports continue to flow.  Today, GDP was reported for the second quarter, 2010.  It came in around the estimates at 2.4%.  The futures sold sharply.  Why did the futures sell sharply on a GPD number that came in li...

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'Friday Effect' Engaged

Many traders and investors may have realized by now that the major stock market indexes often get supported or defended into the weekend. We call this phenomenon the 'Friday effect'. If you have looked at a chart over the last two years most Friday's before a weekend are basically a flat to sligh...

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FDX Is Popping Off the Lows

FDX has surged higher with the stock indexes from the open this morning. This is a leading transportation stock and followed by many investors. FDX will have short term intraday resistance around the $82.55 - $82.60 level.

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When and where to enter and exit positions

Webcast recording for "When and where to enter and exit positions" with Darrell Jobman, Senior Analyst for TraderPlanet.com on Thursday, July 29th, 2010.  Watch video »


Sugar on ICE: Opportunities for Technical Traders

Webcast recording for "Sugar on ICE: Opportunities for Technical Traders" with Darrell Jobman, Senior Analyst for TraderPlanet.com on Wednesday, July 28th, 2010.  Watch video »


Trades for July 28, 2010.

Trades for today are in the S&P 500 Futures and in the forex market the gbp/usa and euro/chf currency pairs.  Watch video »


Trading Forex Markets in Uncertain Times

Webcast recording for "Trading Forex Markets in Uncertain Times" with Darrell Jobman, Senior Analyst for TraderPlanet.com on Tuesday, July 27th, 2010.  Watch video »


Trades for July 27, 2010.

Trades for today are in the S&P 500 and Crude Oil Futures and in the Forex market the euro/chf currency pair.  Watch video »


Schizophrenia and River Rocks – Mixed Metaphors Demonstrate the Problem

Recently, I have started feeling as if the global economic “recovery” is a state of mind reminiscent of untreated schizophrenia.  Those of you familiar with this disorder understand that one symptom of this disorder is an inexplicable shift in beh...  Read More »


CEO Chatter – Now That Means Something

We have now seen three months in a row of money flowing out of equity funds.  Retail investors are reducing positions or eliminating positions all together. The immediate downside result of this is a lack of liquidity, which can make it more diffi...  Read More »


Coffee Mug and Serious Thoughts …

Ya know, I sit down every day to write this column, and I think about how what I write might affect those who read this column.  Primarily, I focus on trading/investing, but life issues are certainly part of my thinking about what to write.  Yes, ...  Read More »


Stretch Your Mind …

When I first started trading, I knew little about anything and nothing about intermarket analysis.  My thought then was you research a stock, and if it looks good, you buy it.  I still practice this, but now I factor that information through the f...  Read More »


Personally, I Believe It Is That Simple

TraderPlanet offers so much valuable content every day one can find interesting writing pointing to interesting thinking around every corner.  Nicholas Santiago (The Whipsaw Could Just Be Getting Started) provides some interesting thinking written...  Read More »


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education and Technical analysis for finding profitable trades in stock or indexes.

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Vivian Lewis is editor and founder of Global-Investing.com, the daily blog newsletter for Americans and others seeking to internationalize their portfolios. She brings unique experience and competences to the business of picking foreign stocks. After graduating from Harvard magna cum laude (and b...

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TRADING WALL STREET Investments is solely run by Brandon Rowley, an Equity Trader at a Wall Street hedge fund. All the thoughts and ideas presented on this site are his alone unless otherwise cited. His goal is to provide original perspectives on all things finance. My mission with this site is t...

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