Author: Michael Kahn

This week, I suddenly became a fan of bottom up investing after decades of affinity for the top down approach. For starters, traditional technical analysis has been tricky to apply in the age of socialism, er, government...

Here is some text left out of the final version of my Barron’s Online story today: In the corporate bond market, the charts a little different. During the financial crisis in 2008, investors flocked to the safety of...

As I wrote in Quick Takes Pro (shameless marketing opp) a few days ago, I have never seen a quadruple or more top. This pattern in the gold ETF is either a sextuple top, which does not exist, or a rectangle or even a rectangle...

Livestock confirmed a long-term breakout. Corn was limit up twice last week (or close enough Friday). Oil at 108 and gasoline jumping by a full nickel over the weekend don’t matter to the stock market – until they...

Somebody tell me what the news was.  TRH had some marginal news yesterday but this is crazy!  Perhap no real Japan hit to the bottom line? I know I picked a few in my column after the quake but ….Ah, to have...

Did Ma Bell just cure cancer?I get that the market liked the prospect of an ATT and T-Mobile combination but this is ridiculous. Verizon is flying, too. Just about everyone except Sprint is looking better. Did you see...

Just got this in a Financial Advisor magazine email : Scottrade To Launch Low-Cost ETFs Scottrade is launching a family of low-cost ETFs on Wednesday that are based on Morningstar’s domestic equity indexes, according to...

A few years ago, a colleague who happened to be and still is very bearish on the stock market in the big picture and not worrying about the rally since last year, was often quoted on a site called Capitalstool.com. He was not...

It may not be gold or oil but a lot of people would take the bus instead of missing their morning cuppa joe.

For all those who delighted in Mad Magazine growing up and are now trying to decipher the markets, this is for you. Our pal Alfred E. Newman, does not have a care in the world. And now apparently neither do oil traders. This is...