Author: Michael Kahn

Today’s column is about volume and how it may not matter now but will in the future. Here is a chart that I chose not to include in it. You will definitely have to click on it to see the whole thing.What we see here is a...

Bent but not really broken – arguably.But a few weeks ago – before the earthquake hit top producer Chile – I wrote a piece for MarketWatch saying copper and copper stocks looked bad. Then the earthquake hit and...

I promise, I’ll get to the suggested topics soon but I am fuming once again with the banking industry.I was rather happy with the service I got at my Washington Mutual branch even though that’s where the whole...

I got this in the email this morning:”TrimTabs Investment Research reporting their latest real-time economic data shows US economy is on the road to recovery and attributing the economic rebound mostly to low interest...

I still want to hear from readers about topics to cover (see previous post) but this one caught my eye. To wit (or twit):The U.S. trade deficit narrowed to $37.29 billion in January, the Commerce Department said. A 1.7% decline...

I do this blog almost every market day and given the stock market’s lack of movement this week I am out of stuff to say. What is the most important market related topic for...

We’ve had a lot of discussion in Quick Takes Pro about the low volume rally and even it if is indeed low volume. We found this on the blogosphere so read it with a grain of salt. There is an element of conspiracy in...

The headline here is intentionally lower case as in a whisper. I am tired of finding bearish evidence in the face of a market that just goes up no matter what. But here goes. I found this at the Pragmatic Capitalist site.As...

From Non-Sequiter by Wiley Miller.http://imgsrv.gocomics.com/dim/?fh=15ff7fffd1b2be0eb0bceff4b69175e5I’d like to jusst link the picture in here but it is not exactly ethical or even legal.

From a chat room:Arguing persuasively for an immediate and substantial decline are the facts that my main trading account crossed a round number today and that today feels strongly like an all-clear day to me.- J...