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Dow Jones 10,000

October 1, 2009

After the Dow Jones reached around 9,920 in late September, most of the financial community believed the Dow Jones 10,000 would be reached quickly. However, now, ten days later, the Dow Jones has moved back to the 9,500 area as many economic statistics showed weakness for the month of September. The overwhelming majority of economists [...]

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Insider selling

September 13, 2009

Despite the continued stock market rally and the positive views of most economists and analysts on Wall Street, insiders–corporate officers and directors who have knowledge of, or access to, valuable nonpublic information about the corporation–appear to be selling more than buying. According to an article in CNNMoney.com, Charles Biderman of Trim Tabs reported that in August, [...]

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Stock market update and employment report

September 3, 2009

After four, consecutive down days for the Dow Jones, the market rallied late in the day Thursday in anticipation of the monthly release of the jobs report for August published by the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. According to a Forbes article: Analysts polled by Reuters are expecting the Labor Department’s monthly [...]

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Major drop in Shanghai Stock Index

September 1, 2009

In October 2007, the Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index peaked around 6,000 and then fell to slightly under 1,800 by October 2008. In this 12-month period, the Index dropped over 4,000 points. The Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index has been leading the U.S. stock market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average hit its low in March 2009. [...]

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Is this a stock market top?

August 27, 2009

The Dow Jones Industrial Average has moved up almost 3,000 points since March of this year after falling about 7,600 points from November 2007-March 2009. So what should an investor do now? The majority of investment advisors and professional money managers believe this is a new bull market which could last over the next couple [...]

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Dow industrial average update

August 10, 2009

The Dow Jones Industrial Average has risen from 8850 to almost 9400 since our July 20th update. At this time, we still think the market is close to making a short-term top (meaning a stock market correction could come at any time). The stock market correction could take one of two forms: 1) The correction [...]

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A split second means millions in profits

August 5, 2009

How would you like to have information a split second before Wall Street sees it? With the high powered computers today, that’s all you need to be able to see and then execute large buy and sell orders before the rest of Wall Street. Flash orders give certain members of exchanges the ability to buy [...]

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Federal Reserve “Beige Book” report on the economy

July 30, 2009

The stock market has been telling a positive story since the March low–the Dow Jones Industrial Average has gained over 2,400 points! The Federal Reserve reported in its “Beige Book” business survey, that the 12 regional banks saw a slowing in the pace of economic decline–that means, economic activity is becoming more stable. So what [...]

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Short-sale regulations

July 28, 2009

If you think a stock is going down in price, you have two ways to benefit from the future loss of value of the stock. Obviously, if you own shares of the stock, you would sell your stock in order to avoid the potential loss of value if the stock falls in price. But what [...]

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Market scenario for the remainder of 2009

July 20, 2009

What we see for the stock market for the remainder of 2009: The current up-phase which started July 8th should end (reach a top) by early August–at the latest. A sharp decline/pull back in the averages will follow until another low is reached in September. October is often a very weak month for the stock [...]

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