Last Friday I tossed off a quick post where I mentioned that most of the ProShares ultra short ETFs were exhibiting the same chart pattern and that they seemed to be at a tipping point. More accurately, I pointed out that there were two conflicting pat…
The Federal Reserve just released the Industrial Production numbers for October. The headline number, a 1.3% gain, was unexpectedly good due to the resumption of refining and manufacturing activities in the Gulf region after hurricanes Gustav and Hanna…
Another wild week is now in the books. Just as it looked as if stocks were breaking to new lows Thursday, a furious rally ensued, taking the major averages up roughly 10%. Unfortunately for the bulls, that was the only up day in the entire week.As I wr…
This post is to announce that the latest list of free stock alerts is up and available at Alert HQ. Each week we scan over 7200 stocks and ETFs looking for fresh BUY and SELL signals. We apply a combination of proprietary and standard technical analysi…
This post is to announce that Trend Leaders, our latest list of stocks in strong up-trends, is now available at the TradeRadar site.Readers of the TradeRadar blog are familiar with the Alert HQ free lists of stock alerts. With Alert HQ, we try to ident…
So what’s going on with the ProShares UltraShort ETFs?Almost all of them are carving out charts with the same characteristics. I’ve made some rough (very rough!) notations on the chart of the Ultra Short QQQ ETF (QID) below. There are two interesting f…
IC Insights recently released their research bulletin that ranks the major semiconductor companies worldwide over the first three calendar quarters of 2008. The company provides two rankings in their free offering: a list of the top 20 by sales and a l…
Amidst the gloom and doom, it was a pleasure to read a conference call transcript where the company reported good earnings and committed to a positive forecast. Skyworks Solutions (SWKS) seems to be in a sweet spot and they were happy to share the good…
This post is to introduce a new feature of the TradeRadar site. Readers of the blog are familiar with the Alert HQ free lists of stock alerts. With Alert HQ, we try to identify those stocks and ETFs that are making reversals. Every week we scan all the…
Another notable week came to a close with politics and negative economic reports taking center stage.This week the country participated in an historic election while stocks bounced up and down and then up again.Major events for the week:The week starte…