Usually it is the short term trader who immerses himself in the news and in the psychology of investors. This is, of course, to out guess the long term investor and nibble away at his or her profits. Here we present a couple of thoughts about group psychology as it may apply to the current [...]

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Federal Reserve chairman Bernanke told congress this last week that the economy will show signs of recovery in 2010. The old rule of thumb is to start investing in the stock market half way through a recession. For the short term trader a market recovery will likely mean days of higher volume, more liquidity with [...]

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In a recession it is hard to get credit to start a business. Thus in this recession so called “high cost of entry” businesses are protected against new competitors by the current difficulty in getting credit for “high cost of entry” endeavors. During the coming hard economic times companies with cash reserves or access to [...]

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A few months ago we posted an article entitled, “Trading the Recession.” Now it is time to post one entitled, “Trading the Recovery.” With the recent market surges one needs to ask if we are halfway through the recession or are people jumping the gun?
The innate cynicism of the short-term trader will serve you well [...]

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Just the other day there was popup ad on the internet by a law firm soliciting clients in the matter of Bernard Madoff. It seems that the law firm is alleging a failure to exercise due diligence by a number of banks which placed their clients’ trust money with what may turn out to have [...]

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