Archive for October, 2008

  • Hedge Fund Manager says Goodbye!
    Posted by on October 17th, 2008 at 7:54 pm, Comments: 0

    Andrew Lahde, manager of a small California hedge fund, Lahde Capital, burst into the spotlight last year after his one-year-old fund returned 866 percent betting [...]

  • Brian Shannon on Bear Market
    Posted by on October 10th, 2008 at 3:42 pm, Comments: 0

    “Let me repeat the mantra that using P/E, cash flow and other fundamentals can be harmful as crucial trading determinants in a downward market. During [...]

  • Nicolas Darvas
    Posted by on October 9th, 2008 at 4:55 am, Comments: 0

    Chairman Maoxian managed to find some great links with Nicolas Darvas interviews: (1959 Interview): “Since he has to do trading from wherever he is dancing [...]

  • Marketsci on what overnight gaps tell us about the stock market
    Posted by on October 9th, 2008 at 4:40 am, Comments: 0

    The idea that the overnight market (close to open) doesn’t influence the daytime market (open to close) is usually correct, but NOT when the overnight [...]

  • Dr. Brett Steenbarger on market bottom
    Posted by on October 9th, 2008 at 4:25 am, Comments: 0

    “Bottoms are made when selling becomes exhausted and long-term participants perceive value and lift stocks sharply off their lows. That exhaustion can occur over a [...]

  • How to define a stop loss?
    Posted by on October 9th, 2008 at 4:17 am, Comments: 0

    “Place your stops at a point that, if reached, will reasonably indicate that the trade is wrong, not at a point determined primarily by the [...]

  • Honor your stops!
    Posted by on October 7th, 2008 at 8:45 pm, Comments: 0

    In high volatile environment (now), you would often be shaken out of positions, only to see them reverse back in the desired direction. This is [...]

  • Reason to buy
    Posted by on October 7th, 2008 at 3:55 am, Comments: 0

    “If you really think the stock is going to make a big move – and that should be the only reason you are buying the [...]