First, let’s just take a look at Chart addict’s post on his market thoughts.
I believe the 1929 comparison is interesting, however, I also think the time frame needs to be adjusted. Fed intervention and regulation and such in markets is larger, and I think that will lead to a slower decline if this model plays [...]

Before I get into everything going on right now, first a bit of a follow up on trading options conservatively.
When trading stock options you are not going to gain an edge unless you are able to use
online options strategies to manage theta decay. Basically there are all sorts of option trader, but there’s nothing [...]

Trading Options Conservatively
Time for you peons to learn a little bit about how to become a man and trade options. Notice while I do think trading options mean becoming a man, that doesn’t mean that it should be done in a macho through all caution to the wind type of way. You are not trading [...]

Introduction
For many of you, this is nothing new. I’ve been writing about a system which purchases a share of an equity when it dips beneath the 3-5-7 moving averages and sell the same share when it crosses any of the set of moving averages.
Mostly, I used to do this in spreadsheet form for the sake [...]

You must admit, it’s been pretty boring out there for the last couple weeks.  Not saying it’s been bad (especially in a “USA! USA! USA!” way), but I like it when the market doesn’t just go straight up (or down, for that matter).  I need me some swings out there!
So I say it’s time for [...]

Don’t Call it a Comeback – LL Cool J
Introduction
Ideas come to me in weird times and spots. This one during my morning routine a few days ago and in between articulating my thoughts on KD and dealing with the normal chaos that is the life of a family with a 13 month old, I managed [...]

All this month I’ve been swimming in bullish-biased profits from my overly delta positive portfolio.  It’s getting so ridiculous that even when a position busts out for a 50% gain in 1 day, my sell criteria do not get fulfilled.  Yeah, I’m looking at you STP.
So despite my misgivings and sense of foreboding, I hung [...]

From the “I told you so” files
Far back enough for it to be annoying, I made a comment that the best thing that Candian businesses could do to stir the economy would be to seriously diversify away from our neighbours to the south. After watching in annoyance, as municipal and state governments committed acts of [...]

Happy Thoughts in the Morning
I woke to this article from the Globe and Mail talking about China letting their currency float:
China’s trading partners have complained the government keeps the yuan at artificially low levels, providing an unfair price advantage for China’s goods as they compete for market share around the world. Until now, China has [...]

…the $CPCI-”system” goes long again!
Fresh off today’s failure with the SPY Dec’09 107. calls (still in progress), the $CPCI-system is again flagging for a contrarian long.  This time, the options of choice will be the Dec’09 105. calls.
The actual ratio value barely budged from yesterday, dropping just 0.01 to finish at 1.82:

It’s interesting to note [...]