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05.04.10

In our training, you watch ME trade, so you can SEE how to interpret the principles I teach you in real life. You can even follow my trades in your own account and get the same results I get, since prices don't change a lot in the couple of seconds it would take you to copy my simple trades, like "Buy 25% FAS."

01.22.10

Some will consider 01/21/2010 (11:39 A.M. EST) the moment the White House declared 'War on Wall Street.' Others will remember it as the day the government declared its Independence from Wall Street.

01.19.10

I don’t know if there is any such thing as a fool-proof day-trading strategy, but if there is one, I imagine that it doesn’t make much money, or that it requires enormous resources and/or connections to inside information that are not accessible to the average investor.

01.14.10

Main Street is struggling with a very weak jobs market, but Wall Street does not particularly care. It is not that Wall Street is heartless; it is just that it knows that a weakened labor force puts operating leverage back in the hands of corporate management. It means greater productivity per dollar of wages, which flows directly to the bottom line.

01.14.10

Earnings season is upon us. The companies in the S&P 500 are expected to post ‘operating’ earnings of $15.80 per share for Q4, up from $5.62 in the same quarter last year. Operating earnings do not account for one-time charges and other types of write-downs. If the figure is attained, it would bring full year earnings to just under $60, about 10% less than 2008, but 30% less than the peak posted in 2006.