Volume Volume Volume
A few people have mentioned the volume on the Nasdaq was large today; You can mostly ignore the huge volume spike on the Nasdaq; Sirius...
Counter Trend Rallies
The relatively simple concept of the counter-trend rally is generating a disproportionate degree of confusion amongst nervous traders and...
More P2P Promotion: Napster Rescues Shaggy
I just finished Jacob Slichter’s So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star. Slichter is the drummer for Semisonic, which had a breakout...
More Dollar Woes
Think the selloff in the US dollar is over? Think again: "Asia appears to be in the early stages of a regionwide currency...
[ I N S I D E ] With Radiohead’s Kid A, Capitol...
Lee Rosenberg points us to an article by Bruce Webber in the now defunct site [I N S I D E] about Radiohead’s use of P2P (found...
Slowing CD sales ?
Consider the spike in GDP in the second half of 2003 preceded an increase in CD sales in early 2004. Now, with GDP slowing, might...
Chart of the Week: S&P 500 vs. Continuous Crude Oil Contract
This chart helps visually highlight the chart we just displayed above and hammer home the point that the next move in crude from its...
Unlocking Google
A large cause of Google’s spectacular rise has been the very small trading float. Very little of the firm’s float actually...
Do Free Downloads = Lost Sales?
Very timely academic discussion of the impact of P2P downloading on the music industry in the Sunday New York Times. This past...
Pearls of Wisdom for Traders
Alan Farley, my colleague over at RealMoney.com, put together a list of "25 Pearls of Wisdom for Traders." Here are my...