How is the Market Trading Infrastructure Holding Up?
Throughout yesterday, I heard numerous reports of traders unable to get through to their brokers / clearing firms. In particular,...
625 Point Dow Intra-day Swing: Where does it rank?
From down 326.38 points at the low, to closing up 298.98, yesterday was one of the biggest Dow point swings in history. But where does it...
NYSE % of stocks > than 200 Week Moving Average
Earlier today, this went out to our research clients: Last week, we noted the % of NYSE stocks trading below their 200 day moving average...
Time for the Bounce
NOTE: This Market Commentary alert was originally emailed to subscribers at Ritholtz Research & Analytics on 1/23/2008 before...
3 Prior Market Crashes
Today’s chart porn comes to us via Bob Bronson. Here’s a comparison of 3 prior market crashes: 1930, 1962, 1987 and today....
Is the Fed a Paper Tiger?
Yesterday, we listed 7 concerns with the Fed’s confusing emergency 75 bp rate cut. We said we detected a “A Whiff of Panic . ....
End of day WTF?! Post
Things that make you go Hmmmmmmmmm: • Except for all the losses, U.S. Banks were wildly profitable last year (Bloomberg) •...
New Column up at TheStreet.com (01/22/08)
I have a new Apprenticed Investor column up at TheStreet.com, titled "Why Bottom Guess?" The premise is that most...
“A Whiff of Panic . . .”
Welcome NYT readers: The What’s Online column linked to the wrong commentary — the post Dan was referencing was this...