“Cash is king” right now
The Stock Trader’s Almanac: MARKET TALK: A Little Something For The Bears… The Stock Trader’s Almanac has issued an...
How Does Jobs Data Impact Trading?
While most of us are intuitively aware of the impact that the monthly employment report has on the equity market, Mike Panzner delivers a...
Smart Money? Hardly
Since this is now front page news, further comment is called for. My explanation for the Kerkorian/GM matter is pretty simple: Before...
Bet the Jockey or the Horse?
Wall Street is all a twitter over 87 year old billionaire Kirk Kerkorian’s $31 tender bid for GM. I’m not looking to only be...
Impact of Fed on Short-term Trading
Is there any pattern to trading around the FOMC meeting? click for larger graph chart courtesy of Michael Panzner >Michael Panzner,...
Sell in May (but don’t go away) Part II ?
Last year about this time, we discussed why the seasonality trade might fail: Sell in May (but don’t go away). We could see a...
Hedge Fund Assets
Another interesting graph from Mike Panzner: click for larger chart Hedge fund assets, as a percentage of total assets under professional...
Watching the SPX & Earnings
Even though its Tunes Tuesday, we have to slip some market talk into the dialogue. Jeff Cooper has an interesting column on the S&P...
Chart of the Week: NYSE Member Firms’ Client Margin
e last addressed Margin debt back in September 2003. At that time, we noted that margin was only modest, and represented little danger to...
Margin Calls and Behavior Shift
Aaron Task mentions a fund manager who stated that Margin calls — which we have seen recently — are the end of the sell off....