If you have any monies in Venezuela I would think very very hard about it taking those monies out. Venezuela is taking another step closer to becoming a dictatorship. As I commented earlier it looked like Venezuela was moving in this direction. > President Hugo Chavez was granted free rein...

Here are the notes I wrote about some stocks on my watch list this morning. > KRY > - Wait for consolidation. $2.80-$3.50. > > AMGN > - Fill the gap $71.50-$74. 200dma support at $69.50? > > AMD > - What's the next news catalyst? Value analysts' upgrade? At what price level? Check Morningstar....

I am watching the markets and thinking is this the pullback? Two days don't make a trend, but I was looking at the DJI and noticed something interesting. For the past month approx 12,670 has been a sort of resistance point. The market has taken 7 runs to 12,670 and only once did it get over to...

I am studying financial engineering and there has been one topic that has been bothering me; Probability. Here is a question I found at the quant forum. > If a family has two children and there is a boy in the family, what is the probability that there is a girl? What's the answer? 2/3. Or how...

I was going to write an individual post reviewing in depth each of the six books listed below. But since I'm a bad citizen and have given in to the fact that I will never find enough time to do so, I'm going to give a quick review for each of them here. So in the order I've read them... **The Real...

I've been trying to stay on top of the spam problem with the forums, but the spammers are fighting harder and harder every day. I delete 25 spam posts and 50 more spring up right away. The last 500 or so posts have come from spammers. And I understand why there haven't been many legit posts lately;...

I receive the Swiss Stocks magazine and something in Stocks caught my attention. An author said that the funds are going to be the problem spot once the market retraces. I did not quite understand his thinking so I kept reading. The essence of the problem is that funds are buying stocks and driving...

I was listening to Bernake, and then Mr Sanders started the typical leftist propaganda. The Democrats are idiots who are going to self-destruct in about four years. My political leanings are center right liberal libertarian. The tax cuts that Bush made have raised the hackles of Democrats....

I'm at an interesting position in my Crystallex (AMEX:KRY) trading. I'm thinking of making a $3 to $3.50 trade on the stock. I still own a core position, which is sitting tight until permit time. Okay, I've setup the trade. Bought 1500 shares at $3.02 with a tight stop at $2.96. With a target of...

Some people look at PE ratios, cash flows, and so on. I try to find the small details, small things that have big ramifications (1,2,3). Today many of the leaders that the West dislikes met in a single place. The fact that most of the South American leaders were in Ecuador was not a surprise. What...