Steve Jobs held a keynote and announced the iPhone. One site even did a quick look and feel of the phone. Apple surged by 8% and others like Nokia and RIMM dropped. Though RIMM dropped more than Nokia. What I think: Sell Apple at its peak (it should climb a bit more) and buy on the weakness of the...

I want to apologize for the porn spam that has taken over our forums. I just finished clearing out all the bad posts I could. It took me over one and a half hours. Painful stuff. And the worst thing is that most of the links (or at least the few I checked) didn't even take you to porn. False...

Pictures can speak louder than words. So here is a shot of the performance of my E\Trade account. [](/images/2006performance.png "click for a larger image") Yikes. First one question. Is is possible to apply technical analysis to a chart of your performance? If so, I would be short Jason Coleman...

I just wanted to thank all of you readers for making IG an interesting place for discussions and arguments and rants about my favorite topics. Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas, Invest in peace...

Based on seven months of investment our ROI is 26% as that is when I jumped in this year. I have to say that I am very happy about this. This ROI is based on funds, stocks, and bonds throughout Europe, and the America's. As of today my positions are as follows: - 66.8% Cash - 16.8% Bonds - 16.3%...

A while back somebody asked me what I thought of Google stock. My thoughts, then as now is; good company, but I would not trade their stock. Today I read something in Business Week that confirms why I am not a fan of Google stock. The article talked about how employees will be able to sell their...

In reply to my automated trading blog entry I have had people send me emails asking what about this or that toolkit? This made me think that I should be doing some reviewing of products and toolkits. Therefore if anybody wants to send me your toolkit WITHOUT RESTRICTIONS I will do a feature by...

When people talk about investments, they tend to leave out a missing value that everyone ignores when figuring out their investment strategy.  That little tidbit of information would be the massive elephant in the room called: risk.  I've created a rough draft table giving values between .1 and 1.0...

Investors come in every shape and size, as well as risk tolerance. That last quality can really vary depending on whom you're discussing the subject of investing. So let's approach today's rant in a way that should appeal to you whether you're ultra-conservative or a daredevil risk taker. One of...

Below are some screwy screenshots from my E\TRADE account (you'll also get to see what my E\TRADE portfolio looks like). Early this week, I setup a trade in Lucent Technologies (LU). It was a complete chart play. I haven't been monitoring the stock fundamentally lately, but I recall my last...