This morning in the news a commentator called Charlie was talking about how he is thinking that this is a bear market rally. Interesting Charlie, but the real bears closed their positions many months ago. You know the bears that made the real money. All we have right now is double talk as witnessed by the following article.
“This has to be a bear-market rally,” Williams told CNBC.

Ok I understand.
Williams said investors need to have a sell discipline and that "buy and hold" is a dead philosophy. He told investors to …

The separation of Google from Apple is in itself telling. People are saying, its about time and that there were plenty of conflicts. Sure, that’s all baked into the situation. But why did this happen now? Why not earlier? Many say, its because Google is competing with Apple in the mobile, and netbook (even though Apple has no netbook). Why now?
I did not think anything about it, and just ignored it until my jog today. Jogging gives me time to think about things and reflect.
I thought what if there is …

Jason in my article on why I like High Frequency Trading wrote the comment.
However, when I think to set orders like this I always wonder “Why would the price of stock X drop 5-10%?” It could be a buying opportunity like with your recent trades. But what is the % chance that it is a big meltdown/liquidation event that triggers the 5-10% drop?
I oftentimes set alerts at these levels so I am notified of the price drop and can make the decision then to place an order. However, I’ll often …

I happen to like High Frequency Trading even though many in the industry are crying over their split milk. Let me illustrate what happened to me quite recently. I wanted to get a position in ROC. But I did not want to chase the market or over pay. So I do what I have been doing quite successfully for the past year or so, namely let the prices come to me.
Take a good look at what happened to ROC.

On Wednesday they seemed to have bad earnings. The market took …