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Market Takes Time To Breathe: SPX, Nasdaq, GS, MA, V, AIG, C, FNM, FRE, AAPL, BIDU, ITMN, FACT, CSCO

This weekend, in my Market Forecast , I said, "...the market has gone quite far, so it may need a breather through the mid-week." This is what the market is doing right now, basically trading...

Posted to My Happy Trading Community Articles by Happy Trading on Tue, Mar 09 2010
Marking Time in Space

Sittin' back! [View:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YKS5-jxINQ] Markets really didn't do much on Monday, and frankly that's expected from the low VIX, which is pushing down toward 17%. Some...

Posted to My Happy Trading Community Articles by Bagger Vance on Mon, Mar 08 2010
Weekly Roundup - 03.07

Great trading week for us! You can get these results with me...if you're not getting the alerts, sign up with the third party alerts link at the bottom of the page, or right here. https://www.myhappytrading...

Posted to My Happy Trading Community Articles by Bagger Vance on Mon, Mar 08 2010
Weekly Wrap + Market Forecast + Sector Watch: SPX, Nasdaq, XLF, GLD, USO, XME, MEE, BTU, WLT, CNX, ACI, PCX, AKS, GS, BAC

Last weekend, in my Market Forecast , I wrote: " For the new week, the market certainly has room to rise. But, it'll have to break above SPX 1120 to go higher . The market is very "emotional"...

Posted to My Happy Trading Community Articles by Happy Trading on Sun, Mar 07 2010
Hitting on All Cylinders

We've been locking in nice winners this week as our tree continue to bear fruit. We're in some new names, but for those who missed: (fyi, you can sign up and get the email alerts via the 3rd party...

Posted to My Happy Trading Community Articles by Bagger Vance on Fri, Mar 05 2010
Better Economic Data Inspire The Market: SPX, Nasdaq, GS, GOOG, AMZN, ANF, DNDN, TIVO, PETM, HIG

This morning, better retail sales numbers got the market in a cheerful mood. In addition, jobless claims were less than expected. Financials rallied, led by GS, which added +5.89, or +3.73%. Techs were...

Posted to My Happy Trading Community Articles by Happy Trading on Thu, Mar 04 2010
Markets Churn, Burn and Wait

Yesterday's action was indicative by some underlying strength early, but stalled late and barely closed even. The ISM number came in a bit better than expected, the ADP jobs report was rather mixed...

Posted to My Happy Trading Community Articles by Bagger Vance on Thu, Mar 04 2010
Miners Keep The Market Up! SPX, Nasdaq, WLT, CNX, MEE, ACI, CF, POT, MOS, AGU, TRA, MDVN

The market started out strong today. Although it gave back some gains in the afternoon, it managed to close in the green. Gold rallied today to above $1130/ounce. Miners led the market. Besides the gold...

Posted to My Happy Trading Community Articles by Happy Trading on Tue, Mar 02 2010
Market Makes Gains On Merger Deals: AIG, MIL, OSIP, INCY, MDVN, BIIB, ONXX, BMRN, HGSI, NFLX, BIDU, ISRG, PCLN, GLD, GOLD, AMZN

The market was very strong today, inspired by a few merger/acquisition deals. This weekend, news reported that AIG was making a deal to sell its Asia-based life insurer AIA Group. AIG was up +4.08% today...

Posted to My Happy Trading Community Articles by Happy Trading on Mon, Mar 01 2010
Market Forecast + Sector Watch: SPX, Nasdaq, UUP, GLD, XLF, BTK, AIG, AET, UNH, SLXP, NUVA, CELG, AMGN, OSIP, GENZ, PRU

Last weekend, in my Market Forecast , I said, " For the new week, as mentioned last weekend, SPX 1120 will be the nearest resistance. The market has rallied quite far. Unless, there are really positive...

Posted to My Happy Trading Community Articles by Happy Trading on Sun, Feb 28 2010
Market Forecast + Sector Watch: SPX, Nasdaq, UUP, GLD, XLF, BTK

Last weekend, in my Market Forecast , I said, " For the new week, as mentioned last weekend, SPX 1120 will be the nearest resistance. The market has rallied quite far. Unless, there are really positive...

Posted to My Happy Trading Community Articles by Happy Trading on Sun, Feb 28 2010
February 2010 Monthly Wrap

February was a volatile month, although the market did manage to make and keep some gains. However, we ended the month with some mixed results. Here are the closed trades (gains above +50% are highlighted...

Posted to My Happy Trading Community Articles by Happy Trading on Sat, Feb 27 2010
Market Finishes Week Strong, Still Not Much Movement

In a wild and crazy week of churning, markets were down modestly but every selling attempt managed to be bought up. For the week the SPX was down about 4 points while the Nasdaq was down a similar fraction...

Posted to My Happy Trading Community Articles by Bagger Vance on Sat, Feb 27 2010
Gains From Jobs May Not Be Easy To Come By

With the looming jobs report for February we find ourselves at an inflection point. The optimist would point to a swift end to the pain of hundreds of thousands of job losses, just seen a year ago, and...

Posted to My Happy Trading Community Articles by Bagger Vance on Sat, Feb 27 2010
Market Pares Loss With A Mid-Day Bounce: SPX, Nasdaq, ESRX, KSS, DECK, CME, ICE, CF, POT, MOS, AGU

The market opened lower today as the number of jobless claims increased in the latest data . However, in the afternoon, the market started to reverse its direction. Fertilizers were among the first ones...

Posted to My Happy Trading Community Articles by Happy Trading on Thu, Feb 25 2010