Qualcomm Charts Revusuted: Dead Money

February 8, 2010, 1:47 pm

L.A.'s article appeared in TheStreets.com on 02/08/2010

Dead money! That’s how you have to refer to any money you may have invested in Qualcomm (QCOM) prior to its earnings debacle. I feel compelled to come back to this name today because it was a huge disappointment and since I have twice written about it and traded it numerous times over the past three months.

Tea Party Revival

February 6, 2010, 8:00 pm

Title:       Tea Party Revival, The Conscience of a Conservative Reborn
Author:    Dr. Leland Baker
Publisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN:       978-1432749170

Seldom will you find a book written as succinctly and logically as Tea Party Revival. You may disagree with the thesis, but it is hard to deny the logic that Dr. Leland Baker lays out in this straightforward discourse on American political philosophy...

Pick at Arc Sight

February 5, 2010, 3:16 pm

L.A.'s article appeared in RealMoney.com (subscription required) on 02/05/2010

It’s easy to get lost amongst the trees and miss the fact that there really is a forest. The constant bombardment of our trading senses from the abundant minutia of trading data leaves most struggling to draw some useful information from the spew of collective consciousness. The need to rise above and to consider what come...

Charts Reveal Trouble in the S&P 500

February 4, 2010, 9:23 am

L.A.'s article appeared in RealMoney.com (subscription required) on 02/04/2010

Over the years I have found that usually you will see two to three (sometimes as many as four) reversal moves of significance in a given year. By reversal moves, I am speaking of a turn in the market that, as a trader, you have to do your best to participate in. I believe we saw the beginnings of the first reversal move of...

Beware of Greeks Bearing Deficits

February 2, 2010, 12:55 pm

L.A.'s article appeared in RealMoney.com (subscription required) on 02/02/2010

If you think back to your political philosophy classes, the concept of the most efficient governmental structure being a dictatorship should come to mind. With absolute control, a dictatorship can make things happen – reasonably immediately. How more efficient can you get? The Chinese control a command economy and they rem...

GE Charts: Intermediate Term Promise of Profits

February 1, 2010, 9:22 am

L.A.'s article appeared in TheStreet.com on 02/01/2010

In ’08 and ’09, General Electric (GE) suffered greatly due primarily to its financing arm which faced huge losses. Those uncontrolled losses created a cloud of uncertainty over the company. Although not all of GE’s problems were entirely behind it, the fundamental and the technical picture have improved greatly.

Apple Charts Warn That Nothing Goes Up Forever

January 29, 2010, 11:35 am

L.A.'s article appeared in RealMoney.com (subscription required) on 01/29/2010

Apple Inc. (AAPL) reported earnings this week and, given their announced accounting changes, prices have lunged both higher and lower off those earnings. It would be very hard to argue that AAPL isn’t a money maker and an innovator.

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Examining the Charts for Reasons to Sell

January 22, 2010, 7:20 am

L.A.'s article appeared in RealMoney.com (subscription required) on 01/22/2010

Thursday’s broad decline came with very negative internals. There was an expansion in volume accompanied by a lot of negative chatter. Of course we have seen this before – or have we? For ten months, the market has worked its way higher and higher with the last six months being regarded with increased suspicion since the v...