Bulls made another go on breaking the increasingly bearish grip on the markets. They had their greatest success in the large caps (the Dow in particular), but other indices keep their overhead supply concerns and volume was not exactly ecstatic, failing to register as an accumulation day. However, there was a substantial lift in the buying levels from my Trade Ideas scan; the top 8-picks covered inside a minute , with the "20-appearance" list coming in at a strong 3 minutes . If you would like to try a full version of the Trade-Ideas software, follow this link for a free 7-day trial. Trade Ideas

China Expert Tech ( CXTI ) released earnings which put a serious damper on the stocks advance. The April 25th play hit a raised stop to close the 800 share position for a -$279 loss ( -4.6% ). Collective2

Tuesday's weakness took a greater toll on small caps and tech indices as the damage filtered through the S&P and the Dow (the latter to a lesser extent by end-of-day). The Trade Ideas scan showed a sharp increase in bearish momentum with the top-8 picks covering 1 hour and 19 minutes , with the "20-appearance" list coming in at an improved 4 hours and 15 minutes . The last time the Trade Ideas scan took over an hour to pick 8 stocks was at the end of January. Back then the slowdown was followed by a 4-week rally before leading to February's big drop. If something was similar was to evolve here I would look for a move back to May highs before a major correction ensued. If you would like to try a full version of the Trade-Ideas software, follow this link for a free 7-day trial. Trade Ideas

Friday's buying fell just short of reclaiming Thursday's losses and this failure was evident today as markets returned to their (short term) downward ways. The net trend belongs to the bulls but the bulk of volume buying of recent weeks has gone into takeover candidates and occasional forays into Chinese stocks - one would be hard pushed to find fresh leadership in the market. Technicals have also moved in favor of bears with two days of distribution since the last accumulation day and MACD 'sell' triggers in play in all major markets. For wannabe bulls the next test of the 50-day and/or 200-day MAs would look to be watch points for fresh (heavier volume) buying. The Trade Ideas scan eased with the top-8 picks covering bearish territory of 13 minutes and only three stocks making it over the "20-appearance" barrier: If you would like to try a full version of the Trade-Ideas software, follow this link for a free 7-day trial. Trade Ideas

It was a week for ups and downs, but in the end there was little net change. How did the Stockcharters see it? First off, Richard Crockett's StockTiger stock pick list has over double the number of hits of its nearest rival ( George Zimmerman - an unusual visitor to the busy end of the field, especially given his 10000 hits is supported by a meagre 16 votes). It is unusual to see Richard's list so far ahead on the hit front. Joe Reed hasn't been updating his "near 100% accurate indicators" (a claim I think he has now removed from his list). It looks from my read of his Dow chart that a technical 'sell' was given for both Full stochastics and Wm%R: Although he has illustrated a likely top for the Oil Index: Ted Burge has noted a return to resistance: May 11th! From support of the 20 MA back to resistance at the TED LINE! RESISTANCE at the TED lines on Friday is a fact! Same goes for the semiconductors: Mitchell Meana has gone for a clear "Sell&qu

In an interesting experiment on the importance of using Anchor Text for search engine ranking, John Chow is doing a free link exchange on the premise you include a link to his site using the expression " Make Money Online " as part of an online review of his site. This followed his " Root of all Evil " cross-link for a Nintendo competition he ran on site which had ranked as high as third in Google (according to his research, but now ranks in 9th place). His current campaign is doing significantly better with second place ranking ahead of the majority of his competition. However, John needs to be careful of his own success. As he states on his website he had a backlog of links to post to his site as part of this promotion (700 to date) which has little to do with actually making money. If new readers are greeted with a list of irrelevant links they may be turned off and not return. It obviously hasn't hurt him so far but sometimes it necessary to take step bac

I had Blain over at Stocktrading101.com do a ReviewMe on my blog and his comments helped shape the current format. Yes - it was a paid for review, as is this, but the benefits of having someone critique your site made it worthwhile. As a summary introduction: OptionTradingpedia.com has plenty of information - some useful, other stuff less so, hidden behind an awkward navigation system and distracting front page. When I look at a webpage I like to ensure there is substantial content readily available to the reader without having to scroll down the page to get it. I also like to see the page at resolution most commonly used by readers - which for sites I could pull data for appears to be 1,024 * 768 (at nearly 50% viewership), followed by 1,280 * 1,024 (at 10% usage). I personally use 1,280 * 1,024 on a 17" monitor and 1,920 * 1,200 on a laptop (I like small text!). Below are two images for OptionTradingpedia.com. The first is at 1,024*768 on a 17" monitor: and the second usi