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How to Determine Where the Real Support and Resistance are Everyday     

  

Understanding support and resistance levels is an extremely important technical skill in any market, and I think it's absolutely critical if you plan on trading the S&P E-Mini market. Professional Floor Traders are aware of an entire range of major and minor support and resistance levels before the market opens each day. They also know how to…

Hey, did you hear the one about the banker that pilfered over $1billion from his clients and got away with it? Oh wait, that’s not a joke – it’s real life. How about a proverb: Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank – give a man a bank, and he can rob the world. Oh wait, that’s real life too!



Last week came word from US regulators that neither Jon Corzine, nor any of his senior management, will be prosecuted for stealing $1,000,000,000.00+ of client funds to back their terrible…

Avoiding Mental Sabotage



I have heard that 95% or more of all traders ultimately fail.

Have you ever wondered why?…

(Like a Zombie, not much changes…) While comparing zombies and our current “walking dead” stock indices yesterday I said “…I mentioned the day’s preposterously low volume with a better close.  By the way, at the close of the session, the ES had more aggressive sellers than buyers…and it managed to keep from liquefying into a bowl of zombie…

Candlesticks & Engulfing



Candlestick charts have all kinds of potential patterns that technicians are watchful for. One of the easiest to spot is an engulfing pattern. This set-up consists of two candlesticks, one of which is “engulfing” the previous one. That…

Occasionally the SEC and other regulators will castigate, actually punish, fraudulent events on Wall Street.  Of course the real punishment is only meted out to individuals and small companies.  Mega banks – the banking mafia – are largely immune.

 

Martha Stewart was convicted of insider trading in 2004 – a relatively small amount – and was sent to jail.  It was an act of fraud alright, but it pales in comparison to the fraud of Wall Street banks.

 

Phil Falcone, a once…

China may be once again beating us at our own game. But instead of ripping off American goods and producing them at a fraction of the cost, this time they’ve copied our monetary policy. And like everything the Chinese do, they are doing it big.



The Chinese government has been pumping the economy with liquidity by printing money at an alarming rate. Much of that money has ended up in the hands of wasteful state-owned enterprises, or SOEs lent to them by a banking cabal.…

There’s always a bright side to things, just ask the markets.



All three headline composites of the latest Case Shiller home price index were lower for the first quarter 2012. In fact, home prices in many cities are at the lowest levels since the housing crisis began.



This “good news” combined with the other “good news,” Greece being such a gigantic financial disaster that it’s getting kicked out of the Euro, propelled the market higher.



If we are going to…