Archive for August, 2008

Sell and Rent Back

I last checked Zillow for a estimate of my house price back in April, so I just did that. More importantly, I am looking at the direction that the housing market is moving. We are at the end of summer, which is normally the house buying and selling season - especially for people [...]

Negative Seasonal Pattern Stocks on Sunday the 31st of August 2008

Seasonal Patterns found for the following stocks:
Huh - no stocks in a negative pattern for the end of August and beginning of September? I doubt that, so I need to check my program that pulls out the most interesting seasonal patterns. Perhaps Gustav is affecting the results.

Positive Seasonal Pattern Stocks on Sunday the 31st of August 2008

Seasonal Patterns found for the following stocks:
Global Income Fund Inc (GIF) over the next 10 trading days. Look at the seasonal patterns for Global Income Fund Inc in context.
ML DJIA MITT6/06 (MDJ) over the next 2 trading days. Look at the seasonal patterns for ML DJIA MITT6/06 in context.
Host Marriott Corp. 8 7/8% [...]

Inverted Head and Shoulders chart pattern for 2008-08-29

Image by dbking via Flickr Inverted Head and Shoulders chart found for the following stocks:
Mpc Corporation (MPZ) over a 7 day period with about a 92% match.
Hirsch International Corp Class A (HRSH) over a 7 day period with about a 90% match.
Exx Inc Cl A (EXXA) over a 7 day period with about a 90% [...]

Head and Shoulders chart pattern for 2008-08-29

Head and Shoulders chart found for the following stocks:
Mannkind Corp (MNKD) over a 7 day period with about a 92% match.
Diamond Mgt Tech Consultants (DTPI) over a 12 day period with about a 89% match.
Compx Internat Inc (CIX) over a 7 day period with about a 89% match.
Pimco Floating Rte Strategic (PFN) over a 7 [...]

Contextual Linking Strategy

LinkXL.com has a specially designed WordPress plugin that actually places real links to your website that can be crawled by Google and Yahoo in existing content. This means that the links will pass value and help your search engine rankings. The integration into WordPress makes it easy for publishers to put their relevant [...]

Negative Seasonal Pattern Stocks on Saturday the 30th of August 2008

Image via Wikipedia Seasonal Patterns found for the following stocks:
Priceline.com Inc (PCLN) over the next 9 trading days. Look at the seasonal patterns for Priceline.com Inc in context.
Omnivision Technologies (OVTI) over the next 5 trading days. Look at the seasonal patterns for Omnivision Technologies in context.
Gap Inc (GPS) over the next 7 trading [...]

Positive Seasonal Pattern Stocks on Saturday the 30th of August 2008

Seasonal Patterns found for the following stocks:
Delta Natural Gas Co Inc (DGAS) over the next 10 trading days. Look at the seasonal patterns for Delta Natural Gas Co Inc in context.
Marvell Technology Group (MRVL) over the next 10 trading days. Look at the seasonal patterns for Marvell Technology Group in context.
TVIA Inc. (TVIA) [...]

Credit Card Processing versus PayPal

When PayPal was in its formative stages, I was battling the process of getting a merchant account that would allow me to accept credit cards on my website. Holy mother of a wildebeest - that was a painful experience and since then when people ask about the ease of using PayPal to accept payments [...]

Palin plus Gustav equals Oil Prices in the Tank

Image via Wikipedia USO - the ETF playing the Oil markets - has just broken even for the day after being up all day due to concerns about hurricane Gustav in the gulf. Is Sarah Palin raining on the oil market bull’s parade? A category 3 hurricane is having much less of an [...]

McCain picks Palin as Running Mate

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Brilliant!
McCain picks Palin as VP running mate
Sarah Palin is the Gov of Alaska - what an excellent choice. Could this mean President Palin in 4-8 years?
I first learned about Gov. Palin on Kudlow and Co. She is a very interesting person, young, smart and well spoken. [...]

Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women

Poor Forbes - it looks like no one took a close look at this story before they posted it to their web page.

Negative Seasonal Pattern Stocks on Friday the 29th of August 2008

Seasonal Patterns found for the following stocks:
Priceline.com Inc (PCLN) over the next 9 trading days. Look at the seasonal patterns for Priceline.com Inc in context.
American Tower Corp (AMT) over the next 6 trading days. Look at the seasonal patterns for American Tower Corp in context.
Loews Corp (L) over the next 9 trading days. [...]

Stocks to Look at for Friday, August 29

These are some stocks that have been tagged by users over at StockTickr:

INGN: INTROGEN THERAPEUTICS INC

Outlook: Short Industry: Drug Related Products
New low on 36.35 times average volume: 2,035,531 vs. 56,000
(tags: short, New Low on Huge Volume)

LMNX: LUMINEX CORPORATION

Outlook: Long Industry: Medical Instruments Supls
New high on 4.68 times average volume: 1,323,724 vs. 283,117
(tags: long, New High on Huge [...]