April 2013

  • Best of StockTwits Charts: Leaders and Bleeders

    Love love love pulling a few of this morning’s most interesting studies from The StockTwits Charts Streams for your viewing pleasure…. 1. All Time Highs Tend To Beget All Time Highs: Call it momentum, inertia, positive feedback loops or whatever, markets (and stocks) that make new highs have a tendency to continue higher. This…

  • Sooo Bullish: Individual Investors Raise Cash While Stocks Make New Highs

    On the last day of the 1st Quarter, the S&P 500 finally made its much anticipated All Time Closing High joining the Russell 2000 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average which made all time closing highs earlier this year. Meanwhile though, individual investors continue to raise cash. In the March data, published by The…

  • The Best Media April Fools Joke of All Time

    Way back in the day, way before the internet, Sport Illustrated published a story by George Plimpton about a baseball player named Sidd Finch, a Buddhist, signed by the Mets, with a 168mph fastball. The year was 1985, I was 17, and I recall coming home from school and my older brother and his…