When I presented at the DC Worden Seminar two weeks ago, I asked the audience how many would buy a stock at a new high.  Only about 5% of the 200 people in attendance raised their hands. I was incredulous. All of them admitted they wanted to buy a stock that went to the moon, [...]

The GMI is 5 (of 6) and the more sensitive GMI-R is back to 9 (of 10). The relatively weak major stock averages do not tell Monday’s story.  Leading stocks like AAPL, AMZN, NFLX, and PCLN had terrific days.  The new QQQQ up-trend is now in its 2nd day. I am more certain of a [...]

I thought you might like to know a way to buy a stock for little money down using deep in-the-money call options.  I became aware of this option (pun intended!) by reading Lee Lowell’s wonderful book on ways to get rich from options. A call option provides someone the right (but not the obligation) to [...]

I am dumbfounded!   I recently taped some of Cramer’s shows and reviewed Friday’s show this weekend.  At about 10 minutes into his show, Cramer responded to a caller who asked him about the use of stop loss orders.  Cramer ranted on about how he did not want his “home gamers” to put their orders on [...]

I am writing this post primarily to teach my students how I search for potential rocket stocks–stocks that have been launched and appear headed towards new peaks.  As I said in class this week, it makes the most sense to buy stocks that have the best fundamentals and technicals.  This strategy has been advocated both [...]

For the first time since early November, there were more new lows than new highs in my universe of 4,000 stocks on Friday. Furthermore, the Worden T2108 indicator is getting near the level (below 20%) where declines sometimes end.  Friday was the 11th day of the current QQQQ short term down-trend.  We are either at [...]

I recently attended a Worden seminar about their new software, StockFinder.com, which will eventually probably replace TC2007, my favorite analytic program.  While there, they talked about the  free software that they make available to everyone, Freestockcharts.com.  Freestockcharts.com is a platform that is very similar to their new StockFinder software, but it is free and  provides [...]

When I teach my class to honors students I find that the biggest mistake they make in trading is buying a stock when it is too extended from support.  They buy when it is extended and then sell as it falls back to support.  I did that a lot until I reviewed several losses and [...]

Many of you have requested that I post a chart showing the recent performance of the GMI over the past year.  The GMI, though not perfect, has successfully kept me on the right side of the market through the 2000-2002 and 2008 bear market declines.  I simply go to cash in my university pension and [...]

On May 10, I wrote: “So, stocks on the New America list often take off sometime after their story is published in IBD.  One recent addition to the New America list that looks promising technically to me if it can break $18.60, is ASIA. ” After I wrote that post, I placed a  GTC (good [...]