This one's for Duru, who has just written another missive about the housing stocks. Last week he asked me:

Check out the chart on TOL. There was an up-trend from the bottom in February. That trend was broken earlier in April. Since then, there have been three strong up moves that have stopp

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Source - http://tradermike.net/2006/05/chart_request_toll_brothers_inc_tol

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The futures are slightly higher this morning so I'm leaning towards the bull side although I'm not seeing much that's compelling at the moment...

Potential swing trades:

See one of the recent 'Chart Reading' posts for some potential swing candidates.

Potential day trades:

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What a coincidence (do coincidences actually exist???) that just as I've been thinking more about money management Worden has had a run of users writing in about money management. Here are some of those letters which were published in

I love the ridiculousness of CNBC's 'portfolio' challenge. They just interviewed the guy who's currently in the lead. He's up over 100% in the few weeks that the contest has been running. How did he jump into the lead? He threw his whole wad, about $1,500,000 (29,000 shares) at NTRI ahead of their earnings report. Carl Qui

What a day! There was something for just about everybody today -- except me. The action got pretty frantic while just ahead of Bernanke's talk and continued right through mid-day. But it was a little too wild for me so I called it quits around 11:00 without making any trades. I'm usually very hesitant to enter trades after the market has had a very steep morning move. Those moves are ofte