Dittos Matt. Mastering any concept requires review and regular reinforcement. The topics from tutorial are a good example. Thank you 

Hum. This sounds familiar Roger. Overuse of steroids leads to opposite of desired result or unexpected outcomes. Bodybuilders who abuse anabolic steroids shrink in, ah certain parts of their anatomy. Your shoulder is another victim, IMHO.

Risky? Worse for employees. Watch out for Boko Haram! Beheading is typically fatal. 

We've all been telling ya. Olivia! She's gonna be great.

Anyone: What spiked oil by 2 bucks in an hour? Thanks! 

Was there economic news, supply short or some mid-east tension?

Link to article        Sell, sell, SELL! (Cramer voice)

Seems a bit of "drama-queen" for folks to whine over the timing, before or after the close.

Especially the day after Matt improved point-performance by 40%! Check & see 4 yourself.

Tad51has a great point. Perhaps this is a workable approach, like this: "If SPY closes at or above/below $180.xx, then a LONG signal will issue at the close. Trade if and how you see fit. Trades can be entered before the close if or as one is confident of the price-target for the signal will be achieved."

While this is a small amount of effort, it is still easier than predicting the future.

Yes, until NSA, snoopers et al. declare this illegal, come at dawn with a platoon of "police" in body armor and machine guns to your suburban home, block off the ends of the street, kill your dog and announce their raid by smashing your front door withOUT warning "for the officers' safety." They take the computers and you to jail. The warrant is "sealed" for national security reasons, per the US Secret Service on accusations that you are engaged in a multinational counterfeiting & money-laundering conspiracy and you are considered a flight risk. No bail for you!

There were hearing in Congress on this very subject just last week. They will change the laws and make bitcoins illegal and you a criminal, a felon!, all retroactively. Just wait until it is tied to funding terrorism somehow. That will be perhaps the only warning.

Great chart jroger. I look at ratios too. What if the unit of measure is something the farthest possible opposite from the dollar? That would be things and stuff, like commodities, yes? Here is my chart that shows the ongoing all-sector, all asset class, worldwide unwinding of the commodity market blowoff in mid-2008. That took roughly 6 to 7 years on the upside and is not done to the downside.

Most stretched and rising are low-grade corporate bonds, and US stocks. Housing is looking dicey too. With all the drama about gold, it is still poised for more downside.

China's yuan is perhaps the only major global currency that is (involuntarily) rising versus commodities. That's pretty strange, as everywhere else there are coordinated efforts to devalue currencies. 

My summation is the more financial and contrived or derived an instrument, the more likely it is to be overvalued versus things that one can both touch and use. We have not reached the time when food, fresh water, and the other things one either grows or mines are more valuable than gold. But that day may come.

We are experiencing the unwind or the hangover of too much financialization by getting back to our roots of creating wealth the old fashioned way, by growing or mining it.

Bad government policy is a terrible thing to waste, and so, it must be shared with everyone. Remember, the US government put in place the policies that created the housing bubble, which was a perfect example of financialization of something ordinary.

Attribution within chart. Chart speaks for itself. Yikes!

When is the full moon and option-expiration for January?

I predict she can trade and chart soon like Dad! 

Here's scary bubble chart. Happy Thanksgiving.

Now everyone, get ready, SHOP!

This sounds promising indeed. Categories and attributes of/for trades can help a member to sort easily for something suited to his/her specific needs and preferences. Good idea Steve.

Ditto that. The triggers on the charts would be nice combined with a target.

Creates no issues, as it is not personalized nor is it any recommendation. Just a setup to review and consider.

Great idea! 

Those puts are no longer available for that price. Congratulations on a trade that looks quite smart. I just wish that I had thought of this myself. Bravo!

Are we there yet? Answer: Perhaps not even close.

(link)  Deflation ahead!     from the FT: US banks warn Fed interest cut could force them to charge depositors

Key points: This is a potential side-effect of  one strategy the Fed may use soon to offset an eventual “tapering” of the $85bn a month in asset purchases that have fueled global financial markets for the last year.

Tapering – perhaps as soon as December – creates a Fed desire for a different way to add stimulus at the same time. The article explains in detail.

No joke and very real possibility. Not exactly a Cyprus- or Irish-style "bail-in." Yet. --  But the days of "free" checking may truly be over for good.

As the article explains, the fed thinks (somehow) that when parking gazillions overnight at the fed in repos will no longer pay, that magically the banks will just resume lending to ordinary folks and small businesses instead to replace the money no longer earned from Interest on Excess Reserves (IOER).

Of course, that prediction is a cruel joke, a grim (Grimm!) fairy tale.

Trades closely with oil yet more beta. Looks good, but if Iran deal influences oil price tomorrow, then it may suffer. Long term agree completely.

The top-level outline gives Iran tangible benefits in trade today for promises to be good in future:

" Suspend certain sanctions on gold and precious metals, Iran’s auto sector, and Iran’s petrochemical exports, providing Iran approx. $1.5 billion in revenue."

QUESTION: Is there a credible explanation for what " suspending certain sanctions on gold, etc..." means for supply/demand & prices please? - Thanks!

Works every time ...