The markets opened up today on the heels of last week’s positive developments in Europe. Unfortunately, Manufacturing ISM came in unexpectedly low at 49.7 versus an expected 52.2, which was down sharply from last month’s 53.5.  The market quickly gave up those early gains; the S&P 500 and the Dow took a small loss while the NASDAQ held onto a small gain. Read more about What the Market Wants: Continue the Consistency

Welcome to the Grand Illusion
Come on in and see what’s happening
Pay the price; get your ticket for the show
The Stage is set, the band starts playing
Suddenly your heart is pounding
Wishing secretly you were a star Read more about Dark Horse Traders' Hedge: 3 Tickets Punched for Grand Illusion

Obsessive, Compulsive

Suffocates your mind

Confusion, delusions

Kill your dreams in time

You ask me how I took the pain

Crawled up from my lowest low

Step by step and day by day

‘Til there’s one last breathe to go

Live to win ‘til you die Read more about Live to Win With These 3 Buy/Writes Reviews

Gas Natural Inc. Read more about Rock Solid Yields (RSY): Less (e)Gas and More Lumps of Coal in the Stockings

DARK HORSE HEDGE--rides again but getting off RAIL

By Scott at Sabrient and Ilene at Phil’s Stock World Read more about DARK HORSE HEDGE--rides again but getting off RAIL

DARK HORSE HEDGE

By Scott at Sabrient and Ilene at Phil's Stock World

Cover short AMAG at the Market, Thursday 7/29/10

Short RAIL at the Market, Thursday 7/29/10 Read more about DARK HORSE HEDGE

Several comments to this week’s article on SeekingAlpha  (“What the Market Wants:  A Week of Murk and Fog”) have prompted me to make a few points of clarification. Read more about WHAT THE MARKET WANTS: A Clarification