Archive for June, 2011

• Utilities Over Financials & Copper Over Emerging Markets
  Posted by Greg Harmon on June 30th, 2011 at 6:27 pm, Comments: 0

  Long Term ETF Trades The year is half over so it is time for a bit of longer term reflection. A review of the account [...]

• Hungry For an Earnings Play on Darden Restaurants
  Posted by Greg Harmon on June 30th, 2011 at 3:21 pm, Comments: 0

  Darden Restaurants (ticker: $DRI) reports earnings after the bell on Thursday. Coming into earnings it has rising off of support of the ascending triangle at [...]

• Time to Add a Little More Spice: McCormick Earnings
  Posted by Greg Harmon on June 30th, 2011 at 8:02 am, Comments: 0

  Traders often talk about the ease of getting into a trade but that the hard part is getting out of it profitably or even for [...]

• 4 Financials for the Long Run…Or Maybe Not
  Posted by Greg Harmon on June 29th, 2011 at 6:10 pm, Comments: 0

  Heading into the end of June it is time to take a look at that long term account and see if there are any adjustments [...]

• Macro Economic Clues Through the Metals Charts
  Posted by Greg Harmon on June 29th, 2011 at 11:32 am, Comments: 0

  Some metals are used to gauge the health of economy either at home or abroad or specific sectors. Others are used to to talk about [...]

• Bulls Are Not Homefree Yet – Update: Step 1 Accomplished
  Posted by Greg Harmon on June 29th, 2011 at 8:03 am, Comments: 0

  The chart below shows the relative price action of the SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF Trust (ticker: $DIA), S&P 500 SPDR’s (ticker: $SPY), Russell [...]

• Dell Beats Apple Hands Down
  Posted by Greg Harmon on June 28th, 2011 at 7:38 pm, Comments: 0

  Apple (ticker: $AAPL) has been the innovation leader creating the first the iPod, then the iPhone, and the iPad. Dell (ticker: $DELL) has been right [...]

• Which Pitchfork Option at the Family Dollar Store
  Posted by Greg Harmon on June 28th, 2011 at 8:27 am, Comments: 0

  The Family Dollar Store (ticker: $FDO) releases earnings Wednesday morning before the market opens. These events can have a large impact on a stock price, [...]

• Unpredictable, Confusing, Up & Down: Your Spouse, No! Rare Earth Stocks
  Posted by Greg Harmon on June 27th, 2011 at 6:21 pm, Comments: 0

  Rare Earth stocks have been some of the most volatile stocks and that has led to them being some of the most lucrative plays for [...]

• Time for Oil Servicers to Take the Lead – Again
  Posted by Greg Harmon on June 27th, 2011 at 8:26 am, Comments: 0

  Those of you that read my work regularly know that I follow the spread between the Oil Service Holders (ticker: $OIH) and the United States [...]