The DIY Economist

So I finally decided to ditch the POS that is VXX during that last pullback. That might mean that the market has topped, or it means that more frenzied buying will take the market higher. Are we overbought? Probably. Can the market push higher? Most definitely. Long biotechs going into the winter season with swine flu ...

After having flatlined at 1030 or so, we received a definite breakdown today. Even though I try to not let history be a guide, I just find this coincidence startling: 1. Market forms an ABC pattern in a channel (blue) 2. At the "C" point volume and range contract tremendously and a narrow, tight range is ...

Update on server optimization: http://loadimpact.com/result/www.diyeconomist.net/wordpress-23696bf6a847efa2f606c056aca915fb I can now apparently handle 50-person slashdots. Xcache is now enabled. Pages should pop up faster.

First of all, Hostgator is great: it's fast, cheap, and works. So why am I switching? One word: flexibility. For the past few years, VPS (Virtual Private Server) hosting has steadily grown. This page describes the fundamentals: What is VPS Hosting? VPS is an arrangement where you host on a virtual private server. A VPS is ...

With a gravestone doji today, certainly seems like it. (Goldman's target, if you're a contrarian, is 1060, not 1000, I believe.) My parents and I talked about systemic risk and CAPM today ... an interesting conversation. The gist of my mom's argument consisted of something like "taking nonsystemic risk is the only way to profits" or ...