Market

Every week Max Keiser looks at all the scandal behind the financial news headlines. This time Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, look at the scandals behind ‘debt attacks’ on Spain and Greece; record short positions on the euro and whether Shanghai will be the next financial crisis. Keiser also talks to Steve Keen for an update on the Australian housing market, the continuing deflationary collapse and the chances of unrest.

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charts of marketshare for Sony, Sega, Nintendo, etc.
Blue = Sony Computer Entertainment
Red = Nintendo
Lavender = Sega
Yellow = Bandai
(SFC=SNES)
From niconico video

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Part One of a Four part introduction to market research. This segment covers the common process entrepreneurs and people with business ideas follow. How that process fails, and how to prevent that from happening to you and your ideas.

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I am going to get a realator to pull comps on a house I am looking to buy, but am not ready to sign a contract with any realator at this point. However I do want to pay them for this service, but want to know a fair price to pay them for pulling the comps…
Can anyone tell me what a fair price for this service would be?

WHY would you purchase a house without a realtor at all? The realtor doesn’t cost you anything – they look out for your best interests (and a free CMA) and you won’t save a dime buying the house without an agent. The agent can go back and check the history on the house (who owned it, why are they selling, are they in financial distress etc) They can also suggest seller pays your title and closing costs. A CMA can be done on a computer in about 10 minutes – personally I do not charge for CMA’s at all …… period. But if you insist on insulting a Realtor by asking them to do a CMA and yet not ask them to utilize their intelligence to assist you in making such a large investment/purchase – well, I’d say at least $50.
No offense, but as an agent I can’t see the logic in someone NOT using a Realtor when it’s FREE. That’s like telling your wife you will use the same divorce attorney (who looks out for YOUR best interests) Did you have a prior bad experience with an agent or something?

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www.maturemarketinstitute.com/

Wouldn’t Starbucks be the best to answer this?

I would assume coffee prices, water prices, rent, labour and a whole host of other factors.

I hope that helps.

Does it usually go up or down? What are some of the factors that feed into these trends?

The January affect is very valid.

This is not my opinion but a statistic, you should see how the first 5-6 days of the new year trade, if the S&P’s first 5 days show a net gain, the remainder of the year will be a bull market, this has been true 86.1% of the time since 1950 when this study began.

10 of the last 14 post-election years followed the direction of the first five days!

Also, every year since 1950 that January showed a net loss for the month, the year was either flat, or a bear market…WITHOUT EXCEPTION!

Again, these are statistics taken straight from the stock trader’s almanac.

The factors that feed into the trends, interest rates, business cycles coming to an end, market pshychology, sentiment being negative or positive, and the overall temperature for business in the economy at the given time, as well as how certain / uncertain business trends look for the next 6-9 months

During "Day" or "at market close?" I am completely new to trading. I want to do short term trading. Just give me an overview of trading for dummies.

People spend years learning how to trade & you want a short quick answer……… sorry…. there is no such thing.

If there was a "best time" to trade… wouldn’t all the professionals be doing it. I do have some rules for myself;
I never buy/sell before 10:00PM EDT
If a stock reaches its high 5 minutes before 4:00PM, I’ll buy.
I never trade during the hours of 11:30AM-1:30PM (lunch)

BUT…. these rules mean nothing without a ton of information I or anyone here can give you.

Here’s some places to start;
http://www.alphatrends.net/ (best "sum up" of daily activity on the web).
http://www.tradingwithtk.com/ (good teacher, dangerous stocks).
http://streamer.thinkorswim.com:8000/shadowtrader.m3u
(great market comentary during the day, 9:15AM – 4:00PM EDT).

ya@eriestocktrader.com

my feeling is we are in a bear market for most of the stock market, I would not be buying right now.

But as with anything else you hear, this is an opinion and not necessarily a fact.

But I did sell $750,000 in stock 10 days ago…If I had that stock today, it would be worth $700,000
I intend to sit on the cash for a while…probably til sept.

Helium was up, feathers were down. Paper was stationary.
Fluorescent tubing was dimmed in light trading.
Knives were up sharply.
Cows steered into a bull market.
Pencils lost a few points.
Hiking equipment was trailing.
Elevators rose, while escalators continued their slow decline.
Weights were up in heavy trading.
Light switches were off.
Mining equipment hit rock bottom.
Diapers remained unchanged.
Shipping lines stayed at an even keel.
The market for raisins dried up.
Coca-Cola fizzled.
Caterpillar stock inched up a bit.
Sun peaked at midday.
Balloon prices were inflated.
Scott Tissue touched a new bottom.
Birds Eye Peas Split.
Stanley Tools filed for Chapter 11.
And batteries exploded in an attempt to recharge the market.

brilliant, ace superb ha ha ha