Month: December 2004

Stock Special Weekend Report Topic Log

10/09/2010 - The Final Tradesight Special Weekend Stock Report and the Launch of Tradesight 4.0
10/02/2010 - End of Quarter Window-Dressing
09/25/2010 - Stops and Partials
09/18/2010 - The Current State of the Market
09/11/2010 - Rich's Discussion of 9/11
09/04/2010 - No Report for Holiday Weekend
08/28/2010 - Ipads and More
08/21/2010 - How the Lightest Volume of the Week Translated into No Action
08/14/2010 - Checking Volume Measurements
08/07/2010 - A Value Area of the Last Week on the Markets
07/31/2010 - Updated Discussion of Usefulness of Futures and Data We Track
07/24/2010 - The Current State of the Market
07/17/2010 - Rich's Discussion of the Flash Crash
07/10/2010 - Market Support Even on Gap and Go Days
07/03/2010 - No Report for Holiday Weekend
06/26/2010 - The Summer Volume Game Has Shifted
06/19/2010 - Intro to Futures
06/12/2010 - The Current State of the Market
06/05/2010 - Why Market Direction Matters (A Reminder)
05/29/2010 - No Report for Holiday Weekend
05/22/2010 - Money Supply (Part 2 of 2)
05/15/2010 - Unemployment Discussion (Part 1 of 2)
05/08/2010 - The VIX and the Strange Crash
05/01/2010 - GDP and Corporate Earnings: Post Earnings Season Analysis
04/25/2010 - Tradesight Tools New Sound Alerts
04/17/2010 - Recognizing Dullness
04/10/2010 - The Current State of the Market
04/03/2010 - No Report for Holiday Weekend
03/27/2010 - Post-Healthcare and the Market
03/20/2010 - Rich's Trading with Clean Charts and a 10-period Exponential Moving Average
03/13/2010 - How We Count Winners and Losers in the Review Section of the Reports
03/06/2010 - Tradesight Comber in Action on a 1-Minute Chart for Trade Management
02/27/2010 - Comparing Three Trading Styles
02/20/2010 - Rich's Dow 10k and The Bond Market
02/13/2010 - No Report for Holiday Weekend
02/06/2010 - Coming Back From Lunch - The Last Two Hours
01/30/2010 - The Current State of the Market
01/23/2010 - Technology Update (Trading Computers)
01/16/2010 - No Report for Holiday Weekend
01/09/2010 - How to Mentally Enter Your Trading Day and Make Adjustments
01/02/2010 - 2009 End of Year Report
12/26/2009 - No report for Holiday weekend
12/19/2009 - A Profitable Trading System
12/12/2009 - Outlook on Gold (The Bubble)
12/05/2009 - Rich's Using the VIX and Advance/Decline Figures for Intraday Trading
11/28/2009 - No report for Holiday weekend
11/21/2009 - The Current State of the Market
11/14/2009 - End of Year Tax Run-ups
11/07/2009 - How to Handle Gaps on the Main Trade Calls
10/31/2009 - No report for Holiday weekend
10/24/2009 - Indicator Overdose
10/17/2009 - Trade Exit Rules
10/10/2009 - The Current State of the Market
10/03/2009 - Introducing the Tradesight Seeker and Comber
09/26/2009 - Rich's Tradesight Comber Opening Discussion
09/19/2009 - Which Way Did They Buy Options Protection?
09/12/2009 - The Jobless Recovery
09/05/2009 - No Report for Holiday Weekend
08/29/2009 - The Current State of the Market
08/22/2009 - The MOB (A Terrific Indicator)
08/15/2009 - Rich's Tradesight Seeker Opening Discussion
08/08/2009 - The Health Insurance Conversation and What It Means to the Market and the Economy
08/01/2009 - Some New Things at Tradesight
07/25/2009 - Market Guidance versus Stock Picking
07/18/2009 - The Current State of the Market
07/11/2009 - Review of Eight Days of Core Earnings
07/04/2009 - No Report for Holiday Weekend
06/27/2009 - Mid-Year All-Market Update
06/20/2009 - Outliers: Manager versus Stock Picker
06/13/2009 - Current Time of Day Beat of the Market
06/06/2009 - Rich's Kondratieff Waves Report
05/30/2009 - New Page Layout for e-Signal
05/23/2009 - No Report for Holiday Weekend
05/16/2009 - Gap Fills
05/09/2009 - Workshop Session
05/02/2009 - The Current State of the Market
04/25/2009 - Futures Average Daily Range Tool
04/18/2009 - Rich's Discussion of Gap Fill Thresholds
04/11/2009 - No Report for Holiday Weekend
04/04/2009 - Tradesight's New E-Signal Tools
03/28/2009 - Technology Update
03/21/2009 - The Current State of the Market
03/14/2009 - Stock Settlement Versus Futures Settlement
03/07/2009 - Prioritizing Trade in This Market
02/28/2009 - The Three Parts of a Day
02/21/2009 - Current State of the Market
02/14/2009 - No Report for Holiday Weekend
02/07/2009 - Stimulus versus Spending: The Employment Factor
01/31/2009 - Rich's Discussion of Rotational Rallies
01/24/2009 - What You Want an Up Market to Look Like
01/17/2009 - No Report for Holiday Weekend
01/10/2009 - 2009 Sector Update
01/03/2009 - 2008 Year in Review
12/27/2008 - No Report for Christmas Holiday
12/20/2008 - Rich's 2008 Year in Review
12/13/2008 - The Current State of the Market
12/06/2008 - Ranking Chart Patterns
11/29/2008 - No Report for Thanksgiving Holiday
11/22/2008 - Tops and Bottoms
11/15/2008 - The Triple Bottom
11/08/2008 - Discussion of Two Trades: AAPL and BIIB
11/01/2008 - Election 2008 Report
10/25/2008 - The Early Entry
10/18/2008 - Market Bottoms
10/11/2008 - Rich's Intermarket Analysis
10/04/2008 - The Current State of the Market
09/27/2008 - A Reminder of What We Do
09/20/2008 - The Federal Bailout
09/13/2008 - Margin Calls
09/06/2008 - Setting and Retaking a Trigger
08/30/2008 - No Report for Holiday Weekend
08/23/2008 - Preview of the Last Four Months of 2008
08/16/2008 - The Current State of the Markets
08/09/2008 - Rich Derrick's "Tops Are Different Than Bottoms"
08/02/2008 - Firefox 3.0, Web 2.0
07/26/2008 - Chris' Comments on Rich Derrick
07/19/2008 - Trading Technology
07/12/2008 - Afternoon Play and July Earnings
07/05/2008 - No Report for Holiday Weekend
06/28/2008 - What "Return to the Mean" Means
06/21/2008 - The Current State of the Markets
06/14/2008 - No Report for Holiday Weekend
06/07/2008 - More Market Directional Analysis
05/31/2008 - Update on Market Directional Tool
05/24/2008 - Trade Management: AMZN
05/17/2008 - Rich's Calculating Measured Move Targets
05/10/2008 - A Perfect Chart Study: FFIV
05/03/2008 - Current State of the Markets
04/26/2008 - Tradesight Messenger 2.0 Release
04/19/2008 - Discussion on Earnings Releases
04/12/2008 - The Important of Volume
04/05/2008 - Q2 and Tax Season
03/29/2008 - Value Areas
03/22/2008 - No Report for Holiday Weekend
03/15/2008 - Update on the Market Directional Tool
03/08/2008 - Two Key Fibs in One Conversation
03/01/2008 - Rich's Introduction to His New Market Reports
02/23/2008 - What Counts in the Trade Summaries
02/16/2008 - President's Day Weekend (no report)
02/09/2008 - A Refresher on Market Direction
02/02/2008 - Tradesight 4.0 - New Changes to the Site and Reports
01/26/2008 - Current State of the Markets
01/19/2008 - Martin Luther King Weekend (no report)
01/12/2008 - Trade Execution
01/05/2008 - The First Three Days of a Year
12/29/2007 - 2007 End of Year Recap
12/22/2007 - Christmas Weekend (no report)
12/15/2007 - End of Year "Run-Up" Analysis
12/08/2007 - Current State of the Markets
12/01/2007 - Calling It From the Tape
11/24/2007 - Thanksgiving Weekend (no report)
11/17/2007 - Rich's Pressure Signal Differential Indicator
11/10/2007 - Interest Rates, Oil, and the Fed's Tough Spot
11/03/2007 - Current State of the Markets
10/27/2007 - The Factors in Buying Strength and Shorting Weakness
10/20/2007 - Volume and Holding Over During Earnings
10/13/2007 - Stops: The Basics
10/06/2007 - Construction
09/29/2007 - Fourth Quarter Discussion and Current State of the Markets
09/22/2007 - Triple Versus Single Expiration
09/15/2007 - Rich's Discussion on The Repeal of the Uptick Rule
09/08/2007 - Mentality of New Traders
09/01/2007 - Labor Day (no report)
08/25/2007 - Current State of the Market: Into September and October
08/18/2007 - The VIX and the Market's Future
08/11/2007 - The Global Credit Crunch
08/04/2007 - 3-Day Margin Calls
07/28/2007 - Current State of the Markets
07/21/2007 - NDX Floating Island
07/14/2007 - Tradesight Services Overview
07/07/2007 - Fourth of July Holiday
06/30/2007 - Rich's Mid-Year traders insurance Review: Things to Do More and Less Of
06/23/2007 - A Few Things You Might Not Know About Tradesight
06/16/2007 - Clean Charts to Skip
06/09/2007 - Volume Without Movement
06/02/2007 - Summer Doldrums
05/26/2007 - Memorial Day Weekend
05/19/2007 - Current State of the Markets
05/12/2007 - A Good Example of Automated Volume
05/05/2007 - NYSE vs. NASDAQ
04/28/2007 - Rich's How to Stay in a Position
04/21/2007 - Risking Your PnL
04/14/2007 - Technology Update
04/07/2007 - Easter Weekend (No Topic)
03/31/2007 - The End of a Quarter
03/24/2007 - Factors in Determining What is Bold in the List
03/17/2007 - Current Look at the Market Heading into Tax Day (One Month Out)
03/10/2007 - Is Shorting More Risky (A Personal Story)
03/03/2007 - The Wake-Up Call
02/24/2007 - A Look Back at AAPL and the End of Year Tax Run-Up
02/17/2007 - President's Day Holiday (No Topic)
02/10/2007 - Get Involved When the Trading is Good
02/03/2007 - Fed Funds and Tradesight Fed Funds Calculator
01/27/2007 - The Current State of the Market
01/20/2007 - The Windows Vista Factor
01/14/2007 - Different Types of "Range" Breakouts
01/06/2007 - Leveraged Instruments
12/30/2006 - End of Year Summary of All Markets
12/23/2006 - Discussion of Trading in the Last Week of the Year
12/16/2006 - Rich's CPS Discussion (Continuation Pressure Signal)
12/09/2006 - What It Takes to Begin Trading
12/02/2006 - The Mental Bliss of Never Being Buried
11/25/2006 - Thanksgiving Holiday
11/18/2006 - The End of Year Tax Avoidance Run
11/11/2006 - A Trading Day
11/04/2006 - The Election and Ramifications
10/28/2006 - Rich Derrick's Report on Daily Market Preparation
10/21/2006 - Triple Volume
10/14/2006 - Inflation and This Week's FOMC Minutes
10/07/2006 - Size Parameters
09/30/2006 - Examining a Trade – YHOO
09/23/2006 - How a Win/Loss Ratio Factors into Your Returns
09/16/2006 - Current State of the Market and "Looking Back" on a Bottom
09/09/2006 - Volume is on the Other Side of the Trigger (example)
09/02/2006 - Rich Derrick's Labor Day Top Ten Tips for Becoming a Successful Trader
08/26/2006 - The Fruit Stock (AAPL)
08/19/2006 - Sixteen Years
08/12/2006 - Current State of the Market and Overall Thoughts
08/05/2006 - Patience
07/29/2006 - August
07/22/2006 - Subscriber Q&A
07/15/2006 - When to Make Money in Which Direction
07/08/2006 - Rich's QQQQ Position Challenge
07/01/2006 - Vacation
06/24/2006 - Tips on Trading A Light Volume Market
06/17/2006 - Rich's Pattern Recognition - The 7/11 Candle
06/10/2006 - Priorities
06/03/2006 - High Beta Stocks
05/27/2006 - Rich's VIX and What It Means To Your Personal Trading Plan conversation
05/20/2006 - Trading with Indicators
05/13/2006 - Current State of the Market: Bubbles and How Crashes Start
05/06/2006 - Viewing Gaps
04/29/2006 - Trading All Markets
04/22/2006 - How to Use Scalp Ideas
04/15/2006 - What Do You Think I Can Make?
04/08/2006 - Current Market Outlook
04/01/2006 - Rich's Trading Reversals Discussion
03/25/2006 - The No-Danger Trades
03/18/2006 - Mapping Out a Quarter
03/11/2006 - Treating Longs and Shorts Equally
03/04/2006 - Targeting Money Goals Daily
02/25/2006 - The Back Side of the Wedge - Current Market View
02/18/2006 - Self-Contests
02/11/2006 - Viewing Risk/Reward in Terms of Odds of Success
02/04/2006 - Rich's Beta and Volatility lesson
01/28/2006 - Current market setup
01/21/2006 - Lock in the Gain or Play the Rules?
01/14/2006 - Volume, Volume, Volume
01/07/2006 - Saving Money on Triggers by Watching the 5-minute Bars
All Reports Prior to January 1, 2006, can be found by clicking on the Stock link under Report Archive (Pre-2006) in the Navigation Menu on the left of your Tradesight screen and then going back to these dates:
12/31/2005 - Year In Review...2005
12/24/2005 - Rich's Wave Analysis Intro, Part 2
12/17/2005 - The Learning Curve: Identifying Your Trading Style and Making It Work - Part 2
12/10/2005 - The Learning Curve: Identifying Your Trading Style and Making It Work - Part 1
12/03/2005 - The Current State of the Market
11/26/2005 - Rich's Wave Analysis Intro, Part 1
11/19/2005 - Limit buyers/sellers versus active buyers/sellers versus hidden buyers/sellers
11/12/2005 - Why You Shouldn't Use Hard Stops Unless You Have To
11/05/2005 - QQQQ Strangle concept
10/29/2005 - When to Take Early Entries
10/22/2005 - Rich's ADX discussion
10/15/2005 - Why Volume is So Important in Trading
10/08/2005 - Taking a Little extra size to improve your trading
10/01/2005 - Optimizing Tradesight
09/24/2005 - Partial entries and Overcoming the "shorting" hurdle
09/17/2005 - The Current State of the Market
09/10/2005 - Trading for a Living
09/03/2005 - Rich's Discussion on Setting and Testing Levels
08/27/2005 - What Makes the TSR Go to 5 or -5
08/20/2005 - Relying on the Chart
08/13/2005 - Risk versus Reward
08/06/2005 - Current State of the Market
07/30/2005 - Building Positions on Active Stocks
07/23/2005 - Preparing for the Trading Day
07/16/2005 - Rich's Time Frames Discussion
07/09/2005 - Current Outlook on the Market
07/02/2005 - The Intent to Swing and Size Part 2
06/25/2005 - Swing Trading
06/18/2005 - Oil, Interest Rates, and the Market
06/11/2005 - Rich's Reciprocal Range Play Examples
06/04/2005 - Subscriber Q&A
05/28/2005 - No report, working on lengthy subscriber Q&A
05/21/2005 - The Meaning of Options Expiration
05/14/2005 - The "Noise" Zone
05/07/2005 - Size and Percentages
04/30/2005 - Rich's Four-Bar Termination Candles
04/23/2005 - Chart Pattern Discussion Part 2
04/16/2005 - Chart Pattern Discussion Part 1
04/09/2005 - Building a trade log
04/02/2005 - Current Market Overview
03/26/2005 - Panic Selling and the Big Picture
03/19/2005 - Rich's Absolute Fibs
03/12/2005 - MB Trading order entry modules in E-Signal
03/05/2005 - Chris' Screen Layout
02/26/2005 - Mark's Value Area Description
02/19/2005 - Trade Management
02/12/2005 - Rich's "Market Internals"
02/05/2005 - The Coming 24-Hour Marketplace
01/29/2005 - How much do specialists and market makers mess with your orders?
01/22/2005 - Trends, Confirmation, and Your Trading
01/15/2005 - Rich's Nine-Bar Runs
01/08/2005 - What you should and shouldn't do without market support
Prior to the Beginning of 2005, the weekend reports are in the Recap Archive after the Friday closing report
12/31/2004 - 2005 recap
12/24/2004 - No report for Holiday, preparing for end of year report
12/17/2004 - Charting and the pivot series
12/10/2004 - Rich's VWAP discussion
12/03/2004 - The Tradesight Eyeball and a discussion of the three questions used at Tradesight to determine market direction for trading
11/24/2004 - Top Ten Things Unsuccessful Traders Say...Link to this Weekend Report Log for easy reference (posted Wednesday due to Holiday)
11/19/2004 - Current market environment and Fed comments about interest rates, inflation, and the trade deficit
11/12/2004 - Subscriber Q&A, about 25 questions
11/05/2004 - Rich's description of different trade types, including time of day analysis for counter-trend trade calls
10/29/2004 - Advance comment on Election 2004 and its impact on the market
10/22/2004 - Report skipped in preparation for the lengthy Election report the following weekend
10/15/2004 - Why trading during the 8 days of core earnings is harder than any other time of the quarter
10/08/2004 - Rich's report on market price gaps, gap fill thresholds, and market on close orders and their usefulness
10/01/2004 - Mozilla Firefox as an alternative to Internet Explorer
09/24/2004 - Combining trade management with the use of the Tradesight Messenger
09/17/2004 - Out of town, no report
09/10/2004 - Purpose of Tradesight: What it does and what it doesn't do and how to learn the top-down approach to the markets
09/03/2004 - Short selling and covering part 2 - Naked shorting
08/27/2004 - Short selling and covering part 1 - What it is and how it affects chart action
08/20/2004 - August doldrums...why market volume matters for breakouts and breakdowns
08/13/2004 - Why do markets often rally into Presidential elections?
08/06/2004 - How rallies suck people into "buying dips"
07/30/2004 - Month-end window dressing
07/23/2004 - Current market outlook and commentary
07/16/2004 - All trades are not created equal...combining market action and chart patterns to adjust trade size and stop levels
07/09/2004 - No report...FOREX report launches
07/02/2004 - How to overcome the fear of increasing trade size
06/25/2004 - Analyzing market volume
06/18/2004 - A good example of how market volume affects trading intraday
06/11/2004 - Patterns that seem to work with a high degree of success don't always translate into winning trading strategies
06/04/2004 - Why sloping trendlines don't always help pick winning trades
05/28/2004 - Different types of trading that people do with the Tradesight reports
05/21/2004 - Tradesight introduction to FOREX
05/14/2004 - Why is volume getting lighter?
05/07/2004 - Oil prices and my Toyota Prius
04/30/2004 - Current market outlook and commentary
04/22/2004 - Why the market rally with the Fed announcement? (Report posted on a Thursday because of holiday)
04/16/2004 - How do you trade something like TASR?
04/07/2004 - How does Tax Day affect the market (Report posted on a Wednesday because of holiday)
04/02/2004 - Follow-up Q&A from subscribers...5 extra questions
03/26/2004 - Subscriber Q&A including retriggers, the three questions to determine market direction, and "clean" trading days
03/19/2004 - No report...prepping for the Q&A next weekend
03/12/2004 - Playing the short side after a period of long side play
03/05/2004 - Troubles with the unemployment number
02/27/2004 - Gap fills
02/20/2004 - A discussion on part of the mental aspect of becoming a trader
02/13/2004 - Brief discussion about options (Part 2)
02/06/2004 - Brief discussion about options (Part 1)
01/30/2004 - Share size versus account size...a conversation
01/23/2004 - Current look at some of the "bigger name" stocks in the market...the Generals
01/16/2004 - How long do you follow a pattern that never triggers?
01/09/2004 - Size needed to make a living trading
12/31/2003 - End of year report combining two weekend reports into one
12/19/2003 - End of year economic discussion...deficits
12/12/2003 - Year end tax-selling
12/05/2003 - Current market outlook and commentary
11/28/2003 - Why I created Tradesight
11/21/2003 - Chart discussion for breakout plays
11/14/2003 - Analysis of recent economic numbers
11/07/2003 - Swing trading breakouts
10/31/2003 - Top-notch chart patterns
Before this point, the weekend reports were attached to the beginning of the Monday Today's Picks
10/27/2003 - How to analyze your results
10/20/2003 - How "late" you can take an entry
10/13/2003 - How "early" you can take an entry (cheating)
10/06/2003 - Why we started offering "first targets" instead of just "swing targets" in a changing market
09/29/2003 - Why you want to pay taxes as a trader
09/22/2003 - Is this another market bubble?
09/15/2003 - Charting (Part 2)
09/08/2003 - Charting (Part 1)
09/01/2003 - What is the Tradesight Swing Rating (TSR)?
08/25/2003 - Real estate
08/18/2003 - No report (out of town for seminar)
08/11/2003 - Average volume requirements for trading
08/04/2003 - Current market outlook and commentary
07/28/2003 - Trade size on small caps
07/21/2003 - Pure discussion about the three questions for determining market direction
07/14/2003 - Current market outlook and commentary for Q2 2003 earnings
07/07/2003 - 2003 Mid Year Update and Analysis
06/30/2003 - Economic data analysis
06/23/2003 - Subscriber Q&A session
06/16/2003 - Top FIve Things Successful Traders Never Think
06/09/2003 - Learning to trade yourself
06/02/2003 - VIX (Old VIX)
05/26/2003 - The psychology of selling winners early and holding losers too long
05/19/2003 - Current market outlook and commentary
05/12/2003 - The "retail rush" at the open
05/05/2003 - A few trading notes, including the importance of partial profits
04/28/2003 - A critical "area" of the market
04/21/2003 - Options trading for "less risk" than stocks
04/14/2003 - New traders and trade size
04/07/2003 - Comments about general use of the site for new subscribers
03/31/2003 - Current market outlook and commentary
03/24/2003 - Monday Morning Quarterbacking in the market
03/17/2003 - No report (out of town for a seminar)
03/10/2003 - Being a market maker
03/03/2003 - Purpose of Tradesight
02/24/2003 - Taking losses to make you a better trader
02/18/2003 - Macroeconomic influences on the market (on a Tuesday because of the Holiday)
02/10/2003 - The pre-war market...volume troubles
02/03/2003 - My trading system, circa early 2003
01/27/2003 - Answers to questions about the "trading learning curve" and "option size allocations"
01/21/2003 - Top-down approach to trading the market (on a Tuesday because of the Holiday)
01/13/2003 - Trading the small cap stocks
01/06/2003 - Discussion of the "fiscal stimulus package" proposed to Congress

by Chris