To trade or not? Master Shakespeare’s works were performed for both Queen Elizabeth and the lowly street urchins who were permitted to wonder in at the last minute to occupy the pit at the base of the stage. Similarly, stock markets are now available to the masses. Sophisticated investors enjoy the frenzy of the money pit and access to the miracle methods of the day. The Lazy Portfolios equalize performance gains over time without any bother and at minimal cost. See Paul Farrell at MarketWatch.com.

Please forget about guessing economic cycles/playing market. The 2nd-grader starter: VTSMX-VGTSX-VBMFX.

“It's certainly possible to make a lot of money trading actively, but, I don't encourage ordinary people to trade.” See theStreet.com.

Remember the Bell Curve (80/20 Principle). 80% of your profit should come from 20% of the trades. See Big.Trends.com.

Increased volatility causes increased whipsaws when following TA indicators. Remember the “pause that refreshes.” Wait for the markets to calm down if they get too volatile. If the price of soybeans contracts are moving around too fast to trade, consider trading pork bellies that have stabilized. Hard to hit a moving target.

1. $CPC below .80, market near high. Put/call equities and total.
2. RSI > 70 and $TICKS = 200 signals market near high.
3. EMA vs. SMA
4. ADX / DMI
5. 50 DMA / 50 RSI
10. Seasonal Timeing. Sell in May and go away.
11. VIX spike will signal bottom/buy. Time to go long. SSO/SDS. MACD zero cross.
20. EOM-Fosback
21. Validating Volume.
22. NYSE N-H-N-L 20% headed up.
Historically, any new low number greater than 200 probably meant a bottom was being made...as long as the market environment was bullish to neutral (not like 2000 thru 2002).
23. The underperformance of the NDX relative to the SPX.
24. Peak in the advance / declines: http://stockcharts.com/gallery/?$NAAD.

love it how the self-styled "analysts" try to apply TA to indexexes D