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• Wednesday Inspirations

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  * Great article: how our brains interfere with taking losses;
  
  * Nice article from Smita Sadana on resisting temptation in trading;
  
  * Thoughts on the mechanics of trading and hitting;
  
  * Interesting visual representation of historical price action in stocks;
  
  * Questioning [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 8:11pm EST
  by Brett Steenbarger, Ph.D.

• Midday Briefing for November 4th: Sector View

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  The sector spectrum view from FinViz shows more green than red, as we've been trading stronger relative to yesterday's close. As you know, however, I like to track the market's strength and weakness from the current day's market open, not the prior day's close.' [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 12:55pm EST
  by Brett Steenbarger, Ph.D.

• Morning Briefing for November 4th: Working on a Breakout

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  We've broken above the 11/2 highs on the heels of U.S. dollar weakness and firmness among commodities. That means I'm looking to see how we behave around the 1050 level in the ES contract (above) to see if we can sustain the breakout going into [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 9:29am EST
  by Brett Steenbarger, Ph.D.

• Reflections on Commodity Strength and the Macro Investment Picture

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  While stocks have pulled back in recent days, we continue to see firmness in commodities (DBC; top chart), especially gold (GLD; middle chart) and oil (USO; bottom chart). In a contracting world economy, we would [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 8:21am EST
  by Brett Steenbarger, Ph.D.