Mark McMillan

Fundamental Trader

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• Inflation Fading as the Economy Continues to Sustain Itself...

  Published 18 December 2006 | viewed 3,751 times

  Weekly Trader Alert #83 12/18/2006 8:57:45 AM Overview A week ago, we saw wage growth dropping and the services index showed an increase in the…

• Can Service Trump Manufacturing?

  Published 11 December 2006 | viewed 4,676 times

  Weekly Trader Alert #82 12/11/2006 9:19:13 AM Overview Last week's market focus was clearly that the contractions being seen in the manufacturing and housing sectors…

• A Contracting Economy?

  Published 04 December 2006 | viewed 4,882 times

  Weekly Trader Alert #81 12/4/2006 8:44:30 AM Overview There has been a see-saw of underlying sentiment which seems to be correlated to economic numbers being…

• Local Top Put in But Bulls are Having Their Way Now...

  Published 29 November 2006 | viewed 4,342 times

  Intraweek Alert 11/29/2006 5:51:00 PM We correctly pointed out a local top, but it appears the market may not be done with this uptrend. GDP…

• Short Week, Short Opportunity?

  Published 27 November 2006 | viewed 4,996 times

  Weekly Trader Alert #80 11/27/2006 8:41:48 AM Overview This week we are going to examine what appears to be a change in the underlying psyche…

• Special Report on Implied Volatility...

  Published 21 November 2006 | viewed 9,102 times

  Intraweek Alert 11/21/2006 9:04:59 AM Today's intraweek Fundamental Trader contains a backgrounder on implied volatility. This is an important subject as Monday's close of the…

• Will Housing Sink the Economy?

  Published 20 November 2006 | viewed 5,608 times

  Weekly Trader Alert #79 11/20/2006 8:07:04 AM Overview While politics still looms large as a discussion in the United States with the elections less than…

• Trade Entry and Exit...

  Published 16 November 2006 | viewed 5,430 times

  Intraweek Alert 11/16/2006 8:36:24 AM Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ:SWKS) was entered at the close at $6.99. It never hit our desired entry price of $6.90…

• Semiconductor and Wireless Play...

  Published 15 November 2006 | viewed 3,631 times

  Intraweek Alert 11/15/2006 9:25:38 AM We are making a trade recommendation here on a semiconductor company that provides chips to the wireless and broadband markets.…

• Resistance is Broken

  Published 14 November 2006 | viewed 4,982 times

  Intraweek Alert 11/14/2006 7:38:31 PM Last week I sent out an intra-week alert suggesting we would start issuing long stock recommendations more often, until the…

• Is Gridlock Good?

  Published 13 November 2006 | viewed 3,022 times

  Weekly Trader Alert #78 11/13/2006 9:17:42 AM Overview Last week saw a new balance of power in Washington. The Democrats took control of the House…

• Chicken Little...

  Published 09 November 2006 | viewed 5,650 times

  11/8/2006 6:47:33 PM The Sky is Falling, the Sky is Falling... I don't want to be ignored like Chicken Little was when he repeatedly warned…

• Intraweek Alert

  Published 08 November 2006 | viewed 5,149 times

  11/8/2006 9:22:28 AM Last Wednesday... Last Wednesday I published a mid-week report noting a rare double evening star pattern on the QQQQs. In addition, I…

• Do Economic Reports Really Matter?

  Published 06 November 2006 | viewed 3,554 times

  Weekly Trader Alert #77 11/5/2006 11:47:33 PM Overview Approximately 80% of S&P-500 companies have completed their earnings reports with average year over year growth in…

• Beware the Double Evening Star...

  Published 02 November 2006 | viewed 9,349 times

  Intraweek Alert 11/2/2006 9:33:57 AM A rare Japanese candlestick pattern was put in on Wednesday's close. Tracing back to last Wednesday through Friday, we showed…

• What Do You Mean the Economy is Slowing?

  Published 30 October 2006 | viewed 4,694 times

  Weekly Trader Alert #76 10/30/2006 8:52:36 AM Overview Last week saw about one third of S&P-500 companies report and the results are no less than…

• Earnings Season is Strong...

  Published 22 October 2006 | viewed 3,675 times

  Weekly Trader Alert #75 10/22/2006 6:33:17 PM Overview Most companies that are reporting have exceeded analyst expectations. Earnings are stronger than expected, but guidance has…

• The Consumer is Queen...

  Published 14 October 2006 | viewed 4,629 times

  Weekly Trader Alert #74 10/14/2006 6:48:30 PM Overview The market is moving higher, convinced that the Goldilocks economy is in place. Optimism is a wonderful…

• Intraweek Alert

  Published 12 October 2006 | viewed 4,020 times

  What a roller coaster... It appears that there is enough bullish sentiment that the market continues to hold up with "bad" news out there daily.…

• Fundamental Trader Alert

  Published 11 October 2006 | viewed 4,372 times

  10/11/2006 9:25:45 AM We are going to enter two short trades... The first is an ETF trade, which is to short the S&P500 (Amex:SPY). We…