via stockcharts.com I'm posting this chart to my blog using our new "Share" feature which should be available in the next day or so. When it's available, the "Share" link will let you post your chart to Twitter, Facebook, InvestorsHub, or any of the major blogging platforms with just one click! (P.S. This is one of my favorite charts for seeing how short-term signals "morph" into long-term ones.) Read More 

I'm in Phoenix tonight, getting ready for Monday night's meeting with the Investment Club of Sun City West, the second stop on my "World Tour" of investment clubs.  Last month's meeting with Portland's chapter of the American Association of Individual Investors was a lot of fun and I hope that my talk here in Sun City West goes just as well. Next month: Dallas! Read More 

The good people at Gomez released some very interesting numbers last week with respect to browser performance.  They monitored real-world performance data from over 200 different websites and broke the numbers down by browser.  Here are the broadband results: This shows both actual page load times as well "perceived" page load times.  The perceived numbers are what's exciting to me.  Usually you don't see that kind of information in these kind of test results. The numbers fall into 3 broad categories: Slowpokes - Internet Explorer 6, IE7 Read More 

If you've been a member of StockCharts.com for more than a year, don't forget that you qualify for our long-term loyalty discount!  Here's how it works: If you've been a continuous member for more than a year, you should now see a yellow "badge" or ribbon after your name on our "Members" page after you log in.  (Market Message-only subscribers will see it on the right side of the Market Message page.)  Your badge should look similar to this: If you click on that badge, you should see a popup window appear that contains a Coupon Code.  Read More 

We've been working hard the past couple of weeks to get better Sector and Industry classifications for the stocks in our database and today that work is finally starting to surface on the web site. One of the big problems with Sector and Industry classifications is that there is no universally accepted standard for what constitutes a sector, what constitutes an industry and which stocks belong in which category.  The other big problem was that, until recently, the only source for that information was high-priced research firms that usually frowned on our request to make their Read More