Today I am very pleased to announce that StockCharts.com is partnering with Dr. Alexander Elder to provide you with two new features. Dr. Elder is the author of several very influential books on technical analysis and trading.  We've recommended his work for years in our online bookstore and we use his books as the basis for an internal trading course that we teach to our employees.  His books "Trading for a Living" and "Come Into My Trading Room" are in the must-read category for any serious investor.  You can check out all of his books here. Today we are Read More 

I just got back from speaking to a great group of people at the Dallas Investors Forum.  Thanks again to the organizers there for having me and thanks to everyone who came.  Here are a couple of slides from my talk:   Above is our "secret" back-of-the-napkin plan for ruling the world.   This slide tries to help people see how Point and Figure charts are like the arm on a "scissors" lamp.  When it is stretched out, it's like the trendlines on a regular bar chart.  When it is collapsed, those same trendlines become vertical columns Read More 

Here's an article about a great little tool that removes any extra versions of Java that might still be installed in your computer.  If Java is running slowly for you, try out JavaRa. - Chip Read More 

Earlier this week, Microsoft published a White Paper entitled "Enhancing the performance of Windows Internet Explorer 8" which contains the following quote: "Add‐ons cause most browser crashes, accounting for over 70% of Internet Explorer 8’s crashes. Slowdowns in Internet Explorer 8 are very often caused by add-ons -- especially when you open a new browser window or tab." The article also includes a list of the most popular IE8 add-ons:   This information reinforces my post from yesterday.  Browser add-ons can cause problems Read More 

We are removing the "Snapshot Charts" feature of our Extra service.  (If you are asking yourself "What's a Snapshot Chart?" then you can skip the rest of this post.) Snapshot Charts were originally intended to be our "Sharing" service back in the days before Facebook, Blogs and Twitter.  Unfortunately, they never really were implemented or explained correctly and they have received little use as a result.  For example, over the past week, we've served out 539 Snapshot charts, compared to over 45 million live SharpCharts charts. Now that we've released our new Read More 

Today we are rolling out our new "Share" feature that lets you share your charts with other people via services like Facebook, Twitter, Chart.ly, and InvestorsHub along with popular blogging services like Blogger, TypePad and WordPress. To Share a chart, simply click on the "Share" link under any SharpChart - it's currently highlighted in yellow to help you find it.  When you do, you should see the following panel appear:   You can then select the method that you want to use to share your chart.  Note that several of these methods require Read More