Some random stock lingo to close out a random weekend (at least it was here in Michigan!) via investopedia.co,.
A dummy shareholder is a shareholder who holds shares in his or her own name but they are really owned by someone else.
The only example given was of a husband holding shares for his spouse. I guess [...]

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NASDAQ was down today and closed below 2100, though on lower volume this isn’t good. Things are looking pretty bleak right now, so much for the big rally day on 6/29.
The S&P 500 Index was trading between the 50 and 200 MAs but today close below both, a [...]

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I am looking for talented writers to contribute to the Stock Trading 101 blog on a daily, weekly, or once a month basis. Currently ST101 as a stock blog has over 100 readers subscribed via RSS, recieves respectable traffic daily, has a page rank of 2, and is [...]

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Jim Cramer had a pretty good show I thought today, going into some insight of the business cycle. His opening comments basically told us that we could not focus solely on earnings, and that having insight into the business cycle is important. One example was Walgreen (WAG), [...]

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AT&T Inc. (T) was upgraded to buy from neutral at Banc of America Securities, which said it expects earnings estimates to be revised upward through the completion of the BellSouth merger. Analyst David Barden also said that strong subscriber and revenue growth at its Cingular wireless business is boosting margin expansion and profitability. Barden [...]

I am happy to say that I am back in town. I thank everyone for being patient with me as I was gone. I look forward to once again posting in Stock Trading 101!
And with that said, I want to let everyone know that I am adding a link under “About” to our stock forums [...]