Tea leafs or Technicals?

A plethora of content exist that are excellent sources for stock market data. Many specialize in day trading techniques and stress charting as the main tool for determining an entry and exit point. We also believe in such methods but what sets us apart is the Forensic Trader Radar (FTR). The FTR considers the equities market a giant ledger that requires balancing each night. FTR is tuned to capture short term volatility. After locating the stocks that match our criteria we determine the support and resistance indicators through a proprietary process that we have coined Forensic Trader - Simply by the numbers.

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Investing and Speculating

Welcome to ForensicTrader.blogspot.com, the sister website to Forensictrader.com . Over the years our blog has provided articles or tidbits pertaining to investing and speculating. Our blog was one of the first to write about investing in Smart Grid technologies. We are forward looking and continue to search for opportunities that have not been noticed by the investment community. We are also of the belief that day trading stocks can be profitable if the speculator is prepared. We like to consider ourselves the CSI of speculating hence the name Forensic trader. Next generation screeners are used to analyze the daily price movement of stocks that appear ill-liquid and are displaying significant volatility short-term. Our strength is data crunching coupled to statistical measures to find patterns that we believe a day trader can exploit without churning, thus reducing trading costs. Our goal is to provide active traders with accurate and precise stock data that can be used to enhance their trading strategy.

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SMART GRID on the Radar

A re post from 1/7/2008
A dear friend asked how come I had not written any recent articles about the credit crisis, the gargantuan trade deficit, the plunging dollar, gold above $900.00 an ounce, or commented about the recessionary trade winds that are permeating our economy. Well, since these issues are front and center in the media, and rightfully so, I have decided that I would not feed the fire by adding fuel to an already challenging environment. Instead, because I am an eternal optimist who likes to focus on the positive, (definitely not saying ignore the negative) I will concentrate on investing for the future. As I look back to the United States of the past, and I am not a historian, we see a nation that is built on ingenuity and vigor that always rises to the challenges. Some examples of ingenuity are motor vehicles, telephones, railroads, bridges, tunnels, Internet, man on the moon, and the space shuttle to name a few, all made possible by our number one resource, the electrical grid. Where would the United States be without electricity? Electricity has been the unpinning of every developed country and in America’s case taken for granted until now. I believe that is about to change and I will tell you why. As the world becomes more educated people desire to live in a more comfortable life style is a natural phenomenon. India and China are perfect examples. These countries populations are enormous with great desire for absorbing information and learning brought on by the Internet. Other countries are following, increasing the demand for the non-renewable natural resources that enable the creation of electricity. Want some irony? America has been and continues to outsource manufacturing and service related industries to countries that have reduced labor cost. The result is increased demand by those countries for the resources used for the generation of electricity. So, not only are the jobs gone but competition for the natural resources used to create electricity that is America’s underpinning has increased tremendously and does not seem to be abating. Additionally, climate change issues abound thus causing increased pressure to manage the creation and usage of electricity.There is no quick fix to the electric conundrum, however it seems law makers are reacting. On December 18, 2007 our President signed H.R.6 the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. The short version of the bill is the funding for the reduction of greenhouse gases and to enhance energy conservation and efficiency. This means alternative energy supplies generated via renewable natural resources will becoming online. I have also noticed and increased usage of the phrase “Smart Grid”. In order for America’s electrical grid to take advantage of renewable energy sources such as wind, solar, geothermal, and battery storage the electrical grid has to be upgraded. However creating new supplies is half the battle, managing the supplies is the other half, hence the term smart grid. In closing several years ago in an online chat forum I wrote that Google has the ability to recognize a trend before the trend has fully developed. Google at that time with several others invested $100,000,000 into a privately owned smart grid company called Current Technologies. IBM is working with CenterPoint Energy to create a smart grid. Cree, Itron and Echelon are other companies worth mentioning. Flying way under the radar at .041 cents a share and buried in the over the counter bulletin board (OTCBB) land of lagers is ABTG. Ambient Corp. is working with Con Edison, Duke Energy, First Energy, Entergy and a recently ended trial with San Diego Gas & Electric on smart grid technologies. I have often wondered why would behemoths utilities work with a company that does not have the resources to expand. I have not arrived at an answer but possibly trials with Ambient Corp is investing in the future, if so, should I? Thank you to my friend for inspiration.

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Forensic Trader is a term I coined when referring to the dissecting of stock market daily activity. Numereous strategies enable day traders to determine entry and exit points and I am certainly not suggesting they are worthless, but I have come up with a strategy that is simply by the numbers. No love, no hate, no emotion, just simply by the numbers. Using my proprietary calculations with surgical precision I was able to determine with a strong probability values that are relevant for the active trader. Visit the services page of my web site via the below to subscribe and learn more!!!!!!

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A ForensicTrader.com

ForensicTrader.com is a web site that utilizes next generation analytics to locate stocks displaying short-term inefficiencies in the stock market. Using our proprietary stock screening techniques we identify up to twenty (20) NASDAQ traded equities whose trading range was significant and have the potential to continue volatility the following day of trading. Our concept is called the Forensic Trader Radar and it is tuned to identify the stock market undercurrents not detected by competing products. On this blog and on the home page of Forensictrader.com we display free generic data that market participants can easily recognize via a spreadsheet we call Day Trading Edge. We also provide a fantastic tool for day trader's that subscribe to our services.

Stock data analysis simply by the numbers!

The below are examples of NASDAQ traded stocks that were screened on 2/15/2008 using our proprietary methods to determine their selection. Each night we select up to twenty (20) stocks based on the stock market's closing data and the spreadsheet is updated and published at the web site called ForensicTrader.com . The generic spreadsheet is called "TRADER"S DIGEST" because the forensic trader radar has detected a trend that we believe will have considerable volatility in price movement the following day of trading. Visitors to our web site will have access to the most current data and the option to subscribe to additional information that significantly expands the depth of the data displayed.

TRADER'S DIGEST 2-15-2008

Symbol	Company Name	Prev	Open	Close	High	Low	% Price Chg	Industry	Date
ACLI	American Commercial Lines Inc.	16.92	16.91	17.60	17.79	16.24	4.02%	Misc. Transportation	2/15/2008
AMMD	American Medical Systems Holdin	13.20	13.05	14.97	15.09	13.05	13.41%	Medical Equipment & Supplies	2/15/2008
CGNX	Cognex Corporation	15.39	17.61	19.43	20.06	17.18	26.25%	Scientific & Technical Instr.	2/15/2008
CLWR	Clearwire Corporation	16.26	17.20	17.11	17.25	16.05	5.23%	Communications Services	2/15/2008
CPKI	California Pizza Kitchen, Inc.	14.20	13.81	14.61	14.91	13.76	2.89%	Restaurants	2/15/2008
EHTH	eHealth, Inc.	22.03	22.75	26.12	26.71	22.73	18.57%	Insurance (Miscellaneous)	2/15/2008
JAKK	JAKKS Pacific, Inc.	24.31	24.13	25.56	25.60	23.73	5.14%	Recreational Products	2/15/2008
JASO	JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd. (AD	20.02	19.46	18.40	19.90	18.16	-8.09%	Semiconductors	2/15/2008
JRCC	James River Coal Company	16.98	16.50	16.77	17.02	15.67	-1.24%	Coal	2/15/2008
NILE	Blue Nile, Inc.	44.15	43.74	43.97	44.50	40.51	-0.41%	Retail (Specialty)	2/15/2008
NITE	Knight Capital Group Inc.	17.45	17.30	16.88	17.44	16.25	-3.27%	Investment Services	2/15/2008
PDLI	PDL BioPharma Inc.	14.54	14.49	15.63	15.63	14.49	7.50%	Biotechnology & Drugs	2/15/2008
RADS	Radiant Systems, Inc.	13.28	14.85	15.65	16.84	14.66	17.85%	Computer Networks	2/15/2008
SONO	SonoSite, Inc.	34.90	31.05	32.35	32.90	30.10	-7.31%	Medical Equipment & Supplies	2/15/2008
TBSI	TBS International Limited	37.15	38.11	35.01	38.17	33.60	-5.76%	Water Transportation	2/15/2008
THRX	Theravance, Inc.	17.49	17.15	16.99	17.56	15.14	-2.86%	Biotechnology & Drugs	2/15/2008
ULBI	Ultralife Batteries, Inc.	16.89	13.74	14.04	14.44	13.25	-16.87%	Electronic Instr. & Controls	2/15/2008
VPRT	VistaPrint Limited	35.48	35.17	33.46	35.75	33.39	-5.69%	Business Services	2/15/2008
VSEA	Varian Semiconductor	35.04	34.71	33.74	35.44	33.06	-3.71%	Semiconductors	2/15/2008

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Symbol, Company Name, Prev, Open, Close, High, % change, and Industry data is derived from sources deemed accurate, however viewers are responsible for verifying stock market data. Our proprietary methods are are theoretic calculations and should not be considered buy or sell advise.