I'm back... and just in time for Fed day. So that means I get the day off from trading. Look for a chart round-up this evening.
If you have a WordPress blog you may want to read this -- I'm hoping I've finally got the web server issues solved. During this latest server move I took a look at my database for this blog and made a shocking discovery. An earlier version of one of the plugins I'm using, the Ultimate Tag Warrior, had inserted almost a million useless rows of data in one of my tables. The problem I've been having is that Wordpress would time out when I would try to edit or create posts. Whatever access WordPress was doing to that table was taxing the database server. I cleaned up the table and now it has less than 1,500 rows -- down from over 900,000! And WordPress is humming once again. (You'll want to check out this performance boosting patch as well)
On Today's Calendar:
- 2:00 -- Treasury Budget
- 2:15 -- FOMC policy statement
More Calendars: U.S. Earnings | Conf. Calls | Surprises | IPO | Economic
Potential swing trades:
See one of the recent 'Chart Reading' posts for some potential swing candidates.
Potential day trades:
(From Briefing.com)
Gapping Down
BBY -6.3% (reports NovQ; misses by $0.05, cites margin perssure; down in sympathy: CC -5.6%, RSH -1.8%, GLW -1.6%), NUE -5.3% (guides Q4 below consensus; down in sympathy: STLD -5.3%, CHAP -4.4%), ENWV -14% (lowers rev guidance), ALNY -8% (announces stock offering), COO -5.3% (Bear Stearns downgrade), CLS -4.8% (guides lower), CMVT -3.3% (announces OctQ revs), RACK -3.1% (VP of sales to resign; Canaccord Adams initiates at Hold), IFN -2.8% (Indian stocks are weak), IDEV -4.6% (to acquire VLRX), PPDI -3.9% (disappointing guidance), LOGI -2%, ATVI -1.9%, C -1.8% (names new C.O.O.), LNUX -1.7% (JMP Sec downgrade), GS -1% (reports NovQ), COH -1%.
Gapping Up
EPIX +51% (enters development pact with GSK), VLRX +43% (to be acquired by IDEV), IPSU +16% (announces $3 special dividend, reports SepQ), DEPO +17% (announces $30 mln financing), TGEN +5.1% (announces patent license agreements), GIM +4.7%, NAPS +4.3% (Napster Mobile to make European debut on O2 Ireland), AIRN +4.2% (Canaccord Adams initiates with $6 tgt), DAKT +4% (Cramer bullish on Mad Money), NVEC +3.9% (granted patent), ERS +3.6%, GOAM +3.1% (announces new service), NUVO +1.5% (bounces a bit after 79% drop yesterday), HET +1.4% (bid for HET expected to be raised to $87 - Reuters), TXN +1.3% (provides Q4 mid-qtr update, also JP Morgan upgrade)... Under $3: MAMA +22% (launches video search engine), BIOM +15% (receives special protocol assessment from FDA).
Disclaimer & How I use this list
Yes, he's back baby!
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It seems you know a lot about database management and stuff. Do you think you'd ever just put together your own blog to do away with the trouble associated with using something like wordpress?
Syl,
In my former life (career) I was a Windoze software developer and did a ton of database work. I've never done any web development so it would take me a loooong time to develop a custom app for the web -- especially if I wanted to approach all the functionality of an open source project like WordPress.