I don’t think you really can. An assumption could be made that if the stock you are looking at follows the market, then I guess you could say it’s just news-related, but otherwise not. Essentially, does it really make a difference? In my trading plan I am ‘required’ to wait for confirmation of a bounce, and if it’s from economic news, then there should not be a confirmation. Also, bull and bear flags should be at least 3 days – otherwise they may not be valid.

- Jeff

Today is a sure sign of relief, but yields clouded messages for individual stocks.

Thanks for the comments. I spent a lot of time searching for a theme for my blog when I decided to go self-hosted. I had to pay for the Thesis theme but it had the features I was looking for. I too don’t like a lot of clutter and I try to keep it simple. I also like to write – I spent 25 years writing software business requirements – sometimes I can’t keep it in, but I don’t have the ambition to write a book.

Good idea with disqus, I will check it out.

I am looking forward to more comments from you.

- Jeff

One suggestion for the future: you may want to consider disqus for the blog comment system. They offer a lot of control and it’s pretty standard across trading blogs.

Keep up the good work!

-Brad
@woollyllama