Thursday Morning Coffee with TradingMarkets

Good Morning!

Stocks Routed Again on Wednesday in Worst Decline Since 1987 … Bernanke Looks to New Fed Role Against Asset Bubbles … Yen Up, Japanese Stocks Down … Bush Pledges Taxpayers Will Reap Returns from Bailout Plan … McCain, Obama Square Off in Final Presidential Debate

If your stock trading could use a boost, then treat yourself to a free, 7-day trial to our Short Term PowerRatings. The highest rated Short Term PowerRatings stocks have outperformed the average stock by a margin of nearly 17 to 1 after five days. Click here to start your free trial today!

TradingMarkets 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Thursday

Here are 7 stocks for traders for Thursday from TradingMarkets.com:

For a list of today’s highest PowerRating stocks, click here.

TradingMarkets 5 PowerRatings Stocks for Today

Company
Symbol PowerRatings
Star Scientific Inc. STSI 8
ProSharesShort MSCI Emerging Markets EUM 8
ProShares UltraShort Financials SKF 6
ProShares UltraShort Oil & Gas DUG 5
ProShares UltraShort S&P 500 SDS 5

View More Stocks

TradingMarkets Making Great Traders

Market Expectations and RealityTradingMarkets

Stocks stumbled in Wednesday’s early trade amid Fed Chairman Bernanke’s looming speech later today. Kevin Haggerty explains the strategy trades from yesterday, as well as, his opinion on the day’s trading.


Fibonacci + Ichimoku Makes a Deadly Recipe for Resistance
TradingMarkets

Forex trader Chris Capre is not convinced the Dow’s historic bounce on Monday is going to produce a strong follow through. His analysis of the fibonacci and ichimoku kijun line planted at almost perfectly the same levels in the six major currencies are rare and, as he believes, often leads to strong responses from the market, and that is exactly what we got.

7 ETFs You Need to Know for TodayTradingMarkets

Another day of aggressive selling has once again proved a boon for short and leveraged short ETFs, which are rallying after two days of increasingly oversold conditions. Among the funds doing well is the ProShares UltraShort Oil & Gas ETF, DUG, which soared more than 22% on Wednesday.

TradingMarkets Daily PowerRatings Analysis

Why Swing Traders Should Sit Out the Stock RoutTradingMarkets

The three ETFs in yesterday’s column were big winners on Wednesday. But swing traders may find surer standing going forward by returning to the sidelines.

Click here to sign up for the Morning Coffee with TradingMarkets newsletter.