Barchart.com's Chart of the Day - VF Corp (VFC)

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LGF just surpassed all estimates with its Film the Hunger games this weekend and is breaking records left and right.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/weekends/

It had a pull back on Friday, due to some thinking it was overhyped, they were wrong!

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The dollar peaked on day 11.
Friday was day 17 and the dollar formed a lower low.

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March 23, 2012 - Chemicals Index (^CEX)

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Random Thoughts

The Ps pulled back a bit on Thursday. So far though, it's just that, a pullback. The Nasdaq sold off a bit. It's been consolidating lately by trading sideways. Rusty's a bit of a disappointment. It broke out recently but then came right back in.

There are some sectors such as manufacturing, energy, and chemicals that have lost some steam. Overall though, most sectors still remain in solid uptrends like the market itself.

So what do we do? Once again, with the market a little soft, I'm still seeing a few pullbacks setting up. Therefore, the plan remains the same: Continue to look to add some new positions. As usual though, just make sure you wait for entries. And, honor your stops and take partial profits as offered on existing positions just in case the next correction comes sooner rather than later. It's too bad there's not a book explaining all this money and position management in detail. Wait! There is: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/097...SIN=0974765333

Futures are flat to soft pre-market.

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Barchart.com's Chart of the Day - Madison Square Garden (MSG) for Mar 23, 2012

The "Chart of the Day" is Madison Square Garden (MSG), which showed up on Thursday's Barchart "All Time High" list. MSG on Thursday posted a new all-time high of $33.68 and closed up 1.36%. TrendSpotter has been Long since Feb 7 at $29.77. In recent news on the stock, Maxim on Feb 21 reiterated its Buy rating on Madison Square Garden and raised its price target to $42 from $36. Madison Square Garden, with a market cap of $2 billion, is a fully-integrated sports, entertainment and media business with assets including the New York Knicks (NBA) and the New York Rangers (NHL).

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Just for grins, I put in for 1000 shares of IPO ExactTarget. Got zero allocated (as I expected after reading how it is unlikely for the 'lesser' trader to get any shares allocated (mostly these shares go to the people who have Bentley payments). So my grouching about Cramer's Dware IPO untimely advice last week was probably moot since I most likely wouldn't have received any of those shares either.

This may be a premonition for share allocation, or the lack there of, for the FaceBook IPO as well.

(More info at TIC group link http://www.onlinetradersforum.com/sh...d.php?t=618966)

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Random Thoughts

The Ps and the Quack ended in flatsville on Wednesday. So far, they remain in uptrends out of their recent Persistent Pullback Patterns. Once again, sooner or later we'll see some corrective action. Since the futures are weak pre-market, maybe that test will come sooner rather than later.

So what do we do? With the market flat to soft, I'm still seeing a few pullbacks setting up. Therefore, the plan remains the same: Continue to look to add some new positions. As usual though, just make sure you wait for entries. And, honor your stops and take partial profits as offered on existing positions just in case the next correction comes sooner rather than later. It's too bad there's not a book explaining all this money and position management in detail. Wait! There is: http://tinyurl.com/2vo395r

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