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With another week behind us, let’s take a look at some key insightful blog or financial posts courtesy Newsflashr’s Blogand Business pages.

Dr. Brett Steenbarger at TraderFeed writes Learning to Trade: Viewing Yourself, Reviewing Your Tradingas well as Learning to Win at Trading by Learning to Loseprovide insights into the psychological world of trading methods.

Barry Ritholtz (The Big Picture) asks with comic genius, “Is this the Bottom?”

Stock Trading to Go takes us through a chart of the 1930s and describes “Understanding Bear Market Price Swings Through History“.

Bill Luby at VIX and More shows a chart of VIX Jumps 10% on Consecutive Daysthat takes the Dow back to 1990 as he writes, “From a market timing perspective, the history of consecutive double digit jumps in the VIX does show a significant bullish bias going forward, but not one that develops until after the first day.”

John Forman at the Essentials of Trading argues “The media won’t help you trade or understand the markets.”  Forman writes, “Do yourself a favor. Just watch the market action. It will tell you want you need to know. Very often, the supposed news drivers which people think are creating the short-term moves in the market are mostly coincidental.”

Furthermore, Forman “lets loose a rant” in Please, please stop saying “the forex”!

Rob Hanna at Quantifiable Edges runs TradeStation statistics in “Down Another 5% - History Being Made Again.”  He states, “There have been 4 times that the Dow dropped 5% or more 2 days in a row. They were all between 1929 and 1933.”

Chris Perruna argues that Follow-through [is] not Likely.

The Site “Gaming the Market” focuses on informational posts that reveal possible market manipulation across multiple tactics, and always has great posts that are well-documented.

Declan Fallond notes that the First bottom test: S&P 900 key.

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