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Dell disclosed yesterday that it was preparing to enter the Smart Phone business, adding to the escalating competition as mobile handset and computer makers converge on one of the only parts of the personal technology market still showing strong growth and profits. Confirmation of Dell’s long-rumored intentions in the mobile market came as China Mobile showed off a model of a Dell Smart Phone running Google’s Android operating system. Dell described the handset as a “proof-of-concept prototype” and said that the company was working with the Chinese mobile operator on launch plans. Dell did not disclose further details or timing.

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Successful traders always have a plan and follow it.

Traders who fail do not have a specific plan, they enter and exit with out reason or they enter and then do not exit until losses are painful.

In short, the unsuccessful have no exit strategy, or if they do, they do not follow it

Successful traders wait until the trade comes to them, they do not force the trade. Rather they exercise discipline and ignore that temptation that always suggests: “let a loss run just a little more, it will come back.” The fact is that: the loss that runs just a little more often runs a lot more. Read more

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Gold futures dipped on Wednesday as weaker equities prompted funds to consolidate recent profits, but the market drew support from a renewed appetite for risk among investors. Platinum and palladium, boosted this week by strong July car sales, rose on supply worries because of a possible strike at the power utility in top platinum producer South Africa. Renewed interest from investment funds buoyed commodities and equities alike, as investors focused on economic recovery rather than deflation which had decreased inflation-hedge buying in Gold earlier this year. US December gold futures settled down US$3.40 at US$966.30 oz on the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange. Spot Gold dipped to US$966.20 an ounce at 3:30 p.m. EDT from US$966.75 oz late in New York on Tuesday.

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Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase Co. have emerged two bellwethers of the US finance sector in the post-bailout Wall Street, leading the surge of optimism with their strong profits in the Y 2009 Q-2. Six major US banks have reported their second-quarter profits in the past two weeks, vastly beating analyst predictions. The business of Goldman has little to do with common consumers, its quarterly earnings of more than US$3.4B posted were buoyed by record results in its trading and underwriting business. According to the quarterly report, the Wall Street giant generated a record US$6.8B in revenue from fixed income, currency and commodities trading during the quarter. Revenue from equity underwriting jumped to US$736M form UD$ 48M in the first quarter compared with US$616M last year. JP Morgan Chase, the largest US bank by market value, posted a US$2.72B earnings, and made its profits mainly from investment-banking services including bond and equity trading, and underwriting debt to help companies issue shares and bonds, not commercial loans and consumption credit.

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A key factor is preventing huge panic selling of shares and augurs for an equities rebound is the piecemeal nature of government attempts to rescue banks and the economy, according to analyst , Sitaraman Shankar. “We need to see an index falling 7 or 8 percent intraday in high volumes and then ending up nearly flat on the day as the buyers come back in,” said Philippe Gijsels, strategist at Fortis in Brussels. “What we’re getting instead is Chinese water torture, and no massive cleanout. Governments and central banks are tending to watch stock markets and giving investors small glimmers of hope, not enough to take markets higher, but enough to prevent a sell-off.” So for capitulation to happen, markets will have to be hit by a big, negative news event, and for the rebound to be sustainable, the overall environment would have to improve. “We need to see an event that would shock everybody, a big US bank failure, or a country in Europe going broke,” said Mark Bon, fund manager at Canada Life. Bon said positive factors that would need to be in place for any strong rebound included an improvement in consumer or business confidence indicators, some merger and acquisition activity, successful rights issues and a belief among investors that company profits had bottomed out. “We would have a sharp sell-off triggered by an event, and then a turnaround as people reversed their short positions and bought into a rally,” he said. The MSCI world index .MIWD00000PUS hit its lowest point since April 2003 last week. The index fell more than 43% last year, punctured by a credit market crisis with its origins in collapsed subprime U.S. mortgages, and is already down 16%this year. Between November 2008 and January 2009, there was a 27% rally driven by investor relief that governments were acting firmly to deal with the crisis. Since January 2009 global equities have slipped steadily as it became clear that the government moves were not enough to stave off a sharp recession in top economies. NO CAPITULATION = SMALLER FALLS, WEAKER RALLIES

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