Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is trying to support the dollar, making rare statements on Tuesday about how the weak dollar has contributed to inflation, and that the Fed is closely monitoring the dollar. Bernanke went on to repeat his inflation concerns while speaking at Harvard University yesterday, saying that “some indicators of longer-term inflation expectations have risen in recent months, which is a significant concern for the Federal Reserve. We will need to monitor that situation closely." Interestingly enough, his comments come at a time when my models have been forecasting a bounce in the buck, and a short-term correction in gold, oil and other natural resources. So Bernanke’s unconvincing attempt to support the dollar comes as no surprise to me. These moves tend to happen at normal turning points in the market, which proves once again that it’s not the news that drives the markets necessarily, but it’s the ...

New alerts and filters added recently expand the arsenal of ways in which any trading universe can be modeled in Trade-Ideas. We even created some sample strategies to show you how they are used.Here's what we did:Added bottoming tail and topping tail alerts. Added new filters to find stocks based on how much the price has moved in the last 5, 10, 15, or 30 minutes. Added new filters to find stocks based on the amount of volume they have traded in the last 5, 10, 15, or 30 minutes.

The tail alerts attempt to find tipping points where movement in one direction is exhausted. Not a bad thing to be looking for in this market. Here's a good definition of a bottoming/topping tail (for our own Glossary): http://www.trade-ideas.com/Glossary/Topping_Tail.html.

The price and volume filters let a trader define, "How much movement or volume?",

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