Greece's financial crisis puts the future of the euro in question | Business | The Observer (Feb 9, 2010 01:55)
As the country plunges into the red again, the IMF is itching to march into the eurozone and intervene. Without closer fiscal union, how long can Brussels hold the currency together?
Is Greek Crisis a Precursor to a “Global Margin Call”? « naked capitalism (Feb 9, 2010 01:53)
It isn’t just that bond yields on Greece have spiked up; the other countries seen as being big external debt risks are facing bond rollovers soon:
The world risks a replay of the Lehman collapse if th..
The Market May Have Topped For Now But Here Comes the Next Buying Opportunity | Dr. Duru (Feb 5, 2010 14:54)
The Twitter Train Has Left the Station - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com (Feb 5, 2010 14:49)
here’s why Twitter is a vital part of the information economy — and why Mr. Packer and other doubters ought to at least give it a Tweet.
Howard Lindzon, star of the virtual trading floor - The Globe and Mail (Feb 5, 2010 14:48)
Canada-born Howard Lindzon applied his entrepreneurial knack to social media and created StockTwits, a Twitter-powered site that captures the buzz of the market. It's just one more stop on the to..
$USD INDICATING A CHANGE? | StockCharts Blogs - ChartWatchers (Jan 25, 2010 00:20)
we're giving odds of over 50% that indeed a major top has formed. Our reasoning is a bit circuitous, but suffice to say that it starts with the US dollar.
5 Reasons Gold Is The Next Bubble To Burst (Jan 25, 2010 00:18)
20 Reasons Why The U.S. Economy Is Dying And Is Simply Not Going To Recover | Economic Black Hole (Jan 25, 2010 00:03)
7 Things About The Economy Everyone Should Be Worried About (Jan 25, 2010 00:00)
7 Ways to Improve Your Existing Trading Strategy - StockTickr Blog (Jan 19, 2010 14:10)
How to Avoid Risk of Ruin in Trading | TraderFeed (Jan 19, 2010 14:08)
Critical stuff to know...
Trading Psychology: The Best of TraderFeed 2009 - Volume Three (Jan 19, 2010 14:06)
Bull Flag Formation in the US Dollar January 18 | Afraid to Trade.com Blog (Jan 19, 2010 13:57)
Why the 1,150 Level is Important SP500 Resistance | Afraid to Trade.com Blog (Jan 19, 2010 13:57)
Adapt to Survive High-frequency Trading (Jan 4, 2010 15:12)
Why Apple Was My Company of the Decade – GigaOM (Jan 4, 2010 14:51)
Good post but I especially enjoyed watching the old Steve Jobs presentations of their 'digital hib' strategy and the first iPod reveal.
The Most Important Trading Goal for the New Year | TraderFeed (Jan 4, 2010 14:02)
Without ways of tracking and reviewing performance in real time, however, trading goals for the year aren't much more likely to have force than other well-intended (but quickly forgotten) new yea..
Bernanke Still Does Not Understand Credit Crisis | The Big Picture (Jan 4, 2010 13:27)
Aughts were a lost decade for U.S. economy, workers - washingtonpost.com (Jan 4, 2010 13:23)
For most of the past 70 years, the U.S. economy has grown at a steady clip, generating perpetually higher incomes and wealth for American households. But since 2000, the story is starkly different.
Stocks may struggle with less government support - MarketWatch (Jan 2, 2010 23:07)
The U.S. stock market may struggle in 2010 as trillions of dollars in monetary stimulus and government spending begin draining from the world's largest economy, according to some investors and st..
Investment Sectors af Interest | A VC (Jan 2, 2010 22:21)
A look at what venture capitalist Fred Wilson has on his radar for 2010
Are You Under Or Overtrading? (Dec 17, 2009 19:06)
Under and overtrading can lessen an investor's profits. Find out how to fix these issues with a trading plan.
Some of the best stocks of 1990s are worst in 2000s - USATODAY.com (Dec 17, 2009 17:44)
Investors who bought the superstar stocks of the 1990s expecting big returns this decade may now be finding their portfolios as tired as grunge rock, Friends reruns and doing the macarena.
Apple's Mistake | Paul Graham (Nov 29, 2009 23:15)
I don't think Apple realizes how badly the App Store approval process is broken. Or rather, I don't think they realize how much it matters that it's broken.
U.A.E. Removes Sunday London Times From Newsstands - WSJ.com (Nov 29, 2009 23:00)
The Sunday London Times newspaper was removed by authorities from shelves in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday amid intensive reporting of Dubai's debt problems, an executive at the paper said.
Joshua Kosman, Predicting The Next Credit Crisis : NPR (Nov 27, 2009 22:40)
Now burdened with debt, many of those companies owned by private equity firms are in danger of defaulting.
What A Strong Early Tick Has Meant In The Past | Quantifiable Edges (Nov 18, 2009 13:16)
Nearly 2/3 of the time the market has managed to follow through with more gains from 10am until the close.
Managing Your Energy as a Trader | TraderFeed (Nov 18, 2009 13:14)
Psychologically, we can be like the drafty house with cracks in the windows. We leak energy and lose efficiency.
Going Off Tilt: How to Manage Trading Frustration | Video by Dr. Brett Steenbarger (11/01/09) (Nov 9, 2009 00:18)
Reading the Tape: Trading the Open (Video) | Wall St. Cheat Sheet (Nov 8, 2009 23:52)
This week Gilbert “Gman” Mendez — Head Trader at SMB Capital — offers instruction on trading the open
Eliminating Bias in Trading | TraderFeed (Nov 8, 2009 23:51)
No one--myself most included!--can eliminate bias altogether. The key is staying as grounded in markets as possible: listening to them, rather than talking at them.
Who Needs Workers Anyhow? | EconomPic (Nov 8, 2009 23:49)
The huge increase in productivity explains why the U.S. economy could grow at a 3.5% annual rate in the third quarter even as jobs were being lost at a rapid pace.
If You're Fighting a Trend, You're Defending Your View | TraderFeed (Oct 30, 2009 18:48)
One of the most common problems I see among intraday traders is that they end the day flat in their positioning, but not flat mentally. That is, they have no overnight risk, but they have a strong dir..
Ten Characteristics I See Among Successful Traders | TraderFeed (Oct 28, 2009 19:19)
There's no one formula for trading success, but there are a few common denominators that I've tracked in my years of working with traders:
How The iPhone Is Blowing Everyone Else Away (In Charts) (Oct 22, 2009 14:28)
some interesting stats
Buchheit on Google, Friendfeed, and Start-ups | EconTalk (Sep 22, 2009 18:57)
An interesting and wide-ranging (very little economics) discussion with the creator of GMail and FriendFeed (which just got acquired by Facebook)
The Good Enough Revolution: When Cheap and Simple Is Just Fine (Aug 31, 2009 01:34)
We now favor flexibility over high fidelity, convenience over features, quick and dirty over slow and polished. Having it here and now is more important than having it perfect.
After a 30-Year Run, Rise of the Super-Rich Hits a Wall - NYTimes.com (Aug 21, 2009 12:23)
Google's Microsoft Moment - Anil Dash (Jul 14, 2009 14:04)
This is the point when the difference between their internal conception of the company starts to diverge just a bit too far from the public perception of the company, and even starts to diverge from r..
True unemployment rate already at 20% - Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money (Jul 8, 2009 14:03)
The Blogosphere 2.0 (Jul 6, 2009 01:20)
Bloggers have undermined the blogosphere. Bloggers do not link to each other as much as they used to. (So very true!)
Another wave of foreclosures is poised to strike - Los Angeles Times (Jul 6, 2009 00:24)
Mortgage defaults have surged to record levels amid rising unemployment and falling home prices. Lenders are expected to move quickly to clear up backlogs as moratoriums on foreclosures expire.
The recession tracks the Great Depression | FT.com (Jun 19, 2009 13:38)
Green shoots are bursting out. Or so we are told. But before concluding that the recession will soon be over, we must ask what history tells us.
Median home prices drop below 1989 levels in some parts of Southland - Los Angeles Times (Jun 10, 2009 11:31)
In April, a home sold for $66,500. That's just over half the $130,000 it went for new in 1992. In 2005, that house sold for $330,000.
