Short-Sellers: Unfairly Targeted in the Market Crisis? - BusinessWeek (Oct 13, 2008 13:54)
During the nearly three-week ban on shorting financial shares, the market sank 21.5%. Are regulators after the wrong parties? (ya think???)

This Time *Has* Been Different | TraderFeed (Oct 13, 2008 04:15)
As a psychologist, I understand and empathize with the desire to believe that this time isn't different. As an investor, I have to view that desperate hope as a market indicator.

The Rise of the Machines - NYTimes.com (Oct 12, 2008 15:28)
The Wall Street geeks, the quants and masters of 'algo trading' probably felt the same irresistible lure of 'illimitable power' when they discovered 'evolutionary algorithms&#..

Blog Traffic, Stress, and Coping | TraderFeed (Oct 12, 2008 13:40)
The blog traffic data suggest that this is far and away the greatest period of stress and coping since this blog began several years ago.

The Next Meltdown: Credit-Card Debt - BusinessWeek (Oct 12, 2008 00:59)
Rising rates are accelerating credit-card defaults and soured debt could further undermine the financial system

Panic Resets Oil Prices - BusinessWeek (Oct 12, 2008 00:55)
Pensions, sovereign wealth funds, and the like don't want to be in commodities anymore. Commodities—except gold—are a sinking ship.

Stocks: Time to Slow Things Down? - BusinessWeek (Oct 12, 2008 00:12)
Market experts consider such steps as banning short-sellers, requiring trading breaks, and setting up exchanges for credit default swaps

Negative Decades of Returns: A Long-Term Look at the Dow | TraderFeed (Oct 12, 2008 00:11)
ten-year periods of negative returns are not so unusual. They occurred in 1915, during the Great Depression years, and then during the severe recessionary period in 1974.

Leaders May Close World's Markets (Oct 11, 2008 15:17)
The idea of suspending the markets for the time it takes to rewrite the rules is being discussed... A solution to the financial crisis 'can't just be for one country, or even just for Europe..

With Market Declines, Investors Face Margin Calls (Oct 10, 2008 21:28)
'The maintenance calls are coming quicker and harder than ever before,' says a Merrill Lynch broker, responding to seemingly stricter-than-usual demands from Merrill for investors to pony up..

Every Now Moment' in the Market is Unique... (Oct 10, 2008 15:36)
A blast from, the past. I imagine some may find the audio clip useful right about now

TraderFeed: Perspectives On A Bear Market (Oct 10, 2008 14:54)
A few commentators have been particularly insightful during this time of wrenching declines across stock markets; it's a pleasure to pass along their thoughts

What Causes A Currency Crisis? (Oct 10, 2008 14:49)
Find out what can cause a currency to collapse and what central banks can do to help.

The New Age of Frugality - BusinessWeek (Oct 10, 2008 13:57)
Americans' charge-it culture is getting an overdue reality check. But will the new discipline stick?

Surveying the Wreckage by Alan Farley (Oct 10, 2008 05:07)
Let's take a look around this rocky terrain and see if we can identify good trading opportunities.

Why Housing Is Far from Bottoming: Depression, Demographics, Defaults and Dumps (Oct 10, 2008 05:03)

Financial Crisis: How to Stop the Panic - BusinessWeek (Oct 10, 2008 05:00)
It is possible to calm the waters, but it'll mean unlearning our post-Depression lessons

The Stunning Collapse of Iceland - BusinessWeek (Oct 10, 2008 04:59)
Even after the government's seizure of top banks, Iceland may face bankruptcy, with dire effects for huge Icelandic investments overseas

The Need To Be Right Versus The Need To Make Money | TraderFeed (Oct 9, 2008 12:10)

A Debate as a Ban on Short-Selling Ends - Did It Make Any Difference? - NYTimes.com (Oct 9, 2008 12:09)

The Number One Biggest Mistake in All of Trading - Optionetics Commentary (Oct 9, 2008 12:04)
When a person decides to start a business there is typically a great deal of planning involved – at least there had better be if the person starting the company hopes to achieve any real success. An..

10 (More) Reasons You're Not Rich (Oct 9, 2008 12:03)
Becoming a millionaire has less to do with how much you make, it's how you treat money in your daily life.

An Ominous VIX Obscures the Next Stock Market Bottom | Dr. Duru (Oct 9, 2008 11:51)
The strong upward trend gives the VIX an ominous profile: there is no firm analysis that we can apply to suggest or guess at where the VIX might top out. As trend-followers know, trends can continue f..

The Financial Panic of 2008 | TraderFeed (Oct 9, 2008 11:50)
Normal historical indicators of market bottoms are broken. We cannot count on market rallies simply because we are oversold, even though those oversold levels may have represented past opportunity. As..

Lehman: One Big Derivatives Mess - BusinessWeek (Oct 9, 2008 11:45)
Enron may look tame compared with this: a fight over billions of dollars posted as collateral, then used in a tangled web of deals

Interviews with Nicolas Darvas | Maoxian (Oct 9, 2008 11:41)
a couple of fascinating interviews, one from 1959 and another from 1974, with Nicolas Darvas … here are my selected excerpts:

Bear Market of 2000-2003 | AlphaTrends (Oct 9, 2008 11:30)
If you are attempting to latch onto a counter trend rally remember that it is a high risk strategy, you must wait for price to confirm a possible turn before getting involved and then manage risk.

Cross Talk: Trading the Way You Want to Trade | TraderFeed (Oct 7, 2008 12:17)
Readers have done an excellent job of laying out their ideas regarding sticking to one's desired approach to trading. Here are a few highlights from the comments:

Options for Rookies (Oct 5, 2008 02:03)
Options Education for Individual Investors

Hedge funds prey on rivals (Oct 4, 2008 03:54)
Hedge funds are embracing trading strategies designed to profit from the unwinding of large positions by their competitors (gasp!)

How Can I Trade the Way I Want to Trade? | TraderFeed (Oct 3, 2008 15:47)
It's much easier to not focus on P/L when no single trade or trading day can make or break your month.

New Day Rising § Trader Daily (Oct 1, 2008 22:17)
The golden era of day trading may be ancient history, but the industry is far from extinct. Examining the unlikely, unheralded second act of the professional proprietary equity trader.

Hindsight Bias and Regret in Trading | TraderFeed (Sep 30, 2008 18:34)
Underneath this regret is what behavioral finance researchers call 'hindsight bias': the exaggerated sense of predictability in retrospect.

List of recessions in the United States - Wikipedia (Sep 25, 2008 17:43)
It's interesting to see the reasons behind these past recessions, depressions and 'panics'.

Read It Later: Save Your One Read Wonders (Sep 7, 2008 12:22)
Eliminate cluttering of bookmarks with sites that are merely of a one-time interest. Think of it as a ’staging area’ for bookmarks.

15,551 Homes Offered For Sale on Countrywide Financial's Website (Sep 2, 2008 12:54)
Hmmm, almost back to the old high

Russ Roberts on the Price of Everything (Aug 27, 2008 18:19)
Russ on his new book 'The Price of Everything': price gouging, the role of prices in the aftermath of natural disaster, spontaneous order, and the hidden harmony of the economic cosmos.

Winners Never Quit? Well, Yes, They Do - NYTimes.com (Aug 18, 2008 16:22)
Winners do quit. The trick, of course, is to know when it’s right to walk away and when it’s not.

Cheaper Oil: Back to Gas Guzzlers? (Aug 12, 2008 13:30)
Crude prices are down more than $30 in a month. But consumers won't be buying big SUVs again, analysts say. (I say sure they will!)

Why Bailouts Stink—and Why We Need Them (Aug 5, 2008 13:51)
They may seem unfair to prudent taxpayers who ducked the housing frenzy, but lessons from the Depression show why federal rescues are necessary

12 new 'needs' that drain your cash - MSN Money (Jul 30, 2008 14:01)
Your mind-set about needs versus wants may determine whether you thrive or flounder. Here's a closer look at some of the entitlements that people think they must have.

Two IndyMac customers lost unsecured deposits (Jul 30, 2008 13:39)
No wonder people with unsecured deposits are quietly moving their money out of suspect financial institutions. The next thing you know, people will start stuffing their mattresses again.

The Lost Decade: Lessons From Japan's Real Estate Crisis (Jul 23, 2008 12:28)
Find out what America can learn from Japan's liquidity trap and credit crunch.

Rising Food, Gas Prices Send More To Food Banks -- Courant.com (Jul 21, 2008 12:51)
Dowling describes her new clients as 'newly poor' or 'people who were making it last year' but fell on hard times because of cost increases for food, gas and utilities.

Monitor110: A Post Mortem (Jul 21, 2008 02:49)
The 7 deadly sins and 10 lessons of a failed startup