My Trading Radar & More

• It could be a lot worse. The tape is soft, but from my vantage point, it is holding up quite well so far. Stocks on my trading radar this morning include the following: FORD, LCAV, ANTP, SHOP, GOOG, KOSP, MRVL, GME, USG, ELOY, PARL, SPRI, TIVO, & ISIS


• The United States orders China to revalue their currency by at least 10%


• Kiss your old Social Security Number goodbye


• Buffett buys PacifiCorp for $9.4 billion


• The college dropout boom


• How very reactionary! This week, AAII members see the overall direction of the investment markets as follows: 38.9% are bullish, 32.4% are neutral, and 28.7% are bearish


• As the Fed rate hikes continue, risk to the financial system increases


• Stocks to buy now from Zacks


• Did you know that real estate investment clubs have grown fourfold since 2002?


• Eventually, all roads will lead to higher metal prices


• Good traders know when to say 'goodbye'


• Economist Greg Mankiw sounds off on Karl Rove, Paul Krugman, and more


• What will the stock market do for an encore after this huge rally?


• Wave-and-pay credit cards are coming soon


• The Fed is all wrong about inflation


• Wal-mart's new business plan - sell to the Amish!


• EBay drop-off stores balk at regulation


• Lean and mean. That's the way the best companies are run


• Another day, another new high for Google (GOOG)!


• In an online Wall Street Journal poll last week, 81% of respondents said they thought the U.S. housing market was in a bubble. But, most of the people who responded "yes" thought the bubble would keep growing


• It's not a stock market; it's a market of stocks


• What if China slows?


• Opportunities are made up easier than losses


• Standard & Poors offers a dimmer outlook for energy and material stocks


• According to Jeffrey Saut, the time to be bullish was weeks ago, NOT now


• I had a pretty decent round of golf yesterday. I wish I could say the same for my playing partner, who got shut down in our always competitive match on the 12th hole


• Should I prepay the mortgage or use that money to invest in the market?


• U.S. online retail sales are expected to climb 22% this year, with major growth in cosmetics and jewelry


• Until today - the Nasdaq 100 has gone 7 consecutive days where it has recorded a higher high, higher low and higher close than the previous day. That hasn't happened since September 1996


• Is this the decade of the cram-down?


• Stock variables worth watching according to Richard Moroney


• Typical symptoms of egotizing trading


• Time to cut the oil supply again? At least the oil minister from Qatar thinks so


• Never fry bacon naked


• Do you want growth & value? Here are 8 stocks that fit the bill


• Five insider-selling plays


• And to my dog, I leave a $10,000 trust fund


• "It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower." - William O'Neill