The Buck Stops Here

• U.S. economic growth rose at an annual rate of 5.3% in the first quarter


• Fresh signs of a cooling housing market


• Inventories of homes on the market are at the highest level since January 1998


• Taxpayers owe more than a half-million dollars per household for financial promises made by government


• Alan Greenspan certainly picked a good time to retire


• As stocks turn down, investors pull their money out


• "One day you eat the bear, the next the bear eats you. And repeat. It's been that kind of two week experience." - David Fry


• The S&P 500 tries to bottom out at the 200 day moving average


• Some good news for buyers - U.S. investor sentiment remains at a low point for the year


• "If the market cannot put together a rally now, then the bull market may have already peaked." - Michael Kahn


• Recent put/call ratios have been spectacular


• John Murphy thinks the S&P 500 is entitled to a bounce, but he views any short-term rally as another selling opportunity


• According to TickerSense, there is one glaring difference between now and 1987 which makes a similar crash unlikely


• Dr. Wish's market index is not pretty


• "In every other case since 1900, secular bear markets have ended when the P/E dropped to a single digit." - Ed Easterling


• The signals of slower insider selling


• 18 companies filed to go public last week, the busiest week for new filings since 2000


• Britain's most successful stockpicker tells investors to brace themselves


• The Big Picture with Jim Puplava and John Loeffler


• Jim Jubak explains how Japan sank the U.S. market


• Marriage cancellations may reach 50% following Saudi stock market crash


• Indian shares rise on futures rollover


• Investors recently received a crash course in emerging equity markets


• Where will people put their money if they pull out of emerging markets? Mark Mahorney offers some thoughts


• The world’s stock exchanges are now in the throes of consolidation


• Is trouble brewing in hedge fund land?


• The past few weeks have not been kind to some hedge funds


• The hedge fund industry is doomed!


• Some on Wall Street are estimating that commodities prices may be goosed by as much as 50% by hot-money hedge funds and bubble-hunting speculators


• Anyone know which sector is least covered by Wall Street analysts?


• Yet another new way to lose money - ethanol futures


• There's always an oil skeptic somewhere if you look hard enough


• Cramer tells you how to profit from the oil patch


• It's a bull market for the E-mini


• The market is telling investors to rebalance into the big and dull stocks


• Why bank stocks are cash machines according to Fortune


• Yahoo (YHOO) and eBay (EBAY) team up


• Like John Dorfman, I see good things ahead for Holly (HOC)


• The trading action in Peoplesupport (PSPT) is quite impressive. So is Ct Communications (CTCI)


• Standard and Poor's focus stock is Factset Research Systems (FDS)


• Shares of General Motors (GM) continue to outperform the rest of the Dow


• While Ford (F) prepares for the worst


• Google (GOOG) plans unusual meeting for next week


• Home Depot's (HD) CEO faced some very irate shareholders


• Vonage's lackluster IPO has already drawn customer frustration


• The 38 stocks in the Buffett Portfolio


• Motley Fool's income investor Mathew Emmert likes NLY, AFR, and BPOP


• Navellier's quantum growth portfolio


• Last Friday a member asked me to run a stock screen that searched for stocks trading at historical p/e lows which I posted in that night's trading notes. The list of stocks in that screen included APOL, EBAY, GCI, INTC, MXIM, MEG, MSFT, and UTIW


• These are stocks that have hit 20 day highs on high volume - BLI, PSS, JCOM, GM, WMT, SGY, GIS, FLIR, OMC, SYY, CCU, KFT, MDT, K, and LXK


• BusinessWeek's hot growth 100


• Business 2.0's 100 fastest-growing tech companies


• Stocks set to double their earnings


• Excellent trading lessons from Thomas N. Bulkowski


• Smita Sadana offers some sage advice to newbie traders


• How to apply the relative strength strategy to ETFs


• Using historical data for new securities by adjusting data from the derivative index is one way to evaluate new ETFs


• I still think one of my major weaknesses is in position-sizing


• Volume spread analysis can be helpful


• Don't hesitate to hit the delete key on penny-stock e-mail scams


• "One of the first lessons I learned on the street was that the ability not to trade is often as valuable as trading ability. These are tough times and difficult tapes so when in doubt, sit it out. There are alotta folks standing in a circle shooting at each other and dry powder will certainly serve you in good stead when the dust settles." - Todd Harrison


• What mutual fund firms need to hear


• I think we're only at the beginning of the stock-options backdating scandal


• What the options saga means to investors


• Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling are found guilty. If you haven't seen this movie yet, I highly recommend it for an interesting look into one of the largest business scandals of our time


• What a huge CEO salary would buy you


• The Fannie Mae story keeps getting more sordid


• Trading guru Larry Williams allegedly forgot to pay Uncle Sam


• Top 10 gadgets for the filthy rich


• Turn $1 a day into $67,815


• That spam filter can cost you money


• Indy-driver Bobby Rahal shares his secrets of success


• One month from now I'll be visiting my favorite place in the entire world


• A reader asked me why I don't include pictures of my wife at the website. I have several times before, but here is one photo of both of us taken last year


• "Seven things will destroy us: Wealth without work; Pleasure without conscience; Knowledge without character; Commerce without morality; Science without humanity; Worship without sacrifice; Politics without principles." - Mahatma Gandhi