On The Ticker

• What's behind the meltdown in the commodity markets?


• When everybody is thinking the same thing, then nobody's thinking


• Mr. Market


• What's on tap for next week?


• Martin Goldberg identifies important technicalities


• What the new highs/lows are telling us


• Most Americans live in la-la land


• 55% of new-car buyers stretch their payments over more than five years


• For the Fed, it's housing, housing, housing ($)


• 30-year mortgage rates drop to lowest level in 6 months


• Housing: a picture is worth a 1000 words


• Housing prices are going down across the nation


• Homes sales vs. consumer spending


• Confessions of an ex-mortgage lender


• Value or bubble in the homebuilders?


• Which is the worse thing to own right now - a heavily mortgaged house or a hedge fund?


• Hedge funds trawl for gossip with web filter


• The ups and downs of Brian Hunter ($)


• How do you lose $5 billion in one week?


• For Wall Street, Amaranth is just a test of the hedge fund security alarm


• Hedge funds, derivatives and their implications for the financial system


• "When a guy like that flames out, everybody gets a piece. It was like smelling blood in the water." - William Wallace


• BusinessWeek devotes a cover story to click fraud


• Analysts express doubt on recent chip run ($)


• Vietnamese stocks are Asia's best performers this year


• China's stock boom


• All is not well between the U.S. and China


• China is Nasdaq's fastest growth source


• For Bush, cheaper gas is premium


• Many alternative energy plays have gone from stud to dud


• That didn't take long - the Ethanol rush is already running out of gas


• Branson pledges to finance clean fuels


• Sugar swoon


• Bullish prospects for water


• Investors bet on rising costs for scarce water


• Jim Jubak likes the prospects of AIG, AMGN, PEP, JNJ, and PG for 2007


• Jubak mines for gold in the battered sectors


• Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) is at key point


• Insider buying at Eagle Materials (EXP) draws attention ($)


• Wal-Mart (WMT) to sell cheap generic drugs


• Insiders at retailer TJX (TJX) tend to time their sells pretty well ($)


• Incredible! It has been over one month since anyone asked me my opinion on Elan (ELN)!


• IBD's screen of the day identifies stocks under accumulation by the market elephants. The top 25 are: GYMB, CWTR, DIOD, VTIV, GES, FMX, CSH, TNL, FCFS, ISE, KNOT, PRFT, TRLG, PWEI, LTM, ACLI, ICON, NCS, WCG, CKH, GHL, SEH, SYKE, ANST, and CFR


• PaceSetters


• The list of infamy


• A handful of safe and secure dividend payers


• Test your financial knowledge!


• Trading coaches: what works?


• Short-selling reverse mergers can be lucrative


• Pete explains how he trades options using seasonal trends


• Virtual-trading programs don't always match real-market experiences


• Sometimes the most basic strategies win big


• Exchange-traded funds change gold's landscape


• SEC may fast track ETF reviews


• Nasdaq doubles ETF listings


• Claymore launches stealth ETF


• Scalping and front-running is all too commonplace in the investment advisory world


• The speculator faces many enemies including persuasive personalities


• If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is


• If you get a bad feeling about someone, listen to it


• The best places to retire


• 20 free ways to save energy


• 46 things I wish my mom taught me about money


• Zero commission stock trading?


• SEC revisits short-sale restrictions


• CEOs share their first big break


• Secrets of the self-made


• America's 400 Richest


• Chris Gardner serves as inspiration for many


• Stock bloggers gear up for new video offering


• I don't usually wear a watch anymore


• Multi-screen wallpaper


• Easy options to expand your screen space


• Number logic


• I accept all gimmes


• "At the end of ‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf,' the wolf really does come. And he eats the sheep, and the boy, and the parents." - Dr. House