Holiday Treats

• "Holy cow, Dow!" - Michael Farr


• Most investment strategists remain high on stocks


• Inflation is dead...for now


• Wall Street is now betting that the old rules don't apply ($)


• Does anyone really care what David Walker thinks?


• The pessimism of crowds


• Surprising contrarian sentiment hints bull market isn't done yet


• Money market cash horde grows


• "You should never argue about a crazy market." - Herb Greenberg


• Todd Harrison's six indicators to watch for the rest of the year


• Guns-to-Caviar Index


• "At least for the next few weeks, adhere to its typical pattern of positive prices and low volatility." - Jason Goepfert


• Doug Kass' 25 surprises for 2007: part one & two


• "Next year a lot of public companies will go private and bigger corporations will sell off chunks of their business to private equity firms." - Lawrence M. Schloss


• Aaron Pressman shares his IPO outlook


• Are there too few IPOs?


• World economies will grow as U.S. slows (at least that's the common perception)


• Markets go up around the globe: see Europe, China, Japan, & Russia


• China's banks open to competition


• Asia 2007: robust growth, rising risks


• How dangerous is the dollar drop?


• Instead of placing a ban on melting down pennies, my recommendation is to stop making them


• How good were retail sales really?


• Investors have bought 25K January XLU puts ($)


• How long can REITs keep climbing? ($)


• Oil prices are expected to be high in 2007


• Justin Litle stays bullish on oil and gold


• Wall Street investors contemplate global warming


• The cost of an overheated planet


• It's a good idea to keep tabs on sector rotation


• Eddy drives the point home - there are lots of good stocks no one knows about


• Eddy's buy list for 2007


• Barron's does a hatchet job on Cameco (CCJ)


• Goldman Sach (GS) delivers another great quarter but investors are nervous


• eBay has big hopes for Skype


• Oshkosh Truck (OSK) is Jon Markman's top pick for 2007


• Index analysis: S&P 500, Nasdaq 100, & the Dow


• S&P 500's largest 100 and smallest 100


• Distant months contracts


• Russell's quarterly IPO additions


• The most successful IPOs of all time


• Stocktickr's new highs and new lows on above average volume as well as stocks tagged with high alpha


• OneOption's movers scan


• John Dorfman's bunny portfolio


• Four insider favorites


• Fortune's blue-ribbon companies, 10 stocks to buy now and five large caps


• Stockpickr's Christmas System, high short-interest ratios, IBD's top dividend payers, Vitaliy's Contrarian Edge, value-oriented blog picks, holdings of T. Boone Pickens, mean reversion setups, Paypal founder's holdings, and best value hedge funds holdings


• The rally's secret leaders


• Sage advice from something I wrote over three years ago


• Dennis Gartman's not-so-simple rules of trading ($)


• Rule #1: Everyone is a genius in a bullmarket!


• Stock Market Physics


• Option trading basics


• Common trader pitfalls


• The market holy grail: fact or fiction


• The best investment advice you'll never get


• A quick primer on the major stock exchanges


• Warren Buffett and the Washington Post


• How to research that old stock and bond certificate


• Jim Puplava's top 25 investment books


• The one-decision ETF portfolio


• Tim Middleton's perfect fund portfolio for 2007


• An ETF with the luxury of Swiss stability


• Water ETFs are going global


• AMEX feels left out of the party ($)


• US exchanges prepare for penny options


• Program trading will only continue to increase in size and scale


• The need for speed is key in algorithmic trading ($)


• Automatic trading linked to news events


• Credit derivatives face test of nerve in 2007


• ECB warns of herd-like mentality in derivatives


• The investor perspective on derivatives exchanges


• Another hedge fund bites the dust


• Insider trading of derivatives has the potential to be the next big scandal


• G8 set to investigate hedge funds


• Hedge fund managers are in high demand on museum boards


• Hedge-fund managers are furious over effort to sell trading histories ($)


• Morgan Stanley's John Mack gets the largest bonus ever awarded to a Wall Street chief


• Tis the season for grumbling about your yearly bonus. If I were you, I wouldn't set a logic bomb


• Congress restores tax breaks, but the key changes won't appear on federal income-tax forms and instructions that millions of people will be receiving in coming weeks ($)


• Trader tax status holds benefits if you qualify


• Defend your trader status


• Yearend tax strategies


• My tax tip - if you've had a big year (and I know many of you have) and you're now looking for tax deductions to offset those gains, take time to contact all of the services, newsletters, software, tools, etc. you subscribe to that qualify as tax deduction and ask them if you can prepay for the year ahead


• Five financial chores to start the New Year right


• Don't feed the pig!


• Terri Cullen tries to figure out if it is smart to pay off her mortgage early ($)


• Figuring out how long you will live is always guesswork when it comes to retirement planning


• Jonathan Clements examines the classic strategy of a laddered bond portfolio ($)


• Has anyone tried Worden's new backscanner?


• Stock Addict joins a growing number of community-focused stock websites


• InstantBull keeps improving (press go button to see heavy chatter alerts)


• Google Finance keeps getting better


• Say what you want - the Playboy girls did very well for themselves!


• Twisted Sister sings holiday tunes


• Amazing card tricks explained


• Flying somewhere over the holidays? You may find these statistics of interest


• Boy, Americans are getting too lazy


• Helpful advice on making large money gifts


• "In the market, yesterday is a memory and tomorrow is a vision. And looking back is a lot easier than looking ahead." - Frankie Joe