Kirk's Clicks

• "The typical pattern now calls for a successful downside retest of the recent lows at best and at worst a breakdown below those lows, extending the decline into a full 10%+ affair." - Jeffrey Saut


• If everyone expects a test of the market lows will it really come?


• Trading chatter is now almost exclusively about technical patterns


• History paints a somber picture


• The bulls are sticking to the 1997 gameplan


• Insiders counsel caution, but not cowardice


• The right question


• Wiser Trader's weekly review


• "I am not aware of any asset class that has declined in value since 2002!" - Marc Faber


• From Goldilocks to Chicken Little


• Is the market really as cheap as everyone currently thinks?


• Jobs thump recession talk


• Bankruptcies seen soaring this year


• Follow the money


• The plunge protection team (aka The Fed) is back to work


• A Greenspan blog?


• Are the futures being manipulated?


• The costs of going green


• Time to invest in molybdenum?


• Should market-timers pay attention to gold? Mark Hulbert offers some food for thought


• Gold/Dow Ratio


• CME commodities to trade around the clock. Within a decade, I predict that all markets will trade 24/7


• Halliburton will shift its corporate headquarters from Houston to Dubai


• Surprise - credit quality slips in the M&A Boom


• South Korean stocks lure Warren Buffett and analysts


• Market mania in China


• U.S. casino companies with exposure in Asia have hit a run of bad luck


• The pitfalls of housing boom are only starting to get uncovered


• Subprime fallout may not infect broader market according to The Wall Street Journal


• Bill Miller and Ron Muhlenkamp stay stubborn on subprime


• The culture of excess permeates well beyond New Century Financial


• Winners amid gloom and doom


• Fortress mints billionaires, just in time for Forbes


• The risky side of Sears


• The era of ultra-low volatility has produced endless rumors about hedge funds using high-octane gambits to create returns


• What the popping of the Internet bubble should have taught us


• Wall Street is expected to report more record earnings this week


• Q&A with George Soros


• A bullish writeup on Endeavor (END) - a stock that has been coming up in my screens as well even though it is a $2 stock


• I wonder if Ken Fisher still likes all of these homebuilders


• Morningstar's good, but overpriced stocks


• Merkel's watchlist


• James O'Shaughnessy's stock screens


• Morningstar's ultimate stock-picker's portfolio


• S&P 500 stocks which are the furthest below their 50-day moving averages


• StockPickr's Short Ideas, Surprise Candidates, Unusual Options Activity, Spin-offs, Cheapest Aggie Stocks, Thomas Ko, Biotechs, Stock-Picking Contest, Education Stocks, & Insider Buying


• Standard & Poor's survivors stock screen


• 5 stocks with atmospheric price to sales ratios


• StockScouter's top 10


• Screening for the most admired companies by state


• Very interesting - the most liked and hated sectors by Wall Street analysts


• Subscribers of IBD who also utilize their screen of the day feature may find this software useful


• The Paradox Of Trading Rules


• Early Learning, by Victor Niederhoffer


• Being right and making money are not equivalent


• Larry Conners shares his philosophy of the markets


• Why RS is one of the best short-term indicators


• Signal analysis concepts by John Ehlers


• A quick primer on stochastics


• There's something to be said for getting rid of all of the distractions traders have to constantly deal with


• Do you suffer from Testosterus?


• An interesting study on those stock message boards


• Whitney Tilson shares 10 common mistakes often made by value-focused investors


• Trading the Election Cycle: does it really work?


• The Dogs of the Dow strategy also works well overseas


• You must delve deep to find the good spin on spun-off companies


• Fund performance and investment styles are converging


• How electronic trading has changed the world for brokers and their customers


• Physical effects of one year of day trading


• Core and explore!


• Secrets about the S&P 500 that all investors should know


• According to Merrill Lynch, over the past 5 years the Russell 2000 has a 94% correlation with the S&P 500


• Build your own global ETF hedge portfolio


• Indexing on Steroids - literally (more info)


• Managed futures. . . .finally


• Morpheus ETF Roundup


• ETFs easier in theory than in practice to short


• ETF leaders and laggards last week


• TheStreet.com's Model ETF Portfolio


• Bonds held up relatively well in recent selloff


• A roundup of lifecycle funds


• 25 personal finance myths


• Suze Orman's portfolio


• Where to find free financial planning


• 12 common tax-filing mistakes you can avoid


• Forbes' 2007 small business tax guide


• Mobile banking: coming to a cell phone near you


• I hope the stock spam crackdown continues


• March Madness tips are big business


• Build the perfect browser


• 20 must-have Firefox extensions


• Free lookups


• Wall Street Greek!


• "There's no substitute for hard work. If you work hard and prepare yourself, you might get beat, but you'll never lose." - Nancy Lieberman