Bear Hunt

• Investors finally turn bullish!

• Financial system is starting to heal

• Treasury reports $21 billion budget deficit

• Uncle Sam borrows 46 cents for every dollar spent

• The Fed cannot account for $9 trillion

• States demand Fed cash sooner rather than later

• Recession drains social security and medicare

• Tax increases could kill the recovery

• Rebooting the economy (or not)

• The worst crash since 1929 implies the best recovery since 1932?

• It doesn't much matter what we call the rally since March 9

• The good news bad news market

• Now or never for the Nasdaq-100

• Three sell triggers out of four

• The rally is sustainable

• Could U.S. stocks be engaged in a version of laughter therapy at the moment?

• The market's one-track mind

• An interesting sentiment indicator

• Are you listening to what the market is telling you today?

• Sector snapshot

• Heavy short covering found in consumer discretionary and IT sectors

• Short interest by sector

• Where will new money go?

• M&A pros believe the deal environment is showing signs of improvement

• Insider selling adds to cautious tone

• Meredith Whitney vs Bill Miller

• Like a lot of us, Jim Chanos sees bank fraud

• On rock bottom housing prices

• Sour commercial real estate loans threaten to hurt regional banks

• US derivatives sector riled by Treasury tax plan

• SEC looks to repeat the so-called Tower Amendment

• FDIC seeks more power

• Obama proposes new taxes on securities dealers, life insurance products and Americans with valuable estates

• Energy stocks - that's where the real value can be found

• Soaring commodities look to diverge

• How the bond market could be eating your lunch

• The yield curve knows best

• Contrarian investment managers see reward from market's riskiest sectors

• Beaten-down fund managers are back up

• "If you're a professional money manager and you don't make a 100% return in one year starting today, you should look into other forms of employment." - Glen Bradford

• Neuroeconomics is a big, fat hoax?

• Investors go back on the defense again

• Hedge funds' unshaken faith in gold

• Dollar watch

• Lawmakers pave the way for an IMF contribution

• China is gobbling up oil again

• Buy the pullback in the Hong Kong ETF?

• Japanese housewives increase wagers

• Russia stockpiles diamonds

• World Bank's Zoellick stays cautious on global outlook

• GM insiders get out of dodge

• Chrysler's sorry state revealed

• Cell Therapeutics is a trap

• Buy the hype in China Digital TV?

• FDA warns Cheerios on health claims

• Intel's secret plan

• The Feds got it wrong with Wells Fargo

• A second chance at buying a winner?

• Buy the best stock in the world before midnight!

• The ultimate pirate fighting stock

• 11 companies bucking the dividend cuts trend

• Barron's 500

• It is helpful for traders to develop their own ways of viewing markets

• Steps to a trade

• Testing 1-2-3

• 10 ways to manage your trading risk

• Reactions and Retracements

• Did you know that adding simple moving average signals to asset class momentum investing may enhance returns

• The pros and cons of several options strategies

• Are you playing to your strengths?

• Let Simon decide how to trade?

• 6 small things you can do when you lack discipline

• The secret of self-control

• The importance of admitting when we are wrong and other important things

• Do you have a personal growth map?

• Three lessons from Warren Buffett

• Michaud takes on portfolio optimization's sacred cows

• ETFs for whipping inflation

• More active ETFs a comin'

• You've got to cringe at this article headline - "Forget the analysis, just buy everything."

• Ouch! Vanguard fund costs rise as stocks drop

• Principled investing gains more fans

• Can you trust your financial advisor?

• Financial documents - to shred or not to shred?

• Ideas for rebuilding your life and career

• The power of less

• "Respect and embrace the very normal 50-62% retracements that take prices back to major trends. If a trade is missed, wait patiently for the market to retrace. Far more often than not, retracements happen just as we are about to give up hope that they shall not." - John Mauldin