Flash Trading

• With markets 50% off their lows, everyone is a bull now

• The green shoots are growing

• Very bullish headlines

• Recession probably abated last quarter

• The end of the end of the recession?

• The statistical recovery

• Earnings spin

• What does the recovery mean for ordinary people?

• The leaner Baby Boomer Economy

• Things can always be worse

• Merrill without the Bull

• Recession works its way into pop culture

• Cost cutting boosts equities

• The ingredients of a lasting recovery are still missing

• 50 ways to kill a recovery

• There is no easy way out for central banks

• Visualizing $1 trillion dollars

• Loans shrink as fear lingers

• Banking's next headache

• Vacant home stats

• "Such past performance in no way assures an upward trend continuation for the week ahead. On the other hand, there is no compelling evidence that the recent mass mood swing to hopeful optimism has run its course either. - Robert W. Colby

• $SPX High Continuation

• The chart pattern everyone is now focused on

• But, be sure to put the recent gains in perspective

• Mind the seasonal trends

• Forces acting on the VIX

• Sentiment overview

• "As investors are not buying into the rally, one might conclude that the rally will march onward and upward until they do, and then it will rollover. That seems likely." - Guy Lerner

• A lot of the same bad thinking

• Investors have left themselves far too little room for error

• Are you waiting for the markets to be silly again?

• The market's new leaders

• The end of fossil fuel?

• Can the military find the answer to alternative energy?

• Obama urges China for cooperation on economy

• Questions from the Queen

• China's holdings of Treasuries should top $1 trillion in about a year

• Arab fever

• Thoughts on high frequency trading and stock market manipulation

• Is Wall Street picking our pockets?

• More on flash trading

• Is the party over for Microsoft?

• Inside Goldman Sachs

• Beware of the stocks leading the U.S. market higher this summer

• "To be successful long term you must be willing to pullback when when the waves are too big, when you recognize you are in over our head." - Michael Higgins

• 10 questions every trader should ask

• The path to great trading lies in maximizing strengths

• How science can save you from choking

• The relentless rules of humble arithmetic

• Q&A with Todd Harrison

• Dave Kansas' summer reading list

• An update from Doug Kass on his model portfolio

• Clark Howard's lazy portfolio

• The new FIFO rule in Forex

• Don't waste your money. The cheapest cell phone plan you can get!

• Scientists worry machines may outsmart man

• "The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers." - Ruth Benedict