Weekend Reading

• Top market timers are bullish!


• Three top bulls are sure the sky's not falling


• Growth in U.S. service industries accelerated in February


• U.S. markets are healthier than they look


• "In the enternal search for performance, we're attracted to confident, no-hedge opinions. Yet, there is no place where understatement is more apropos and less visible than Wall Street." - Dick Davis


• Fears over the Fed persist


• Gold currently trades above the uptrend


• Golden opportunity - the case for $1,000 per ounce


• Traders are salivating over new silver ETF


• Bill, isn't it always a good time to watch the chips?


• U.S. stock funds take in $3.5 billion


• Jeffrey Hirsch reviews historical trends in March


• Stocks run a gauntlet in presidents' second terms


• Michael Panzner shares some interesting graphs: tech & small caps tend to lag the market now, etf trading volumes, short-term impact of FOMC rate hikes, gold as an inflation hedge, & more


• Forget the ports! American money managers are quite eager to take Middle Eastern money


• The Perpetual War Portfolio


• The Iran Oil Bourse


• Vladimir Putin talks about energy egotism ($)


• The axis of oil: China and Venezuela


• Yaser shares a few charts to show why oil prices are headed higher long-term


• It is open season on short-sellers and frankly anyone who has anything negative to say about anything


• Need a short quote?


• Dave Landry shares 12 steps you can take to improve your trading


• Q&A with hot hand Thorkelson ($)


• How to read and understand earnings releases like an investment pro


• Ben Stein's helpful 12-step program


• The always excellent Trader Mike talks about finding swing trade setups


• Trading is very much a confidence game


• The disappointing performance of many hedge funds shows that stock picking is no easier to do successfully than is market timing ($)


• Ahead of the release of Warren Buffett's annual letter to shareholders this weekend, here's an off-the-cuff interview with the master


• Five key lessons from top money managers


• John Dorfman ranks 10 places to find stock-picking ideas


• 5 mistakes investors just can't afford


• Sell on the technicals, not the fundamentals


• Program trading gets more sophisticated ($)


• Alan Farley talks stops


• Being away from Wall Street appears to be a beneficial asset for money managers


• Time and compounding will make you rich


• "Forget about buying a stock at the bottom or selling it at the top. Yes, somebody does, but that elusive somebody will not be you." - Dick Davis


• Chocolate lounges are beginning to take hold


• The British invader that thinks it can beat Wal-Mart (WMT)


• Is Peerflix going to present a challenge to Netflix (NFLX)?


• The daily soap opera at Overstock (OSTK)


• Dana's (DCN) bankruptcy filing is the largest in the U.S. this year by both assets and liabilities


• Google's refined outlook calms investors


• Google (GOOG) wants to become $100 billion dollar company


• Fannie Mae's (FNM) charity work


• The extreme debate over Fannie & Freddie


• Online universities get a huge boost from Congress


• Since January 2000, this contrarian stock screen has outperformed the S&P 500 by +1,385%


• Standard & Poor's screens 5-year winners


• 20 stocks that are running on water


• MaoXian takes a look at the Next Net 25


• ETF Trading Ranges


• Restatements soar due to Sarbanes-Oxley


• Hedge fund fraud is a U.S. phenomenon?


• Private investigators are in wide-scale hunt for hedge fund manager


• The best places to set up and manage a hedge fund


• I've said it many times before - TIAA-CREF sucks


• FundAlarm!


• Companies are increasingly selling their own stock to the public - directly


• Buying ticket futures looks like a bad idea


• It's not going to happen, but what if we paid off all of our credit cards?


• Don't pay too much on your credit cards or homeland security will hunt you down


• Here are nine stories and tips about making that first million


• How to retire in Tahiti


• Top 10 vehicles owned by billionaires


• More big companies admit tax mistakes


• I agree - the U.S. tax code is insane


• Mark-to-Market makes a difference for most traders


• Bush, an opponent of raising taxes, decides to use fees instead


• I always enjoy reading what Neville has been up to lately


• What are my favorite TV shows? My top three are Boston Legal, The Shield, & Rescue Me


• More Firefox extensions


• Could you pass 8th grade math?


• Get you free personality assessment


• Newswires around the globe


• "Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them." - Broderick Crawford