September Song

• September song


• The most difficult month for the Dow


• Do hedge funds eliminate, or even reverse, seasonal effects in the returns of the stock market?


• Bulls & Bears!


• "We believe that for the market to continue higher, the bears need to throw in the towel and move quickly to the bullish side of the fence. This has yet to happen." - Mark Arbeter


• Layoff announcements were up 76% in August


• Déjà vu all over again by John Mauldin


• 8 market spins about housing by perma-bull spin-doctors


• What will bridge the gap between consumer incomes and outlays?


• The bill is coming due for ARM holders


• Strategist price targets and recommended allocations


• Q&A with J. Kyle Rosen ($)


• The major U.S. benchmarks face two separate, but related, questions - sustainability and follow-through


• Jeremy Siegel thinks stocks will climb the wall of worry


• New bull-market surprise ahead?


• Tim Wood talks Dow Theory & Cycles


• In an economic downturn, the best offense is a good defense


• Swimming to safety ($)


• Hedge funds love tech


• A bull market for coffee


• Congress is back in session


• Are investors really scared of a Democratic congressional sweep?


• Mortgage moms!


• Slate's election scorecard


• Playing the election cycle


• Adens advise focusing on the major trends


• U.S. oil reserves could grow by 50%


• The coast isn't clear just yet. Most hurricanes hit after September 1st ($)


• Mammoth wind farm proposed in Iowa


• Bernanke thinks a hard landing for China can't be ruled out


• Russian markets keep climbing


• Merck vs. Pfizer


• Imax's (IMAX) disaster flick


• Medifast's (MED) diet disorder ($)


• John Dorfman evaluates the 20 largest U.S. stocks


• Fortune's 100-fastest growing companies


• 11 readers have sent me an email regarding the outperformance of the Dogs of the Dow


• Five stock prospects under $10


• S&P's Michael Kaye screens for safety stocks


• Newsletters focus on Israeli stocks


• 6 dividend all-stars


• Clearstation's tag & bag


• The weakest stocks in today's leading groups


• StockScouter spots energy and telecom plays


• Stocks added to the IBD 100 this week are AEOS, BLUD, BMC, CASS, CLDN, CRS, CWTR, GIL, IIIN, INFY, ISYS, NATL, OKE, PCU, QSII, VIP, WIRE, WRLD, and WST. Stocks removed were COG, DIOD, FIZ, GG, GI, GLG, HLX, IBCA, LAYN, MRO, ORA, PVA, SMTB, TS, UARM, WCC, WOOF, and XTO


• "Investing isn't risky -- being incompetent is risky." - Robert Kiyosaki


• Three creative approaches to market analysis


• Yaser Anwar shares his tanker trading strategy


• How to calculate value


• Cracking the currency trading code


• "Over the years, I've had many executives come to me and say with pride: 'Boy, last year I worked so hard that I didn't take any vacation.' It's nothing to be proud of. I always feel like responding: 'You dummy. You mean to tell me that you can take responsibility for an $80 million project and you can't plan two weeks out of the year to go off with your family and have some fun?'" - Lee Iacocca


• The next great corporate scandal: stock buybacks


• Can anyone police the swaps?


• 900 companies race to beat stock-option accounting deadline


• Like most merger-inspired insider trading, the suspicious activity ahead of the Glamis takeover news occurred on the options market


• The Future of Financial Reporting


• Lawyer inflation!


• Mutual funds that use hedge-like strategies


• Roy Weitz's fund alarm


• A lot of folks are warming up to the offerings over at WisdomTree


• Money Magazine finds what it takes to be rich


• Miles per dollar calculator


• The last stand of the 6-percenters?


• Six steps to take after receiving an IRS audit letter


• The 20 best financial blogs


• Barron's continues to a nice job of covering good financial blogs ($)


• If trading doesn't keep your mind sharp, then you may enjoy some analytical problems and puzzles


• "If something ever happens to me, people are gonna be like 'we knew a croc would get him!'" - Steve Irwin