Twists And Turns

• Greed trumps fear


• Big cap mania returns as folks show more love for the Dow diamonds ($)


• 12,000 reasons to sell


• "The financial bear is seen as a fierce, wily creature, the bull as a simple oaf." - Chet Currier


• Nasdaq and S&P close in on major resistance


• Like clockwork, James Glassman says his 7 year old prediction that the Dow will rise to 36,000 wasn't wrong, just early


• Jesse Livermore on Dow 12K


• A creeping caution on Wall Street


• "The steady trajectory higher by the financial markets has begun to draw in the speculators." - Paul J. Nolte


• Is the market wrong about earnings?


• How good are earnings really?


• "I don’t believe there is a conspiracy here, but I do think the market has been pushed off the rails." - Bill Cara


• The trappings of a slowdown


• Who's got it right - stocks, bonds, neither, or both?


• As the banking industry goes, so goes the economy?


• Is housing out of the woods?


• College inflation


• There are increasing hints that the U.S. is about to embark on a radically different strategy in Iraq


• Worst political investment


• Republican or Democrat? Market doesn't care


• Investors weigh election wagers


• Independents lean for the Dems


• Why the Republicans need to lose the midterms


• More financial advisors love Bush


• UBS says buy oil, short drugs


• Big Oil's 10 favorite members of Congress


• Why gas prices dropped


• Hedge fund assets are up to $1.34 trillion


• Hedge fund jocks Pickens and Farmer have made a mint on well-timed commodities trades


• Many cows, pigs and chickens will soon be living cushier lives


• China's bull market


• Alan Greenspan had a few choice words for his Russian counterparts late last week


• Goldman Sachs earns $4 billion from a six-month investment


• Berkshire Hathaway stock hits $100,000


• TheStreet.com's stock ratings


• Dorfman screens the new lows list


• Michael Kaye's big thumbs down screen


• Jubak's dog stars strategy


• Forbes' most socially responsible


• Russell 3000: best and worst performers


• IBD 100 additions: EVR, TPX, ALB, LQDT, NUE, OXPS, JCP, KBAY, TCK, ATRS, AAPL, RSTI, ANEN, HDB, WST, MW, GEF, NATL and PVH


• IBD 100 deletions: COGO, XPRSA, NITE, BOT, HOLX, WCC, EMCI, TRAD, PJC, DSW, NTAP, PNFP, CACB, HXM, CNS, WIRE, PKE, TRMB and ZUMZ


• What it really takes to be a great trader


• Trading Naked's trading library


• More thoughts on part-time trading


• "Interpreting a stock chart is like reading the expression on somebody's face. You will see far more in the expression of somebody you know. The mere absence of expression when he should be glowing with joy would tell you much." - Don Worden


• Time management is everything


• Trading gaps - dummy style


• Are you ready to pick your own stocks?


• Leveraging with futures, FX and binaries


• Low volatility occurs when institutions find no compelling reasons to make radical shifts in reallocations


• In mergers and acquisitions, sellers often have proven to be smarter than buyers ($)


• Notes on the margin of safety


• Portfolio tracking in Excel


• Financial advisors seek opportunities in charity ($)


• Climate change investing grows in popularity


• A high star Morningstar rating is no guarantee of a good mutual fund


• Superstar funds lag, investors bail


• 10 of the best mutual fund managers around


• Vampires, zombies, witches and ghost funds


• ETFs aim to juice returns by tweaking their benchmarks ($)


• Small ETF firms have a tough go


• Wisdom Tree's rotten fruit


• Hackers target online stock accounts


• E*Trade and TD Ameritrade have a big hacker problem


• It's probably not a wise idea to write down your passwords


• Privacy pitfalls in no-swipe credit cards


• Yet another irritating email stock scam


• 7 shortcuts for major money hassles


• Build and customize your own search engine


• "A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." - Walter Winchell