Turkey Shoot

• The bulls have much to be thankful for


• A bizarre explanation for the stock market rally


• When the market is in a high liquidity zone, since 1980 the market has rallied more than 60% of the time with an average annual gain of +13.2% ($)


• The Return of M3


• The inflows keep coming in


• This year, while mutual fund investors headed for the exits, the main US stock indices staged emphatic rallies ($)


• "The sentiment readings are now bearish. Although they don't signal an imminent decline, the increased optimism say's it's a good idea to start planning an exit strategy. We are in the seasonally strong six-month and three-month periods of the year and there is no reason why stocks can't go higher for a while, but the handwriting is on the wall." - Michael Burke


• Sanity always prevails - eventually!


• How skepticism can fuel a rise


• TickerSense compares the market's performance in 2003 vs 2006 and explains how the recent momentum often continues historically


• The end-of-year rally is already over?


• More thoughts about the VIX


• A quick check on industry sector momentum


• Public charts and commentary


• "The kids are currently outperforming the stock market’s greybeards as the Warren Buffetts and John Templetons of the world worry about such silly things as optimistic valuations, waning earnings’ momentum, a slowing economy, a housing debacle..." - Jeffrey Saut


• It's a good time to be a home buyer as prices get slashed


• Home sales fall in 38 states


• When the housing market gets tough, sellers offer interesting incentives


• Construction CEOs get fattest pay raise


• The coming collapse in housing by John Mauldin


• However, the worst of the housing bust is over according to a new poll of economists ($)


• Has inflation peaked?


• The bagel inflation index shows bite of inflation


• No inflation? UPS just jacked up rates by 4.9%


• Read Black Friday's news in advance


• Most shoppers are planning to spend at least $500 this holiday season


• Can't find that toy your kid wants for Christmas? Blame China!


• A very interesting Q&A with Vitaliy Katsenelson


• Paul B. Farrell worries about the population bubble


• Yaser Anwar shares some food for thought on corporate profits, economic cycles, and opportunities in Brazil and Canada


• Red alert!


• Derivatives trading soars!


• The NYMEX rocket


• Wall Street's cash spigots are turned wide open ($)


• So far this year, investment banks have earned $14.8 billion in fees for helping along the year's deals which tops the previous record of $14.6 billion in 2000


• For some companies, the more they borrow, the safer they are deemed


• Has the bar really been lowered for new IPO's?


• The 10 worst internet acquisitions ever


• Big Wall Street firms are targeting emerging markets more and more


• Mideast markets have been severe underperformers


• Commodities: bust or boom?


• Tobin Smith chimes in on the Canadian Income Trust Massacre


• Peak Oil Theory is faulty?


• The clean-energy business is turning into the next big investment boom


• Invest in the biofuels of tomorrow


• Analysts are starting to build climate change into their trading models


• Pursuing the green in clean energy


• A bullish view of the dollar is not widely accepted


• Platinum fund talk stirs market


• Fun factoid! On this very day back in 1995, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above the 5,000 mark for the first time!


• Google shares top $500 for the 1st time


• Both China Grentech (GRRF) and China Tech (CTDC) are up nicely today


• What's hot and not in Internet growth


• The rally's secret leaders


• The world's most respected companies


• Top 10 companies for revenue growth by industry


• Stockpickr's spotlight portfolios


• IBD's screen of the day searches companies that beat consensus earnings estimates by a wide margin in the last quarter. 30 stocks were identified: ALB, CBRL, CEPH, CMG, CROX, CWTR, DAKT, DECK, DKS, DLB, FTEK, GES, GMXR, HWCC, ICOS, IT, KOSP, MDCO, MER, MGM, MM, NFLX, NTY, PHLY, PMTI, SEH, SRE, TDS, TTEC, and WNR


• IBD's 10 fast growing large caps


• John Dorfman's GARP screen


• S&P 1500 stocks with the highest average intraday range over the last 50 trading days


• The best and worst performing stocks in the Russell 3000


• Notable new highs


• The takeover targets stock screen looks for profitable companies that trade for less than 5x cash flow and have minimal debt


• Recent insider transactions ($)


• "If you stick to one approach all the time, you might miss out on significant profits. Just as in a poker game, markets are always changing, so you must adapt your game plan when it looks like it makes sense to do so." - Johnny Chan


• Did you know that the market tends to do better or worse depending on where we are in the lunar cycle?


• Early signs of winning stocks


• A better way to play the January Effect


• Are you patient enough?


• You should bet amounts that aren’t too big, but enough to slightly worry you


• Fund manager says investors can improve their performance by making more mistakes


• Very stupid - stock spam actually works


• A freeware application that allows you to get, monitor and analyze free Excel stock quotes and live stock market data


• The funny thing about money is that someone always has more of it than you do


• Stockpickr's blog index


• Sign of the times: more people are quitting their day jobs to blog for a living


• Picking a value ETF has become more complicated but is still manageable


• An interesting look at the endowments at Harvard & Yale


• The low-maintenance ETF portfolio


• World Beta's sample portfolios


• I'm not sure why Rydex S&P 500 Equal Weight fund (RSP) doesn't get more respect


• Jumping into sector ETFs? Not so fast!


• Fundamental indexing versus market-capitalization indexing


• Index funds beat stock pickers in booming emerging markets


• Most are reluctant to buy annuities for retirement


• Young people struggle to deal with kiss of debt


• Clark Howard's greatest hits will keep you busy


• Did you know that 1 in every 16 millionaires faced a tax audit last year?


• Deductions for home offices will likely face IRS scrutiny


• Kiplinger's offers a sneak peek at tax savings to come in 2007


• Typos can prove costly


• Meet Senator Millionaire


• 6 ways to avoid identity theft


• Legendary hacker, Kevin Mitnick, gives security advice


• Think outside the gift box


• GPS finding its way to the mainstream


• Oprah's favorite things


• I love board games and if you're looking for gift ideas, games from Front Porch Classics are always a good choice


• The only way to get more people to use the new dollar coins is to completely stop printing the dollar on paper


• How to make sure your charitable donations really go to good causes


• Have a hassle-free holiday


• Tips on buying a Thanksgiving turkey


• "People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing." - Dale Carnegie