Damage Control

• Markets' slide spotlights risks


• Stocks' big plunge catches many off-guard


• "It felt like a plane hitting a building again." - Sam Reman


• Top-performing newsletters are unfazed by Tuesday's plunge


• However, some with solid credentials are predicting that yesterday's selling won't be short-lived


• Circuit Breaker Levels!


• The selloff in global equities indeed came at an inopportune time for individual investors


• Correlation rather than contagion


• Market breadth, Yen carry-trade & the trades


• Michael Nystrom's thoughts on the market plunge


• Maoxian's 10 intraday charts


• The Business Cycle and the Future by Martin A. Armstrong


• According to Doug Kass, the short side never looked so good


• Value is always in the eye of the beholder


• China Syndrome, Part 2


• A Japanese lesson for China


• Only a one-in-five chance of a recession?


• Inverted yield curves usually mean bad weather


• What's the big deal with the CPI?


• Sign of the times - a mortgage lender implode meter


• Time to buy a subprime lender? Tom Brown thinks so


• New home sales plunge


• Are we just going to repeat the market's performance back in 1995?


• Honeybees vanish!


• The smartest money in global warming stocks may be scurrying to the exit just when the enthusiasm for alternative-energy companies is at an all-time high.


• Chip stocks are looking chipper to Michael Kahn


• Windows Vista: not exactly selling like hotcakes at Amazon


• Where to find value in a pricey market


• Which Dow stocks are hot and not and what it might mean


• Soros shuffles his stock picks


• James Altucher sees signs of life in the post-selloff rubble


• TickerSense looks at how yesterday's worst S&P stocks are performing today


• Bill Gross' 10 little assets


• Alan Farley's bargain basement stocks are KOG, ONSM, HTI, GTN, and SGMO


• Harry Domash's 11 stocks for oil's next surge


• Yesterday produced a number of head and shoulders patterns


• Stockpickr's interest rate cut portfolio and interest rate hike portfolio


• Here are stocks that on average have gone up the most in the one month after a VIX move of greater than 20%


• Get out some graph paper and try hand charting for a few weeks. You might be surprised at what you find!


• Jonathan Hoenig thinks that some criteria should not be used when buying stocks


• Quant Investor's recommended reading list


• Bond ETFs vs. Money Market Funds for short-term cash


• Copycat hedge funds go to regular folks as returns dwindle


• ETFs seek appeal among hedge funds


• Another hedge fund bites the dust


• Holy Betas!


• Why do the market values of exchange-traded funds sometimes vary from the value of the stocks the ETF owns?


• Alternative investments: lipstick on a frog?


• Investors with more than $5 million want guaranteed returns


• CME Globex flash quotes


• Does anyone use Yahoo's real-time quote service? If so, please let me know your thoughts


• Websites used for portfolio and watchlist tracking appear to be popping up everywhere


• Gym balls are the new hot office chair


• Executives fall victim to brick mania


• "A stock is never too high to buy, and never too low to sell." - Jesse Livermore