Traders On Their Toes

• "A bull market makes you feel smarter than you are the same way a bear market makes you feel dumber than you are. Feeling smart makes you do the opposite of what you should be doing." - Vitaliy Katsenelson


• Don Luskin thinks you should capitalize on the current bull market while it lasts


• Remember, bulls make money, bears make money, but pigs often get slaughtered!


• Margin debt has hit an all-time high


• Is it just me or does Jim Jubak alternate between bullish and bearish articles depending on the week?


• Changes on the margin


• Nothing lasts forever, but being early is also the equivalent of being wrong


• Fear/Greed Index suggests market is in trouble


• Bullish sentiment is wide, not deep


• It continues to be a very complacent market


• There's no statistical support for the unlucky 7 theory


• Stocks usually thrive as presidential election nears


• Bernanke wins over the doubters on Wall Street


• How long can the Bernanke honeymoon continue?


• Ron Paul gets it!


• It's time to blame the Fed for inflation


• Japan hikes rates gradually


• The future of corporate profits: the "E" in the P/E equation


• Yet another reason to get and stay long healthcare


• Another new buzzword - OCAP-ready


• I am not interested in dumpster diving in the subprime market


• Cyclicals are soaring!


• Bill Zimmer screens for buying/selling climaxes


• ETrade to offer global trading to U.S. customers


• The relative underperformance in emerging markets


• China mines Tibet's rich resources


• A number of people think we're going to see a meltdown in China this year


• Why is Russia so nasty, and India so nice?


• Stocks in Saudi Arabia make a comeback


• All in all, it's just another BRIC in the Wall


• Global trading is in a state of flux


• Iran may start rationing gasoline as soon as next month


• Hubbert's peak theory


• Study sees harmful hunt for extra oil


• Cleaner coal is attracting some doubts


• The boom in green materials


• Commodities: the new tech stocks?


• Pork-belly plays for the little guy


• Uranium a bubble?


• The hottest real-estate in the world


• Online marketing puts power in farmers’ hands


• Is America's $8 billion dollar bottled water industry a fraud?


• Mark Hulbert asks what is holding gold back?


• Although I've tried, I've never been able to find a perfect investment


• Time to put telecom on hold?


• Wall Street's man of the moment


• A sign of the times - a big new buyout fund


• Wall Street's next scandal


• Hedge funds are making hay while the sun shines


• Many hedge funds' strategies are like the business models of airlines


• Signs of the coming hedge-fund apocalypse


• Little guys suffer as Wall Street enters machine era


• Algorithmic trading pressures locals


• As Treasuries market grows quiet, traders grow restless


• The big stock split decline


• Many people think Citigroup should head to the chopping block


• Making the case for BSD Medical (BSM)


• Trade like Goldman Sachs


• Trade like Prince Al-Waleed


• The 100 best corporate citizens of 2007 (Green Mountain Coffee (GMCR) is at the top)


• TickerSense provides a handy S&P 500 screen that looks at p/e and dividend yield and other one that looks for high growth rates


• Standard & Poor's runs its own PEG screen


• Morningstar's contrarian portfolio for 2007


• StockScouter's top 10


• TheStreet.com's top 10


• Top stocks with tons of cash


• Ed Heath's stocks 2 watch


• Brett Steenbarger's collection of classic articles


• Using a limit entry and a moving average exit can increase your short-term gains


• John Murphy offers some thoughts on using moving averages


• Signal analysis concepts by John Ehlers


• Are you using the NYSE TICK?


• Oscillators and Indicators 101


• James Altucher's 3x2 system


• Master your trading mindtraps


• How winners think when trading


• A few cautionary points about trading


• Risk management isn't just about having your 'stop-loss' in place. So what else is it about?


• Hedge fund thinking is a plus


• A basic primer on short-selling


• 4 basic steps to gauge a firm's true financial position


• The usefulness of forward earnings


• Gambling and trading are two entirely different things


• Spring training for your portfolio


• Everything you wanted to know about the Dow and more


• Excel tips and tricks


• "People think working for something other than the most money you could get is an odd concept, but it seems a perfectly natural concept to me." - David F. Swensen


• Barclays puts ETF portfolios to good use


• ETF evolution to ETF pollution


• Diversify your portfolio with Asian ETFs


• PowerShares launches dollar ETFs


• Another new lazy portfolio - Paul Farrell's second-grader starter portfolio


• ETFs are giving mutual funds a run for their money


• Is John Bogle barking up the wrong tree?


• Did you know that you can search for a specific stock within an ETF at iShares?


• Past performance shouldn't be your only investment criteria


• Asset allocation: more than meets the eye


• Why asset allocation is important


• A dynamic asset allocation strategy for the serious do it yourself investor


• Withdrawal strategies to make your nest egg last longer


• Americans save too much theory is hotly debated


• Gen-X'ers face significant roadbloacks to retirement savings


• Why the rich get richer according to Robert Kiyosaki


• To get rich, Ben Stein says to just follow the instructions


• How to negotiate higher deposit yields


• Cities turn to online bond auctions


• A lively market for death bonds


• Meanwhile, term life insurance is getting cheaper


• Top scam trends


• 10 financial urban legends


• One of the best advantages of owning your own business - the increased tax deduction possibilities


• Tax software is big business


• TraderMike's tax links for traders


• Should you hire a tax pro?


• Overall, I've received very mixed feedback regarding Zecco. Here's another bloggers review


• A 12-step program for e-mail addicts


• Wheel of food!


• My wife and I are thinking about our next big vacation. If you've been on a Rocky Mountaineer Vacation, please let me know your thoughts


• The four best ways to sit at your computer


• Just call me lazy!


• "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get." - H. Jackson Brown