FYI

• Who is the greater fool?

• A lot of the major market drops over the past two decades have their roots not in the underlying economy or corporate earnings trends, but rather in the complex mechanisms of the market itself

• The secret stock market

• According to reliable research, as much as 50% of the trading in U.S. stock markets is now done by hedge funds

• Tim Barakett is an old-school hedge-fund manager on a tear

• Hedge fund performance heads towards double digits

• Is the mainstream financial press too biased toward caution?

• How will this bull market end? Some thoughts

• The sentiment picture is still bullish

• Crash Confidence Index

• An interesting picture of the total credit market debt as a percentage of U.S. GDP

• For the experts, the fear of missing out on this fabulous rally clearly outweighs the prospect of making financial forecasting history

• Insider trading makes comeback as merger activity rises

• Merger speculation heats up

• How to spot the top of the takeover boom

• More insight on the large cap versus small cap cycle

• More companies are giving up on guidance (so Wall Street can keep expectations low)

• Billions in oil is missing in Iraq

• Many U.S. investors have begun to worry that increased exposure to a wide variety of global equity asset classes is not delivering the desired diversification benefits

• 1st-time investors buy up Chinese stocks

• Lotteries and the Chinese Stock Market

• With copper prices soaring, Chile is flush with cash

• A golden run for minor metals

• The bullish case for gold

• Fast food outsourcing!

• A surge of foreclosures over the past year or so has left lenders struggling to sell a growing backlog of homes

• Lenders get tougher

• Is it now better to buy or rent? A calculator to help

• As the housing market slumps, so goes the market? Not according to Vic

• Jeffrey Saut's weekly missive

• Woodstock for Capitalists

• Newsletter editors' stock picks for global warming

• Is everyone now bullish on FRPT?

• An interesting review on Aquantive (AQNT)

• Freakonomics' top 10 water stocks

• IBD's top ranked medical stocks include MTOX which is showing up in my stock screen machine

• A screen based on Benjamin Graham's strategy

• Forbes' book value bargains

• StockScouter's top investment ideas

• Harry Domash shares his short-selling stock screen

• Jonathan Hoenig's four steps to trading success

• BeSpoke examines how stocks trading above $100 have performed versus the S&P 500

• Revisiting float

• A winning streak can affect your judgment and cause you to miss out on even bigger opportunities

• The lost art of taking losses

• The Oberweis Octagon

• How to trace a firm's cash flow

• There is information in options

• Q&A with trading coach John Forman

• The importance of thinking for yourself, among other things

• Ben Stein offers a few lessons from the road

• What is fundamentally weighted indexing?

• Four buy-and-hold portfolios by Paul Merriman

• A handy ETF Cheat Sheet

• Defense ETFs rocket as feds spend more

• Move over ETFs, as ETNs hit the scene

• ETFs and ETNs square off in currencies

• Claymore launches its S&P Global Water Index ETF (CGW)

• New funds are making it easier and safer to bet against an aging bull market

• Money really does grow on trees

• Equity index annuity insurers are facing more lawsuits

• AmTrust Direct offers a competitive e-money market account for sidelined cash

• The myth of the Forever Stamp

• Are you smarter than a 5th grader?

• 10 totally stupid online business ideas that made someone rich

• One game you can't lose

• Type faster!

• Suffering from RSS overload?

• Do you need a blackberry helmet?

• "The easiest way to eat crow is while it's still warm, 'cause the colder it gets, the harder it is to swaller." - A Cowboy's Guide To Life