Random Reflections

• What ever happened to can't lose Fridays?

• Stocks fall on jobs report among other things

• Global boom faces first major stress test

• We have another Fed meeting next week

• You know it's a private-equity bubble when...

• Subprime woes put buyout deals on hold

• Buyout firms adjust for less debt, smaller deals

• Bear Stearns bars investors from quitting fund

• Are hedge fund collapse fears overblown?

• Jim Cramer thinks it's bad behind the scenes

• Subprime detectives search for next victim

• "This was one of the biggest bubbles we've ever had in credit. I have been and am still short the investment bankers in America. I'm also short homebuilders." - Jim Rogers

• The American Dream under attack

• Mexico is a clear and present danger

• The subprime slime is oozing

• Another mortgage lender bites the dust

• The bulls have tremendous faith that Bernanke will come to the rescue

• Or, that the fundamentals remain strong

• We're on track for 20th quarter of double-digit growth

• Why the top market-timing newsletters are bullish on stocks

• Andrew Crowder shares his options strategies

• The Permabull's Guide to Wall Street Lingo

• Is electronic trading adding to the carnage?

• The Plunge Protection Team exposed!

• CBOE Daily Market Statistics

• The Fibonacci Retracement proves important....again

• Volatility is back and options traders love it

• "If you can stomach the volatility, look for bargains in the market. Just don't marry them." - Michael Kahn

• Pre-election years tend to be choppy in the second half of the year

• Hulbert examines the Hindenburg Omen

• Howard shares some big picture trends

• One of the reasons why tech has been holding up better

• Move over iPhone, here comes Google phone!

• A mid-year look at commodities

• So far unscathed, are commodities next to fall?

• Are analysts downgrades soon to come for the financials?

• A Zack's analyst offers his view regarding the Energy sector

• It was hard to find, but I finally found one negative view on the shipping stocks

• Why oil could be headed even higher

• Gold rush under the ice

• Hacker attacks on banks jump 81% (and that's why VDSI keeps moving higher)

• Murdoch's Dow Jones will have money, scale, time

• Aaron Pressman takes a gander at MSCI's IPO

• One blogger tracks the Fast Money traders

• IBD's fat margin screen

• Most hated S&P 500 stocks

• "Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about." - I found this one in a fortune cookie this week!

• 5 steps toward becoming your own trading coach

• How to become your own trading coach

• A great review of Schwager on Futures

• Readers share their favorite investment tools with Jason Kelly

• Banks hold the answer to IPO success

• Who owns the open interest?

• As soon as the market falls, the number of articles on dollar cost averaging soars

• The investment philosophy of Geraldine Weiss

• Credit Suisse has the hot hand

• Hedge funds bet the weather

• Ex-Wall Street executives go to bat to help non-profits

• Investors rarely win in their fight against brokers

• The need for speed often trumps security

• For volatile times, advisers key on ETF momentum

• For many people, the crossover point is a major goal

• The path to riches is not a solo one

• Did you know that one-third of cardholders pay interest rates in excess of 20%?

• Six expensive everyday indulgences

• The war on stress claims many victims

• An interesting time-tracking tool

• If you sweat while trading, you may want to turn up the air conditioner

• 12 other businesses that would thrive if staffed by girls in bikinis

• Weird Financial News

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• "The key to trading success is emotional discipline. If intelligence were the key, there would be a lot more people making money trading. I know this will sound like a cliche, but the single most important reason that people lose money in the financial markets is that they don't cut their losses short." - Victor Sperandeo