Food For Thought

• "The market is a known sociopath that should never be trusted - especially when its intentions seem obvious." - Don Worden

• Analysts turn more cautious

• As goes Alcoa, goes the earnings season? Not so fast!

• Wall Street fears a one-and-done Fed policy

• Fear & Greed Index

• What's ahead this week

• "The Fed is pursuing a highly risky monetary policy. Inflation is going to get a lot worse. People are going to be shocked at what things cost." - Peter Schiff

• Heating bills to be about 10% higher this winter

• I've personally never seen a bull market without any warning flags

• There's no recession in sight

• The S&P is 30% undervalued?

• The overall technical backdrop remains constructive

• Bespoke looks at the 50-day ma as a market timing tool

• How safe is the soaring stock market?

• Treasures fueled by Petrodollars from Mideast funds

• The G-7 and currency trades

• Steve Forbes predicts a debilitating currency crisis and market crash

• Will fear over Hillary Clinton kill the bull market?

• Bill Fleckenstein goes after the market hackers

• Mr. Market's psychology

• How 2007 is different from 1987 and how it's the same

• Impact of credit crisis is not over yet

• Seeking patterns in corporate profits

• Analyst estimates predict that Morgan Stanley, Lehman Bros. and Goldman Sachs Group will all report record earnings for 2007 despite the meltdown in the subprime-mortgage market and ensuing credit crunch

• SEC reviews bank writedowns

• US subprime mortgages written during the first half of the year are going delinquent at the fastest rate this decade

• Big value now seen in property insurers

• More bankruptcy speculation for the homebuilders

• Corporate acquirers are putting more money into fewer companies

• Executives who bucked early spending spree now have the upper hand

• Worldwide merger boom starts up again

• Seasonal trends in uranium stocks

• Solar's day in the sun

• True believers in tech are getting more fervent

• More G-phone chatter

• Has America become a lazy-ass nation?

• Investors discover not all sin stocks are created equal

• A handful of boring stock picks from top investors

• TSC's top 5 value stocks

• HedgeFOLIO's outperformers

• Lots of oil & gas stocks remain at the top of StockScouter

• According to the master swing trader, five stocks (ONXX, CF, HNSN, GTLS, LKQX) are leading the small-cap rally

• Remember the social investing filter I applied to my stock screen machine three months ago? So far the filter of bad stocks is up +6.3% versus +1.6% for the S&P during this same time frame

• If outflows are a decent contrary indicator of a market bottom, are inflows a good way to gauge a market top? Not really

• Avoiding overcrowded trades requires you to know how to identify herd patterns

• At the end of the day, price is the most important element in any trade

• When companies issue news releases, sometimes what counts isn't what is said, but what isn't

• Concentrating the superior knowledge of short sellers

• Mohnish Pabrai knows his limits

• Investment style drift is a virtue not a vice

• Now known as the Kelly Formula, the equation determines the optimal percentage of your cash to bet on a favorable bet

• Do you trade with the wrong attitude?

• Common mistakes in trading and how to avoid them

• Preferred stocks 101

• Lazy Portfolios are betting big overseas

• How a new breed of ETFs can help you spread your portfolio's global reach

• A rising tide in water ETFs

• IBD's ETF quick rank & ETF screener

• Morningstar's favorite ETFs

• The long and short of long-short funds

• The hidden risks in bonds

• Only 10 equity funds have made money in each of the last 10 years

• Attention retirees: how to determine withdrawal rates using historical data

• Sad, but true - there's no shortage of high-income earners who have relatively little net worth

• Scheme liability case has Wall Street's attention

• Hedge fund pricing tactics

• Stock spammers move to Germany

• PenFed offers a 6% certificate of deposit

• International CDs come with risks

• Books to get rich by

• Move over stockpickr, here comes tickerspy

• Another social investing website - Cake Financial

• Create, share, and collaborate using online databases

• 5 secrets to success

• Feeling tired? Don't forget to stretch!

• Tim Ferriss on being more productive

• Do you need a life-map?

• How are you spending your dash?

• "Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do." - Albert Gray