Fishing For Opportunities

• Economists raise the odds of a recession

• Giant Positions = Giant Losses

• According to value investors, the pitches appear to be getting fatter

• Wall Street's biggest nightmare - Americans start to pay as they go

• Most Americans plan to save the rebate

• Back to 1969!

• Credit squeeze

• What credit squeeze?

• "The woes in the United States financial sector are poetic justice for bankers who designed and sold complex investments that have since gone sour." - Warren Buffett

• Rating reforms are too little, too late?

• What banks can learn from this credit crisis

• Bonds unbound

• Getting knocked down by Prime ARMs

• Exploding ARMs roil Bernanke's drive to calm markets

• More banks stiffen their mortgage rules

• Bending it like Bernanke!

• Do you want to be in charge of monetary policy? Here's your chance to be the Fed

• Market déjà vu

• The market’s echo chamber

• 1-2-3 model is in red light mode

• Lo and behold, January really was a bummer for stock-pickers

• If your portfolio is under water now, you are most definitely not alone

• Will the Nasdaq's 4-year uptrend hold?

• A bigger range for the VIX

• Recession indicators are all pointing south

• Memo to Congress: what is a recession, who decides when it starts, and when do they decide?

• Can we stop with the predictions?

• Bullish on retail? Think again

• Big opportunities in infrastructure

• Deloitte's 2008 industry outlook

• Median EPS growth is okay

• AMAT is fueling the solar energy boom

• Wind farms need techs to keep running

• Is everyone now bullish on coal?

• Add this to the list of things to worry about

• Your tax money at work - Lennar's $800 million dollar tax refund

• The OO factor

• Is the U.S. turning Japanese?

• Want to pay with Euros? No problem!

• Foreign investing and the U.S. recession

• Credit crunch pounds U.K. economy

• Investors seeking fortune may find it in frontier markets

• Just like a rat, investors will have to be nimble

• Wary investors in Asia are turning to feng shui masters

• Chinese banks rule in new world order

• China's stocks advance on Olympics factor

• Boiler room scams are on the rise around the globe

• According to James Altucher, things are simpler than they appear

• Fund manager Karl Mills shares a few thoughts and cartoons

• GM is still facing tricky curves

• The AMD & Intel battle continues

• Everyone is still bullish on Cisco!

• Etrade is off Wall Street's death watch

• Now I understand why so many are now bullish on Bank Of America

• Are value stocks a good value?

• Standard & Poor's Global Eco Index is for investors seeking exposure to environmentally responsible investment strategies

• Minyanville's Slacker Index

• Under $15 George Soros' picks

• 120 top stocks for 2008

• Top 10 insider buys this week

• "You cut losses. In a bad market, you do less." - Eric Bolling

• Opportunities can be found in stocks that are neglected by analysts

• Studying the factors that lead to large losses and how to avoid them can be useful

• Brain images of drug addicts are indistinguishable from those of traders

• Psychology of human misjudgment

• Trading is a game of managing your mistakes

• "I get angry mails whenever one of my recommendations goes the other way. Guess what - you shot yourself in the foot if you listened to me, because you let someone else tell you what to buy or sell." - Alan Farley

• Use 'em and lose 'em is the strategy when using hot hedge funds and newsletters

• 50 ways to lose your money (without trying)

• How chart patterns lead to big profits

• A primer on short-selling

• Just as good the second time around - Dr. Steenbarger shares some favorite posts: Part I and Part II

• Men and women have fundamentally different investment styles

• How much is too much institutional ownership?

• How to ferret out bargain-basement profit plays

• "When profits are falling, buying stocks with a high dividend yield can be one of the best ways to spot stocks that are truly cheap." - John Authers

• Uncovering value with total dividend return

• Understanding dividend dates

• New Fidelity lazy portfolios are winners

• Have REITs finally reached the bottom?

• A status report on active-ETFs

• Egypt stock market to launch ETF

• Claymore starts the long-awaited ETF shakedown

• Long-short funds find some success in this market

• Negative Alpha is built into 130/30 funds

• Ten ways to weather stormy markets

• Wall Street forgets what a money market fund should be

• Investors are still baffled by the deluge of disclosure documents they receive

• 7 financial rules of thumb

• Correct me if I'm wrong, but won't there be a problem with security and fraud with home check scans?

• Investor dashboards

• Move over Kirk, here comes The Icahn Report

• Contrary to popular opinion - Wall Street loves the Dems

• Free rice!

• Religious, education, and social service top affluent charitable giving

• 10 ways to make someone else's day

• Grief is good?

• "Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears." - Barbara Johnson