Wall Street Woes

• Wall Street got you on edge? Join the Club!

• It didn't take long for the government to flinch

• The Fed's new role: sugar daddy

• Before the Fed comes under attack for being out of touch and causing Great Depression II, a review of recent history is in order

• Why AIG matters

• What's another $85 billion down the drain?

• Federal bank insurance fund slips below target level

• The cost of protecting against default on corporate debt soars

• Wall Street demands credit clearing house

• The power of Paulson

• In spite of government action, liquidity has drained away

• Otmar Issing calls crisis extremely dangerous

• Fed resists pressure to cut rates, but leaves the door open

• SEC bans naked short-selling

• Wall Street's Category 5

• Foundations of CDS industry shaken

• Wall Street will never be the same

• Wall Street as we know it is kaput

• Don't worry, the banking system is sound!

• Are there any opportunities in the stock market graveyard?

• Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley look like survivors

• Lehman Brothers’ bankruptcy will not end the credit crisis. But it ends a decade of moral hazard

• Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers have provided a crash course in how to destroy century-old Wall Street firms

• The latest Wall Street rumors

• $38 billion flows into mutual funds in August

• Hedge funds are sitting on a pile of cash

• There's a ton of money sitting on the sidelines

• Sovereign funds choose to wait

• Some parallels between Monday and the 1987 crash

• A contrarian signal - website traffic to stock blogs go kablooey

• A number of traders and commentators are talking about the 50% retracement theory as justification for a rally now

• There is evidence the S&P is shaping some form of cup-and-handle pattern

• Yet another non-confirmation

• "It seems to me that financial markets are quite similar to politics. The guy who dumbs it down the best wins every time." - Teresa Lo

• How to recognize market capitulation

• The VIX Stretch

• "For now, however, the majority of the decline is behind us and unless sentiment turns giddy quickly, we should have an upside bias in the market for a while." - Helene Meisler

• Russian markets stopped trading for a second day

• China is on the verge of becoming the world's largest investor in green energy

• For what it is worth Asia's stocks are nearing historically low valuations

• At least we're not Puerto Rico!

• Saudi billionaire to Wall Street: See you later losers!

• The latest data on housing

• Bespoke offers an interesting look at the S&P 500 energy stocks

• Airline stocks fly through the downturn

• At least Buffett is doing ok in this market

• Richard Moroney pounds the table on Cynosure

• A cup-with-a-handle pattern in Parametric Technology

• Another dividend-increaser is Kraft Foods

• Mutual fund facts about individual stocks

• Four growth stocks you need

• IBD's screen of the day looked for companies with accelerating earnings. Only 13 stocks showed up.

• With the ban on naked short selling - time to fire up some screens using this following: Nasdaq & NYSE

• Andrew Horowitz's PEG screen

• Top 10 dumped stocks

• Top 10 newly added stocks

• I always cringe at this kind of column - 10 stocks for the next 10 years

• Dogs in the Dumpster

• Market too exciting? Check utilities!

• Jim Cramer picks out the winners among the rubble

• How to lose your shirt in the stock market

• How to handle a market gone mad

• Three survival techniques

• Finding reversals using open, high, low, close prices data

• The dangers of anchoring

• I'm seeing a number of new websites focused on providing personalized trading alerts. Zignals is one example

• Yahoo & Google historical quotes downloader

• A board game to improve your daily trading?

• How to control multiple computers with a single keyboard and mouse

• 8 reasons to trade ETFs and not mutual funds

• Large-cap ETFs weather stock slump

• The most dangerous ETFs out there

• Have money sitting in a FDIC-insured bank? Then you may want to use EDIE The Estimator

• High-yield money market accounts

• Learn to put your finances on autopilot

• A new employee benefit - a financial adviser

• 10 ways to protect your money now

• Selling a home? Watch those closing costs!

• Simplify your life with a stuff replacement fund

• "The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." - Allan K. Chalmers