Har Har Har
Who’s got the last laugh, now?

Gone Fishin'
I’d love for you to teach me to fish but…can’t you just give me the fish?

What if there were a team of professionals with years of experience who could provide you with trades based on the Elliott Wave Principle? A Flash Service telling you exactly what they recommend and why. Wouldn’t you like that big juicy fish delivered right to your inbox?

The Markets' Real Mover and Shaker

Here's why you want to be keyed into social mood rather than the latest news report when it comes to financial markets.

The Generals Survey their Battlefields: Iraq and the U.S. Economy

General David Petraeus and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke are both dealing with Gordian knot problems -- one on the war front and the other on the economic front, And George Soros has some of his own thoughts on the subject of the financial system turned into Godzilla.

Do the Stock Indexes Actually Show How Investors "Are Doing"?
Stock Market Myths 101

After all, half the households in America own equities via 401k accounts, mutual funds, IRAs, common stocks, etc., etc. Whatever the vehicle, people who own equities get in for "the long term." The "rational" advice of nearly all financial "experts" is for people to "buy and hold" in bull and bear markets. So that's exactly what investors do.
Right?
If you believe that, dear reader, then have I got a Biscayne Bay condo for you. The "experts" may well drivel on about how people should buy & hold, but any claim that most investors actually do so during bull and bear markets is complete rubbish....

What Next for our Humpty Dumpty Markets?

The U.S. President, the Fed and all the central bankers and financial whizzes in the world are trying to put our Humpty Dumpty economy and financial markets back together again. But they aren't having much luck.

Hint to Putin & Chavez: Markets Are Key to Your Popularity

Vladimir Putin and Hugo Chavez, needn't have waited for vote returns; all they really needed to do was double-check how their nations' stock markets did over the past few months. Then they could have known the outcomes in advance of the vote counts. Why?

Searching for FWMDs
Well, financial markets actually found these weapons... in 2007 -- a bit later than we did.

Once-transparent global financial systems have become opaque, changing too fast to be visible. New varieties of financial contracts are evolving rapidly, such as credit derivative futures, credit default swaps, binary options, and soon perhaps, derivatives of credit derivatives, or even derivatives cubed (D³, perhaps?).