This was a wild end to a wild & historic week. The indices swung violently back & forth across wide ranges on what I’m pretty sure was record volume. (I still need to find a good source of stock market records.) The indices moved back & forth about 21% today (about 7% [...] more

The worst case scenario played out on Friday, with market selling off on the news that the rescue plan passed with ease.  Clearly, traders don't believe the rescue plan is going to provide much relief and almost immediately following the House vote, the market initiated a late day sell off more

There will now be two kinds of Wall Street employer: safe and decently paid or risky and highly paid, writes John Gapper more

Wall Street stocks were highly volatile in a dizzying session that saw the Dow fall more than 600 points before recovering to stand 4% lower. London's FTSE 100 fell 8.9%. European indices also tumbled. Japanese shares touched 20-year lows, leading Asia-Pacific down as fears of a global recession mou more

This is the fourth in a series of posts about how and why and how I started down the path of automated trading. Here’s the first, second, third, and fourth posts in the series (RSS). Our automated trading robot is available now. Trade your own strategy automatically with no coding required. Now more

... more

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said on Friday that the U.S. government was working on a plan to buy stock in financial institutions by using part of the $700 billion authorized by Congress to stabilize banks. more

more

THE SHOW: Are we having fun yet? Me neither. My old pal Deep Blue keeps writing me about various stocks and such that might have upside, but then acknowledges it's hard to imagine much of anything working this year. Except cash, and you better hope that's real cash and not some sort of 'cash equival more

For better or worse, we just survived one of the the worst weeks in market history. For the week, the S&P 500 crashed -18.20%, Dow -18.15%, the Nasdaq -15.30%, and the Russell 2000 -15.65%. And, the damage we saw is... more

The Dow declined 128 points to 8451.19, capping the worst week in its 112-year history with its most volatile day ever. Down nearly 700 points early on, stocks gave up late gains as hopes for an international bank-rescue plan were overcome by a wave of selling. more

When commodity exchange traded funds (ETFs) were on a bull run this summer, London-based ETF Securities was right there with its line of funds aimed squarely at the sector. The provider, which actually runs products known as exchange traded commodities (ETCs), is the first to launch funds targeted a more

Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Monday's session are Fastenal Co., Wachovia Corp. and Wells Fargo & Co. more

more

more

Each Friday, I calculate the preliminary allocations for our satellite portfolios based on information available at 3PM Eastern, but today’s market mayhem made it virtually impossible to come up with numbers that would come close to the final set. Instead, all members received an email conta more

more

more