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(address is not clickable)Active Trader: "Ask the Specs"
October 2003-June 2004
Long-Run Stock Returns (June 2004)
Books
for the Well-Read Trader (May 2004)
Nobody Asked Me, But... (April 2004)
Volatility (March 2004)
Hold to Your Shirt
While Others Throw in the Towel (February 2004)
Permabears and Cult
Behavior (January 2004)
Testing a Trading
System (December 2003)
Dow Theory (October
2003)
MSN Money: "The Speculator"
May 5, 2000-Nov. 24, 2005
Thanksgiving 2005: Give Thanks for Pilgrims (and McDonald's) (11/24/2005)
Thanksgiving 2004 (11/22/2004)
Dow 10,000: Careful What You Wish For (11/18/2003)
Our Final Advice: Go With the Evidence (9/4/2003)
CNBC Money Editor Jon Markman Bids Farewell to The Speculator (9/9/2003)
The Best Indicators Out There (8/28/2003)
10 Buyback Stocks Worth Buying Now (8/21/2003)
Do Harvard-Educated CEOs Deliver? (8/14/2003)
Are You An Investing Predator -- Or Prey? (8/7/2003)
Confidence Pays Off, If It's Earned (7/31/2003)
Readers Offer Proverbs to Trade By (7/24/2003)
Summertime -- and the Losing Is Easy (7/17/2003)
More Market Tricks, Trapdoors and Tomfoolery (7/10/2003)
7 Pursuit-of-Happiness All-Stars (7/3/2003)
When CEOs Call a Meeting, Buy the Stock (6/26/2003)
A Star Rises from the Ashes with 4 Picks (6/19/2003)
Adventures with a Globetrotting Investor (6/12/2003)
10 Dow Plays for a Good Ol' Summertime (6/5/2003)
A 12-Stock Strategy for the Biotech Boom (5/29/2003)
What's Good for Bonds is Good for Stocks (5/22/2003)
We Road-Test a Rule of Thumb (5/15/2003)
Overvalued? Stocks Look Cheap to Us (5/8/2003)
Market Tricks We Fall for Again and Again (5/1/2003)
A Bad Corporate Attitude Brings Better Returns (4/24/2003)
Blue Bloods and Red Ink (4/17/2003)
Why Stocks Should Rise 19% This Year 4/10/2003
9 Tactics for Investors and Generals 4/3/2003
The Markets Reward an Indirect Attack 3/27/2003
Put Ivory-Tower Theory to a Real Test 3/20/2003
11 Stock-Slugging Tips from Ted Williams 3/13/2003
The IPO Pickings Are Slim -- But Profitable 3/6/2003
Don't Be Lured Into an IPO Con Game 2/27/2003
Commission-Free Trades and Other Scams 2/20/2003
Why a Bad Golfer Makes a Better CEO 2/13/2003
Investing Lessons You Can't Refuse 1/29/2003
Buy the Very Worst Stocks You Can Find 1/22/2003
We're Buying 8 Companies That Buy Themselves 1/16/2003
Some Companies Deserve a 'Do-Over' 1/9/2003
Four in a Row? The Odds Are Against It 1/1/2003
The Safest Bets Are Against the Crowd in 2003 12/27/2002
Introducing the VIC: A Buy Signal Easy as 2+2 12/18/2002
When the Firing Starts, Duck! 12/11/2002
10 Mid Caps to Help Stuff Your Stocking 12/4/2002
Give Thanks for the Freedom to Profit, 11/28/2002
Seven Stocks With Animal Spirits the Specs will be Buying, 11/21/2002
7 Stocks that bring out the animal in us- full version, 11/21/2002
Forget the news and follow your intuition, 11/14/2002
Does comeback kids keep going?, 11/7/2002
Nothing pay dividends like a new dividend, 10/31/2002
5 genuine buys on a Street of impostors, 10/24/2002
Higher dividends are no magic bullet, 10/17/2002
What dividends say about a stock, 10/10/2002
The earnings gimmicks roll on, 10/3/2002
Count on a company's cold, hard cash flow, 9/26/2002
Empty shelves signal a rising stock, 9/19/2002
When the market panic, buy, 9/12/2002
Hard-earned walking canes and new companions, 9/5/2002
Bears in disguise, and other literary lessons, 8/29/2002
25 literary traits every trader can use, 8/22/2002
A warning sign of corporate woes?, 8/15/2002
8 lessons from the summer slide, 8/8/2002
Still bullish after the Crash of '02, 8/1/2002
Don't bet the rent on technical analysis, 7/25/2002
5 ways to give acquisitions the inquisition, 7/18/2002
We blinked when we should have bought, 7/11/2002
The market's shaken, rattled and ready to roll, 6/27/2002
All this hopeless a good thing for optimists, 6/20/2002
Foil the money-snatchers: Buy a stock, 6/13/2002
Get the jump on a jumpy market, 6/6/2002
Avoid the pits by following the pendulum, 5/30/2002
No greatness without great risk, 5/23/2002
Market momentum? Don't bet on it, 5/16/2002
Why the trend is not your friend, 5/2/2002
Buy companies buying their own stock, 4/18/2002
A good news bad news book for optimists, 4/11/2002
10 rules to squash the market competition, 4/4/2002
Fear, greed and other reasons to ignore PEs, 3/28/2002
3 lessons from ace investor George Soros, 3/21/2002
Why earnings optimism is bad news, 3/14/2002
Small business or big, the rules are the same,3/7/2002
More evidence REITs are on the brink, 2/28/2002
9 reasons REITs are about to get rocked, 2/21/2002
Sinking real estate means rising stocks, 2/14/2002
The taller they are, the harder they fall, 2/7/2002
Come-from-behind winners lose in the end, 1/31/2002
Companies that speak softly carry big profits, 1/24/2002
'We're No_ 1' usually means 'not much longer', 1/17/2002
Watch the money on the sidelines, 1/10/2002
Hedge your bets when you look for miracles, 1/3/2002
Real bargains at Nasdaq’s After-Christmas Sale, 12/27/2001
3 ways to save when trading stocks, 12/20/2001
On Wall Street, pride signals a fall, 12/13/2001
It's not a profit until you take it, 12/6/2001
In 2001, debt doesn't seem to matter, 11/29/2001
As you feast, give thanks for speculators, 11/21/2001
You make money by breaking the rules, 11/15/2001
Beware the day after a comeback, 11/8/2001
The market signals are turning yellow, 11/1/2001
Follow the insiders to 10 top biotech stocks, 10/25/2001
5 endangered species of the investing kingdom, 10/18/2001
Are home runs bad for stocks , 10/11/2001
3 immutable laws and 12 sober truths , 10/4/2001
How a NY cop made his mark in life and in death, 9/20/2001
11 dirt-cheap stocks for a scorched-earth market , 9/17/2001
Extra! -- Terror isn't predictable, but recovery is , 9/13/2001
A bear awakens feeling bullish , 9/6/2001
Sweating out a trade with a nervous pro, 8/30/2001
How to ride a bucking market, 8/23/2001
Buy on Thursday, profit on Friday, 8/16/2001
Tips for beating the market competition , 8/9/2001
9 winning serve-and-volley trading tactics, 8/2/2001
Trade like a champion, 7/26/2001
Make money to the beat of the S&P 500, 7/19/2001
Baseball's lesson: Invest in home runs, 7/12/2001
Biotech An investing frontier for risk-takers, 7/5/2001
5 Dow greyhounds ready to run, 6/28/2001
5 high-priced stocks ready to shoot skyward, 6/21/2001
20 stock speculations in time for summer, 6/14/2001
A long, hard summer ahead for investors, 5/31/2001
An investing tool you can do without, 5/24/2001
How the Fed's moves shake markets, 5/17/2001
17 stocks to help you recover from loss, 5/10/2001
Make volatility and uncertainty your friend, 5/3/2001
A soulful lesson on investing and real value, 4/26/2001
You can hit big with $5 stocks, 4/19/2001
Invest like a market grandmaster, 4/12/2001
For stocks, the sun will come out -- someday, 4/5/2001
Even a bad market rewards risk-takers, 3/29/2001
Riches to rags and back again, 3/22/2001
Questions about the wild market, 3/15/2001
5 rewarding stocks from the ragged edge, 3/8/2001
Cheap stocks can be worth the risk, 3/1/2001
Don't lose your faith in the tech sector, 2/22/2001
For love of money Casanova and the speculators, 2/14/2001
Roll the dice on a money-losing company, 2/8/2001
When the chips are down, buy, buy, buy, 2/1/2001
5 battle-tested rules for a mystifying market, 1/25/2001
3 solid stocks the market rebound missed, 1/18/2001
24 battered small-caps the insiders are buying, 1/11/2001
Do stocks grow faster in the sunshine states, 1/4/2001
Down 78% We call that stock a buy, 12/28/2000
Lessons for a lifetime -- with a side of crow, 12/21/2000
Turn a profit when the sky is falling, 12/14/2000
Why candlestick charts don't work, 12/7/2000
A swingin' Gestalt theory to rock your stocks, 11/30/2000
A trader triumphs as his era ends 11/23/2002
Place a bet on strategic long-shot investing, 11/16/2000
Why high PE stocks are good for you, 11/9/2000
Wall Street prefers Democrats -- and gridlock, 11/2/2000
The long and short of year-end momentum buying, 10/26/2000
When best and worst diverge, follow the worst, 10/19/2000
Big stocks under $5 real bargains, 10/12/2000
Revenge of the old-hearted investors, 10/5/2000
Spotting the next generation of 'Wow!' stocks, 9/29/2000
Trading rules that hold true, sink or swim, 9/21/2000
18 stocks for adventurous investors, 9/15/2000
Value lovers tilt at the windmills of growth, 9/8/2002
There's light at the end of summer, 7/28/2000
Meet the Willie Mays of finance, 7/21/2000
Investors cap bullish week Will Greenspan spoil it, 7/14/2000
8 new rules to help you ride the bull, 7/7/2000
After six market months, a climactic equilibrium, 6/30/2000
Perfect storm leaves markets swamped, 6/23/2000
On baseball, strategy and the technology revolution, 6/16/2000
The calm between market storms, 6/9/2000
Nasdaq takes big swing at rational exuberance, 6/2/2000
Time to confront (and capture) the worthy market, 5/26/2000
Adapt or die in this Darwinian market, 5/19/2000
5 rules to ace the market game, 5/12/2000
Comeback for heavyweights after a bruising week, 5/5/2000
April losses clear the way for new growth (4/28/2000)
Shakeout left the market in stronger hands (4/21/2000)
Worldly Investor
April 4, 2000 - May 18, 2001
Note: Worldly Investor's site is now defunct. The columns are not available in the original format.
Broken Rules, Shattered Expectations (4/15/2000)
The Street.com
January 27 - March 6, 2000
Last Week's Rally, This Week's Caveat (3/6/00)
The Perfect Tell (3/2/00)
Prelude to a Rally (2/28/00)
We Thought We'd Heard It All (2/24/00)
The X-Files (2/22/00)
First the Internet, now the Human Genome (2/18/00)
TSC Readers Send Sensational Proverbs and Win Wine! (2/17/00)
The New New Ratio (2/15/00)
Clean-Air Turbulence (2/14/000
Proverbs for Traders (2/10/00)
Striking a Strategy Balance in Scary Market Conditions (2/8/00)
A Good Week for Those Who Kept Their Heads--and Canes (2/4/00)
Planning Around January Is a Chancy Strategy (2/3/00)
Looking for Tomorrow's Winners Among Today's Losers (2/1/00)
Even Panics Have Their Uses (1/28/00)
When New Beginnings Meet Old Realities (1/27/00)