Does his experience as a market maker help him as a trader? No doubt, but you'll be surprised at what he thinks is the most important part of his success.

John Mauldin looks at capacity utilization, more on housing, some thoughts on debt and deflation, and some intriguing charts on volatility in the last secular bear-market cycle.

There's always some place where you're vulnerable.

Lawrence G. McMillan reviews the options market in his weekly column for August 21.

More analysts suspect more liquidity problems are lingering around the corner. What does this mean for traders?

One of the most curious things about the financial world circa 2009 is the yield on the 10-year Treasury note.

The old formula won’t work – neither for Americans nor for the Chinese.

Despite the fact that a majority of economists polled by The Wall Street Journal say the recession is already over, there is no durable recovery.

Price movements tell us something, but only in their extreme form, and only because we have an intuition about the way nature works.

This coming "recovery" is not going to feel like a typical one, and those expecting a "V"-shaped recovery are simply making projections from previous economic recoveries, which, based on the fundamentals, are not warranted.