A majority of the world's investors now believe in two great delusions. One, central banking has taken the risk out of investing, and its corollary, market prices are now on the rebound.

Toni Hansen expects the bulls to again attempt to peek their heads out on Monday, although the typical action would be for a narrower range to occur with a lot of indecision intraday.

James Mound reviews futures and commodities in his weekly report for the week of August 20.

John Mauldin explains in simple terms the very complicated story of how we went from some bad mortgage loan practices in the US to the point of world credit markets freezing up.

Professional system trader Art Collins shares his daily biases in the index, bonds and currency futures markets for August 20.

Tim Bourquin interviews Adam Hewison, who talks about the elimination of the uptick rule and how it will affect individual traders.

The dollar is going up against the euro and down against yen.  Is it because speculators are growing fearful, and because they need dollars to pay their debts and their bills?

It has been a busy week in the financial markets with two to three hundred point intraday swings in carry trades and the Dow quickly becoming the norm.

Toni Hansen writes that she expects to once again see some corrective action off the daily support heading into next week for a few weeks.

Professional system trader Art Collins shares his daily biases in the index, bonds and currency futures markets for August 17.