I was just reminded of how much I miss seeing Eric Bolling on CNBC’s ‘Fast Money’ show. On today’s Wallstrip chat he gives some good advice on how to trade this volatile market, his thoughts on a few commodities, talks about what makes a good trader and even mentions the foolish bet that Cramer [...]

Here’s some follow-up on the Cramer market manipulation controversy. (hat tip to MaoXian):

Jim Cramer took the airwaves this morning and backed away from controversial remarks made in a December 2006 internet television interview with TheStreet.com.
A contrite and nervous sounding Cramer told MSNBC’s Don Imus that “mistakes were made” when he appeared on the internet business [...]

Wow, I can’t believe Cramer admitted to manipulating futures.

“A lot of times when I was short, I would create a level of activity beforehand that would drive the futures. . . . It’s a fun game,” Cramer said in the Webcast, which was moderated by TheStreet.com Executive Editor Aaron Task.
Cramer later said [...]

Michelle B submits: Several bloggers have commented recently about CNBC’s excitable coverage of the Dow Jones Industrial Average setting a record. Since a price-weighted index containing a very small number of stocks is fairly insignificant in the trading world, why did CNBC latched onto to this relatively unimportant event?
During the time of the technology [...]

After seeing the disastrous ‘earnings’ (losses) from Shanda Interactive (SNDA for the ‘home gamers’. I went back to look at my January 10th read of the chart. I’m glad my friend took my advice to stay out b/c just as I feared, it’s got stopped cold by its 50-day moving average — the [...]

For the last two days I’ve been discussing SNDA with a friend of mine. She asked me what I thought about it yesterday morning and I told her that I didn’t like it because it’s under its 50 and 200-day moving averages. Cramer mentioned it on Mad Money last night and caused today’s [...]

A little while ago I was asked why I take the last two days of options expiration weeks off. I know I’ve mentioned the reasons several times and they’re scattered all over the site so I’ll list them here:
There are usually strange things that happen during expiration week. I’ve seen what appeared to [...]

If you missed Cramer’s appearance on ‘Conan’ last night you missed some good laughs. Jim even revealed how he got caught up in the ‘Booya’ thing. Much to my chagrin it’s not because Jim was a fan of the Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E. (from my home town of Carson, CA). That episode re-airs Monday [...]

Time has an article about the success of Jim Cramer’s Mad Money show on CNBC. I’m surprised that his show is the #1 show on CNBC. I figured that ‘Squawk Box’ would hold that honor. (I’m sure the CNBC on-air personalities have mixed feeling about that fact!) But then again, ‘Mad Money’ [...]

Jim Cramer’s posting his ‘25 Investing Rules’ as part of a promo for his new book ‘Jim Cramer’s Real Money: Sane Investing in an Insane World’. So far 13 of the rules are up and he’ll be adding one more each day. The rules aren’t anything earth shattering but it never hurts to [...]