Word: investors
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...investor's nightmare: market fixers. Tuesday, the Feds nailed 19 bad guys, including some mobsters named "Butch" and "Boobie," in a classic "pump and dump" scheme. Read up on ways to protect yourself...
...that, Mancuso and the rest of Wall Street can thank the stalwart individual investor. It was the institutions that sold Monday. Individuals simply never got the chance. Tuesday, the overwhelming response of the little guy was to either do nothing or buy more stock. As mutual-fund managers took note, they realized two things: they would not see a rash of redemptions that day, and thus did not have to worry about keeping a lot of cash on hand; and many stocks were quite a bit cheaper than they had been a day earlier, so maybe they ought...
...else to do with your money besides the stock market. There's no money in CDs or in the banks. And gold is ridiculous." Doroshow is emblematic of the massive faith in stocks that has gripped individuals across the country. Macie Huwiler, a Chicago advertising executive, is another such investor. "I'm one of those people who are basically blase" about the market, she says. "Virtually everything I have is in my 401(k), and since I can't touch any of it, I sort of figure, what the hell. There just doesn't seem to be any point...
...still other Web users, access to good, timely information was even more important than transactions. At Quote.com real-time charts graphically update portfolios throughout the day, and investors can even create "watch lists," or mock portfolios, that monitor alternative investment options. These tools would normally sit on a broker's desk but are now accessible to anyone. "The playing field is slowly starting to be leveled," says Chris Hill, spokesman for the popular Motley Fools, an online investment-advisory forum. "More and more, the individual investor has the tools available at his or her fingertips to compete with the traders...
...Tuesday's record-setting stampede (an unprecedented 1 billion shares changed hands) may have cheated investors out of a real correction in a vastly overvalued market, and that the Dow is not done shivering yet. "This was a bad joke on the small investor," TIME Wall Street columnist Daniel Kadlec insisted. "It blindly reinforces the notion that buying on the dips is infallible--and that won't last forever. Today's rally was a reprieve, a second chance to shift your balance out of stocks somewhat because eventually, there will be a real correction...