This post provides links to a number of interesting articles I have read over the past few days that you may also enjoy.

• Michael Mackenzie, Saskia Scholtes and Aline van Duyn (Financial Times): Trepidation as Fed prepares to end easing, October 29, 2009. As the Federal Reserve’s programme of buying mortgage debt edges towards $1,000 billion this week, investors are starting to worry about what happens once the central bank starts to slow down and exit from this key plank of its monetary easing policy.

• Quint Tatro (Minyanvile): Seven lessons from a legend, October 29, 2009. Jesse Livermore was wealthy and broke several times over during his tumultuous life, which ended in his suicide. His ability to make and lose millions garnered him many lessons which the trading community have enshrined over the decades since his death. Yet these lessons and

This post provides links to a number of thought-provoking articles I have read over the past few days that you may also find of interest.

• Doug Kass (TheStreet.com): Market has likely topped, August 26, 2009. Markets top during times of enthusiasm. I believe that the markets are now overshooting to the upside and that the US stock market has likely peaked for the year.

• Phil Izzo (The Wall Street Journal): Economists react: Bernanke reappointment is “good news“, August 25, 2009. Economists, lawmakers, bloggers and others weigh inPresident Obama’s decision to reappoint Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke.

• Mohamed El-Erian (FT Alphaville): Bernanke’s four point ‘to-do’ list, August 25, 2009. Pimco’s chief executive comments on Ben Bernanke’s reappointment for a second term at Chairman of the Federal Reserve.

• Ambrose Evans-Pritchard (Telegraph): The troubling side of