Every trader has a morning routing when it comes to preparing for the market day. Some traders are more intense than others because they have more at stake. Regardless of the size of your portfolio, here are some tips that can help get your morning started right.

This week I stumbled upon an investor who had the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy called at $8.15 and shorted the whole way down to pennies. How do I know? I tracked his live trades for free on Covestor.com.

Today the Securities and Exchange Commission banned investors from actively short selling 799 different financial companies. While only temporary, the decision was made during an emergency as the financial crisis continues to cause chaos for the stock market.

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Today’s featured stock question comes directly from the stock forum here on the site. The community has offered some great answers so far so feel free to view them all. New member PND4 asks the following question,

“Hi, I am new at this. I have seen the stock market going down and have been told [...]

The following stock chart of Lehman Brothers (NYSE:LEH) offers a great example of simple support and resistance. Support and Resistance is a basic form of technical analysis used commonly every day to mark potential buy and sell points on a stock chart.

The Russian main stock exchanges were all ordered to be closed for a second day Thursday as Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is eagerly trying to defuse the chaos that has persisted. 500 billion rubles ($20 Billion) was injected into the financial sector today as a result.

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