Even the most hands off investors have got to be concerned about recent market volatility. Besides the dime-a-dozen opinions of top- down analyzers, I keep track of some bottom up observers from the trenches. Not for fast trading information, but for early warning or confirmation of trends. CNBC Jim Cramer may be an egotistic clown, but his "Mad Money" opening comments have gotten more thought provoking recently.
Last week he outlined the history of last couple years as driven by his fellow hedge funders yanking things around (a few paragraphs down) starting with "Go back to the colossal selloff that began in 2008. The whole thing started because "...