With the market the way it is today, you can’t help but look for an investment, any investment, that might react differently than everything else. These kind of investments are “non-correlated” because they move independently of the overall market. But they can be tricky to locate, and even harder to trust.

We’re fans of the “bellwethers” when it comes to tracking the stock market… watching the company that draws the most interest and publicity in each industry.

If you are like me, you are suddenly realizing that your income did not go up by 0.2%, or any percent, because if it did, it seems like you would have remembered it. And anyway, if my income DID go up, then where in the hell is all of this money?

Over the last few weeks, the major market averages have been stuck in a severe sell-off.

Ritchie Brothers… Transocean… Schlumberger. We’ve spent a lot of ink in DailyWealth showing you “domino effect” plays on the global commodity boom.

As recently as a month ago, Erin Callan was on top of the world. The WSJ did a glowing piece on her rise through the ranks. Condé Nast’s Portfolio magazine dubbed her the most powerful woman on Wall Street.

It can often be quite a lonely place and the investment crowd may call you all kinds of derogatory names – but when it comes to stock picking, nothing beats the feeling of striking out on your own, going against conventional wisdom and being proved correct.

Last Thursday, Mechel OAO (MTL:NYSE) announced record results for 2007.

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Many people are in sticker shock thanks to high gas prices and oil that punched through the $135-a-barrel level recently, before sliding back.