Shailesh Kumar, MBA, is the founder of Value Stock Guide where he talks about value investing.

FORBES: Commission-Free ETFs Are Not Really Free

The progress of the health care reform plan was not a great guide for stock market action.

FORBES: Charts Provide Reliable Warnings

The updated, second edition of How Markets Really Work: A Quantitative Guide to Stock Market Behavior by Larry Connors and Cesar Alvarez is now available.

FORBES: With shares of Microsoft

Coming Spring 2012: the second edition of How Markets Really Work: A Quantitative Guide to Stock Market Behavior by Larry Connors and Cesar Alvarez.

FORBES: Market Loves CAT, Maybe Deere

If you'd rather have an experienced guide do the stock picking for you, there are a number of specialized mutual funds to choose from.

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The stock market also has been a reliable guide for investors in several other ways.

FORBES: Is The Stock Market Already Telegraphing The Reelection of President Obama?

We think that PC underperformance is largely expected, and neither the print nor the guide will have much impact on the stock.

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As a guide, without loss-making companies on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, reported profits would be one-and-a-half times greater than they were in the past fiscal year.

ECONOMIST: Tax reform runs late

Should that selling take the stock back to oversold levels, traders should let the ratings again be their guide as to when GOOG is again at levels where reversals and significant short term gains have been more common than not.

FORBES: Google Gets Going After Seven-Day Sell-Off

News of the delay sent Gemstar stock plummeting to lows it hadn't seen since 1999, since it will likely make potential programming guide partners hold off from doing any new deals with the company.

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