This whipsaw movement extended throughout 2007 until finally breaking sharply to the downside in January 2008.

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In other words, the boom partly reflects the cyclical trends that continually whipsaw agriculture.

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The issue is not the relative expectations game that tends to whipsaw stocks.

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The gold market saw whipsaw action on Wednesday when significant selling appeared on the open, pushing prices down sharply.

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The whipsaw trading can complicate longer-term investors' efforts to assess companies' prospects and create volatility that draws the ire of corporate managers.

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This has helped me to avoid a lot of the whip and crazy action that tends to whipsaw traders left and right.

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So as tough as it may be to commit money in this whipsaw market, we all may do well to take their lead.

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Ah yes, the graveyard of many an investor: The Old Whipsaw.

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Forbes asked Tomczyk specifically whether individual investors whipsaw themselves by getting out of the market when times are bad and getting too giddy when times are good.

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So you saw whipsaw coverage on TV.

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Like Skilling, Lay has heaped the blame for Enron's spectacular failure on skittish investors, a whipsaw market and "the deceit of Andy Fastow"--the former finance chief who pleaded guilty to in January 2004 to wire and securities fraud, two of the 98 counts he'd faced, and agreed to a decade in the slammer.

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