I've blogged about this before, but after the past few days of performance in the stock market, it's worth mentioning it again.

If you were at all surprised by the last few days in the stock market and you don't want to be surprised like that again, or if you aren't quite sure what to do right now with your investments, I strongly recommend changing your regular diet of financial information.

In the dot com crash in 2000 I was surprised.  Very surprised.  And percentage-wise I lost a good chunk of change.  And then I found that there was a whole class of people who weren't surprised because they knew whom to listen to, and (just as important) whom not to listen to.

The following recommendations are less about finding a source that tells you exactly what to do, and more about gaining a steady diet of good information from which you can learn over time and make high quality decisions.

Richard Russell's Dow Theory Letters.  Yup, $300/year is a lot of money.  On days like today on the stock market, it pays for itself many many times over.

Outstanding Investor Digest.

Housing Panic.  It's free, and the quality isn't as good as the above sources, but it's a good voice from the more negative side of things.  Maybe it's that high school debate training in me, but I feel better when I'm hearing both sides of an issue.

Bull! A History of the Boom and Bust.

By the way, I am always on the hunt for additional high quality sources of financial information.  If you know of one, send it my way.