Random Roger's Big Picture
(yes, it really is called that) covers portfolio management, the market outlook, foreign stocks and ETFs.  Its author is Roger Nusbaum, a portfolio manager for wealth management firm Your Source Financial (Arizona). Mr. Nusbaum has worked in the financial industry for 20 years, first as a retail broker, later as an institutional equities and options trader, and now in wealth management. He has had articles published in Barron's, Yahoo Finance, the Motley Fool, and ETFzone.com, and appears regularly on CNBC Asia's Market Watch commenting on U.S. markets.  The blog is quite personal, but contains useful thoughts about asset allocation and portfolio management, which most other financial blogs don't cover. It's also particularly strong on foreign markets and closed-end funds.

Raw Greed
"The motivating principal of this blog," writes Raw Greed author Andy So, "is my desire to educate others, prevent greed and speculation in the market, and turn a profit from my stock recommendations. Hopefully with more readers my own system and knowledge will improve." Raw Greed has two particular attractions: the analysis is fundamental rather than chart-oriented, and it covers a broad range of stocks and sectors, not just technology. The style is chatty, with an engaging personal tone -- "I’ve added DLTR, Dollar Tree Stores and DG, Dollar General Corporation to my watchlist...". Downsides? Some might want more rigor than is offered, and the writing suffers from occasional minor grammatical errors. Launched in May 2005, 1-4 posts daily, full disclosure of positions when discussing stocks owned.

Reasonable Bystanders
is written by Shawn Forbes, Chris Paul, and John Hatem, three finance professors at the Department of Finance and Quantitative Analysis at Georgia Southern University. Not surprising given the authors' field, Reasonable Bystanders is more finance focused than many other economics blogs. Posts often react to articles in the Wall Street Journal and other mainstream media publications, pointing out mistakes or common falacies. Many readers will like that -- it makes the blog topical and relevant. Others may find it too reactive and wish that the professors set more of their own agenda. Launched in September 2005, about one post per week.

Rocks and Boulders
is written by the members of family money management firm StoneRiver Capital. The blog covers arbitrage, event-driven and special situations, defined by market inefficiencies and mispricing from misunderstood risk. Despite the fact the authors are finance professionals, they remain anonymous (they say to avoid breaching the strict SEC investor solicitation rules), using only their first names - Gary, Veronica, Ari, Dan, Anna and Salvatore. Gary and Veronica have 18 years of investment experience; Veronica was in charge of private equity at a large hedge fund. The rest of the team has more limited experience, but all are now involved in the money management firm. "We are believers", Gary says, "in expected value methodology and the use of downside-upside risk-return analysis". Relatively few blogs focus on special situations, so this professionally authored blog is a useful resource. Launched in February 2005 with 5 to 10 posts per day.

Ron's Stock 'n Stuffer World 

Ron Sen blogs about the market

Rule #1 Blog: Phil Town on Investing
covers the investment philosophy, experiences on the speaking circuit and personal anecdotes of Phil Town, who says he turned a thousand dollars into a million dollars and eventually grew his portfolio to $20 million. What's Rule #1, you may be thinking? "When investing, aim not to lose money, as opposed to make money". This principle, claims Mr Town, comes from Warren Buffett; perhaps he's refering to Buffett's goal of buying stocks with a margin of safety, ie. at a discount to their intrinsic value. The blog contains fairly long pieces that will warm the hearts of self-help book fans. If you're looking for stock analysis, though, this isn't the place to come, as there's no discussion of individual stocks. And at times the blog feels like blatant promotion for Mr Town, his upcoming book and his Get Motivated seminars. In fact, some of the posts are reprints from... Get Motivated Magazine, which doesn't seem to reach the heights of financial sophistication. Example: "If you want to find a great stock that is undervalued you would look first for specific parameters.  Parameters are just facts about that company that computers can collect and you can dig out." Bottom line: read this blog to get a financial hug (or to learn what parameters are), not to improve your investing skills. Launched in February 2005, roughly one post per day. Update: since this review was written, Mr Town has added more stock-specific content to the blog. A particular strength: his willingness to respond in detail to readers' questions.