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Global stock markets are still in the selling pressure and volatility index VIX is already second week above 40 points. In fact this week index is oscillating around level of 50. This is right time for value investor for bargain searching. Many worthy stocks are below P/E 10 with still perspective growth and book value equaling to stock price.

Now that the third quarter is over with, I wanted to pass along some thoughts about changes to my Buy List. I make changes once a year in mid-December, and start tracking the new list on January 1. Right now, I'm considering cutting a few stocks.

While the SEC's no short list was meant to protect financial stocks from excessive short selling, the current ban covers stocks comprising nearly 20% of the S&P 500's market capitalization, even though the Financial sector only makes up 15% of the index.

Greenlight CapitalGreenlight Capital | David Einhorn HoldingsThis post is being written as part of HedgeFundBlogger.com's Investment Securities Tool which analyzes the holdings of hedge fund managers.I like to track a variety of hedge funds with different strategies just to see what everyone is up to each quarter.

Scanning the charts this early Monday morning after the insane market action last week, which included the market tanking all week, followed by the big dead cat bounce rally on Friday, I was wondering what would pop on the radar screen for a buy or sell this week. Actually not much of anything looked very interesting.

Maverick CapitalMaverick Capital Management Holdings AnalysisThis post is being written as part of HedgeFundBlogger.com's Investment Securities Tool which analyzes the holdings of hedge fund managers.Lee Ainslie started Maverick Capital back in 1993 with $38 million. Nowadays, the fund is worth $10 billion.

Rebecca Engmann Darst co-authored this article. Lehman Brothers (LEH) – Caught at the very center of this Jupiter’s storm in volatility is, of course, Lehman Brothers, whose fight for survival has incited so much of the sector’s turbulence in recent sessions.

Quite frankly I'm getting a bit annoyed at those who are claiming the dollar rally is real. Anyone who is remotely familiar with asset price movements knows that even the biggest declines are eventually met with corrections, just like soaring oil is correcting.

Julie Davidson has been named chief financial officer for United Healthcare of the Midwest. (UNH)

Are the top value hedge funds going to beat the market every quarter, or just outperform when the market is going up? Maybe we should ask Will Ferrell, errr, I mean Robert Goulet: