Fast Money is an American financial stock trading talk show that began airing on the CNBC cable/satellite TV channel on Jan. 8, 2007.

The group discusses various investment strategies, including technical analysis, and debate the merits of each other's arguments for or against a particular stock or sector.

Most episodes feature regularly appearing traders: Guy Adami, Bonawyn Eison, Karen Finerman, Steve Grasso, Brian Kelly, Mike Khouw, Pete Najarian, Dan Nathan, Tim Seymour, and Nadine Terman.

The show originally aired from CNBC headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, with Ratigan as host, and a regular panel of Jeff Macke, Guy Adami, Tim Strazzini, and Eric Bolling.

[6] On Fridays, beginning with March 5, 2010, the show was truncated to just 30 minutes as Options Action (also hosted by Melissa Lee) was aired in the 5:30 ET timeslot.

As of January 2009, among the many contributors are producer Jason Farkas, and tape producers Heather Wilcox and Boaz Halaban, responsible for creating and delivering the final show to air, after creating special Avid Adrenaline edited elements by CNBC Staff Avid Editors such as Conrad deVroeg, Gary Princz, Diana Constantino, and Dave Lettieri, and constructing the show with CNBC Staff Grass Valley NewsEdit Editors Rich Uliasz, Cosimo Camporeale, Carolyn Shivey, Vanessa DiPietro, Keri Conjura, Diana Acosta, and Kelly Frisco.

On 2007-02-27, a special edition of Fast Money, which covered that day's 416-point plunge on the Dow Jones Industrial Average, aired.

This special edition showed memorable clips from its first year on the air from the NASDAQ (where Fast Money re-debuted on 2007-01-08), and also covered that day's 277-point plunge on the Dow.

Jack Welch, former chairman and CEO of General Electric (the parent company of CNBC) and retiring NBA star Alonzo Mourning made special guest appearances on this program, which was also the first Fast Money to be filmed outdoors.

This special edition of Fast Money, which was broadcast from New York 2008-09-19 in front of a live audience, featured a guest appearance from activist investor Carl Icahn.

Guests included Keith Hennessey, assistant to the president for economic policy and Richard Brown, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation chief economist.

Students from the top business schools across America competed in the Fast Money MBA Challenge, which was also hosted by Dylan Ratigan.

Participating schools: The championship final of the Fast Money MBA Challenge was broadcast live from outside the NASDAQ Marketsite in New York City on 2007-08-22.

However it is shown between November and March on a four-hour tape delay to fill the one-hour gap between the end of Street Signs and the start of Capital Connection, created by Europe not being on Daylight Saving Time.