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Fast Money is an American financial investing television program hosted by Dylan Ratigan that began airing on the CNBC cable/satellite TV channel on 2006-06-21. Originally airing as a weekly (and later, a periodical) series, this program spun off from a weekly segment that first aired in the May 2006 episodes of On the Money, which Ratigan previously hosted until 2007-01-08 (coincidentally the same night Fast Money re-debuted as a nightly series), when Melissa Francis and then later Carmen Wong Ulrich,took over the hosting duties for OTM.

Fast Money is broadcast every weeknight at 5pm ET on CNBC from the NASDAQ MarketSite in New York City. Though the show was originally taped live, it was taped earlier in the day (similar to Jim Cramer's Mad Money program), until 2007-10-10. ^[1] See "Programming and Ratings" section below for more.

After the success of Mad Money, CNBC looked to replicate that success with another program with a similar format. The program was created by Susan Krakower, V.P. of Strategic Programming & Development, and producer Dan Hoffman, the same individuals responsible for the development of Mad Money. Original music for Fast Money was composed and performed by Willie Wilcox of Willie Wilcox Music.

The program is "moderated" by Dylan Ratigan ("The Commissioner") and he is joined by 4 professional Wall Street traders: Jeff Macke, Pete Najarian, Guy Adami, and Karen Finerman. The group discusses various investment strategies and debate the merits of each other's arguments for or against a particular stock or sector. Tim Strazzini, an original panelist, was let go by the network on 2007-05-18 and replaced by Pete Najarian. ^[2] Eric Bolling, who was also an original panelist, left the network in August 2007 for unknown reasons (he joined the Fox Business Network two months later), and was replaced on 2007-09-04 by Finerman. The program is known to tackle more complex financial items than other CNBC shows; such as options trading, commodities, ETFs, and technical analysis (which was usually done by Bolling and now by Carter Worth or Dan Fitzpatrick). Tim Seymour (The Ambassador) has been added as a 5th trader to the desk in October 2008. Tim is the founder and managing partner at Seygem Asset Management.