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Premarket Analysis for 5/12- Upgrades/Downgrades, Gappers, Actionable Calls

Submitted By Andy Wang
Submitted by Optiondragon La Ti Da - The Icicles From Briefing.com Periodicals Wrap-Up for Monday, May 12th WALL STREET JOURNAL: The Wall Street Journal reported that a spokesperson for New Corp. (NWS) said the company has dropped out of the bidding for Tribune’s (TRB) Newsday. This leaves...

Market Forecast + Sector Watch: SPX, Nasdaq, USO, OIH, XME, XLF, INX2, SOX

Submitted By Andy Wang
As mentioned in my Weekly Wrap, the market ended down last week, with some commodity sectors acting strong. The Dow ended the week down 312.32 points; SPX lost 25.62 points; Nasdaq slid 31.47 points. The techs held up pretty well, but, the financials were weak. Let’s take a look at where the...

Rally tires, but don't throw in the towel yet

Submitted By Sal Mangano
In last week's post we determined the rally was moderating. This week we got confirmation that this is true. An overview of the short-term technical picture is presented in the following chart of market statistics collected by our Alert HQ process. Each weekend we scan over 7200 stocks and ETFs...

Moving averages and DMI for stocks in the S&P 500 - what can we learn?

Submitted By Sal Mangano
Here are some interesting tables of data I just derived from running the Alert HQ process. We scan about 7200 stocks and ETFs each weekend looking at various technical analysis characteristics. The following tables show some numbers for the stocks in the S&P 500. Moving Average Analysis -- Here...

Moving averages of S&P 500 stocks - what can they tell us?

Submitted By Sal Mangano
Here is an interesting table of data I just derived from running the Alert HQ process. We scan about 7200 stocks and ETFs each weekend looking at various technical analysis characteristics. The following table shows some numbers for the stocks in the S&P 500. What we have is the number of...

Alert HQ for the week ending May 9, 2008

Submitted By Sal Mangano
This post is to announce that the latest list of stock alerts is up and available at Alert HQ. Each week we scan over 7200 stocks and ETFs looking for fresh BUY and SELL signals. This week's results are now available. This week the major averages were down roughly 2%. Oil, AIG and the perennial...

Developing and Evaluating Trading Systems

Submitted By Jeff Miller
Improved technology, more power. We would expect this to be good. In fact, more power can enable us to do exactly the wrong thing. This happens all of the time with the world's most powerful computer, the human mind. A...

Premarket Analysis for 5/9- Upgrades/Downgrades, Gappers, Actionable Calls

Submitted By Andy Wang
Submitted by Optiondragon I Turn My Camera On- Spoon From Briefing.com Periodicals Wrap-Up for Friday, May 9th WALL STREET JOURNAL: Harris Corp (HRS), concerned about its future growth, may see limited opportunity and may consider selling itself, the Wall Street Journal reported. If it does decide...

Premarket Analysis for 5/8 - Upgrades/Downgrades, Gappers, Actionable Calls

Submitted By Andy Wang
Submitted By Optiondragon Kanye West- Stronger From briefing.com Periodicals Wrap-Up for Thursday, May 8th from flyonthewall.com FINANCIAL TIMES: According to senior industry sources, the Financial Times reported that the Ministry of Defense could ask General Dynamics (GD) to provide the vehicle...

The Individual Investor Experience

Submitted By Jeff Miller
At "A Dash" we let the big guys do the marketing research for us. Television ads for online brokers indicate that "leading investors" are thinking for themselves instead of relying upon help from their former investment advisors. Not wanting to...

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SAFECO chart looks fishy

Submitted By Sal Mangano
This past weekend, our Alert HQ market scan identified SAFECO Corp. (SAF) as a BUY. Since then, we heard that Liberty Mutual was making an offer to acquire SAFECO at a significant premium. I cannot say that Alert HQ has the ability to identify buyout candidates. What I can say is that Alert HQ has...

HugeROI, A Private Investment Club for Alternative Investing

Submitted By Lee Thomas
HugeROI.com is not the typical investment club as defined by the SEC therefore not required to be registered. While they do have several membership levels, the fees are just club access fees. No funds are collected, used or invested for the members in securities or investments. So what do the...

Sallie Mae - throwing themselves at the mercy of the government

Submitted By Sal Mangano
Earlier in the week I wrote a post listing some of the recent events taking place in the student loan industry. The title of the post, "Student loan industry imploding?", gives a flavor of the point of view of the post. Since then, we have heard that Bank of America (BAC) will stop making private...

Starting a Business: Top 10 Do's and Don'ts

Submitted By Tushar Mathur
TOP TEN DO'S1. Live frugally and begin saving up money for operating your business.2. Learn your business by working for someone else in the same business first.3. Consider the benefits of starting a moonlight business.4. Consider the advantages of operating a family business.5. Objectively...

The bet is on!

Submitted By Gary Tanashian
My friend Otto Rock - a much smarter fundamental stock analyst than me - has made a bet with yours' truly that gold will see 900 before it sees 850. Of course Otto is right about the fundamentals and I expect that 900 level to be vaporized in a rush to much higher levels sometime over the next 6...

4 Simple Tips to Find Bottoms in Stocks

Submitted By Brian Steeves
1.  A stocks needs to lose most if not all of its sponsorship to form a true bottom -when everyone has downgraded a stock and it still has a decent balance sheet, your downsize is limited 2.  Bad news hits and the stock cease to go down -bottoms get formed only when all of the sellers...

A Weak Dollar Is Bad for America and ETFs

Submitted By Carl Delfeld
Martin Feldstein, the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors under President Reagan, wrote an article for the Financial Times recently which outlines why he believes that a more “competitive” or weaker US dollar is good for America. I cannot overstate how strongly I believe that this...

More tips for TradeRadar users

Submitted By Sal Mangano
As I continue to use the TradeRadar software to analyze many different stocks in various situations, I am getting a better feel for the strengths and weaknesses of the BUY and SELL signals. There are definitely a few nuances users should be aware of when trading based on the signals. Let's use a...

US Dollar - Big Picture for Perspective

Submitted By Gary Tanashian
Regardless of any near term rallies based on deflationary scares, over-valued foreign currencies or what have you, the US Dollar is sickly in the big picture. It is why I am bullish on gold in the big picture as an American. Now, I am not bullish on any major currency that denominates a nation...

Premarket Analysis for 4/25- Upgrades/Downgrades, Gappers, Actionable Calls

Submitted By Andy Wang
Submitted by Optiondragon Happy will be back on Monday!!! Smashing Pumpkins - Rocket From briefing.com...

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