Stocks to Watch for Monday
Teresa, December 29, 2007 @ 7:43PM ET | Link | RSS | Read via Email | Start a Discussion
The stock scan conducted after the close on Friday found 14 winners and 35 losers. Click on the column headers to sort the table below.
| Ticker | Description | Volume | Trades | AvgTrade | Close |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PBR | Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. ADS | 6,649,804 | 27,348 | 243 | 117.62 |
| BTU | Peabody Energy | 1,423,168 | 8,536 | 167 | 61.37 |
| DNR | Denbury Resources | 725,395 | 3,417 | 212 | 30.11 |
| AGU | Agrium Inc | 1,554,891 | 9,607 | 162 | 72.99 |
| JOYG | Joy Global | 924,569 | 5,852 | 158 | 66.92 |
| SLW | Silver Wheaton Corp | 1,639,522 | 6,511 | 252 | 17.51 |
| CNET | Cnet Networks | 4,452,707 | 13,892 | 321 | 9.08 |
| APOL | Apollo GroupA | 1,735,259 | 9,740 | 178 | 70.31 |
| SU | Suncor Energy | 1,186,801 | 7,339 | 162 | 110.19 |
| NE | Noble Corp | 2,124,291 | 11,482 | 185 | 56.85 |
| AEM | Agnico Eagle Mines | 1,681,733 | 7,089 | 237 | 54.5 |
| ITU | Banco Itau Holding Financeira | 2,327,903 | 7,620 | 305 | 26.04 |
| $NDX.X | Nasdaq 100 Index | 0 | 1,877 | 2107.05 | |
| CNQ | Canadian Natural Resources | 877,836 | 5,785 | 152 | 74.07 |
| $SPX.X | S&P 500 Index | 0 | 1,800 | 1478.49 | |
| PSUN | Pacific Sunwear Of Calif | 956,569 | 5,894 | 162 | 14.15 |
| CREE | Cree Inc | 3,962,713 | 12,280 | 323 | 27.85 |
| SPG | Simon Property Group | 2,127,699 | 12,063 | 176 | 87.09 |
| FDX | FedEx Corp | 2,738,964 | 14,466 | 189 | 90.62 |
| BZH | Beazer Homes USA | 1,768,099 | 5,366 | 330 | 7.11 |
| MHP | McGraw-Hill Companies | 1,431,386 | 6,650 | 215 | 43.86 |
| FNF | Fidelity National Financial | 870,143 | 3,413 | 255 | 14.77 |
| HMA | Health Management Assoc | 3,399,343 | 6,891 | 493 | 5.86 |
| NSM | National Semiconductor Corp | 3,031,643 | 11,489 | 264 | 22.71 |
| KRE | SPDR KBW Regional Bank | 860,521 | 1,624 | 530 | 36.86 |
| GRMN | Garmin Ltd | 2,262,141 | 12,238 | 185 | 99.17 |
| RF | Regions Financial Corporation | 3,782,351 | 14,440 | 262 | 23.59 |
| PDLI | PDL BioPharma Inc | 588,569 | 3,486 | 169 | 17.19 |
| GES | Guess? Inc | 1,285,723 | 6,601 | 195 | 38.97 |
| TIE | Titanium Metals | 1,053,473 | 5,348 | 197 | 26.58 |
| F | Ford Motor | 24,070,338 | 30,061 | 801 | 6.7 |
| PMCS | PMC-Sierra Inc | 2,049,324 | 7,313 | 280 | 6.6 |
| AIV | Apartment Investment & MgmtA | 2,109,074 | 9,380 | 225 | 34.62 |
| BPO | Brookfield Properties | 2,557,810 | 9,236 | 277 | 19.05 |
| GGP | General Growth Properties | 2,591,471 | 11,597 | 223 | 40.55 |
| CBAK | China BAK Battery Inc | 4,158,701 | 5,574 | 746 | 5.87 |
| HST | Host Hotels & Resorts Inc | 3,024,558 | 12,410 | 244 | 16.71 |
| ACF | Americredit Corp | 1,745,894 | 7,874 | 222 | 13.03 |
| SLXP | Salix Pharmaceuticals | 7,484,886 | 21,632 | 346 | 9.01 |
| AHT | Ashford Hospitality Tr | 1,309,464 | 5,520 | 237 | 7.23 |
| ALU | Alcatel Lucent | 12,189,450 | 14,080 | 866 | 7.23 |
| TLAB | Tellabs, Inc | 3,439,734 | 8,537 | 403 | 6.7 |
| JBLU | JetBlue Airways | 3,688,091 | 9,179 | 402 | 6 |
| SOV | Sovereign Bancorp | 5,825,521 | 18,708 | 311 | 10.96 |
| XL | XL Capital Ltd A | 1,122,039 | 6,948 | 161 | 50.02 |
| CNB | Colonial Bancgroup | 1,307,575 | 4,417 | 296 | 13.27 |
| CIT | CIT Group | 2,009,150 | 8,879 | 226 | 23.37 |
| CROX | Crocs Inc | 2,541,481 | 11,076 | 229 | 37.95 |
| CFC | Countrywide Financial Corp | 20,055,162 | 38,478 | 521 | 8.75 |
| TRID | Trident Microsystems | 1,618,346 | 6,034 | 268 | 6.14 |
| MBI | MBIA Inc | 18,903,467 | 66,910 | 283 | 18.74 |
Our scan criteria incorporates price movement, range and liquidity (500,000 shares on the day, 20-day average of 1.5 million). The list is ranked and sorted by performance against the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ 100 indexes, from best to worst.
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Weekend Media Digest
Teresa, December 29, 2007 @ 11:07AM ET | Link | RSS | Read via Email | Start a Discussion
- Greenspan Denies Responsibility for Housing Bubble
Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, insists the housing bubble had relatively little to do with him. After guiding the economy for 19 mostly prosperous years he now faces criticism for drastically lowering interest rates. Greenspan discusses economics and his tenure at the Fed with Steve Inskeep for the Morning Edition series, The Long View, a conversation with people of long experience. - More Foreign Investment for Wall Street
Over the past few months, foreign governments have come to the aid of ailing Wall Street investment banks. And this week, Singapore’s Temasek Holdings joined the list when it bought a stake in Merrill Lynch. - How Turmoil Melted a Money Fund
In August, Credit Suisse officials were startled when KKR Financial Holdings LLC, a specialty-finance affiliate of buyout titan Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., delayed repayment on more than $750 million of short-term debt held by the Credit Suisse money-market fund. The debt had been issued to finance the purchase of residential mortgages that offered a higher yield, but whose market value declined this summer in the credit crunch. - Quinoa: A Sacred, Super Crop
What was a sacred crop to the Incas has been classified as a “super crop” by the United Nations because of its high protein content. It is a complete protein, which means it has all nine essential amino acids. It also contains the amino acid lysine, which is essential for tissue growth and repair, and is a good source of manganese, magnesium, iron, copper and phosphorous. - Dark Chocolate Not Good for You After All
Your holiday loot may include an assortment of dark chocolates — perhaps a gift from a thoughtful relative who had heard about its health benefits. Now a leading medical journal says dark chocolate may not be as good for you as you think. According to an editorial in The Lancet, many chocolate makers remove flavenols — the heart-healthy ingredient — due to their bitter taste. The devil in the dark chocolate is the fat, sugar and calories it also contains, according to The Lancet. To gain any health benefit, it says, you must reduce your intake of other foods. - Honey May Be Good Cough Remedy After All
With all the negative news about children’s cough syrup, some parents are wondering how to treat their sick kids. It turns out that honey may be just the thing. New research published in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine suggests this old remedy is good for coughs.
Trading Pimp 2007: I’d like to thank the Academy…
Teresa, December 28, 2007 @ 1:19PM ET | Link | RSS | Read via Email | Start a Discussion
…or in my case, I would like to thank the guys at MoveTheMarkets.com for bestowing this great honor upon me for contributing to their profitability by writing The Ultimate Trading Course.
While there was a lot of discussion about the course material at their blog, what struck me was the debate about the cost of the course. How does a prospective buyer know that the fee is worth it? The answer is that there is no way to know for sure.
To complicate matters for those seeking knowledge is one inescapable fact: the market for trader education and trading systems is basically a market for lemons. In order to get sales, the vendor must either make incredible performance claims OR price it cheap enough for a potential buyer “to chance”.
I stated that I was willing to do neither, and it would have been the end of it except for this: we know that profitability (as TraderD pointed out) does not hinge on just the buy and sell signals; there are a number of critical elements:
- Identify appropriate trading candidates;
- Trade a basket of the qualified candidates;
- Implement position sizing to limit exposure and risk;
- Follow the buy and sell signals;
- Avoid countertrend trading; and most of all,
- DO NOT USE INSANE LEVERAGE.
Yes, success starts with a good signal or a stop. Given the number of ducks that need to be lined up, I realized that I could try to level the playing field for prospective traders much like Bruce Babcock tried to do once upon a time for my generation. His book, Commodity Futures Trading for Beginners, is still online, free.
Lemon-Aid: Leveling the Playing Field
So, here’s the deal. Think of trading as a very serious hobby. That is the appropriate mindset when you are starting out.
There is no need to pay thousands to vendors. Your money simply funds more glossy ads, mail-drops and telemarketing. They don’t have anything that is worth that, and worse, you will lose your money because even $5,000 trading systems don’t have proper position sizing algorithms built-in.
I would rather you spend money on a good platform such as TradeStation or eSignal, so from this day forward, my InVivo.Stops for TradeStation 8.x and InVivo.Stops for eSignal (coming January 8, 2008) will be available to individual traders BY DONATION. Play with it for a while. Focus on bet size and risk managment. Read Own The Zone.

