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.

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