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Trading Ideas for Tuesday
The stock scan conducted after the close on Monday found 19 winners and 107 losers. Click on the column headers below to sort the list of winners.
The scan is designed to find stocks that are current “in play”; criteria includes price movement, range and liquidity (500,000 shares on the day, 20-day average volume of 1.5 million shares). The entire list has been ranked and sorted relative to performance against the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ 100 indexes. Please refer to the podcast for background information.
Portfolio Strategy for June 30
There will be no commentary in today’s issue as we will review June 2008 returns for all portfolios after month-end.
As discussed last week, clients with funds in the U.S. Government Thrift Saving Plan should have all funds in the Government Securities Investment (G) Fund as of the close on June 30 so that we can redeploy the assets at the close on July 1. I understand that the requests must be submitted for processing by 12 Noon on July 1 and will publish the target allocation tomorrow night (June 30) at the same time as the Conservative Retirement [...]
Trading Ideas for Monday
The stock scan conducted after the close on Friday found 13 winners and 115 losers. Click on the column headers below to sort the list of winners.
The scan is designed to find stocks that are current “in play”; criteria includes price movement, range and liquidity (500,000 shares on the day, 20-day average volume of 1.5 million shares). The entire list has been ranked and sorted relative to performance against the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ 100 indexes. Please refer to the podcast for background information.
Trading Ideas for Friday
The stock scan conducted after the close on Thursday found 11 winners and 219 losers. Click on the column headers below to sort the list of winners.
The scan is designed to find stocks that are current “in play”; criteria includes price movement, range and liquidity (500,000 shares on the day, 20-day average volume of 1.5 million shares). The entire list has been ranked and sorted relative to performance against the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ 100 indexes. Please refer to the podcast for background information.
Trading Ideas for Thursday
The stock scan conducted after the close on Wednesday found 3 winners and 53 losers. Click on the column headers below to sort the entire list.
The scan is designed to find stocks that are current “in play”; criteria includes price movement, range and liquidity (500,000 shares on the day, 20-day average volume of 1.5 million shares). The entire list has been ranked and sorted relative to performance against the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ 100 indexes. Please refer to the podcast for background information.
Podcast: The Prophets of Gloom
“Remember, if all else fails, playing dead is always a good option!” — Scaredy Squirrel
Ah, it’s that time again: the Prophets of Gloom are out in force. In today’s podcast, we discuss market sentiment and what the charts look like.
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Leading the charge was Royal Bank of Scotland credit strategist Bob Janjuah’s prediction of the S&P dropping 20% by September and Louise Yamada’s call that a big head and shoulder’s pattern is in place for the Dow Industrials.
There’s more:
Buyout reckoning [...]
Trading Ideas for Wednesday
The stock scan conducted after the close on Tuesday found 4 winners and 95 losers. Click on the column headers below to sort the entire list.
The scan is designed to find stocks that are current “in play”; criteria includes price movement, range and liquidity (500,000 shares on the day, 20-day average volume of 1.5 million shares). The entire list has been ranked and sorted relative to performance against the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ 100 indexes. Please refer to the podcast for background information.
Trading Ideas for Tuesday
In case you want a good read, check out the recent remarks by Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of Canada: Capitalizing on the Commodity Boom: the Role of Monetary Policy
The stock scan conducted after the close on Monday found 19 winners and 143 losers. Click on the column headers below to sort the list of winners.
The scan is designed to find stocks that are current “in play”; criteria includes price movement, range and liquidity (500,000 shares on the day, 20-day average volume of 1.5 million shares). The entire list has been ranked and sorted [...]
Trading Ideas for Monday
The stock scan conducted after the close on Friday found 8 winners and 151 losers. Click on the column headers below to sort the list of winners.
The scan is designed to find stocks that are current “in play”; criteria includes price movement, range and liquidity (500,000 shares on the day, 20-day average volume of 1.5 million shares). The entire list has been ranked and sorted relative to performance against the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ 100 indexes. Please refer to the podcast for background information.
Portfolio Strategy for June 23
We mentioned in last week’s issue that even as inflation fears became the primary driver of selling in bonds and stocks, the upward movement in commodities (GSG) and Swiss (FXF) had stalled.
This week saw more selling of stocks as investor sentiment darkened somewhat. Leading the charge was Royal Bank of Scotland credit strategist Bob Janjuah’s prediction of the S&P dropping 20% by September and Louise Yamada’s call that a big head and shoulder’s pattern is in place for the Dow Industrials.
As interesting as these predictions might be, we know from experience that the market [...]
A Look at the HMOs
We recently wrote about weakness in the major drugs industry. On Wednesday, another healthcare-related industry — insurance, accident and health — saw downside pressure after Coventry Health Care Inc (CVH) made a surprise announcement that it was lowering its guidance 46% for the second quarter.
Trading Ideas for Thursday featured a couple of insurance companies in losers list. Let’s look at six companies that are involved in the industry that are members of Health Care SPDR (XLV).
Aetna Inc. (AET)
Aetna expects 2008 operating earnings of $4 a share
Aetna (AET) on Thursday said it expects 2008 operating earnings of $4 a share [...]
Chinese Oil Companies and Investor Sentiment
In January 2008, we asked if PetroChina (PTR) was “Out of Gas?”
PetroChina (PTR) and China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (SNP) have underperformed the broad market, partly due to government imposed subsidies for domestic fuel prices for consumers. PTR and SNP had a nice jump in price yesterday as China announced a surprise fuel price hike of around 18%:
China shocks with 18 percent fuel price rise
China raised retail gasoline and diesel prices on Thursday by up to 18 percent, a move that threatens to stoke domestic angst over decade-high inflation less than two months before Beijing hosts Olympics games.
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