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Trading Ideas for Friday
The stock scan conducted after the close on Thursday found 43 winners and 39 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 95 winners and 23 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: A Higher Low in the Making?
WSJ described today’s action as: “The Dow Jones Industrial Average bounced higher by 270 points Tuesday thanks to strong gains in financial stocks, including a surge of more than 14% in component Bank of America. The rally reclaimed the losses experienced in a steep selloff Monday that had also been paced by banking and brokerage shares. Merrill Lynch jumped 8% after it disclosed more credit-related write-downs and plans to sell more stock late Monday. The rally was aided by a another sharp decline in crude-oil prices. The front-month contract on the Nymex fell $2.54 a barrel, or 2%, to [...]
Trading Ideas for Wednesday
The stock scan conducted after the close on Tuesday found 37 winners and 40 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
The stock scan conducted after the close on Monday found 17 winners and 47 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.
Is Cuil the New Google?
The buzz in the tech world is about the new search engine Cuil founded by ex-Googler Anna Patterson.
From Cuil.com About Us description page.
The Internet has grown exponentially in the last fifteen years but search engines have not kept up—until now. Cuil searches more pages on the Web than anyone else—three times as many as Google and ten times as many as Microsoft.
Check out Cuil.com to see how it competes with Google, Microsoft and Yahoo search engines.
Thoughts on the Macro Picture
The S&P 500 made a high on October 11, 2007, a test of top that failed. It’s been going downhill since then, besieged by a well-known laundry list of factors. What began as a financial crisis on Wall Street has now moved to Main Street and beyond, enough to dispel hopes of other countries “decoupling” from U.S. economic performance.
For many fund managers, what looked to be light at the end of the tunnel turned out to be that of the oncoming train. Surging commodity prices pushed up inflationary expectations on a global basis.
The [...]
Portfolio Strategy for July 28
Thoughts on the macro picture have been published.
ACTION FOR THIS WEEK
The Strategic Performance and Ex-U.S. model portfolios should be rebalanced at the open on Monday. The Conservative Retirement and Thrift Savings Plan model portfolios were rebalanced on July 1, 2008, and are not due for rebalancing until Friday, August 1, 2008.
Subscribers enrolled in the U.S. government Thrift Savings Plan should ensure that all balances are swept into the G Fund as of the close on July 31, 2008. The plan is to give notice by noon on August 1 to rebalance to the desire proportions [...]
Snippets of the Week
In case you’re in the mood to check out a couple of videos and podcasts over the weekend, the trio from PIMCO were all over the media this week. Paul McCulley talked about how the deleveraging process has become corrosive, comparing it to the dreaded paradox of thrift. Bill Gross talked to Bloomberg about U.S. interest rates, while colleague Mohamed El-Erian had a conversation with Charlie Rose.
In other matters, Scott Brown from Wired Magazine discussed the workings of his Nostalgorithm equation. Traders will instantly recognize that he is describing the formation of a speculative bubble. [...]
Podcast: Looking at the Half-Glass
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Well, well. Pretty much as we expected, the S&P 500 hit some resistance after trading back up into the March lows.
Just when they thought it was safe to come back, WSJ reports, “The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 280 points and other major market indexes saw similar losses after worse-than-expected readings on home sales and initial jobless claims painted a gloomy picture of the economy. Many investors unloaded financial stocks, which had enjoyed a week-long rally powered by better-than-expected [...]
Trading Ideas for Friday
The stock scan conducted after the close on Thursday found 64 winners and 56 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 Thursday
The stock scan conducted after the close on Wednesday found 64 winners and 56 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.
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