Archive | August, 2008

Trading Ideas for Monday

The stock scan conducted after the close on Friday found 88 winners and 64 losers: [VIEW SPREADSHEET] The entire list was then ranked and sorted relative to performance against the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ 100 indexes. Click File > Export to save the spreadsheet to your own computer. The scan is designed to find [...]
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Trading Ideas for Friday

The stock scan conducted after the close on Thursday found 91 winners and 23 losers: [VIEW SPREADSHEET] Let’s try something new today. I’ve uploaded the spreadsheet to Google so that readers can see the list of winners and losers. The entire list was then ranked and sorted relative to performance against the S&P [...]
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Giddy Biotech Bulls?

While going through stories from the major financial news outlets, we can’t help but notice that a major theme has emerged. It seems like they have finally clued in to the performance of the biotech sector. While market participants were losing sleep in the month of July with the major weakness everywhere, biotechs quietly outperformed and [...]
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Trading Ideas for Thursday

The stock scan conducted after the close on Wednesday found 22 winners and 26 losers. The list of winners was ranked and sorted relative to performance against the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ 100 indexes. Click on the column headers below to sort other columns. The scan is designed to find stocks that are [...]
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$SOX It To Them

Trading Ideas for Wednesday featured 25 winners in a weak market. Seven of the day’s winners were from the semiconductor sector. This sort of price action gives more confirmation that money is flowing into technology with Jim Cramer leading the charge: Momentum in Tech? The market favors momentum over fundamentals right now, Cramer said during Tuesday’s edition [...]
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The Wisdom of Rob Arnott

There are certain fundamental truths about market survival that people tend to ignore or forget, just when they need it the most. Let’s look at some recent examples. First, it has been reported that Bill Miller averaged down big time last month and now has an Enron-sized bet on Freddie Mac. While Miller has [...]
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Money Flows Toward $DOT Index

Money rotating out of hot sectors is generally put to work elsewhere quickly. Looking at the Trading Ideas for Tuesday, we can see the stampede out of basic materials (gold & silver, metal mining, steel, chemicals) and energy (oil, coal). Where it the money going? It seems like some of this money [...]
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Trading Ideas for Tuesday

The stock scan conducted after the close on Monday found 176 winners and 77 losers. The list of losers was ranked and sorted relative to performance against the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ 100 indexes. Click on the column headers below to sort other columns. The scan is designed to find stocks that are [...]
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