In Search For Profits

What works on Wall Street?

2008-11-01T10:11:00.000-07:00

Image via WikipediaA study of 45 years of stock market data shows that some strategies produce greater returns than the S&P 500 while others produce less. A range of strategies were tested with the past data, re-balancing the strategies annually, with each strategy involving the 50 stocks which met the criteria for inclusion. Here are the conclusions: Avoid buying last year's losers each year -

Jim Rogers' commodity funds - bottom will come when market goes up on bad news

2008-10-27T19:18:00.000-07:00

Jim Rogers' commodity funds "Bottom will come when market goes up on bad news." “I am going to make a lot more money in agriculture than I am in gold or any stocks on the board. I know the inventories of food are the lowest they been in fifty years. Farmers cannot produce anymore. There is a shortage of tractors, tractor tires, seed, fertilizer. There is a shortage of farmers.” “We are going

Ten people who predicted the financial meltdown

2008-10-14T21:12:00.000-07:00

Ten people who predicted the financial meltdownfrom the Times Online - Money Central 1. Vince Cable - deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats November 2003: “The growth of the British economy is sustained by consumer spending pinned against record levels of personal debt, which is secured, if at all, against house prices that the Bank of England describes as well above equilibrium level. What

Debt-free in 15 months?

2008-10-13T22:39:00.000-07:00

Biblical financial principles Debt-free in 15 months, with the help of her church CNN Transcription: BOLDUAN: Ten years ago Clements was $30,000 in debt holding about 100 credit cards with nowhere to turn. She finally found financial rescue in a surprising place - church. With the help of this chorus at the First Baptist Church of Glenn Arden in Maryland, Clements was death free in 15 months

More Jim Rogers quotes

2008-10-13T22:31:00.000-07:00

More Jim Rogers quotes "I would tell you what has always worked throughout history and I'll tell you what has always not worked. The Japanese tried this in the 90s, they kept putting band-aids on and they wouldn't let people fail. You remember the term "zombie" companies, "zombie" banks? Well it's eighteen years later and the Japanese stock market is still down over 75 percent. They talk about

2008-10-13T19:19:00.000-07:00

Check out your bank's health! Check out your bank's health with the Banks and Thrifts Screener from TheStreet.com: http://www.thestreet.com/screener/index.html?src=ratingsindex&tab=3 According to Martin Weiss, any bank rated B- or above should be fine.

Jim Rogers is very entertaining to watch!

2008-10-13T18:25:00.000-07:00

Jim Rogers is very entertaining to watch! Jim Rogers, who once ran a hedge fund with George Soros, was the earliest investment author to predict the boom in commodities of the last few years. He, like an old professor, is tired of saying the same things and seeing the same foolish decisions. It seems like he's tired of being right and no one listens. And he gives great explanations about how

This blog is being ressurected!

2008-10-13T18:21:00.000-07:00

This blog is being resurrected! I am putting this 4 year gap to an end.Enough said!

2004-08-17T21:22:00.000-07:00

Invest in Real Estate That is SCREEN Real Estate: 21" monitors. (Update: All of them found new owners!) Thinking about adding an extra monitor for your trading? Need more space to put your charts? You can get the idea from Ross Farr trading cockpit below.

2004-06-26T17:13:00.000-07:00

A possible and risky Taser-like play Small float, defense/security company, new technology, non-lethal weapons, constant terror threats, war in Iraq. Metal Storm Ltd (MTSX, $5.49 on 6/25/2004) - Metal Storm Limited is engaged in R & D of electronic ballistics and programmable electronic firing technology. MTSX $5.49 on 6/25/2004

2004-06-26T16:49:00.000-07:00

Investing with an eye on the Interest Rate Cycle Stage I - rising interest rates: When the Short Term interest is in rising trend, one can consider going long on money market funds. When Long Term interest rises, one can consider going long on 2 to 5-year Treasury notes till maturity and placing a tighter stop loss in corporate bonds, dividend paying stocks and mutual funds. Long Term

2004-04-18T21:26:00.000-07:00

Mark Cuban spills the beans In Ancient Greece, white beans indicated positive votes and black beans negative. Votes had to be unanimous, so if the collector 'spilled the beans' before the vote was complete and a black bean was seen, the vote was halted. With time, the expression "spill the beans" became the term for "divulge a secret". Mark Cuban made money selling his companies MicroSolutions

2004-04-02T22:34:00.000-08:00

How to profit from interest rate changes in the short term (This is a little late, but what the hey...) If one thinks interest rates will go up (that is, falling bond prices), one can buy puts or sell calls on TLT ($86.71 on 4/3/2004), the iShares Lehman 20+ Treasury Fund. This exchange-traded fund tends to track the 10-year Treasury note (check iShares for more information). Conversely, if

2004-04-01T05:24:00.000-08:00

Long Range Acoustic Devices The LRAD is a less-than-lethal directional acoustic gun that sends a beam of high-decibel tone that can be used to deny areas, control crowds and keep away potential threats. On late February, American Technology Corporation (ATCO, $5.95 on 4/1/2004) has got a $1 million contract with the US Marine Corps to deliver LRADs. That is only a tiny part of the Congress $335

2004-03-28T14:58:00.000-08:00

Traders and tax software If you are filing your taxes using one of those softwares (Turbo Tax, Tax Cut, etc) and you think you need to type every single trade into the form, there is a better way. If you have Quicken or Microsoft Money, it is likely that you can download all your transactions from your broker and save them in an TXF file. The TXF file can then be read by your tax software

2004-03-23T05:30:00.000-08:00

Brazilian emerging market looking technically ugly According to GrafistaBsb, these are bear market signs: a drop that breaks the bullish trendline followed by a failure to resume the climb to above the 61.8% fibonacci mark and another drop to below the first drop. To me, that first double top was enough to convince to take profits and bravely run away like Sir Robin. Now, the Bovespa index

2004-03-17T19:04:00.000-08:00

HZO - I've been sleeping at the wheel! Mr. Market picked up this gem 7 days ago ... and I was too busy to check. Check it out!

2004-03-17T18:47:00.000-08:00

Dow Theory This one came up from GlobalStation.com.br. Among other things, the Dow Theory says that the movements on one of the averages (industrial) must be confirmed by the movements on the other average (transportation). In January/04, the transportation average started to diverge negatively in comparison to the industrial average. Later that was confirmed as an alert signal and both the

2004-03-16T05:54:00.000-08:00

Some stocks screened yesterday Just based on chart action. Do your own DD. This is a jittery market. Amedisys Inc (AMED, $23.629 on 3/16/2004) - home healthcare nursing services. EDAP TMS SA (EDAP, $2.03 on 3/16/2004) - minimally invasive medical devices to destroy localized tumors. Gristede's Foods Inc (GRI, $1.00 on 3/16/2004) - NorthEast supermarkets and pharmacies. Magal Security Systems

2004-03-15T05:11:00.000-08:00

ADRs from Spain For a speculative bargain hunt... if there is any bargains - maybe too soon or too late. Yahoo link Company NameTickerSectorBANCO BILBAO VIZCAYA ARGENTARIA SABBVBANKSBANCO ESPANOL DE CREDITO SABNSTY.PKBANKSBANCO SANTANDER CENTRAL HISPANO SASTDBANKSBANKINTER SABKNTY.PKBANKSCORP MAPFRE SACRFEY.PKINSURANCEENDESA SAELEELECTRIC UTILITYNH HOTELES SANHHEY.PKHOTELS & MOTELSREPSOL YPF

2004-02-14T17:58:00.000-08:00

Emerging markets eyed by pension funds According to the Thursday's Financial Times, the third largest public pension fund with a total of US$ 154 bi, California Public Employee's Retirement System (Calpers), is considering 12 emerging markets to invest (other than China, India and Russia). The best countries were chosen: (in this order) Poland, Chile, Czech Republic, Hungary, Israel, Jordan,

2004-02-12T07:52:00.000-08:00

Two New Colorectal-Cancer Drugs coming As reported in the Wall Street Journal, ImClone's Erbitux is expected to be approved by Friday and Genentech's Avastin is scheduled to the end of March. Options on DNA and IMCL may deserve due diligence. DNA $97.95 on 2/12/2004 IMCL $43.96 on 2/12/2004

2004-02-08T09:48:00.000-08:00

Soros says there is an asset bubble in both US and China markets "China's asset bubble makes it ``very difficult to find vehicles for investing'' there, Soros said. That's a problem when you consider China is the only real source of growth in Asia, a region increasingly dependent on its demand for goods. In the U.S., record current account and budget deficits are spooking investors who wonder

2004-02-04T06:08:00.000-08:00

The Curse of the Dow Trading Range Interesting article. "In 1966, the great Dow bull peaked at a general market P/E of 24.1. After trading sideways for 17 years, the Dow 30 ultimately reached half fair value in March 1982, with general markets trading at 7.0x earnings, which happened to herald the very birth of one of the greatest 17-year bull market cycles in history. In 2000, the next great

2004-02-03T20:38:00.000-08:00

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Defense Budget United Industrial Corp (UIC, $18.97 on 2/3/2004) - This company has two subsidiaries: Detroit Stoker, which supplies industrial energy equipment, and AAI Corp, which develops unmanned aerial vehicles (Shadow UAV) and other air defense systems. As per the US Dept of Defense, the proposed defense budget for fiscal 2005 contemplates products like AAI

2004-02-02T17:13:00.000-08:00

Taser Shorts Stunned Again The stock trades for about 140 times its 2003 per-share earnings of $1.07 and about 121 times the 2004 full-year earnings estimate of $1.21 a share. In a related statistic, more than half the company's float is short interest, a circumstance that has repeatedly caused big gains in the stock in the absence of catastrophic earnings news. Taser's tiny float of about

2004-01-31T23:29:00.000-08:00

Nice collection of links Selected links from an old Forbes magazine. Ivolatility - volatility measures and comparisons CEOExpress - list of news sources BioSpace - biotech news About.com Biotech - biotech info FairMark - tax guide for investors Bussiness.gov - small business development CANSLIM - CANSLIM discussion group Value Investors Club - selected club of value investing (2-mo old for

2004-01-25T22:30:00.000-08:00

Bill Gross makes 2 recommendations: 1) Invest in reflatables. 2) Invest in securities that borrow at 1% instead of lending at 1%. That means: 1) Commodities and tangible assets 2) Foreign currencies 3) Real estate 4) TIPS 5) Global bonds and equities denominated in non-dollar currencies Click here to see a further explanation.

2004-01-25T14:53:00.000-08:00

Bearish guru recommends gold laggards I heard through the grave pine that Mr. Martin Weiss would be recommending Goldcorp Inc (GG, $13.62 on 1/25/2004) below $13.55 and Cambior Inc (CBJ, $2.79 on 1/25/2004) below $2.61. Since I am not a Safe Money subscriber, I cannot confirm these allegations though. I would also take a look at Metallica Resources Inc (MRB, $1.60 on 1/25/2004) and Gold Fields

2004-01-25T14:31:00.000-08:00

Mega list of silver stocks: Yahoo list of silver stocks

2004-01-25T10:45:00.000-08:00

Pill promises to reduce artery swelling AtheroGenics Inc (AGIX, $20.60 on 1/25/2004) - Atherogenics has just initiated the Phase III of FDA trials for its pill that treats swelling resulting from inflamation of arteries. That is a problem that Pfizer's Lipitor and Merck's Zocor cannot prevent. Atherogenics began a 4 thousand patient trial of its AGI-1067 that will cost $40 million and as

2004-01-17T21:14:00.000-08:00

Asia's Leading Companies The REVIEW 200 is an annual readership survey of the Far Eastern Economic Review magazine that ranks which companies in Asia best exemplify selected qualities of corporate leadership.

2004-01-17T20:12:00.000-08:00

Free wireless-capable Palm Pilot i705 PDA when opening an account with Ameritrade Minimum balance $5,000. Offer ends February 29, 2004.

2004-01-15T10:47:00.000-08:00

Ranking of Nanotech stocks: Percentage of increase since 24-November/3-December prices. SymbolPerfor mance ThemeBIPH.OB253% nanomagnetic MRI shieldingPFCE.OB145% fuel cell carbo nanotubesTINY150% Cap invest in nanotechUSGA.OB117% nanotech armor plateNGEN113% key patent nanoCTT87% Hi risk -nanoparticle bone biomaterialJMAR107% laser nano chipmaking spintronicsNANX88% nanocrystals

2004-01-14T16:52:00.000-08:00

An interesting TASR report: From the Rubin Investment Group.

2004-01-14T14:41:00.000-08:00

One way bet: gold, up. That is what says Dr. Steve Sjuggerud: "Fortunately, the Fed is not hiking rates, and with the recent (reported) inflation numbers at 40-year lows, it doesn't appear that Greenspan will raise rates for a while. Mainstream investors still aren't (though perhaps not for much longer): gold. With interest rates close to zero, gold actually poses competition to paper money..

2004-01-09T00:54:00.000-08:00

Dr Marc Faber provides his outlook for 2004 Economist Marc Faber is author of "Tomorrow's Gold". Click here for the article.

2004-01-07T20:14:00.000-08:00

Some short squeeze candidates that showed up on my screen Valence Technology Inc (VLNC, $4.21 on 1/7/2004) - Research Services. Short interest 28 days to cover. Telesp Celular Participacoes SA (TCP, $7.38 on 1/7/2004) - Brazilian Telecom Services. Short interest 24. Identix Inc (IDNX, $5.3288 on 1/7/2004) - Software. Short interest 18. Pegasus Communications Corp (PGTV, $30.62 on 1/7/2004) -

2004-01-06T17:30:00.000-08:00

Companies with the Highest Level of Insider Buying VLNC ENR CVST CHK WMS MVL Valence Technology Inc (VLNC, $3.97 on 1/6/2004) - A leading battery technology developer, topped the list of companies with the largest aggregate insider purchases in 2003. Director Carl Berg accounted for all $21.6 million of the firm's insider buying last year. Second and third on the list were Energizer Holdings

2003-12-29T02:47:00.000-08:00

TD Waterhouse is offering free trades If you open an account online at www.tdwaterhouse.com and type the offer code LSTP4M, TD Waterhouse will give you free trades for a month plus free reports from financial research providers such as Standard & Poor's Outlook and Five Stars Stocks. TD Waterhouse has received 5 stars in Kiplinger's Winter 2002 issue because of the amount and quality of their

2003-12-29T02:36:00.000-08:00

Standard & Poor's sees superior potential in these stocks Genzyme Corp (GENZ, $48.11 on 12/29/2003) - Company makes drugs to treat genetic enzyme deficiencies. S&P expects a 30% earnings growth in 2004 with a 12-month target of $70. Target P/E 26. Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc (MLNM, $17.95 on 12/29/2003) - Millennium sells Velcade for myeloma treatment and Integrilin for heart disease. S&P's

2003-12-23T07:35:00.000-08:00

ADRs from Chile, the most stable Latin American country Company NameTickerSectorAFP PROVIDA SAPVDHOLDING & INVESTMENT COMPANIESALMENDRAL SAADRJF.PKELECTRIC UTILITYBANCO BILBAO VIZCAYA ARGENTARIA CHILE SABBBANKSBANCO DE CHILEBCHBANKSBANCO SANTANDER CHILE SASANBANKSCHILESAT CORP SACSATELECOMMUNICATIONSCIA CERVECERIAS UNIDAS SACUBEVERAGESCIA DE TELECOMUNICACIONES DE CHILE

2003-12-21T08:13:00.000-08:00

Nanotechnology V These heavy weights are the nanotechnology "blue chips" whose well-funded research may result in more patents and a competitive edge. International Business Machines Corp (IBM, $93.14 on 12/21/2003) - IBM is researching carbon nanotubes and nanolithography and silicon nanoelectronics.. Hewlett-Packard Co (HPQ, $22.18 on 12/21/2003) - HP is researching nanometer-scale

2003-12-21T06:23:00.000-08:00

Mr. Market's Christmas pick - KSWS Mr. Market bought K-Swiss at 47.59 on December 18th. The company looks as good as their shoes: CFC is up 130% in the last 12 months and its P/E is just 20. See what else is good about K-Swiss. Mr. Market follows a well defined screening criteria for composing a universe of stocks, from which he picks 5 stocks and then picks one of the five. The five stocks

2003-12-20T21:43:00.000-08:00

John Mauldin talks about oil, stock prices and the dollar Check it out!

2003-12-15T20:47:00.000-08:00

Flamel, nano-encapsulation for drug delivery Josh Wolfe, Co-Founder of Lux Capital and editor of the Forbes Nanotech Report, is recommending Flamel Technologies calling attention to the company's improved cash position. It seems Merrill Lynch expects a 30% run on this stock. Check it out!

2003-12-14T18:47:00.000-08:00

Nanotechnology IV Some more nanotechnology related stocks. Medtronic Inc (MDT, $48.05 on 12/12/03) - Medtronic sells medical equipment for helping to treat chronic diseases. Medtronic's InSync implantable pacemaker uses a tiny machine called accelerometer that monitors heart activity and the pacemaker has received approval from a FDA advisory panel. Vice President Dick Cheney uses a pacemaker

2003-12-09T22:07:00.000-08:00

Nanotechnology III Since there are so many penny stocks related to the nanotechnology boom that are already up in big volume, I will list them today. Some of them are RISKY and NOT TRUE NANOTECH STOCKS! Nano-Proprietary (NNPP.OB, $2.80 on 12/10/03) - Nano-Proprietary has over 100 patents and its subsidiary Applied Nanotech is developing the carbon nanotube technology for the manufacturing of

2003-12-07T14:11:00.000-08:00

Scam Dogs & Mo-mo Mamas / Reverse Merger This is the book I finished reading recently. Using a humorous tone, The Wall Street Journal senior writer, John R Emshwiller, describes the world of penny stocks trading (well, they are sold for pennies before pumped) in the days of the dot com boom when the internet trading was in its infancy. In it, for the first time, I saw the "stock symbol" ABCD

2003-12-06T22:11:00.000-08:00

Nice graphing tool for Comcast users It was a nice surprise to see that Comcast has provided its customers with Interactive Charts 4.0, an advanced graphing tool - for FREE! 1. Go to www.comcast.net, log in and look at the upper left column. 2. Click Finance on the upper left corner and select Advanced Charts. 3. The Interactive Charts will pop up. You can even do Fibonacci retracements on

2003-12-06T21:05:00.000-08:00

Mr. Market's new pick - CFC Mr. Market bought Countrywide Financial Corp at 106.88 on December 4th and has very good reasons for picking it. CFC is up 120% in the last 12 months and its P/E is just 7.1 and that is just the start. See what else is good about CFC. Mr. Market follows a well defined screener criteria for composing a universe of stocks, from which he picks 5 stocks and then picks

2003-12-06T17:13:00.000-08:00

Nanotechnology - part II More companies that can benefit from added publicity about nanotechnology in the coming NANO Commerce 2003 conference (December 9-11, Chicago). NVE Corp. (NVEC, $55.10 on 12/5/03) - NVE Corporation develops and sells devices which utilize electron spin rather than electron charge to acquire, store and transmit information. Its magnetic random access memory technology (

2003-12-04T18:47:00.000-08:00

Nanotechnology On December 3th, President George W Bush signed the 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act authorizing $3.7 billion over the next four years. That is more than was spent in the Human Genome project. Europe is investing $915 million and Japan paid out $750 million last year. The National Science Foundation estimates that nanotech applications will be worth 1

2003-11-30T20:17:00.000-08:00

More VOIP Plays: It looks like the crowd "discovered" VOIP on Tuesday afternoon. On Monday, the FCC, will try to end the controversy about regulating VOIP. Although it is unlikely that FCC will leave VOIP providers unregulated, FCC chairman Michael Powell said in a letter to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore): "Imposing regulatory burdens on these new and emerging Internet services, before the FCC fully

2003-11-30T19:33:00.000-08:00

Japanese stocks The Japanese market has dropped to about 13% from recent highs and it will soon be oversold. Canon (CAJ $46.65 on 11/30/03) Technology Hardware & Equipment Fuji Photo & Film (FUJIY $28.59 on 11/30/03) Leisure Goods & Services Honda Motor (HMC $20.23 on 11/30/03) Auto Manufacturer Internet Initiative (IIJIE $4.99 on 11/30/03) Technology Services Kyocera Corp. (KYO $61.34 on 11

2003-11-30T13:19:00.000-08:00

Insider Buys Apparel maker Warnaco Group (WRNC) has licenses and ownership of brands such as Calvin Klein, Speedo, Nautica and even Jennifer Lopez Lingerie. Four insiders have been buying $150,000 in shares and the stock is rising after touching briefly its 200 day moving average (seems the market overreacted to the sportswear group president's resignation and the earnings projections revised

2003-11-30T12:54:00.000-08:00

OAO Gazprom Although Gazprom 2nd qtr net profit more than tripled due to the higher natural gas prices, the stock has not seen the action one would expect. Gazprom exports gas to Europe and is responsible for about 23% of the global output. Maybe when the impact of Russian government's freezing Yukos shares dissipates, Gazprom stock can start its ascent. Gazprom already belongs 51% to the

2003-11-30T12:07:00.000-08:00

Speculating with the China's booming economy The World Bank expects growth of 7.8% this year and 7.4% in the next and China has a fast growing middle class. But valuations can go far above what is justified and China has problems too: poor corporate governance, shaky legal system, scarcity of information, insolvent banking system, growing social unrest and a potential property bubble (prices

2003-11-29T22:45:00.000-08:00

Chinese clamor for low cost wireless phones China is the only country where the personal access systems are popular. These systems consists of low powered handsets with a range of just a few miles that link to base stations in the user's home, which are connected to wireline networks belonging to China Telecom (CHA) and China Netcom. It costs about 1.5 c/min compared with 5 c/min for celular

2003-11-29T20:58:00.000-08:00

These news may be worthy of due diligence The port of Singapore, the second busiest container port after Hong Kong, lost a huge chunk of the traffic from the biggest shipping container lines (Maersk and Evergreen Marine) and numerous feeder lines. Tanjung Pelepas, in Malasia, is their new port of choice. Dubai also lost its role of Middle East trans-shipment hub to the port of Salalah, in Oman.

2003-11-29T16:46:00.000-08:00

Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) seems promising That is the technical term for Internet Phone Service. The internet has been largely unregulated by the government, and, as expected, innovation is sparkling on it. Sending phone calls over the internet is one of many emerging technologies moving quicker than regulators can react. VOIP providers gives their customers an adapter to turn a

2003-11-24T21:26:00.000-08:00

STOCK SPLITS Companies split their stocks because they want the price to be low enough to entice more people to buy it. That usually propels the stock even higher. That is a cycle companies want to perpetuate. The important point is that the company that splits its stock is most likely doing well fundamentally. So, if one looks for companies that are splitting one will probably find companies

2003-11-21T22:48:00.000-08:00

Would you imagine this company could make a machine as cool as this?

2003-11-17T22:34:00.000-08:00

Antifreeze proteins and their genes: From basic research to business opportunity Antifreeze proteins (AFPs) are found in vegetables and fish from cold regions and they may be used in biotech, food and agro industries.

2003-11-17T22:01:00.000-08:00

Another study that favors value stocks From the Journal of Finance LII(2): 859-874 June 1997 "Good News for Value Stocks: Further Evidence on Market Efficiency" (*) Abstract: This article examines the hypothesis that the superior return to so-called value stocks is the result of expectational errors made by investors. We study stock price reactions around earnings announcements for value and

2003-11-17T21:45:00.000-08:00

Price/book, price/sales and debt/equity better predictor than P/E and Beta ? From the Financial Analysts Journal May/June 1997: 75-80 "A Fundamental Analysis of Korean Stock Returns" Abstract: In an investigation of the relations between stock returns and fundamental variables in Korea, annual stock returns during the 1982-93 period were positvely related to book-market, sales-price, and

2003-11-13T19:54:00.000-08:00

Nice list of Biotech companies from the NASDAQ Nasdaq will add 55 securities to the Biotechnology Index on November, 24th.

2003-11-13T19:16:00.000-08:00

RFID Technology People who still try to delude themselves about the future of RFID do so at their own peril. RFID represents an unusual business opportunity. At the risk of using a cliché, it really is a chance to take operational efficiency to a whole new level. That’s not just my opinion; it’s what I hear all the time from those who have actually deployed the technology. Including Wal-Mart.

2003-11-11T18:36:00.000-08:00

Brazilian ADR list Company Name QuoteSector ARACRUZ CELULOSE SA ARAPAPER & PULP PRODUCTSBANCO BRADESCO SA BBDBANKSBANCO ITAU HOLDING FINANCEIRA SA ITUBANKSBRASIL TELECOM PARTICIPACOES SA BRPTELECOMMUNICATIONSBRASIL TELECOM SA BTMTELECOMMUNICATIONSBRASKEM SA BAKCHEMICALSCIA BRASILEIRA DE DISTRIBUICAO GRUPO PAO DE ACUCAR CBDFOOD PRODUCTS & SERVICESCIA DE BEBIDAS DAS AMERICAS

2003-11-08T09:50:00.000-08:00

Nice price action in these stocks for the last 6 months. On 11/07/2003: ALOT$17.04EAR$1.85LIOX$10.20OPSW$8.96OPTV$4.92QRSI$10.35SYMM$7.23 Check it out!

2003-11-07T14:51:00.000-08:00

Anti-impotence cream to take on Viagra This small NJ biotech company is posed to steal 50% of the market away from Pfizer's Viagra. It is a lotion that causes instant erection with no side effects in minutes as opposed to Viagra's 1 hour. NexMed has been quietly selling the Befar lotion in China since last July and is ready to bring the cream to the rest of Asia and eventually the US. Befar's

2003-11-07T05:49:00.000-08:00

Some value plays with some momentum out there (screened today): Symbol Company NameP/E Ratio: Current% Price Change Last Month Industry NameSISI SI Technologies, Inc.5.9 30.2 Diversified MachineryJST Jinpan International Ltd.14.7 96.6 Diversified ElectronicsEY Ethyl Corporation9.5 47.1 Specialty ChemicalsJAX J. Alexander's Corporation13.6 37 RestaurantsWRLD World Acceptance Corp.14.7 38

2003-11-06T13:18:00.000-08:00

From CBS MarketWatch: Canadian stocks that can profit from another rise in the Canadian dollar/commodities price (that is a hedge against inflation/U.S. dollar devaluation): oil producer Encana (ECA), fertilizer producer Agrium (AGU) , and pipeline holding company TransCanada (TRP). ECA $34.59 on 11/07/2003 AGU $15.66 on 11/07/2003 TRP $20.38 on 11/07/2003

2003-11-04T23:22:00.000-08:00

Killing cancer with a benign virus Doing DD on Oncolytics Biotech. ONCY $4.57 on 11/05/2003

2003-11-04T22:31:00.000-08:00

Radio Frequency Identification technology This November, Walmart will tell its 100 largest suppliers to start planning the use of passive RF tags (Radio Frequency Identification) on their products to tell precisely where everything is in the supply chain. The US Army and International Paper are doing the same. Here are some of the companies that can profit from this new technology (11/05/03

2003-11-01T22:13:00.000-08:00

More about the Russian crisis WHEN the Moscow stock market opens tomorrow morning it will not just be traders who will watch nervously to see what President Vladimir Putin’s next move will be in what, in the space of a week, has become a fully fledged political crisis. ...

2003-11-01T08:56:00.000-08:00

The Russian crisis may be an opportunity. Government made an arrest of a oil magnate alleging tax fraud (very likely, it was politically motivated) and threatened the Yukos oil company. Russian press is accusing the government of "stalinism". This, after a month of Russian stocks declines, may make a lot of folks give up and sell. I remember that during the Argentina crisis TEOBF.PK was sold

2003-10-27T20:37:00.000-08:00

Thom Calandra's report is bullish on IVAN/IVHMF.PK (gas and gold), ITRA (software), CRESY (Argentina commodities), talks about the Canada to China connection and says that the Tien Shan minerals belt may become next Klondike. As per Calandra: "China's rising need for raw materials such as iron ore, alumina, copper, platinum, zinc and gold is leading some economists and miners to fear commodity

2003-10-27T06:41:00.000-08:00

Russian stock exchange is down BIG today. You can choose your "blood in the streets" play from the Russian ADRs below: Company NameTickerSectorAEROFLOT - RUSSIAN INTERNATIONAL AIRLINESAERZFAIRLINESAKRIKHIN PHARMACEUTICALSAKPOFPHARMACEUTICALSAKRIKHIN PHARMACEUTICALSAKPUFPHARMACEUTICALSAKRIKHIN PHARMACEUTICALSAKPUYPHARMACEUTICALSAKRIKHIN PHARMACEUTICALSAKPZFPHARMACEUTICALSKAZAN

2003-10-25T20:02:00.000-07:00

James Boxley Cooke, from the Oxford Club, came with this pick recently: Varian Medical has revenues of more than $800 million and net profits of over $100 million killing cancer tumors with a success rate as high as 96% using the new IMRT. Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy uses computer-generated images to plan and then deliver even more tightly focused radiation beams to cancerous tumors than is

2003-10-25T10:28:00.000-07:00

"Bullet" list of the TASR conference call: Success rate 94% in estimated 33k incidents of Taser use. Qtr to prev year qtr +216% sales, +254% profit Net income from -69 to 1,076 qtr to prev year qtr Qtr to prev qtr +46% sales, +41% profit Great user acceptance of new Taser X26 (with better margins). Taser mine long term project (5 yrs) partnership with GD for the military. Long range Taser

2003-10-24T08:00:00.000-07:00

The Management Network Group, Inc. (NasdaqNM: TMNG, $2.69) is a provider of consulting services to the telecommunications industry and can benefit from the new wireless number portability imposed on wireless service providers by the FCC. Their 3rd qtr Earnings Conference Call will be in 10/30/03, 5pm EST. Here is what flashfromnashville from the EVOL board says: "I believe that they are in the

2003-09-26T05:53:00.000-07:00

Check out Mr. Market's new forum! Mr Market's methods really work. I have been investing profitably from some of Mr Market's selections. Here is some of MrMarket winners I watched since June after he mentioned them the first time in his top 5 selections: SSYS +61% MAXF +32% APPX +65% CSNT +15% FCFS +38% ASFI +24% COH +11% ADVP +25% SFCC +41% OZRK +12% CMBC +9% NARA +9% PRX +18% SYNO +14% Some

2003-09-24T06:02:00.000-07:00

ALAN - a penny stock that popped up on my screen yesterday Utilizing wrist-worn inmate transmitters and belt-worn officer safety units, Alanco's TSI PRISM tracking system tracks and records the location of everyone in a prison facility every second of every day, providing a unique historical database for post-incident investigations and disciplinary proceedings. Proprietary anti-tampering

2003-09-23T11:15:00.000-07:00

The Profit Hog's Volume Spike Alert strikes again. NIC Inc (NasdaqNM: EGOV) is up more than 18% today on almost 5x average volume. The company offers electronic/Internet services to State governments to allow citizens to pay parking tickets online, renew vehicle registration and other services like that. They have contracts with more than 25 governments, more than $47 million in annual revenue

2003-09-23T05:56:00.000-07:00

A lot of real estate articles: Benny Kass is the author of the weekly Housing Counsel column with The Washington Post for nearly 30 years and a specialist in real estate legal areas as commercial and residential financing, closings, foreclosures and workouts. Check it out! tip from TheWheelerman in the TEI Board

2003-09-22T05:56:00.000-07:00

The simple 28 days moving average method From the BeyondTEI Yahoo Group: Buy or hold stocks trading above the 28 DMA and sell stocks going below the 28-d Daily Moving Average. This method have studied by the Chicago School of Business and explained in the Stock and Commodity magazine. As per the investor Johnamj from the Yahoo BGO board, if you just traded 5 Fidelity Select funds, kept the

2003-09-21T12:55:00.000-07:00

From a Safe Money Report advertisement: According to Martin Weiss, banks with high percentage of bad loans (I could not verify the authenticity of these numbers): Citibank$8.4 biJP Morgan Chase$1.4 biWachovia$2.1 biWashington Mutual$1.8 biFleet NB$3.1 biBank One$2.5 biUS Bank$1.4 biMerrill Lynch$214 miWorld Savings$318 miLaSalle Bank$472 miDeutsche Bank

2003-09-21T11:52:00.000-07:00

Some of Taipan Group's predictions III Aging Baby Boomers will increase demand for healthcare: This aging generation refuses to behave older as the previous one did. The try to extend their lifestyle through sports, cosmetic surgery, fitness equipments, medicine, hair re-growth and a lot of other methods. Companies that make new drugs, generic drugs with patents expired, anti-obesity and age

2003-09-18T20:20:00.000-07:00

Brian Hicks from the Volume Spike Alert service mentioned this $1.30 defense stock whose product performed so well in the battlefield that General Tommy Franks personally thanked the company after returning from the war. Today the stock volume went up from its 3 month average of 650,000 to 3 million shares. Mr. Hicks says something big is brewing and it looks like it could hit US$2.00 a share.

2003-09-17T22:15:00.000-07:00

Hats off to William Colburn from the Fear and Greed report! His ALTERNATE ENERGY(OTC BB: ARGY.OB) really did well today. This company develops environmentally friendly fuels and power solutions (alternative energy) and owns patented fuel cell hydrogen production methods. The company announced successful tests of its highly pure hydrogen production process. Colburn had been observing the volume

2003-09-17T06:01:00.000-07:00

In November 2003, cellular service providers must allow customers to keep their phone number when they change carriers. The ChangeWave newsletter is telling us that there is a company that sells a number portability and number inventory management software and some other applications to most of these cellular carriers. As they say, the stock went up recently and has a trailing P/E ratio of 16,

2003-09-14T10:22:00.000-07:00

Some of Taipan Group's predictions II Technological breakthroughs from the war on terror: Some companies will get a lot of the extra $400 billion approved for Homeland Security. Companies that market biometrics checks, retina scanners, face recognition, shipping-container scanners, stun guns, battle-ready laptops and so on. The money invested in these techologies can spill over other areas and

2003-09-14T10:08:00.000-07:00

Some of Taipan Group's highly speculative predictions - part I: Oil Apocalypse: They say America will go to war with Saudi Arabia. Saudi citizens have been rioting since 2002, burning American flags in the streets, howling anti-Western slogans and calling for the blood of their own royal family and the collapse of their government. Saudi markets cannot keep Bin Laden T-shirts in stock. Arabia

2003-09-10T19:49:00.000-07:00

The Value Edge newsletter mentioned the leading manufacturer of lightweight bulletproof vests for infantry, DHB INDUSTRIES (AMEX:DHB). According to them, this $4 stock would be fairly valued at US$9.88 a share due to its 26% EPS growth forecasted for 2003. The company is expected to grow earnings 22.5% in the next 5 years. With war in Iraq, this expectation may be well justified.

2003-05-13T21:36:00.000-07:00

My shiny discrete REITs portfolio INV 86.83% former REIT RWT 31.22% yield 7.12% TMA 16.18% yield 10.26% Kiplinger's reco MFA 17.06% yield 11.28% Kiplinger's reco RSE 12.61% yield 4.70% largest landholder REIT

2003-05-13T21:35:00.001-07:00

My crappy defense portfolio The only one flying high is the company that makes those awesome TASERS: TASR 104.82% The rest follows: ASE -36.22% deals with x-rays INVN -14.89% explosive detection ATK -11.87% taipan grp reco LMT -13.07% taipan grp 0.98 reco NOC -7.36% naval tech taipan grp reco GD -21.19% taipan grp reco LLL -3.64% taipan grp reco

2003-05-13T21:35:00.000-07:00

What fuels the stock/bond rally? According to Louis Navellier, there's a record amount of cash on the sidelines, over $2.4 trillion in money market assets. Money market funds now represent over 28% of the value of the Wilshire 5000, an extremely broad-based stock market index. Normally, money market assets represent only around 12% of the entire market. However... He says that now it's

2003-05-08T18:43:00.000-07:00

Louis Navellier is recommending Nissan Motor (NASDAQ: NSANY) at below $16 and Dell Computer (NASDAQ: DELL). Nissan is recovering from trouble with its new cars (see the new Altima!) and reported a recent 84.5% increase in earnings. Dell is conquering market share and growing earnings and now is the #1 PC-maker (HP now coming in second) making 5% of the world's PC's. I can tell their computers

2003-05-05T19:24:00.000-07:00

Try CMGI as well. Up in high volume just like VNWI