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This post is announcing that Thursday's Swing Signals, Trend Leaders, Trend Busters and Gap Signals are now available at Alert HQ . All are based on daily data. Today we have the following: 54 Swing Signals -- 46 BUY signals and 7 SELL Signals and one Strong BUY. 351 Trend Leaders , all in strong up-trends according to Aroon, MACD and DMI. We have 107 stocks that are new additions to the list and 130 that fell off the previous list. 10 Trend Busters of which 6 are BUY signals and 4 are SELL signals. 188 Gap Signals -- stocks with upside or downside gaps or gaps that have been closed. 80 are bearish gaps and 108 are bullish gaps. The view from Alert HQ -- On Tuesday it looked like stocks were heading for a downturn. Subsequent news related to sovereign debt in Europe seemed to confirm the bearish stance. Mr. Market, however, had other things in mind. Here we are two days later and the market is undergoing a resurgence. Most of Tuesday's losses h...

This post is announcing that Tuesday's Swing Signals, Trend Leaders, Trend Busters and Gap Signals are now available at Alert HQ . All are based on daily data. Today we have the following: 30 Swing Signals -- 9 BUY signals and 21 SELL signals. 374 Trend Leaders , all in strong up-trends according to Aroon, MACD and DMI. We have 62 stocks that are new additions to the list and 272 that fell off the previous list. 23 Trend Busters of which 6 are BUY signals and 17 are SELL signals. 175 Gap Signals -- stocks with upside or downside gaps or gaps that have been closed. 83 are bearish gaps and 92 are bullish gaps. The view from Alert HQ -- You know the market has taken a hit when 8 out of 9 Swing Signal BUY signals are inverse ETFs. The bearish tone is reinforced by our Trend Busters list where SELL signals are in the majority. The number of stocks on the Trend Leaders list has decreased significantly. Only the Gap Analysis list shows some small signs of bul...

This is our usual quick post announcing that the weekend's free stock signals are now available at Alert HQ . Today we have the following stock picks and signals: Based on daily data, we have 9 Alert HQ BUY signals and 20 SELL signals Based on weekly data, we have 5 Alert HQ BUY signal and 5 SELL signals We have 214 Bollinger Band Breakouts based on daily data and 585 Breakouts based on weekly data. We have 593 Cash Flow Kings 25 Swing Signals -- 22 BUY signals and 3 SELL Signals 584 Trend Leaders , all in strong up-trends according to Aroon, MACD and DMI. We have 142 stocks that are new additions to the list and 47 that fell off the previous list. 23 Trend Busters based on daily data of which 19 are BUY signals. We also have 38 Trend Busters based on weekly data. 146 Gap Signals -- stocks with upside or downside gaps or gaps that have been closed. We see 60 downside gaps and 86 upside gaps based on da...

Earnings season for the first quarter of 2010 is now well under way. As I have been doing for the last few quarters, I'll try to get a sense of how tech stocks are doing and how they compare to the rest of the market. This first chart shows the stats for all the stocks that have reported thus far. Total counts for all stocks reporting  Categories Total Count Earnings Beats 335 Y-o-Y Earnings Increases 321 Y-o-Y Revenue Increases 322 Upside Guidance 54 Total Providing Guidance 195 Total Number of Stocks Reporting 480 Let's start with some percentages. First of all, looking at the whole population, we are getting a pretty high percentage of earnings beats, roughly 70%. Earnings and Revenue increases on a year-over-year basis are just under that 70% level. When it comes to providing forward guidance, the percentage is not as strong. Less that 28% of those companies that have offered guidance have provided upside guidance. Now that w...

After running Tuesday's Alert HQ process I checked my "Reasonable Value" screen against the day's Trend Leaders . For those of you who have not see one of my previous "Reasonable Value" posts, here are the criteria for the screen: PE between 0 and 20 PEG between 0 and 1.3 Price-to-Sales less than 2 Debt-to-Equity less than 1 As Trend Leaders, each of these stocks is showing good up-trend performance according to MACD, Wilder's DMI and Aroon analysis. Today's list consists of the following five stocks: AIPC American Italian Pasta Company ARRS Arris Group Inc LB LABARGE, INC. LH LABORATORY CORP. OF AMER. CLW CLEARWATER PAPER CORPORATION Since I like to highlight tech stocks when I can, today I'll take a closer look at Arris Group. Starting with the chart, you can see why Arris is a Trend Leader: Wilder's DMI and Aroon are clearly bullish and MACD looks like it's moving in a bullish...

Semiconductor stocks have been flying lately, apparently reinforced by Intel's excellent earnings report. Reading the Intel conference call transcript, however, there were some notes of caution sounded by CEO Paul Otellini. He was positive on the remainder of the year but he was careful not to get carried away in his enthusiasm. Now comes another sign that maybe investors should ratchet up that sense of caution. Reading the Digitimes.com web site, there was a small article that raises the hair on the back of my neck. Here's what they said: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), alarmed by its rising inventory level, has demanded IC design houses take delivery of their ordered wafer starts before placing new orders, according to industry sources. The company is seemingly worried by the possibility that their clients might have been overbooking. The article went on to say that TSMC's inventory of analog ICs is currently 50% higher than its safe level, while i...

Take a few days off and something weird always happens. Goldman is accused of fraud (I'm shocked, shocked...) and the market tanks. In any case, I've been out of pocket since Thursday but I've had some help getting the Alert HQ signals out. What follows is a combination of our Weekly Review and the Weekend Winners and Losers where we announce the weekend's free stock signals available at Alert HQ . Today we have the following stock picks and signals: Based on daily data, we have 3 Alert HQ BUY signals and 39 SELL signals Based on weekly data, we have 4 Alert HQ BUY signal and 5 SELL signals We have 67 Bollinger Band Breakouts based on daily data and 341 Breakouts based on weekly data. We have 625 Cash Flow Kings 33 Swing Signals -- 13 BUY signals and 20 SELL Signals 573 Trend Leaders , all in strong up-trends according to Aroon, MACD and DMI. We have 48 stocks that are new additions to the list and 166 that fell off the ...

On Tuesday Intel (INTC) reported strong earnings for the first quarter of fiscal 2010, with the company calling it the "best first quarter ever." As I suggested in yesterday's post, tech stocks and semiconductor stocks in particular should see a nice bump. The ProShares Ultra Semiconductor ETF (USD), which we own as part of our speculative portfolio, saw an increase of 7.73%. Not bad for one day. I can only say: bless you, Intel, for pushing stocks to new highs. Notes from the conference call -- Looking at net income, Intel recorded a sweet $2.4 billion for the first quarter, an increase of 288% compared to the first quarter a year ago. The net income beat estimates of $2.13 billion from analysts polled by Thomson Reuters. Diluted earnings per share were $0.43, beating analyst estimates of $0.38. This 13% beat is certainly meaningful. . The company recorded revenue of $10.3 billion for the first quarter, an increase of 44% compared to last year's first quarter. ...

This post is announcing that Tuesday's Swing Signals, Trend Leaders, Trend Busters and Gap Signals are now available at Alert HQ . All are based on daily data. Today we have the following: 28 Swing Signals -- 17 BUY signals and 11 SELL signals. 529 Trend Leaders , all in strong up-trends according to Aroon, MACD and DMI. We have 155 stocks that are new additions to the list and 80 that fell off the previous list. 26 Trend Busters of which 7 are BUY signals and 19 are SELL signals. 125 Gap Signals -- stocks with upside or downside gaps or gaps that have been closed. 26 are bearish gaps and 99 are bullish gaps. The view from Alert HQ -- Stocks continued their winning ways today. The Dow stayed above 11,000 as major indexes again fought their way from a morning deficit and closed with modest gains. Here are some numbers to put things in perspective: looking at the Vanguard Total Market Vipers (VTI), the ETF is up almost 15% from the low set on February ...

ProShares announced that it will execute reverse share splits on nine ProShares ETFs. Here are the details: Ticker Fund Split Ratio Price DUG UltraShort Oil & Gas 1:5 $11.22 EEV UltraShort MCSI Emerging Markets 1:5 $9.37 FXP UltraShort FTSE/Xinhua China 25 1:5 $7.15 GLL UltraShort Gold 1:5 $9.02 SMN UltraShort Basic Materials 1:5 $6.56 SRS UltraShort Real Estate 1:5 $5.62 URE Ultra Real Estate 1:5 $8.66 UYG Ultra Financials 1:10 $7.36 ZSL UltraShort Silver 1:10 $3.77 The splits take effect after the close on April 14. Here's the reason for doing the reverse splits according to ProShares: For funds with lower nominal prices, bid-ask spreads represent a higher percentage of the transaction price than for higher-priced funds, increasing both costs and volatility — even when the spread is tight. ProShares believes the reverse splits will adjust the share prices to a...

This post is announcing that Thursday's Swing Signals, Trend Leaders, Trend Busters and Gap Signals are now available at Alert HQ . All are based on daily data. Today we have the following: 17 Swing Signals -- 13 BUY signals and 4 SELL Signals. 397 Trend Leaders , all in strong up-trends according to Aroon, MACD and DMI. We have 123 stocks that are new additions to the list and 216 that fell off the previous list. 24 Trend Busters of which 13 are BUY signals and 11 are SELL signals. 152 Gap Signals -- stocks with upside or downside gaps or gaps that have been closed. 54 are bearish gaps and 98 are bullish gaps. The view from Alert HQ -- Stocks keep scratching out modest gains. Today was more of the same but our Alert HQ signals, while still reasonably bullish, started showing a bit of weakness today. Jobs data was less than thrilling today while retail sales were better than expected. The push and pull had stocks starting in the red and ending in the gree...

Equity markets have felt the impact of the quants and their algorithms for some years now. Commodity markets, on the other hand, have been a bit more old fashioned. Investors should be aware, however, that situation is changing. Automated trading strategies are expanding into commodities as firms look to apply these techniques to other asset classes. And it's happening at a rapid pace. It is thought that as much as 35 to 50% of volume in the most active front-end oil contracts is generated by algorithmic trading. There are differences in automated commodities trading when compared with the way it's done in equity markets. Here are the three strategies most commonly in use in commodities markets. The first is called ETRM which stands for electronic trading and risk management. In this scenario, which comprises the majority of automated trading in commodities, there is actually a lot of human input driving the trading with assistance from fairly standard electronic trading ...

This post is announcing that Tuesday's Swing Signals, Trend Leaders, Trend Busters and Gap Signals are now available at Alert HQ . All are based on daily data. Today we have the following: 17 Swing Signals -- 16 BUY signals and one Strong BUY. Wow, not one SELL signal! 490 Trend Leaders , all in strong up-trends according to Aroon, MACD and DMI. We have 253 stocks that are new additions to the list and 67 that fell off the previous list. 29 Trend Busters of which 18 are BUY signals and 11 are SELL signals. 159 Gap Signals -- stocks with upside or downside gaps or gaps that have been closed. 61 are bearish gaps and 98 are bullish gaps. The view from Alert HQ -- Reviewing our signals, things are looking pretty bullish today. For the first time ever, we have a Swing Signals list with no SELL signals at all. The Trend Leaders list has expanded from having 300+ stocks and ETFs on it to 490 today. The Trend Busters list has more BUY signals than SELL signals and...

It's not often that we see a tech stock showing up in one of our reasonable value screens. But here's one for you: Anaren, Inc. (ANEN) The reasonable value screen looks for the following: PE between 0 and 20 PEG between 0 and 1.3 Price-to-Sales less than 2 Debt-to-Equity less than 1 Anaren fits the bill in all these criteria plus it has an Enterprise Value/EBITDA ratio that is less than 7, further confirming the company's status as a reasonable value stock. Indeed, the PEG is less than 1 and Price-to-Sales is only 1.26. So with the company's value characteristics established, we can look at the technical analysis situation. The chart below is a screen shot from the Trade-Radar software. The top chart shows the stock breaking out above its downward sloping trendline. It also shows the how the stock has turned up based on regression analysis and has moved up sufficiently to to register a Signal Strength of of 98%. Furthermore, we see the stock above its 20-DM...

What follows is a combination of our Weekly Review and the Weekend Winners and Losers where we announce the weekend's free stock signals available at Alert HQ . Today we have the following stock picks and signals: Based on daily data, we have 5 Alert HQ BUY signals and 45 SELL signals Based on weekly data, we have 5 Alert HQ BUY signal and 6 SELL signals We have 96 Bollinger Band Breakouts based on daily data and 214 Breakouts based on weekly data. We have 694 Cash Flow Kings 36 Swing Signals -- 30 BUY signals and 6 SELL Signals 304 Trend Leaders , all in strong up-trends according to Aroon, MACD and DMI. We have 93 stocks that are new additions to the list and 179 that fell off the previous list. 22 Trend Busters based on daily data of which 14 are BUY signals. We also have 32 Trend Busters based on weekly data. 146 Gap Signals -- stocks with upside or downside gaps or gaps that have been closed. We see 63 downside gaps and ...

Today jobs were front and center in the news with the Non Farm Payroll report showing jobs being added for the first time in many, many months. Commentary was generally positive but everyone took the opportunity to point out that still more job growth is needed. I just came across an interesting article on the Tech News World website. It describes what seems to be more or less the "mirror image" of outsourcing. The "Startup Visa" -- Here's what is being proposed: "The idea is to issue a work visa to foreign entrepreneurs who start a company in the U.S., provided that they raise at least US$250,000 from qualified U.S. investors. Then, within two years, the startup must create five new jobs, raise at least $1 million, or generate at least $1 million in revenue. If one of those goals is achieved, the founder gets a green card. If not, the entrepreneur must leave the country." The idea is credited to Paul Graham who runs the venture firm Y Combinato...

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