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In poking around through the various stock screens on my site I came across the following interesting situation. Let me take you through my journey... I started out looking at the Sector and Style Scorecard here at Trade-Radar. I noticed there were two Consumer related ETFs in the top eight: the iShares Dow Jones U.S. Consumer Index Fund (IYC) and the iShares Dow Jones U.S. Consumer Goods Index Fund (IYK). Interesting factoid but so far no clear investment ideas. I popped over to the Industry Inspector at sister site TradingStockAlerts.com and set up the screener to look for industries where more than 50% of the stocks in an industry were above their 50-day EMAs and had bullish MACD. This resulted in a modest sized list of industries. Toward the top were some of the industries that have been quite popular lately including Precious Metals and Pharmaceuticals. Down the list a ways, in the Consumer Services sector (and with a less than descriptive title) was the "Other Con...

Here's a stock that keeps showing up on various lists at Alert HQ. It is on the Reversal Alert list based on weekly data , it's on the Total Return Ratio list and on the Value Stocks with Increasing Dividends list. These last two are available during the free preview period at Alert HQ Premium . The name of the company is Comtech Telecommunications Corp. ($CMTL) The following chart shows the potential reversal that is underway: You can see the stock dropped abruptly earlier in July, established a base and has been rallying furiously the last couple of weeks. On this weekly chart, the gains have been sufficient to trigger buy signals on both Williams %R and Slow Stochastics. In terms of dividends, the company recently announced the initiation of a quarterly dividend. At $0.25 per share per quarter the forward annual rate is $1.00 for a yield of 3.7% which is not too shabby. In terms of its value characteristics, the company has a PE of 14 which is not excessive but is...

Everyone is aware that the market has been going through some tough times for the last few weeks. Major averages are off their peaks roughly 7% and a full-fledged 10% correction or worse is not out of the question. It turns out, however, that not every stock is taking a dive. I ran a screen that that looks at the Trend Leaders list at Alert HQ and looks for which stocks have increased their dividends. These dividend growers seem to be practically impervious to the downturn. And they stand out because so many others on the Trend Leaders list these days are inverse ETFs. Here is the list of 10 dividend growers that are exhibiting strong up-trends on their stock charts. Note that in order to be on the Trend Leaders list a stock has to show strong results in all three indicators: Aroon, DMI and MACD. Symbol Name Dividend TTM New Dividend % Increase MTR MESA ROYALTY TRUST 2.169 3.43 58.14% NRGP Inergy Holdings, L.P. 3.32 3.76 13.25%...

When the market rallied from the March lows, there were a lot of bears who said that it was a "junk rally". They pointed out, rightly, that everything was going up, good stocks and bad stocks, companies with decent earnings prospects and companies without a prayer. Since stocks peaked a month ago, markets have been falling steadily. Now we have the flip side of the coin: good companies are seeing their stock prices fall right along with weak companies. Just to show how exaggerated the situation has become, I ran one of our custom screens. This one identifies those stocks that have shown both year-over-year and sequential gains in both revenues and EPS. This screen yields 193 stocks. The screen further checks to see if the stock is currently on our Trend Leader list which identifies those stocks that are showing strong up-trends according to Aroon, DMI and MACD analysis. This weekend the combined screen yielded only two little know stocks: EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES CORPORATIO...