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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: 19 Swing Signals -- 17 BUY signals and 2 SELL Signals. 257 Trend Leaders , all in strong up-trends according to Aroon, MACD and DMI. We have 71 stocks that are new additions to the list and 45 that fell off the previous list. 50 Trend Busters of which 44 are BUY signals and 6 are SELL signals. 212 Gap Signals -- stocks with upside or downside gaps or gaps that have been closed. 103 are bearish gaps and 109 are bullish gaps. The view from Alert HQ -- Today started optimistically, then stocks took a dip when the ISM Services index disappointed. After struggling to regain positive ground, stocks slid abruptly into the close to finish with modest losses. Fear of Friday's Nonfarm Payrolls report was blamed for the last minute sell-off. Here at Alert HQ, however, the indications a...

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: 62 Swing Signals -- 59 BUY signals and 3 SELL Signals. 231 Trend Leaders , all in strong up-trends according to Aroon, MACD and DMI. We have 70 stocks that are new additions to the list and 75 that fell off the previous list. 46 Trend Busters of which 37 are BUY signals and 9 are SELL signals. 202 Gap Signals -- stocks with upside or downside gaps or gaps that have been closed. 100 are bearish gaps and 102 are bullish gaps. The view from Alert HQ -- Well, December sure got off to a good start and our signals reflect the improved tone. When we get a surge in BUY signals on the Swing Trading Signals list, it often means we'll see further gains in the major averages. We got that surge today so I am optimistic that this will be a strong week for stocks. Further confirmation of ...

Last week I released the first part of this series entitled " Q3 Growth Report - Part 1 ". In that post I presented some of the data compiled by our Alert HQ processes. The focus was on Revenue and earnings per share. I contrasted 2009 Q1 and Q2 results with our recent Q3 results. In this post, I'll do the same with dividends. Increasing Dividends -- For today's purposes, I'll highlight the companies that managed to increase dividends this quarter. The following table provides the comparison among the three quarters: Q1-2009 Q2-2009 Q3-2009 In S&P 500 140 112 104 All stocks 829 778 826 The number of stocks in the S&P 500 that increased their dividend and have made it onto Part 2 of this quarter’s report has decreased yet again though only by a little. More encouraging, the number of stocks that raised their dividend is up by more than 6%. Note that we are looking at a universe of roughly 7000 stocks. Repeat winners -- There w...

I would like to extend my thanks to the many hundreds of people who have downloaded the TradeRadar software during the last few months. Thus far, the software has been available from our Download page free of charge. I am in the process now of creating a shareware version of the software. There will be enhanced capabilities for both technical and fundamental analysis. Before releasing the new version, I would like to hear from you, the users. What features are you most interested in seeing in the new version? Please leave a comment or email me with your suggestions.

Stocks started another week with a very strong Monday performance. Friday's shortened session, however,  was long enough to more than erase the earlier gains of many stocks and ETFs. Talk of "sovereign default" related to the Dubai World request for a debt "standstill" overcame most other news that had transpired during the course of the week. As a result, charts suddenly appear to have broken down. Below is the chart of the S&P 500. That big red bar representing Friday's action is clearly visible and it certainly looks like a dangerous downdraft, signalling more pain ahead. But is this really a serious break? Was Friday's volume so low just because it was an abbreviated session? Or wasn't there much conviction to the sell-off? What do the Alert HQ statistics suggest? The view from Alert HQ -- Charts of some of the statistics we track at Alert HQ are presented below: This first chart presents our moving average analysis. The char...

This is the usual quick post announcing that the weekend's stock signals are now available at Alert HQ . Today we have the following: Based on daily data, we have 5 Alert HQ BUY signals and 20 SELL signals Based on weekly data, we have 2 Alert HQ BUY signals and 32 SELL signals We have 54 Bollinger Band Breakouts based on daily data and 134 Breakouts based on weekly data. We have 860 Cash Flow Kings 25 Swing Signals -- 14 BUY signals and 10 SELL Signals and 1 Strong SELL. 236 Trend Leaders , all in strong up-trends according to Aroon, MACD and DMI. We have 6 stocks that are new additions to the list and 82 that fell off the previous list. 28 Trend Busters based on daily data. We also have 222 Trend Busters based on weekly data. 203 Gap Signals -- stocks with upside or downside gaps or gaps that have been closed. We also have 65 Gap Signals based on weekly data. The view from Alert HQ -- There wasn't much to be thankful for in the stock market this week, thou...

The Advance Report for Durable Goods for October was released on Wednesday; Bloomberg characterized it as "tepid". That was a fair statement. As usual, we'll zero in on the Tech sector and see how the hardware vendors performed. Shipments -- Typically, investors pay the most attention to shipments and new orders. This first chart shows the results for Computers and Electronics Products which is the summarized category encompassing most high tech hardware manufacturing including computers, peripherals, storage, semiconductors, communication and networking equipment. It's a relief to see shipments increasing after two months of declines. Not only that, there seems to be confirmation that the lows are now behind us. This next chart shows shipments for the Computers and related products sub-category. Ouch! Shipments for Computers and related products dropped to a new low. Gartner and iSuppli have not only been forecasting increases in PC sales they have bee...