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iSuppli recently published a study contending that the next big thing in hi-tech is the femtocell. Two questions immediately come to mind: what the heck are femtocells and can an investor make money on them? Background -- Femtocells are cellular base stations that improve indoor wireless coverage. Femtocell base stations improve 3G cellphone coverage inside buildings or homes — locations where wireless signals tend to be weak because of building materials blocking the signal or the site’s distance from a cell tower. A femtocell acts somewhat like a WiFi hotspot or a wireless router, providing access to the cell carrier's network for multiple devices within a building. With some carrier networks straining to keep up with the demands of increasing numbers of users surfing the web from their smartphones, femtocells are being looked at as a way to improve service without having to build as many expensive cell towers or spend so much to increase bandwidth. The growth story -- iS...

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: 33 Swing Signals -- 29 BUY signals and 4 SELL Signals and one Strong BUY. 386 Trend Leaders , all in strong up-trends according to Aroon, MACD and DMI. We have 74 stocks that are new additions to the list and 174 that fell off the previous list. 13 Trend Busters of which 6 are BUY signals and 7 are SELL signals. 138 Gap Signals -- stocks with upside or downside gaps or gaps that have been closed. 64 are bearish gaps and 74 are bullish gaps. The view from Alert HQ -- I'm buying into the opinion that the market is over-bought and ready for a pullback, but now I see a surge in BUY signals on the Swing Trading Signals list. What to do? Looking for some confirmation in the other Alert HQ lists, I see a contrarion indicator in that the number of stocks on the Trend Lea...

The SEC has decided to take a closer look at derivatives as they are used by ETFs and mutual funds. Here is what the SEC has said: "Pending the review's completion, the staff has determined to defer consideration of exemptive requests under the Investment Company Act to permit ETFs that would make significant investments in derivatives. The staff's decision will affect new and pending exemptive requests from certain actively-managed and leveraged ETFs that particularly rely on swaps and other derivative instruments to achieve their investment objectives. The deferral does not affect any existing ETFs or other types of fund applications." I used to write regularly about ProShares leveraged ETFs. Under the hood, leveraged ETFs, both the 2X or 3X and inverse 2X or 3X, make extensive use of derivatives. Swaps of one kind or another are commonly utilized to achieve results that are multiples of an underlying index. Let's look at the ProShares Ultra QQQ ...

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 3 Alert HQ BUY signals and 56 SELL signals Based on weekly data, we have 4 Alert HQ BUY signal and 9 SELL signals We have 68 Bollinger Band Breakouts based on daily data and 283 Breakouts based on weekly data. We have 708 Cash Flow Kings 13 Swing Signals -- 5 BUY signals and 8 SELL Signals 488 Trend Leaders , all in strong up-trends according to Aroon, MACD and DMI. We have 41 stocks that are new additions to the list and 145 that fell off the previous list. 9 Trend Busters based on daily data of which 3 are BUY signals. We also have 43 Trend Busters based on weekly data. 129 Gap Signals -- stocks with upside or downside gaps or gaps that have been closed. We see 56 downside gaps and 73 upside gaps based on daily data. We 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: 23 Swing Signals -- 8 BUY signals and 15 SELL Signals. 592 Trend Leaders , all in strong up-trends according to Aroon, MACD and DMI. We have 86 stocks that are new additions to the list and 309 that fell off the previous list. 15 Trend Busters of which 3 are BUY signals and 12 are SELL signals. 138 Gap Signals -- stocks with upside or downside gaps or gaps that have been closed. 65 are bearish gaps and 73 are bullish gaps. The view from Alert HQ -- Stocks haven't really fallen all that much but the Thursday signals at Alert HQ are surprisingly downbeat tonight. Let's start at the top. The Swing Signals list is growing but there are way more SELL signals than BUY signals. The Trend Leaders list is shrinking, not growing. The Trend Busters list has for the secon...

Poking through Tuesday's Alert HQ stock signals I came across an interesting Trend Buster . The company is DynCorp (DCP) and the chart is below. Several things about this company grabbed my attention. Starting with the chart, we have the following positive developments: Price has broken above the trend line (downward sloping blue line) Price has broken above the 50-day moving average Chart pattern looks suspiciously like an inverted head-and-shoulders. This is generally considered a very bullish setup MACD is bullish Aroon is bullish, suggesting a strong positive trend Background -- DynCorp provides law enforcement training and support, security services, base operations, aviation services, contingency operations, interpreters and logistics support to civilian and military government agencies worldwide. The company is currently training police in Afghanistan and has been active in Iraq and Africa. As a contractor willing to work in the hotspots of the world, DynCorp ...

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: 34 Swing Signals -- 30 BUY signals and 4 SELL Signals and one Strong BUY. 811 Trend Leaders , all in strong up-trends according to Aroon, MACD and DMI. We have 271 stocks that are new additions to the list and 155 that fell off the previous list. 11 Trend Busters of which 9 are BUY signals and 2 are SELL signals. 136 Gap Signals -- stocks with upside or downside gaps or gaps that have been closed. 66 are bearish gaps and 70 are bullish gaps. The view from Alert HQ -- Investors don't seem particularly upset by passage of the health care bill. On the contrary, we now have two days in a row of nice gains. Things had been looking pretty toppy, we got the barest of pullbacks and now the market is looking strong again.For example, look at the improvement in our Swing Signals. ...