Daily Market Comments - 11/29/05

The Tryptophan Has Finally Worn Off The Market – It’s Back To Its Winning Ways Today

It looks like the market may have finally digested all that turkey and dressing from the Thanksgiving holiday. It’s back to the upside today. At least so far.

What’s propelling the market skywards today? A slew of positive economic reports, showing an improvement in consumer confidence, a resilient housing market and a rebound in durable goods orders.

Monday’s pullback may have been good for the market longer term. We need such “reality-adjusters” to keep us from going into irrational exuberance. But now it’s time to see if this week really is one of the most powerful of the year.

Speaking of powerful, here’s a stock powering to the upside today…

Our Stock For Review today is CEDC – Central European Distribution Corp.

CEDC is blasting out of a two-month cup-and-handle formation on 573% above normal.

CEDC is the largest vodka producer in Poland. And the stock is poised to produce “intoxicating” gains!

Daily Market Comments - 11/28/05

A Slow Start In The Market Boom So Far – Did The Traders Eat Too Much Turkey Over The Weekend?

The market is acting very lethargic today. Not the rush out of the gates everyone expected. Is the tryptophan still kicking in from the Thanksgiving turkey?

Or is this a case of the market not doing what everyone thinks it “should” do? Maybe, maybe not. Maybe we had the Thanksgiving rally early this year. But I wouldn’t count on that either.

After all, nothing has really changed in our bullish scenario, and all the parameters are still in place for a hefty year-end market rally.

But in the end, it’s the market itself that has the final “say-so” as to how much money will be made between now and New Year’s. So we have to abide by that. The market is never “wrong”, but our opinions can be.

But in our opinion, here’s a stock that’s looking “tryptophan-less”:

Our Stock For Review today is OXPS – OptionsXpress Holdings Inc.

OXPS is blasting out of a little high base area on volume 718% above normal.

I’ll express an option here – this is a great stock to buy!

Weekly Market Comments - 11/26/05

How I Made 17% In A Few Minutes Right After Thanksgiving… Before My Turkey Had Even Been Fully Digested…

A fun thing happened yesterday – right after Thanksgiving Day, while I was still trying to digest the feast I had indulged in the previous day…

I made 17% on a stock trade in less than an hour. Here’s how I did it…

I have a stock scan, developed over years of research, that analyzes the entire stock market and shows me the charts of some of the strongest stocks in the market. I call this scan “Big Movers On Big Volume”. It involves some proprietary information developed over years of trading success, but basically shows the stocks currently making big moves on bigger volume than normal. The scan usually generates about 15 – 20 stock charts. I then just glance at all the charts and look for certain patterns.

The stock that got most of my attention was HAUP- Hauppauge Digital. It was already up over 17% on a trade setup I call the RSVP. But I noticed it was still moving, and I grabbed some shares. By the end of the day, HAUP was up 34.71%. So I nailed a 17% gain in one day. And I don’t think the stock is done yet.

Making 17% in one day sounds impressive, but that happens quite often with these kinds of trade setups. I offer these setups in my Trade Your Way To Wealth Baffle / RSVP / ARM Premium Service.  Feel free to check out that service by clicking on the “Member Benefits” button on the left side of this screen.

Also, we have a brand new product called “Stock Market Miracle” – it’s basically a two-week trial to the B/R/A Premium Service. I offer a 38-page free report called “Stock Market Miracle: How You Could Have Turned $200 Into $6.6 Million… In Just One Year!”. You can access that report at www.stock-market-miracle.com .

The NASDAQ has been on a stock market “stealth rally” for six weeks now.  That index is up 10% in six weeks, and it has been up for every one of those weeks!

And I think we are just warming up. Lots of factors are shaping up to create a “perfect storm” for a huge market rally. Here are just a handful of those factors:

•           Interest rate hikes will soon be ending. This alone could spark a mega-market rally.
•           The Big Boys are showing more and more buying confidence. Their enormous buying power is what drives markets higher.
•           Earnings are rising much higher than stock prices.
•           There is a TON of cash on the sidelines, waiting to be deployed.
•           I am seeing TONS of great charts – stocks “sitting on ready” to break out to new highs.

There is one more “Secret Indicator” I am only going to reveal to my Members. I only found out about it a few seconds ago. It has predicted some mega-bull markets with uncanny accuracy in the past. It’s almost impossible to be manipulated. And it is flashing a huge buy signal right now. Fascinating stuff!

So I advise everyone to back up the truck and buy stocks this coming week. I think you will be very happy six months from now.

Don’t know what stocks to buy? We can help you there too. Why not sign up as the latest Trade Your Way To Wealth Member today? Click on the “Member Benefits” button right now.

Daily Market Comments - 11/25/05

After You Digest Your Turkey, Get Ready To Digest Huge Market Gains Next Week!

OK, get ready. The market is about to take off huge to the upside next week.

This is the time of the year we’ve been waiting for. All the pieces of the puzzle are falling into place for a monster market rally in the next few months, and I am betting it starts on Monday.

The market is already “warming up”, sensing the Fed is about to stop raising rates. That alone should cause the market to spurt next week.

So finish digesting your turkey and dressing (I know I’m still working on mine!) and get ready to get “down to business” next week, in what has historically been one of the strongest weeks of the year for the stock market.

And I’ll tell you this – the stock below is no turkey!

Our Stock For Review today is PMTI – Palomar Medical Technologies Inc.

PMTI is in a nice trend continuation move, breaking out of a high basing area, and is up today on volume 124% above normal.

PMTI could be just what the doctor ordered!

Daily Market Comments - Happy Thanksgiving!

OK, Now We’re More Bullish Than Ever

Something happened on Tuesday that makes us more bullish than ever.

The FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) met on November 1. Minutes from the Federal Reserve's meeting showed the Fed chairman and others are starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel following 18 months of rising interest rates.

History has shown that when the Fed stops raising interest rates, the stock market tends to be very bullish. The last time this happened? Think back to 1995, and what the stock market did after that. Gets the “greed glands” going!

Let’s see if we can find a stock to get the “greed glands” going today…

Our Stock For Review today is FORD – Forward  Industries Inc.

FORD (not the car company!) is bouncing back from a vicious (and perhaps unwarranted) recent selloff. It’s continuing up today on volume 637% above normal, confirming a Bullish Harami from Tuesday.

I would power up this FORD for possible fast gains!

Also, tomorrow is Thanksgiving in the United States. This is the day we all take a break from our normal routines and say thanks. Families gather around the table for a huge feast. The only one not so happy is usually the turkey!

Most traders and active investors I know work very hard to force the stock market to give them profits and rarely are able to pause long enough to smell the roses. That is simply not healthy mentally.

Take tomorrow off as a day to reflect and look back at all you have accomplished with your investing and trading knowledge this year.

Say thanks... Thank everyone who has helped you attain the goals you have accomplished.

Thank your family and friends and everyone else who has needed the patience of a saint to maintain their relationship with you.

And, most of all, let’s thank God for all the many blessings He has bestowed on us this year!

We’ll be back Friday with more stock market beating information!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Daily Market Comments - 11/22/05

Still Bullish For Now

We don’t see anything to change our bullish argument at this point.

The NASDAQ and S&P 500 are at four-year highs. We may even be seeing the first launch of a multi-year bull market.

Expect most of the strong stocks to become even stronger in this market. Just look at the recent action of GOOG, ISRG, CMED, etc. This is called end-of-year “window dressing”, when the big institutional investors load up on the big movers so they can say they had them in their clients’ portfolios at yearend.

Speaking of big movers…

Our Stock For Review today is AKAM – Akamai Technologies Inc.

This former Dot.Com boomer has come back to earth from its $350 hey-day, but it just had a very nice breakout above a prior trading range on volume 824% above normal. With a P/E of a measly 9.10, this could be a value play on fire!  The company just announced that Comedy Central, the only all-comedy network, relies on Akamai Media Delivery to support its recently launched MotherLoad broadband channel initiative.

AKAM is no laughing matter – just a great stock to buy!

Daily Market Comments - 11/21/05

‘Tis the Season – To Increase Our Wealth From The Stock Market

Well, here we are – in the strongest two weeks of the year (possibly, based on history) for the stock market.

As I’ve stated recently, this is the time when most everything works, and we look like investment geniuses as we pull profit after profit from the stock market. Assisted by my trained Stock Market Assassins in my Mastermind Group, we are finding trade setup after setup that continues to work.

Each day in the next two weeks could be a bullish day. Although we may have actually started the annual Thanksgiving Rally a little early this year, there is still plenty of opportunity out there as more and more stocks trend into great trade setups. Again, I strongly advise taking advantage of this timely situation!

And if you don’t have a clue where to start, we can certainly take care of that too! Just join us here at Trade Your Way To Wealth!

But you better hurry - this one-time-a-year phenomenon will be over before you know it.

We’re gonna do something a little different with our Stock For Review today.

I stumbled across this one this morning. With this unusual situation, you may be either singing praises to me the rest of your life, or cursing me. Only time will tell.

But here’s what came across on one of my newswires this morning…

An article submitted by the New York Daily News mentions a new drug that ignites a sex drive in men and women, called PT-141. Palatin Technologies (PTN) is behind the operations for development of PT-141 and expects that it will take up to three years before the drug hits shelves.

The drug affects the central nervous system which in return affects "desire". Men and women who took part in the trials for the drug reported strong urges to have sex. Shares of the company are currently trading higher by more than 6% on average volume.

Our Stock For Review today is PTN – Palatin Technologies Inc.

Based on the news above, PTN is forming a mega-Rising Method candlestick pattern on volume of over a million shares. This one could be a major home run, or a complete strikeout. But it sure has enormous potential! 

Weekly Market Comments - 11/19/05

Hurry And Get Ready For The Most Bullish Time Of The Year…

Next week is Thanksgiving Week in the United States.

And the next two weeks are a couple of the most bullish weeks of the year for the stock market.

That’s not to say we haven’t seen some rampant bullishness lately – actually we have seen the bull romp since October 13. That was the bottom of the recent market downtrend. Optimism is indeed running high on Wall Street, with the NASDAQ at a 4 ½ year high and ditto for the S&P 500.

It’s the time of the year when pensions are funded and year-end window dressing begins. So expect strong stocks to get even stronger as the Big Boys load up on them, so they can show everyone they held the best market performers in their clients’ portfolios.

Most of our stocks have been on a tear since the 10/13 bottom, including CMED, up over 70% in that time frame. We scored a 39% gain in CPST in one day! And we see lots more starting to set up – especially in the tech area. We expect to make lots of money in the next two weeks, and especially the rest of the year.

There was a little bad news this week. The Producer Price Index (PPI) came in at 0.7% for October, higher than most people expected. And the Consumer Price Index (CPI) came in at 2%. Also higher than desired, and evidence inflation will still be a concern of the Fed for awhile. Think higher interest rates in December and January.

Here’s the problem the Fed has though.

10-year Treasury bond yields are only 4.5%, and if the Fed hikes rates two more times, short-term rates will be 4.5%.  That's all they can do because they cannot invert the yield curve. Inverting the yield curve would kill the economy, and send us into a recession.

Obviously, Ben Bernanke, who will take over when Greenspan retires next January 31, does not want to send the economy over a cliff as soon as he takes office. As a Bush appointee, Bernanke is aware that next year is an election year, so the Fed will not invert that curve.  As people become aware that the Fed will only raise rates two more times, we'll get an even stronger rally than we have now.

And therein lies our opportunity.

Knowing these facts, we can feel good about “backing up the truck” and buying great stocks that are setting up for breakouts. As I said before, we are seeing dozens and dozens of possibilities.

This is the time of the year when just about everything works. The time when we feel like investing geniuses as we see our well-researched picks streak upward at light speed. The time that you must take advantage of!

If you have any questions about becoming a Trade Your Way To Wealth Member, just click the “Contact Us” link or the “Become a Member” link at the top of the page. 

Daily Market Comments - 11/18/05

Now Do You See Why I’ve Been Begging You To “Back Up The Truck” And Buy?

Once you learn our simple candlestick market timing system, you can quickly and easily, at a glance actually, tell where we are in the market cycle.

I’ve been saying for quite a while that the October 13 market bottom may be the short-term low in this recent market correction. And that we were about to head into the strongest few months of the year for the market. Hopefully this did not fall on deaf ears, and you “backed up the truck” and bought some of the stocks we’ve recommended!

As an exercise, go back and look at the candlestick chart for the DJIA and the COMP (NASDAQ) in BigCharts. Then look at the signals for October 13. Notice the Spinning Top white candle, with a reversal candle the next day, for the DJIA. This occurred after eight dark candles in a row. I knew we would at least get a playable bounce at that time.

The NASDAQ was even more obvious. After seven dark candles in a row, October 13 showed a Piercing Pattern, confirmed by a gap-up Hanging Man candle the next day. Again, an obvious playable situation.

Every day next week may be a bullish day. We may have actually started the annual Thanksgiving Rally a little early this year. I implore you, enjoy this situation while you can! It’s hard to make money in choppy markets, like we saw in August, September and October.  So when “money comes easy” – you HAVE to take advantage of that!

Here are some of the profits we’ve scored for our Members in the past few months (in challenging market situations):

AOB – up 160% in a few weeks
HANS – up 122% in 6 months
SIRI – up 110% in a few weeks
HOM – up 109% in a few weeks
GOOG – up 108% in 6 months
BABY – up 97% in 6 months
BMHC – up 80% in 6 months
HITK – up 63% in 6 months
ITRI – up 54% in 6 months
VPHM – up 51% in a few weeks
AAPL – up 49% in 6 months
CMED – up 49% in a few weeks
KOSP – up 41% in 6 months
GLW – up 31% in a few weeks
MCRS – up 32% in 6 months
CDIS – up 32% in 6 months
IIJI – up 29% in a few weeks
PSYS – up 29% in 6 months
DNR – up 29% in 6 months
GOL – up 26% in 6 months
CNXS – up 24% in 6 months
ANSS – up 20% in 6 months
NNI – up 15% in 6 months
CVH – up 15% in 6 months
CCK – up 12% in 6 months
CBI – up 12% in 6 months
ASR – up 10% in 4 months

Oh, I forgot to mention one thing.

These stocks are in our “conservative” portfolios.

Want to see some picks from our more “aggressive” portfolios?

Some of those moved so fast we had to mention them in our Trade your Way To Wealth Chat Room. But here are some recent picks:

DCAI – up 16% in one day
CPST – up 17% in one day and 39% the next
MMUS – up 51% one day and 16% the next
FLT – just took a three-week gain of 56%

Why not join our party? Don’t be left out of this incredible time in the stock market. And time is wasting! This one-time-a-year phenomenon will be over before you know it.

We are serving our Members out-of-the-park, home run stocks each and every day. Stocks like CMED, now up over 64% in the last couple of weeks and up 6% so far just today. We are seeing dozens and dozens of beautiful chart setups every day now.

Don’t be left out in the cold! Join us at Trade Your Way To Wealth right now and let us help you be even more thankful next week!

Here’s a stock that you can celebrate the holidays with…

Our Stock For Review today is MSCC – MicroSemi Corp.

MSCC is doing a gorgeous base breakout on volume 570% above normal. This one’s looking like a “semi” truck as it barrels ahead to the upside!

Daily Market Comments - 11/17/05

Why We Should Make Lots Of Money The Next Two Weeks

According to historical norms, we are entering two of the most bullish weeks of the year.

Today has usually been a bullish day in stock market history, and tomorrow has usually been a neutral day. And on those days, it’s usually been a good idea to buy pullbacks. We are certainly seeing a ton of those in today’s market!

Also, every day in Thanksgiving Week has been bullish historically. Not to mention the next few days afterward.

We don’t want you to miss out on this extremely bullish situation!  We are serving our Members out-of-the-park, home run stocks each and every day. Stocks like CMED, up over 50% in the last couple of weeks.

Don’t be left out in the cold! Join us at Trade Your Way To Wealth right now and let us help you have some very Happy Holidays!

Here’s a stock that should make you happy right now…

Our Stock For Review today is CRM – Salesforce.com, Inc.

CRM is doing a big Bullish Engulfing reversal pattern on huge volume - 656% above normal. This company looks like a “force” to be reckoned with!

Daily Market Comments - 11/16/05

The Markets Are Acting A Little Tired Here

The market may need at least a few more days of “rest” before they get going again.

After an opening surge on good news from the inflation area and from Tyco International, we are back in the red, at least for now. When the market can’t sustain gains on good news, sometimes that means it’s just a little tired.

We are definitely overbought short term, and we need to see at least a small pullback here.

But here’s a stock that’s NOT pulling back…

Our Stock For Review today is PTC – Par Technology Corp.

PTC is recovering from a sell-off that started in late July. It’s currently forming the right side of a cup base, with a Rising Method formation, on volume 422% above normal. This little company is “par for the course” in my opinion! 

Daily Market Comments - 11/15/05

The Markets Are Doing Exactly What They Should Be Doing

Monday’s dull trading might have made many traders think “Bull market? What bull market?”

But that’s exactly what you want to see from time to time in a bull market. Investors are looking ahead to several economic reports this week.  And the markets have been on a tear lately.

Since no market can just go straight up every day – even in a bull market – you want to see quiet action on days when stocks take a break. And that’s exactly what we saw Monday.

I actually had to chuckle a little a few days ago. One trader remarked in one of the chat rooms I visit: “What a dull day! I should have not even tried to trade today.” Then I took a look at my Ameritrade portfolio, and every holding was in the green for the day. Maybe you get what you expect. We’ll talk about that in future articles in the TYWTW Member Area.

Great traders EXPECT to go out and make a killing in the market every day. And the huge gains are out there for the taking. We just banked over 40% in two days on our CPST trade.

Let’s EXPECT to find a great stock to buy today. Here’s one now…

Our Stock For Review today is ELOS – Syneron Medical Ltd.

ELOS is in the red-hot Medical Equipment area. It’s blasting out to new all-time highs today on volume 527% above normal. This little dynamo looks very “healthy” to me!

Daily Market Comments - 11/14/05

The Markets Are Hitting Some Overhead Resistance

The stock market is overbought short-term and both the Dow and the NAS are hitting some overhead resistance.

For the Dow, that point appears in the 10,700 area. For the NAS, the magic number is 2,200. Both those areas need to be penetrated strongly to the upside if this market rally is to continue.

And the market continues to undergo sector rotation. The top sector of stocks making new highs right now? Banks. Followed by the medical and finance sectors.

Let’s see if we can find a strong new leader today…

Our Stock For Review today is CTHR – Charles & Colvard Ltd.

CTHR has been featured in several recent sessions of our Stock Fishing service.  It’s now blasting out of a basing area on volume 431% above normal. This company makes a fake diamond-like jewel that looks even better than a real diamond. The stock itself is no fake – it’s a real jewel!  

Weekly Market Comments - 11/12/05

And Now For Something Completely Different…

How To Double Your Money Every Few Months In The Stock Market, Feel Like A Genius, And Maybe Just Make The World A Better Place To Live In

This weekly update is going to be different than those in the past.

Very different.

You see, it’s time to “toot our own horn” a little bit. In the past, I’ve just kept you up to date on what the market is doing, and what I think it’s going to do. I’ve served you killer stock picks for free each and every day just for taking your time to read our Daily Market Comments. These free picks alone will make you much more well off than you were before, if you pay attention to them.

And in our Member Area, we now have several months of stock picks to establish a “track record”. We have proof that what we teach actually works in the real world. This is not just someone’s vague “pie-in-the-sky” theory about what “should” happen in the stock market. Not some new “trading system” that back-tested successfully. This is stuff that has worked for over four hundred years, and has been further perfected by new, modern research over the past fifteen years.

OK, time to put my money where my mouth is.

Here’s some proof of what I’m talking about (recent stock selections we’ve provided to Trade Your Way To Wealth Members):

AOB – up 160% in a few weeks
HANS – up 122% in 6 months
SIRI – up 110% in a few weeks
HOM – up 109% in a few weeks
GOOG – up 108% in 6 months
BABY – up 97% in 6 months
BMHC – up 80% in 6 months
HITK – up 63% in 6 months
ITRI – up 54% in 6 months
VPHM – up 51% in a few weeks
AAPL – up 49% in 6 months
CMED – up 49% in a few weeks
KOSP – up 41% in 6 months
GLW – up 31% in a few weeks
MCRS – up 32% in 6 months
CDIS – up 32% in 6 months
IIJI – up 29% in a few weeks
PSYS – up 29% in 6 months
DNR – up 29% in 6 months
GOL – up 26% in 6 months
CNXS – up 24% in 6 months
ANSS – up 20% in 6 months
NNI – up 15% in 6 months
CVH – up 15% in 6 months
CCK – up 12% in 6 months
CBI – up 12% in 6 months
ASR – up 10% in 4 months

Oh, I forgot to mention one thing.

These stocks are in our “conservative” portfolios.

Want to see some picks from our more “aggressive” portfolios?

Some of those moved so fast we had to mention them in our Trade your Way To Wealth Chat Room. But here are some recent picks:

DCAI – up 16% in one day
CPST – up 17% in one day
MMUS – up 51% one day and 16% the next
FLT – just took a three-week gain of 56%

Obviously, these kinds of gains can easily affect your lifestyle in a positive way! You’ll feel like a stock market tycoon genius as you bank winner after winner after winner.

With gains like these hitting your bank account, you may even be treated “a little differently” at your family reunion this Thanksgiving. Your obnoxious brother-in-law may not spout off as much about how great his business is going, rubbing it in your face as he has in the past. You can just sit there with quiet confidence, smiling and nodding as he goes on and on. And then when he snidely asks: “Well, how’s life treating you?” you can calmly start talking about your recent success in the stock market.  I bet the dinner-table conversation ceases at that point as all eyes and ears are on you as you tell them things they think are impossible.

And here’s a Big Secret I want to let you in on.

I have a “Grand Vision” here at Trade Your Way To Wealth. And that vision is this: I want to create millionaires. Hundreds, if not thousands of them. But I don’t want to just create millionaires for the sake of creating millionaires. Far from it.

I want to create those millionaires so that we can make the world a better place to live in. Like the movie “Pay It Forward” – I want to enable as many people as possible to help each other out.

It starts out by training whoever wants to learn our system how to be successful investing and trading the markets. There’s not a doubt in my mind that we can do that. And in turn, I want to enable those people to help others out who also want to learn this system. Maybe sons or daughters, nieces, nephews, etc.

And finally, with this newfound wealth, it would be great to help out our friends, neighbors and families in some way. Or maybe our churches or synagogues. Or maybe victims of disasters. How would that make you feel – that you were somehow influential in changing someone’s life for the better?

I am searching for the world’s greatest traders and investors to join me in this effort. Not just in the stock market, but in other areas as well.

I have one of the world’s best Forex traders on board already – Maceo Jourdan. Maceo has spoken before packed houses of 400 people paying $4,000 a seat to hang onto every word he speaks. And I have access to one of the top Options traders in the world– Ron Ianieri – Options Trainer to the Top Guns of Wall Street. I am looking for a commodities trader and an e-mini futures trader. If you feel you qualify – and if you totally buy into our Grand Vision - please get in touch with me as soon as possible.

Anyway, we are just getting started here at Trade Your Way To Wealth.

My Members are about to be treated to the following:

• How you were able to turn $200 into $6.6 million just last year – and how we plan to do that in the next year (we found out how it was done… and exactly what to look for).
  
  
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• How Maceo Jourdan is banking profits of 150% a month in the Forex market.
  
  
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You are welcome to become a Member of this elite group – just click on the “Become A Member” link to the right.

That’s it for this week. Let’s go out and make a ton of money in the market next week.

Daily Market Comments - 11/11/05

So Much For The Waffling Market – Back Up The Truck And Buy!

The stock market got back to its bullish ways on Thursday as all the indexes ended at or near their highs of the day. And they are going gangbusters again today.

This is the most fun time of the year to be an investor. This is the time when most of your great ideas work – when it seems easy to make money in the market. And this is the time to take maximum advantage of that phenomenon – because we know how hard it can be at other times to extract profits from the market (think August, September and October!).

We are definitely seeing rotation out of the leaders in the last bull market, namely, energy and home building stocks. Now we need to think medical… tech… retail… these are the sectors assuming new leadership.

Let’s see if we can find a strong leader today…

Our Stock For Review today is VIGN – Vignette Corp.

VIGN is in a nice rising trend and is popping out of a high basing area today, on volume 383% above normal. This provider of business efficiency software looks like an “efficient” buy as well!  

Daily Market Comments - 11/10/05

What To Do In A Waffling Market

Both the DJIA and the NASDAQ opened fairly strong, then promptly cratered off that opening burst, and are now both trying to recover from the lows of the day. The DJIA is in positive territory, but the NAS is still under water.

This is normal market action after a rapid-fire gain, like the one we’ve seen since the October 13 low. We still expect some sideways action as the market consolidates these recent gains. But we would not be surprised to see some sharp sell-offs in individual stocks – like we saw in GOOG (which is now already recovering), TWGP, CMX (also already recovering), etc.

This market is still more of a stock-picker’s market than a wholesale “just buy anything” market. Companies missing earnings estimates are still being taken out and shot. But the ones beating estimates are being handsomely rewarded. So the best thing to do in a waffling market is to find these great companies that are demolishing their earnings estimates.

Let’s see if we can find an example of what I’m talking about…

Our Stock For Review today is HANS – Hansen Natural Corp.

HANS could have easily cratered today after the gap up dark candle Hanging Man candlestick signal it showed yesterday.  But today, at least so far, it’s doing a Bullish Engulfing of that Hanging Man, on volume 212% above normal. HANS came out with a great earnings and sales report yesterday. This maker of the Monster Energy Drink is a “monster” stock as well! 

Daily Market Comments - 11/09/05

Well, Was That The Pullback?

As expected, the market pulled back a little yesterday. And it opened weaker today, but as I am typing this, the markets are heading straight up.

Now we would not be surprised to see the market meander sideways for a few days, with the index charts perhaps showing a few Doji signals.

The NASDAQ chart is especially interesting, with a reverse Head-and-Shoulders bottom forming the “cup” of a Cup-and-Handle base overall. Intriguing.

We are also noticing a new phenomenon occurring in the market. This is due to a certain new regulation from the government that is actually helping us in our quest for wealth. I am going to write up an article explaining the regulation and why it is helping investors snag oversized gains in the market. That article will be on our website (Members Only) this weekend.

Let’s see if we can find an example of what I’m talking about…

Our Stock For Review today is ASEI – American Science and Engineering, Inc.

ASEI is gapping up above short-term overhead resistance today on volume 3,176% above normal. There is a “science” to snagging huge gains in the market, and I am about to reveal one of those secrets to my Members this weekend. Members – stay tuned for that!

Daily Market Comments - 11/08/05

Today Could Be The Pullback Day

As we’ve stated recently, the market is currently a tad overbought.

We’ve seen the “first volley” of this new bull market blastoff from the October 13, 2005 bottom. As you know, markets do not just go straight up for very long. You need to see some healthy pullbacks (albeit on lower volume) along the way. Hopefully, for the sake of the longer-term, we are seeing such a pullback today.

We don’t expect this pullback to linger either. I suspect the traders who missed the ultimate bottom are licking their chops for any kind of retreat to pile in. So the pullback could be short and sharp, and a great buying (or re-buying) opportunity.

Let’s see if we can find an example of what I’m talking about…

Our Stock For Review today is ABIX – Abatix Corporation

ABIX is an example of a stock making a huge move today (up over 30% as I’m looking at the real-time chart) on huge volume (2,624% over normal) that we may want to wait for the pullback to play.  Don’t ever worry about missing a one-day move such as this – you usually have time to play the pullback and resumption of the uptrend. This is an example of my “Earthquakes and Aftershocks” system of stock trading. 

Daily Market Comments - 11/07/05

It May Be Time For A Short Term Pullback

With the incredible strength of the market last week, we should be due for a little pullback at this stage.

Both the DJIA and the NASDAQ are hitting some short-term overhead resistance, and the stochastics for both indexes are in overbought areas. The pullback (or at least some consolidation) should occur on lesser volume than that of the recent up-moves. Keep a close watch on that.

We don’t expect much more than a small pullback at this stage, and that will allow the investors and traders who missed the absolute bottom on October 13 to pile into stocks. For the reasons outlined in my Weekly Market Comments, I see this new bull market continuing, perhaps for quite some time.

Here’s a great stock making a nice move today…

Our Stock For Review today is VPHM – ViroPharma Inc.

VPHM is working on the solution for a very common event – the common cold! This stock has skyrocketed from $1.67 to as high as $23.90 in the past year. It is gapping up today over 11% on volume 1,348% above normal. This stock is nothing to sneeze at – looks like a long-term buy-and-hold to me!

Weekly Market Comments - 11/06/05

Special Report – The New Bull Market Just Started – What To Do Now

As we’ve been pontificating here for weeks, the best time of the year historically to invest in the stock market has been the November 1 through April 30 time frame. This is the period when the “sell in May and go away” horde comes back in droves to the stock market. And we are certainly seeing that situation playing out in the current market.

The DJIA ended Friday at 10,530.76 – about 330 points higher than its October bottom in the 10,200 area. That’s about a 3% increase for this stodgy old index. Not bad for a 16 day move!

And the NASDAQ has done twice as well! Since the Piercing Pattern bottom for the chart on October 13 at around 2,048, the NAS has been on a tear – rising around 6% to its present level of 2,169.43. Not to mention the fact that the index put in its best weekly gain in 14 months (since mid-August 2004), at 3.8%.

Other than the seasonality issue, we have many reasons to continue feeling very bullish. Here are a few:

1)         The market is shrugging off bad news.

Stocks could have easily tanked Friday with the monthly jobs report. Traders eagerly look forward to this report each month, since it usually indicates the strength or weakness of the economy. The report showed non-farm payrolls grew a less than expected 56,000 in October. That tepid jobs growth was offset by a jump in hourly earnings, however, and that combination is unlikely to change the Fed’s course of “measured” rate hikes.

2)         The market is acting like it should in a bull market rally.

In a bull market rally, what you want to see is higher volume on the upmoves and lower volume on the moves down. That’s exactly what we saw last week, and we see no reason to expect differently in the near future as this new rally blasts off.

3)         The market is responding positively to good economic data.

In contrast to just a few short weeks ago, the market is no longer operating on the premise that “all news is bad news”. Reports of fairly solid economic growth are fueling this latest advance. Recent data have shown worker productivity picking up, October retail sales better than expected, and both the manufacturing and service sectors seem to have recovered from their hurricane-driven softness.

4)         Stocks are breaking out on great earnings reports.

Many companies are beating earnings estimates, and are being rewarded handsomely by nice breakouts. And in some cases, one-day gains that many investors would be overjoyed to bank in an entire year!

For instance, take a look at CUTR – Cutera Inc. The company makes lasers and other medical devices used in cosmetic procedures - and blew out earnings estimates last week, shooting up an incredible 31%. These are the possibilities in a new bull market!

5)         The Fed finally changed its language.

As expected, the Fed raised interest rates another quarter point last week. But this time, they changed their language from past meetings. Basically, they admitted the core rate of inflation was not that bad, which is good news for investors. It means the Fed does not intend to keep raising rates forever. We foresee perhaps just two more increases, one in December and the final one on Greenspan’s last day in office, January 31, 2006.

Historically, when the Fed finally is done with rate increases, a market rally then ensues. Sometimes a HUGE rally, like the one in the mid-1990’s. Mega-fortunes were made in that one - will history repeat itself?

I know one thing – Trade Your Way To Wealth will be on top of these events, and will be in the stocks creating those mega-fortunes. And my Members will benefit from that!

Also, we are continuing to see sector rotation, as the leaders of the old bull market fall by the wayside and new leadership takes over.

With consumer spending much better than expected in October, the retail sector is moving to the forefront of this new bull market rally. Department stores, clothing stores and discounters were strong the last five trading days. Each sector climbed more than 10% last week.

Also, we are seeing strength in the transportation sector. Transportation services – which includes companies such as C.H. Robinson Worldwide, UTI Worldwide and Hub Group – were up a healthy 9% last week.

TYWTW Members – we will be updating all areas of the site this week. Our Stock Fishing and CAN-CAN Portfolios have been very strong recently – beating almost all market averages as well as the Top 100 Investors in the Marketocracy portfolio over all time frames.

Here’s the latest email update I received from Marketocracy regarding the performance of Stock Fishing and CAN-CAN:

    November 04, 2005 funds report for Daryl Thompson (TheDaryl)

    SFF

      * Name: Stock Fishing Fund

      * Net Asset Value (NAV): $11.97

      * Compliant: No

      * Since last weekday report

           + Return: 0.76%

           + Did you beat the:

                o S&P 500 (return of 0.02%): YES

                o NASDAQ (return of 0.43%): YES

                o Dow Jones (return of 0.08%): YES

      * This past week

           + Return: 6.07%

           + Did you beat the:

                o S&P 500 (return of 1.81%): YES

                o NASDAQ (return of 3.81%): YES

                o Dow Jones (return of 1.23%): YES

      * Trailing 30 days

           + Return: 2.32%

           + Did you beat the:

                o S&P 500 (return of 1.99%): YES

                o NASDAQ (return of 3.16%): NO

                o Dow Jones (return of 2.07%): YES

    CCF

      * Name: CAN-CAN Fund

      * Net Asset Value (NAV): $11.36

      * Compliant: Yes

      * Since last weekday report

           + Return: 0.20%

           + Did you beat the:

                o S&P 500 (return of 0.02%): YES

                o NASDAQ (return of 0.43%): NO

                o Dow Jones (return of 0.08%): YES

      * This past week

           + Return: 6.53%

           + Did you beat the:

                o S&P 500 (return of 1.81%): YES

                o NASDAQ (return of 3.81%): YES

                o Dow Jones (return of 1.23%): YES

      * Trailing 30 days

           + Return: 6.18%

           + Did you beat the:

                o S&P 500 (return of 1.99%): YES

                o NASDAQ (return of 3.16%): YES

                o Dow Jones (return of 2.07%): YES

    **************************************************

Keep one thing in mind as you review the above report. These funds were started months ago with some stocks I thought looked good at the time. Only one update has been made since then. And these are our conservative portfolios!

This proves that with good stock selection done every few months, you can easily beat the market over time, without frenetic in-and-out day-trading, if you so desire.

However, from here on out I will be updating these portfolios once a week, in order to try to eliminate some of the short-term drawdowns that may take a month or two to make up, even with great stocks overall.

What to do now? Buy great stocks just breaking out or set up to break out. This is what works in a bull market, and this is what is working now. Our TYWTW Members will know exactly which stocks those are.

Daily Market Comments - 11/04/05

Expect a consolidation day today.

With the market so strong recently, we wouldn't be surprised to see a pullback day or two at this time. But stay tuned for more strong upside action next week.

Our stock for review today is VAS, Viasys Healthcare, Inc. VAS is forming a very powerful Rising Method Candlestick pattern today, forming the right side of a Cup Base with volume 872% above normal. This is a very "healthy" looking stock.

Daily Market Comments - 11/01/05

Welcome To The First Day Of The Seasonal Bull Market

OK, here we are on November 1st. I can’t believe we’re here already, but here we are just the same. And this day is the first day of the new bull market, if stock market history pans out once again this year.

Historically, the market usually has its worst two months of the year in September and October. September faked us out this year, but it sure looks like we bottomed out in October.

We continue to see great stocks doing just what they are supposed to be doing – breaking out on blowout earnings reports. We are seeing lots of Bullish Kicker Gaps – the most powerful candlestick signal pattern.

Here’s a great stock making a nice move today…

Our Stock For Review today is ANGO – Angiodynamics Inc.

ANGO is forming a nice little cup-and-handle breakout today on volume 700% above normal. The “dynamics” look good on this one!