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March 7, 2007: Taser International (TASR) Silencing Its Critics?Comments: 3 | Categories: Stocks
As a recent victim of corporate legal bullying myself I wanted to share this story from CrunchGear which did a bit of investigating into the claims by Taser International (TASR) that its stun guns are completely safe. What gets me...
February 23, 2007: Uranium Miners Moving - Energy Metals (EMU) Gets Cramer Push; Uranerz Energy (URZ) Now Offers Better Opportunity
Comments: 0 | Categories: Stocks
In my report on uranium miners on Feb 9th, I mentioned that Energy Metals (EMU) was technically the best play in the field. Since then, the stock has skyrocketed about 35% in just the last 2 weeks. To top it...
February 12, 2007: Festival of Stocks #23
Comments: 1 | Categories: Stocks
This is my first time hosting or participating in a Blog Carnival (Festival of Stocks).. I just thank God there are no clowns involved. I'm terrified of them. Anyway, on to this week's interesting submissions from around the blogosphere. Frugal...
February 5, 2007: Thank You Kirk Report & Typepad
Comments: 0 | Categories: Stocks
A couple of thank you's are in order. As I'm sure many bloggers can relate, sometimes you wonder if it's all worth it.. the late week nights and sunday afternoons of research to come up with articles that might make...
January 23, 2007: State of the Union Trade Opportunities - Is 2007 the Year of the Electric Car?
Comments: 0 | Categories: Stocks
According to the weekend edition of Investors Business Daily, the White House has threatened to veto a House-passed bill that would scrap tax breaks for big oil and use the revenue to promote renewable energy. But Bush may offer an...
January 9, 2007: I'll Be Back Soon! Until Then Top Stock Picks & ETF Trends for 2007
Comments: 0 | Categories: Stocks
You're probably wondering if I've abandoned this blog and it certainly looks like it with the lack of posting recently but I assure you I'll be back in full force very soon. With the holidays, a bit of blogger burn...
September 18, 2006: Breakout Stock Highlights (9.1.06 - 9.15.06) Comtech Group (COGO), International Securities Exchange (ISE), GOL Intelligent Airlines (GOL) & Perficient (PRFT)
Comments: 1 | Categories: Stocks
It's time again for another rousing rendition of the breakout stock highlights report... and it's a good one so hold on to your britches. Ok, well maybe not that good. There are many high quality breakouts over the past few...
September 5, 2006: SelfInvestors Leading Breakouts Soar to New Heights, But.. I'm Still Cautious
Comments: 0 | Categories: Stocks
Over the past couple weeks, particularly in the past few days, several of the SelfInvestors.com highest rated breakout stocks have been soaring to new highs with outstanding volume as new leaders emerge. As the market meanders higher with less than...
August 18, 2006: Breakout Highlights - Bitstream (BITS), Digital River (DRIV), Knight Capital (NITE), Oracle (ORCL)
Comments: 0 | Categories: Stocks
With the rising market has come a slew of quality breakouts. It's been a loooonnnggg week so I'm going to be brief here and just throw up the charts of a couple of my favorites right now. Remember to avoid...
August 8, 2006: Yahoo Demos New Ad Platform
Comments: 0 | Categories: Stocks
In a bid to catch Google in search advertising, Yahoo unveiled portions of its long awaited platform at the Search Engine Strategies convention in San Jose today. There doesn't appear to be any earth shattering features at first glance, just...
August 2, 2006: Breakout Highlights (7.16.06 - 7.31.06) [Bancorp (TBBK) & Gilead Sciences (GILD)]
Comments: 0 | Categories: Stocks
With the market staging a rally in the last half of July, the number of breakouts picked up significantly and the success rate was much higher. New leaders are emerging in banking, telecom and health/drug related issues as the market...
July 17, 2006: Breakout Highlights - Cascade Bancorp (CACB)
Comments: 0 | Categories: Stocks
It's been quite awhile since I've posted a Breakout Highlights report... my apologies for the limited posting of late, but with some projects I'm working on for SelfInvestors.com and the lackluster market it's been both difficult to find the time...
June 11, 2006: Ebay to Launch AdContext
Comments: 2 | Categories: Stocks
Ebay (EBAY) announced yesterday that they would begin rolling out a contextual advertising system of their own called eBay AdContext, but would differ from Google (GOOG), Yahoo (YHOO) and Microsoft (MSFT) in that ads would link directly to auction goods...
June 7, 2006: Hansen Natural (HANS) Lacking Energy
Comments: 2 | Categories: Stocks
The faster they rise, the harder they fall.. eventually. None have risen faster or been discussed more in trader circles then Hansen Natural (HANS) over the past couple years. With the stock rising parabolically with seemingly no end in sight,...
May 31, 2006: Breakout Highlights for May: Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies (AERTA)
Comments: 0 | Categories: Stocks
It's no surprise that as goes the market, so goes the success of breakout growth stocks. Needless to say, it's been a rough go over the past month. I haven't seen this kind of anemic performance since I put my...
May 17, 2006: Focus Media Holdings (FMCN) Update
Comments: 0 | Categories: Stocks
Several weeks ago I began following FMCN as part of a new category of posts which aims to follow a particular stock through a holding period (the stock may or may not be held in my SelfInvestors Model Portfolio or...
April 21, 2006: Focus Media (FMCN) Update
Comments: 0 | Categories: Stocks
Wanted to give an update of Focus Media (FMCN), a stock I currently have has the highest rated stock in my database (see more here for your own access) and a stock I purchased on April 6th. You can see...
April 17, 2006: Breakout Stock Highlights
Comments: 0 | Categories: Stocks
With the market in a continuing retracement from the highs and testing support again, it's been a mediocre couple of weeks for breakout stocks, that is unless you're talking about anything related to metals and oils, both of which continue...
April 12, 2006: Google of the Offline World?Focus Media Holdings (FMCN)
Comments: 1 | Categories: Stocks
In the past few months I've felt that the blog has become a bit dry, so I've been thinking of ways I could create some more interesting posts. I'll continue to provide a look at the overall market and provide...
April 5, 2006: Hot Stocks
Comments: 0 | Categories: Stocks
The following table is a screenshot of a portion of the SelfInvestors.com "Hot Stocks" screen. SelfInvestors Hot Stocks are stocks showing big demand and within a buyable range (5% from breakout), near a breakout or within 5% of the 50...
March 16, 2006: Breakout Stock Highlights - CyberSource (CYBS)
Comments: 2 | Categories: Stocks
The number of breakouts over the past couple of weeks confirms my suspicions that leading stocks aren't leading. It's a surprising divergence. Usually, with a rise in the markets like we've had, I'll see maybe 40 or so breakouts over...
February 28, 2006: Breakout Highlights: 2.14 - 2.28.06
Comments: 2 | Categories: Stocks
The last couple of weeks certainly hasn't seen a flurry of breakouts with a total of 27 breakouts out of the nearly 800 stocks that I track. A more typical 2 week period might see somewhere in the neighborhood of...
February 1, 2006: Breakout Highlights
Comments: 0 | Categories: Stocks
It's been a good start to the new year, with breakouts in small to mid caps doing especially well. The number of breakouts increased in the last half of January with a total of 59 stocks breaking out (from the...
January 23, 2006: Defying the Market
Comments: 2 | Categories: Stocks
After Friday's plunge I thought it would be interesting to take a look at the top 50 or so best performing stocks for the day excluding any oil related stocks (which for the most part were all up for the...
January 16, 2006: Top Breakouts - Could It Be? Oil Leads Again!
Comments: 0 | Categories: Stocks
In a complete reversal from last year, traders have been in a buying mood to start ’06 and that’s been reflected in the number of breakouts over the past 2 weeks, which have numbered 38. The success rate was decent...
January 5, 2006: True Religion (TRLG) - My Buy Process
Comments: 2 | Categories: Stocks
Yesterday I alerted premium members of SelfInvestors.com to a breakout in True Religion (TRLG), the rapidly growing high end jeans manufacturer. The following is a follow up I report I sent to members last night to highlight the process that...
January 3, 2006: Top Breakouts - Oil Leads the Way.. Again
Comments: 0 | Categories: Stocks
It had been a slow couple of weeks for breakout stocks as the market worked off recent gains, consolidating to major support areas. That is until today’s big reversal following the release of the Fed minutes, indicating rate hikes are...
December 12, 2005: Top ADRs
Comments: 0 | Categories: Stocks
Time again for another screen of the SelfInvestors.com database -this time around I've chosen to filter the database to return to me all the ADR's i'm currently tracking, listed in order of Fundamental Rank. Many are extended past a proper...
December 6, 2005: Top Breakouts - Oil Stocks Surging
Comments: 0 | Categories: Stocks
I’m still alive:) I’ve been preoccupied with unexpected events recently… and I apologize for the lack of posts. This blog is important to me and I want to be consistent about posting here and keep readers on top of the...
October 31, 2005: Top CANSLIM Breakouts (10.16.05 - 10.31.05)
Comments: 0 | Categories: Stocks
The number of breakouts picked up dramatically to close out October with 44 stocks clearing pivots in the period. However, the success rate was below average (average success rate is somewhere in the neighborhood of 65%) with just over half...
October 17, 2005: Stock Screener: Above 50 Day Moving Average, RS Rating Above 70
Comments: 2 | Categories: Stocks
Today marks the first post where I'll take a look at a particular screen of the SelfInvestors.com database. A couple times a month I'll run my custom stock screener and spit out a few stocks that might be worth watching,...
October 16, 2005: Top CANSLIM Breakouts (10.01.05-10.14.05)
Comments: 0 | Categories: Stocks
Another dismal two weeks for breakouts just as it was at the end of September with a total of just 10 breakouts. The two top ranked stocks breaking out in the first two weeks of October, HDFC Bank (HDB) and...
October 5, 2005: Top Canslim Stock Breakouts (9.15.05 - 9.30.05)
Comments: 0 | Categories: Stocks
I would have liked to have posted this over the weekend, but... ok, I won't make excuses. Better late than never. Considering the volatile market at the end of September, which ultimately ended with little change in either direction, breakout...
September 21, 2005: Google (GOOG) Attacking All Time Highs
Comments: 2 | Categories: Stocks
Google continues to defy market weakness today and is making a run at all time highs with very strong volume. It will have a tough time breaking out to all time highs in a difficult market (which after yesterday's move,...
September 15, 2005: Top Canslim Stock Breakouts (9.1.05 - 9.14.05)
Comments: 0 | Categories: Stocks
It's time again for another rousing edition of top breakouts for the past two weeks. Are you ready? I know you can hardly wait, so lets get right to it. The past two weeks saw a nice pick up in...
August 31, 2005: Top Breakouts (8.17.05 - 8.31.05)
Comments: 2 | Categories: Stocks
It should come as no surprise that the number of stocks breaking out fell off considerably in the period between August 17 and August 31, with just 7 break outs. As the market goes, so goes the majority of stocks....
August 13, 2005: Breakout Highlights 8.1.05 - 8.12.05
Comments: 0 | Categories: Stocks
As the market retreats from the highs, the number of breakouts have been cut in roughly half compared to the last 2 weeks of July. Also, the success rate has dropped from 77% to 47%. In the first 2 weeks...
August 1, 2005: CANSLIM Breakout Highlights (7.19.05 - 7.29.05)
Comments: 0 | Categories: Stocks
It's about that time again to run through some breakout highlights of the past couple weeks.. and there have been many. In the past two weeks (using the 10 trading days between July 19th and July 29th), a total of...
July 10, 2005: Top Breakouts (6.27.05 - 7.8.05)
Comments: 0 | Categories: Stocks
Breakouts left and right.. 52 over the past 2 weeks to be exact. The following screenshot was taken of the SelfInvestors.com premium database. This particular filter displays breakouts for the past 2 weeks and the screenshot below displays the top...
May 4, 2005: Masters of Technology & Innovation
Comments: 0 | Categories: Stocks
Last Friday, Wired.com released the Wired 40, a list of the top 40 most advanced companies in terms of techonology and innovation. There aren't too many surprises with a top 5 of Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOG), *Samsung, Amazon (AMZN) and...
May 3, 2005: CANSLIM Breakout Highlights
Comments: 0 | Categories: Stocks
The following is a screenshot of the Breakout Tracker at SelfInvestors.com and lists all breakouts for the last 2 weeks. (click the image for larger pop up) At the top of the list, you see the highest ranked breakouts which...
April 13, 2005: Apple a Big Gamble
Comments: 0 | Categories: Stocks
If you're holding Apple Computer (AAPL) through its earnings report tonight you're making a big gamble. Apple has raised the bar for this quarter's earnings report, so anything short of a blow out quarter could derail this stock in a...
April 10, 2005: CANSLIM Breakout Highlights
Comments: 0 | Categories: Stocks
The following is a screenshot of the "Breakouts For Last Week" filter of the Breakout Tracker which is a premium tool of SelfInvestors.com. (click image for larger view) Last week was a fairly light week in terms of the number...
February 23, 2005: Toll Brothers Raising Guidance Again
Comments: 0 | Categories: Stocks
Toll Brothers reports blow out earnings and raised guidance yet again. The CEO of Toll Brothers just said in reference to speculation of a top in homebuilding: "shorts will get crushed, you haven't seen nothin' yet". Hmmm... it's these kind...
January 18, 2005: To Buy or Not to Buy: Google
Comments: 1 | Categories: Stocks
As I write this, Google is breaking above its pivot point of 203.74, but instead of jumping into this one right now, a cautious approach may be a better strategy. While the stock has carved a mighty impressive base with...
January 6, 2005: When Insider Selling is a Concern
Comments: 0 | Categories: Stocks
In a recent post "Forecasting the Future: Chart Reading", I mentioned that the chart of DHB Industries (DHB) may have been forecasting some good news. High volume gap ups in a chart with no news can often indicate some positive...
December 29, 2004: Big Profits in Flat Bases
Comments: 0 | Categories: Stocks
The following is a report sent to members of SelfInvestors.com. if you'd like to receive reports like this one each week, sign up to become a member today! This edition of Stock Watch focuses on the most successful chart pattern...
December 4, 2004: IPO Mania
Comments: 0 | Categories: Stocks
(my apologies for the array of font sizes and styles - the transfer didn't go as well as planned.. I suppose variety isn't so bad. As always click on the thumbnail charts for the larger version) Over the past couple...
October 18, 2004: TASR Review
Comments: 1 | Categories: Stocks
Taser is moving this morning on news that a Department of Defense study by the Human Effects Center of Excellence concluded that TASER technology is generally effective without significant risk of unintended results, but obstacles remain. For one there are...
September 14, 2004: Same Chart, Same Result: Predictable Price/Volume Patterns
Comments: 0 | Categories: Stocks
A couple of weeks ago I posted a chart on Taser (TASR) and pointed out that sellers were about done and it was a matter of time before buyers took control. What are the clues? The selling volume was drying...
August 23, 2004: Screening for the Best CANSLIM Stocks
Comments: 0 | Categories: Stocks
It's time again to take a look at stocks that are appearing most often in Investor Business Daily's Screen of the Day. Stocks that appear most often are exhibiting superior fundamentals, technical strength and are often a part of a...
August 13, 2004: CANSLIM "Stock to Watch" (Taser Int'l)
Comments: 1 | Categories: Stocks
It isn't often that I post here about specific stocks, but I will try and do more of that since looking at the movements in specific stocks provides good lessons in buying and selling. Taser International (TASR), a former high...
July 9, 2004: Filtering to Find the Best CANSLIM Stocks
Comments: 1 | Categories: Stocks
Once again I list here a few stocks that have come up often in Investor Business Daily's Screen of the Day. Stocks that have appeared in 6 out of the past 10 screens: Engineered Support Systems (EASI): broke out June...
June 22, 2004: Screening for Best CANSLIM Stocks
Comments: 4 | Categories: Stocks
Wow, time flies. I haven't posted here in awhile. I wanted to mention a nice little Excel add in that is useful for finding the best CANSLIM stocks. CANSLIM investors who are also IBD subsribers may be familiar with the...
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