Trading Ideas for March 18, 2010

After a respectable start to the week, the futures are showing the market slightly negative as we head into the open. We have a couple of big reports coming out prior to the open that will be important to pay attention to with the Consumer Price Index being released at 8:30am as well as the weekly Jobless Claims report. Of lesser importance you have the Current Account at 8:30am, followed by Leading Indicators and Philadelphia Fed Survey at 10am. A busy morning, no doubt.

As for the current positions in my portfolio, I have raised my stop-loss in UGI to 24.60 and in BKS I’ve raised it to 20.61. As noted yesterday, I took half my position off the table in BKS as it reached my initial profit target of 22.31, and walked away with a 11.3% gain and 2R return.  

Here are Today’s Trading Ideas

Potential Swing Trade (Long): Mastec (MTZ) – Big rally in February has since seen its shares pullback to the 50% Fibonacci level. Should this price level hold, you are looking at a very nice risk reward setup, with the potential to see multiple R returns. Place your  stop-loss at 12.51.

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Potential Swing Trade (Long): Ameron Internat (AMN) – This stock has quietly been marching upwards since its lows in December with consecutive higher-highs and higher-lows. If the uptrend is going to continue, it will need to start that resumption now. Place your stop at 64.39.

Potential Swing Trade (Long): Harmonic Inc (HLIT) – Perfect trendline in place since November of last year, bouncing, in a textbook fashion, off of the trend line every time it is tested. Also marked with definitive higher-highs and higher-lows, this stock is prime to bounce at its current price level. Place your stop at 6.14.