• Objective: The stocks listed below are considered to be overvalued mid and large-cap companies that are under heavy selling pressure. They have recently experienced a technical break down, which looks to result in a possible downward move. To say the least, these stocks at one time roamed much greener pastures. Ideal Market Conditions: Beginning of

    By |Published On: October 4, 2009|10 min read|
  • Objective: Stocks that have established trends in place, and also have the technical and fundamental requirements to support its current trend. The companies listed below are mid and large-cap stocks. Ideal Market Conditions: Best types of markets are bull markets or markets trading sideways. Depending on the strength of the trend, certain stocks may be

    By |Published On: October 4, 2009|11 min read|
  • Objective: Large-Cap companies that are cheap in valuation compared to their earnings. The companies listed below have been providing shareholders with dependable earnings growth, and a solid track record of achievement. These stocks are historically less volatile, and while you are unlikely to double your money in these companies in the short term, they should

    By |Published On: October 4, 2009|1 min read|
  • Objective: This screen seeks to find those stocks that are beginning to show signs of accumulation from the institutions, and could be primed for a breakout. These stocks have strong fundamentals backed up by a healthy balance sheet that would support a rapid or sudden increase in the value of the share price. They have

    By |Published On: September 19, 2009|11 min read|
  • I’m not going to write much aboutmy trade in Google (GOOG) today, because you can hear all about it in the video podcast below. But it goes without saying thatit produced some very nice gains – $522 in profits after commissions and SEC fees. That is right we don’t play any games – I

    By |Published On: July 16, 2009|1 min read|
  • With the market gapping down over 500 points in the Dow, and limits placed in the premarket on selling in the S&P, this is shaping up to be one ugly day. With that said, when the market looks like it is on the brink of catastrophe, is when it most often makes a descent rally

    By |Published On: October 24, 2008|2 min read|
  • This market continues to become increasingly erratic. Direction is at the flip of a coin…or so it seems. There is however consolidation occurring near the lows, whether it bounces and breaks this downward trend or is nothing more than a continuation pattern to new lows is difficult to say at this point. However, a breakout

    By |Published On: October 21, 2008|1 min read|
  • Some early morning skittishness is pointing to a lower open for the major indices. Today is options expiration, so there is no telling the volatility that we could see coming out of this market. It'll be interesting to see how much of a pop Google (GOOG) gives the markets - in particular the Nasdaq. My

    By |Published On: October 17, 2008|1 min read|
  • The title of this post probably best characterizes the give-and-take aspect of this market. Many will call it complete randomness, I tend to believe it to be a case study on mass psychological behavior. You have a lot of people scared to death that they will not be long at the very bottom of this

    By |Published On: October 16, 2008|2 min read|
  • Objective: The focus for this screen is to find those stocks that are not extremely volatile and instead, relatively stable, where the appreciation in price is likely to be very gradual over time. The stocks below are large-cap stocks with a low valuation and strong fundamentals that pay a solid and dependable dividend that tends

    By |Published On: September 27, 2008|12 min read|