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welcome back bro,
how's the daily grind over in the west
POFG is my runner for tomorrow. Reverse merger 3 hours before the close on Friday. 588% increase on Friday with more of the same tomorrow! 50 mil in revenue on 1.3 Billion in mortgages!Check out the POFG board at
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/board.asp?board_id=7306
Thanks for the tip,
1 to 5 share to rev ratio is nice.
sounds like it could make a really big run soon
It's rumbling. PR's are coming out. Sooner or later they have to file...
PR says revs are 4 mill, only 20 mill shares out; that's a 1 to 5 share to rev ratio.
NO SEC filing proof yet though.
Have heard but can't confirm GITH is being restricted by some brokers including TDAmeritrade...
Update: Ameritrade's restriction is the same for all pinks...you have to wait 6 days for funds transfers to buy and if you sell it takes a few extra days to settle as compared to "regular" stocks...
Somethig is up...
(Not the stock price yet...)
Anyhow if you can buy down here I think you should be able to get a couple 100 percent over the next few months...
PMRX... the new pump of town, err, I meant, the stock of town.
PLYCF BUY CONFIRMED
PLAYSTAR CP
Daily Commentary
Our system posted a BUY CONFIRMED today. The previous SELL recommendation was issued on 10.09.2006 (18) days ago, when the stock price was 0.0085. Since then PLYCF has gained 252.94% .
BUY-IF is confirmed by a white candlestick which has an open equal to the previous close but closing higher. The buying price is the previous close ( 0.0225 ) according to the Rules of Confirmation.
The recent bullish formation leading to the BUY-IF signal is confirmed today. The market seems ready for a new bullish move. Though the market opened lower today, the day’s activity created a white candlestick that closed above the previous close. This is a valid confirmation criterion.
The significant failure of the previous SELL signal is unfortunately confirmed too. Our shot went away this time. It is a fact that such signal failures are more unlikely for higher rated stocks, but it is not possible to deal with all the vagaries of the stock market. The signal system, however, continues to do an excellent job in the overall, despite such failures. This can be seen easily with a quick glance to the signal history table.
We hope that you bought this stock and still have the chance to profit from the later phase of the bullish attack. Today your important benchmark was the previous close. You were supposed to watch the session carefully, feel its bullish tendency despite the lower opening, and go long after making sure that the prices stay over the previous close.
If you bought, continue to hold this stock until the confirmation of the next SELL-IF signal. You are on relatively safe grounds as long as the future prices continue to trade above the benchmark price and if an emergency warning is not issued. What to do if you did not buy? Maybe, you did not have time to follow the session or you simply delegated the delicate job of confirmation to us. Well, it is a bit late, but not too late. You may still find suitable prices for buying in the following sessions and still profit in case of a sustained bullish move.
The market is currently cold for short-sellers. Avoid any short sales and cover the short positions immediately if there are any. We erred significantly on the short side last time, but we are sure that you may easily cover your losses (if any) by basing your future trades on our signal system.
CTXI
CENTREX INC
Daily Commentary from Americanbulls.com
Our system posted a SELL-IF today. The previous BUY recommendation was issued on 10.26.2006 (1) day ago, when the stock price was 0.0032. Since then CTXI has gained 40.63% .
A bearish pattern has developed and a SELL-IF alert is issued today. The task is now to confirm the validity of this bearish pattern. We ask your effort and time. A good starting point is to keep an eye on after-hours trading and futures trading to get preliminary hints about market direction. Related news, events, economic data, and the outlook of the world markets must be closely followed prior to confirmation session.
There are three possible cases of bearish confirmation. You have to follow the session closely to see if these cases will hold or not.
The market opens with a downward gap, signaling a bearish sentiment in the first case. Your benchmark will be the opening price. If the prices stay below the benchmark, sell your shares. Any black candlestick with a downward gap is a valid bearish confirmation criterion.
In the second case, the market opens at a level, equal to or above the previous day’s close. The benchmark is that closing price. If prices during the session stay below the benchmark, sell your shares. Any black candlestick closing below the previous day’s close is the second confirmation criterion.
If, however, in both cases, the prices during the session start going over the benchmark avoid selling.
The third case of confirmation is rarely observed. The market opens with a big upward gap suggesting a very bullish day, and the day ends with a black candlestick, but still closing above the previous day’s close. Such a day satisfies the third confirmation criterion and the closing price of the black candlestick is the benchmark.
If one of the three confirmation criteria is not fulfilled, or in case of a white candlestick or a doji on the confirmation day, the SELL-IF alert remains valid, however, without confirmation and the three confirmation criteria are then sought in the following day. The only exception is the long white candlestick. Any white candlestick following a SELL-IF alert makes the signal void and invalid.
The market looks strong on the short side. So you may continue to carry the existing short positions. If the SELL-IF is confirmed, new short sale positions may be considered.
Superstar funds lag, investors bail
It's flat-out dumb to expect a manager to outperform every year and dumber still to sell at the first whiff of a miss.
Money Magazine
By Penelope Wang, Money Magazine senior writer
October 24 2006: 9:10 AM EDT
NEW YORK (Money Magazine) -- If there's a Sinatra of mutual fund managers, it's Bill Miller of Legg Mason Value Trust (LGVTX (Charts), whose string of hits is unsurpassed. He's beaten the S&P 500 for 15 years running.
But this year Miller is way behind. So what are his fans doing? Giving him the boot as though he were an also-ran on America's favorite talent show.
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It's not just Miller's shareholders. A surprising number of top managers, including Bill Nygren of Oakmark Select (OAKLX (Charts) and Ron Muhlenkamp of the Muhlenkamp Fund (MUHLX (Charts), a MONEY 65 selection, are in the midst of steep performance slumps, and impatient investors in recent months have been yanking out cash and roasting their heroes.
One Simon Cowell imitator sniped - incorrectly - in an online forum, "Bill Miller has evaporated more money than any other fund manager this year."
Whoa. It's just flat-out dumb to expect a fund manager to outperform every year. Even the best make mistakes; Miller and Nygren, for example, avoided energy stocks in recent years. Muhlenkamp owns them but didn't anticipate the recent slide in oil prices. And all three managers have loaded up on beaten-down big growth stocks, which have long trailed shares of smaller companies.
That kind of contrarian thinking is why a star investor is likely to underperform more often - and for much longer - than you would expect. Consider a study by researchers at investment firm Litman/Gregory, who reviewed the performance of actively managed large- and small-cap funds that beat their benchmark indexes over the 10 years through 2005.
The data showed that more than 90 percent of these elite funds lagged their benchmarks by an annualized two percentage points or more for at least one three-year period. Nearly 30 percent trailed by more than 10 points.
Says Litman/Gregory co-chief investment officer Jeremy DeGroot: "It's clear no manager's strategy works all the time."
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But if you bail out when it's not working, you'll likely sing the blues later. For example, the managers of Longleaf Partners (LLPFX (Charts), who buy bargain-priced stocks, lagged badly between 1995 and 1999, when high-flying techs were the rage. But for the next four years, the fund topped the charts, and over the past 10, Longleaf ranks in the top 3 percent of its peers.
Similarly, Tom Marsico, who favors big growth stocks, did poorly in 2000 and 2001. His Marsico Focus (MFOCX (Charts) has gone on to rank near the top of its category.
Miller, Nygren and Muhlenkamp aren't down for the count either. Sure, there's no guarantee that a slumping manager will rebound to the top of the charts. And sometimes it makes sense to dump a star. But don't base your decision on his most recent record.
Instead, look for these warning signs.
A new investment strategy Sell if the manager starts chasing whatever's hot. In the late '90s, the managers of Vanguard U.S. Growth, who had avoided tech, finally succumbed - just in time for the tech bubble to burst. Miller, Nygren and Muhlenkamp show no signs of changing their iconoclastic stripes.
A flood of assets When so much cash flows in that the manager has to buy stocks he's only lukewarm about, you'll suffer. Ask the shareholders of Fidelity Magellan, which topped $90 billion in assets only to post years of subpar returns.
Excuses, excuses A good manager cops to his mistakes. Miller, for example, has admitted he bought back into homebuilding stocks too early. But he's also confident about the prospects for Yahoo and other Net stocks he owns that are down of late. You want such conviction. Otherwise, why stick around?
Stocks snap 4-day winning streak
String of record-setting sessions isn't sustained; investors spooked by weak GDP reading.
By David Ellis, Steve Hargreaves and Alexandra Twin, CNNMoney.com staff writers
October 27 2006: 6:09 PM EDT
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Stocks slumped Friday after a surprisingly weak reading on economic growth felled the market's four-day advance, reviving worries about the speed of the economic slowdown.
The Dow Jones industrial average (down 73.40 to 12,090.26, Charts) fell 0.6 percent, after having closed at record highs for four sessions in a row and for 13 of the previous 18 sessions.
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The broader S&P 500 (down 11.74 to 1,377.34, Charts) index lost almost 0.9 percent, after ending the previous session at a nearly 6-year high.
The tech-fueled Nasdaq (down 28.48 to 2,350.62, Charts) slid 1.2 percent.
Despite more positive news from the earnings front, investors focused on the GDP reading, which grew at a slower-than-expected 1.6 percent annual rate in the third quarter, the government said Friday. Forecasts had placed quarterly growth at 2.1 percent.
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Markets did find some solace in the report's main inflation indicator - the chain deflator - which fell more than expected. The deflator fell to 1.8 percent from 3.3 percent previously, when economists thought it would fall to 2.8 percent.
"The GDP report confirmed we are in the midst of a mid-cycle slowdown, while the inflation component was very positive and that's offsetting it," said John Forelli, portfolio manager at Independence Investments.
"Overall, it continues to point toward the Fed not raising rates again and ultimately lowering them," he said.
Earlier this week, the Federal Reserve opted to hold a key short-term interest rate unchanged at 5.25 percent, just like it has for the two previous meetings, after raising the rate 17 times in a row. Investors are hoping that the central bank will begin cutting rates sometime in the first half of next year.
This belief has supported further stock gains, and will likely continue to do so. In addition, the mostly upbeat earnings and generally lower oil prices should continue to sustain the upward trend, Forelli said.
However, in the short term, the market could be vulnerable to a pullback. "I think we could be due for a couple of choppy weeks, but longer term, the pieces are in place for us to continue moving higher," he said.
In other economic news, McGraw-Hill Construction delivered more bad news from the real estate sector Friday, reporting that U.S. construction spending will decline by 1 percent next year, the first dip since 1991.
One bright spot among Friday's gloomy numbers was a surprising jump in consumer sentiment as reported by the University of Michigan. The index climbed more than expected in October to 93.6, up from September's final reading of 85.4.
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Tech stocks were hit the hardest Friday, with the Nasdaq having led the advance this week.
Computer software and hardware stocks were under the most pressure, while networkers and chip stocks suffered too.
The Philadelphia Semiconductor (down 8.96 to 452.31, Charts) sector lost nearly 2 percent.
Chevron (up $0.18 to $67.68, Charts) posted higher quarterly earnings Friday that beat estimates. The No. 2 oil producer benefited from higher oil prices.
Microsoft (down $0.01 to $28.34, Charts) reported higher quarterly earnings and revenue late Thursday that topped analysts' estimates.
Sun Microsystems (up $0.14 to $5.50, Charts) rose in active Nasdaq trade after reporting a smaller quarterly loss late Thursday that was narrower than what analysts were expecting.
Shares of other companies stumbled after delivering their quarterly results Friday including conglomerate Ingersoll-Rand Co. Ltd. (down $1.45 to $37.45, Charts), cosmetics maker Avon Products Inc. (down $0.86 to $29.20, Charts) and wireless provider Alltel (down $4.19 to $53.99, Charts).
In other corporate news, Vertex Pharmaceuticals (up $6.09 to $40.66, Charts) rallied soundly in active Nasdaq trade on news that its experimental hepatitis treatment was effective in two small clinical trials.
Market breadth was negative. On the New York Stock Exchange, losers beat winners nearly 2 to 1 on volume of 1.55 billion shares. On the Nasdaq, decliners topped advancers 2 to 1 on volume of 2.26 billion shares.
U.S. light crude oil for December delivery jumped 39 cents to settle at $60.75 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Treasury prices rose, lowering the yield on the 10-year note to 4.67 percent from 4.71 percent late Thursday. Bond prices and yields move in opposite directions.
In currency trading, the dollar fell against the euro and the yen.
COMEX gold for December delivery rose $1.20 to settle at $601 an ounce.
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Survey finds best job market in 4 years, with most college majors seeing salary growth and some students receiving multiple job offers.
By Rob Kelley, CNNMoney staff writer
October 27 2006: 12:42 PM EDT
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Employers continue to boost starting salaries for the Class of 2006, which is enjoying the strongest job market in four years, according to a recent survey.
The biggest beneficiaries are graduates who majored in information sciences and systems: they are taking home 7.5 percent more than they did last year, according to the Fall 2006 edition of Salary Survey, a quarterly report by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE).
Employers have made a strong effort to attract college seniors and new grads through on-campus recruiting, career fairs, information sessions, and intern and co-op recruiting, according to NACE.
"These salary increases combined with the results of a recent poll of Salary Survey participants indicate that 2005-06 has been the best job market in the past four years," said NACE executive director Marilyn Mackes in a statement.
According to the survey, majors that have seen some of the biggest increases in average starting salaries are:
Information sciences and systems: Up 7.5 percent to $47,182
Economics/finance: Up 6.2 percent to $44,588
Civil engineering: Up 5.3 percent to $46,084
Chemical engineering: Up 4.9 percent to $56,269
Accounting: Up 4.6 percent to $44,928
Business administration/management: Up 4.2 percent to $41,155
History: Up 4.2 percent to $33,071
For others, modest increases, some declines
Other majors also experienced slightly higher entry-level offers, but the increases from last year's offers didn't outpace inflation.
Mechanical engineering: Up 3.3 percent to $51,732
Electrical engineering: Up 2.9 percent to $53,500
Psychology: Up 1 percent to $30,369
Computer science: Up 0.3 percent to $50,744
Political science and government: Up 0.3 percent to $33,094
And in a few cases, starting offers actually declined. This was true for a few of the liberal arts majors, which only saw a 0.2 percent increase overall as a category.
English: Down 0.2 percent to $31,385
Sociology: Down 0.9 percent to $31,096
lol... good idea. i never liked dealing with pigs
i just eat em. bacon and pork
fog, no more diluting pig stocks for me!!!!!! i'm going sober!
ctxi if she can hold .005 will be a monsta!!!!!!!!!
who would be buyin etim with clyp there on the ask? why not just throw money into the black hole
anyone know about ICBC?
appears to be a very promising chinese company.
gmsc looks good! called here on fog's!!!!!!!!!!!
udtt gots legs. running on sales news. hold this one till tomorrow
calling axgj for another pump, captain! get in and get out!
Maybe when this thing gets huge from an even bigger price-errr,
we can buy more dinnaz for the deadbeats. That's just the way of life, we earn it but others spent it. LOL
since i made you some money, i owe you dinner!!!!!!
About a thousand doller's worf. That's all I got left after paying for all the dinnerouts. LOL
did ya get some, captain? listen to your 1st officer!!!!!!!!!
UDTT 12 INCH PRICE-ERRRRRRRECTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
UDTT lol... UDTT-T-T-T is offering both TiTs.
idcn i was in that pig this summer. they diluted it from around .006 down to .0006? sigh
udtt major breakout!!!!!!!!!!!
looks like bgtn diluting on fnix
udtt called righty here on fog's picks!!!!!!!!!!
udtt lookin gooooood!!!!!!!!!
nibbled a little gmsc. company issued a PR stating they rejected an .02 buyout offer, also share retirement, cash (non-stock) acquisition. ran from .0014 or so to about .01, but held its gains for a month so far. i'll be keeping a close eye for some more
udtt going well huh?
auto seems to the the playa in udtt
udtt looks like she may have legs
udtt looks good. had nice news and low pps
now mtna is shakin. are the MMs reading my posts? they're the only ones reading my posts. LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
mtna looks good. not much of a shake so far
etim PR today was terrible. in effect said they plan to further dilute, although less than what they diluted so far.
they said future financing "shall be far less dilutive" - they didn't say no more dilution - they said "less" as in going to dilute. imo
still holding long. see near .10 in a month or two
i'll get crucified for posting this on the etim board. sigh
mtna fanc moved off ask and the stock moved
mtna looks like dilution. awful lot went at .045 ask and fanc did not budge on the ask. interesting as i write this fanc on bid at .044. interesting
cyhd had merger news. might be setting it for a run
that's nuts... i'm never using public computers for my stuff ever again.
eent running like crazy. up over 300%. looks like a group play to me
Hackers Zero In on Online Stock Accounts
Washington Post article
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/23/AR2006102301257.html
This article mentions TXN as a stock to own.
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