Now that the GMI is 6 and many stocks are hitting new 52 week highs again, I am looking for strong stocks to buy.  As you know, I prefer to buy stocks that have already doubled in the past year and that are trading at or near their all-time highs.  I also [...]

Well, we will finally see if the iPad success is already built into the stock’s price.  While a lot of pundits think that the stock is over priced, a look at the monthly chart suggests to me that the stock has just broken out of a 2 year base.  This stock may have a long [...]

I am dumbfounded!   I recently taped some of Cramer’s shows and reviewed Friday’s show this weekend.  At about 10 minutes into his show, Cramer responded to a caller who asked him about the use of stop loss orders.  Cramer ranted on about how he did not want his “home gamers” to put their orders on [...]

I am writing this post primarily to teach my students how I search for potential rocket stocks–stocks that have been launched and appear headed towards new peaks.  As I said in class this week, it makes the most sense to buy stocks that have the best fundamentals and technicals.  This strategy has been advocated both [...]

There are a number of stocks that came up in my “Darvas Scan” that are   trading near five year highs and have good technicals and fundamentals. These stocks include: NEU, PCLN, AMZN, NFLX, EGO, LZ, CML, ABV, CBD, WCRX, EW, WES, CPLA.  Some of these stocks may turn out to be rockets if the market [...]

The table below, like the one I showed in late August, shows me the wisdom of forsaking individual stocks in favor of the 2X or 3X ETF”s.  Why try to find the few stocks that can beat these ETF’s when the odds are so low?  Since the current short bounce began September 1, the standard [...]

The market held by the end of last week and I am getting more bullish.  This is because we appear to be at the beginning of a significant turn up in the QQQQ.  According to Weinstein’s stage analysis, the QQQQ is beginning a Stage 2 up-trend, as shown by the fact that its 30 week [...]

If calling the short term trend of the market were easy, we would all be rich and retired.  Last week, my short term QQQQ indicator gave me a head fake and turned my daily trend count down.  That new downtrend lasted for two days and then the up-trend resumed.  However, I had indicated at the [...]

The QQQQ completed the 37th day of its up-trend on Friday.  However, there were only 16 new highs and 5 new lows in my universe of 4,000 stocks on Friday.  Five of the 16 were on my IBD100 lists:  VNUS, GMCR, HANS, LINC and INT.  All of these 5 but  VNUS were also on the [...]

The media pundits claim the market needs to rest.  The market gets tired and needs to consolidate for a while–such utter nonsense! I wrote a few posts ago that the rebound in the indexes thus far is actually quite small, compared with the rebounds in the 30’s.  The Dow is  up only about 24% from [...]