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 [...]

I used TC2007 to scan the market for stocks that meet my most stringent fundamental and technical criteria for rockets.  These stocks have great fundamentals and technicals, have already doubled their price a year ago and are near 5 year or all-time highs.  I have listed in this table the 11 stocks out of 4,000 [...]

From time to time I attend stock meet-ups and listen to members opine about how useless the IBD 100 lists are.  People just like to denigrate things without examining the evidence and these untruths tend to get passed on unchallenged.  Each Monday, IBD publishes a list  of the top 100 growth stocks that meet their [...]

The market up-trend is in place and I am almost 100% invested on the long side in my trading IRA.  I am also largely invested in mutual funds in  my university pension. This is the time to ride the train and not to fight it.  No one knows when the up-trend will end.  The idea [...]

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 [...]

I always have to remember not to anticipate a change in trend, but to wait for the actual signal.  On Monday, the QQQQ went to the edge of support and held.  There were 19 new highs and 8 new lows in my universe of 4,000 stocks on Monday.  Only 3 of the new highs were [...]

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 QQQQ up-trend completed its 32nd day on Friday.  When will the up-trend end?  No one knows.  My strategy is to hold growth stocks as long as the up-trend is in place.  Prior up-trends the past 3 years  have lasted as long as 86 days.  So the current up-trend may have a time to go, [...]

The up-trend continues, now in its 30th day.  There were 26 new highs and 6 new lows in my universe of 4,000 stocks on Wednesday.  Fourteen of the 26 stocks were on my IBD100 lists:  CPSI, HANS, PTRY, CERN, BJRI, AAN, QSII, SHOO, JJSF, ICUI, JOSB, NTES, FIZZ and GMCR.  TSYS, a stock I have [...]

Friday was the 27th day of the current QQQQ short term up-trend.  There were 10 new highs and 6 new lows in my universe of 4.000 stocks on Friday.  Three of the ten new highs were on the IBD100 lists from today’s edition:  STAR, HANS and JJNF.  Since the first day of the QQQQ uptrend [...]