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Monthly Archives: February 2008

Market Forecast for Week of 2/25: SPX, Nasdaq, GLD, XME, UNG, MOO, INX2

It’s Oscar Night!! Congrats to all the winners! Of course, being a person who has done visual effects and animated films, I paid special attention to those categories. I haven’t gotten a chance to see “The Golden Compass”, the winner of Best Visual Effects, yet; but, I did get to see “Ratatouille”. […]

The 5 Best Natural Gas Plays To Keep On The Radar: XTO, APA, CHK, SWN, UPL

Submitted By Optiondragon

There Will Be Blood- Daniel Day Lewis (Oscar Best Actor Nominee)
Yes the commodity boom and how to profit from it. In some ways we can see a little Mr. Plainview in all of us can’t we? Now we have computers to mine for our profits and UNG could be the next […]

DRYS: The Shipper To The Global Boom In Commodities

Submitted By OptionDragon

Maroon 5 - Sunday Morning
Happy Sunday!
Well, after announcing blockbuster earnings with Q4 EPS of $5.37 vs. consensus of $4.07 and Q4 revenues of $233.379M vs. consensus of $208.75M. DRYS is now #1 on the IBD list and for good reason. DRYS is a global leader and is based in Greece, […]

The Earnings Outlook For The Week of 2/25 And Important Economic Numbers: AZO, CTRP, DECK, Gross Domestic Product

Submitted By Optiondragon

Yoda the Master Trader and Dancing Machine: Let the Force Be with You
In this coming week, we still have a slate of earnings news and also important economic data, down below I have my favorite, expected volatile earnings plays and scheduled earnings of note as well as scheduled economic data with expected numbers. […]

Weekly Wrap!!

The market survived a week of “seesawing” actions! But, managed to come away once again with a win, although the techs were on the weak side. For the week, the Dow added +32.81 points; SPX gained +3.12 points; and Nasdaq slid 18.45 points, but stayed above 2300 at 2303.35.
Last weekend, in my Market […]

Premarket Analysis for 2/22 - Upgrades/Downgrades, Gappers, Actionable Calls

Submitted by OptionDragon

The Postal Service - Such Great Heights

There was heavy buying in the Vix calls yesterday that should be mentally noted, if you look at the Vix charts, it looks to trend up possibly from here. Keep an eye on it, it could foretell a possible drop to test the Jan lows […]

It’s A “Seesaw” Market: SPX, Nasdaq, CPS, RIMM, TEX, ABX, RTP

This market just cannot make up its mind. It has been “seesawing” back and forth. For the past 5 trading sessions, it has been closing in the opposite direction as it has opened. When the market opened up, it closed down; when the market opened down, it closed up!
Today, the market opened […]

Premarket Analysis for 2/21 - Upgrades/Downgrades, Gappers, Actionable Calls

Submitted by Optiondragon

Smashing Pumpkins- 1979

RIMM is gapping up and looks to stay strong for today’s session after announcing it’s increasing its fiscal Q4 subscriber forecast by 15% to 20%. RIMM expects total subscribership to be approximately 14 million when the quarter ends on March 1. RIMM is scheduled to report Q4 EPS on April 2. […]

$1000 Gold? SPX, Nasdaq, RIG, OIS, AEM, ITRI

So, oil is at $100. Now, gold is rallying to a new all-time high, getting close to $950/ounce! It looks like $1000 gold is not going to be too far away!
The market started sluggishly, but, picked up momentum in the afternoon and closed near the day’s high! For the Dow, it was […]

Premarket Analysis for 2/20 - Upgrades/Downgrades, Gappers, Actionable Calls

Submitted By OptionDragon

I Turn My Camera On - Spoon
From Briefing.com

This morning GRMN announced excellent earnings beat on both the top and bottom and guided higher. GRMN reports Q4 EPS $1.31 ex-items vs. consensus of $1.11.
Reports Q4 revenue $1.22B vs. consensus of $1.04B. Sees 2008 EPS exceeding $4.40 vs. consensus of $4.26B, sees 2008 revenue […]