New Plays
02:20:13 AM EDT | 03/08/2010
Graduating Early
By James Brown | This bullish candidate is graduating from the watch list to the play list a little early.

New Plays
07:43:51 AM EDT | 02/26/2010
Need Confirmation
By James Brown | I'm starting to turn cautiously bullish again on stocks but we need confirmation

New Plays
11:55:25 AM EDT | 02/20/2010
Bulls Back At It
By James Brown | After a significant correction investors are buying this stock near support again.

New Plays
11:55:32 PM EDT | 02/13/2010
Reinsurance Rally
By James Brown | This insurance stock is breaking out past multiple layers of resistance.

New Plays
11:55:55 PM EDT | 02/06/2010
Jumping In Early
By James Brown | We're not going to wait any longer. It's time to jump in.

New Plays
11:56:15 PM EDT | 01/30/2010
Downside Target
By James Brown | The S&P 500 has fallen through support at the 1,085 level. Now what?

New Plays
11:50:42 PM EDT | 01/23/2010
Plotting An Entry
By James Brown | Now that stocks have begun to correct we can start scouting for an entry point.

New Plays
11:05:36 PM EDT | 01/18/2010
Post-Earnings Correction?
By James Brown | Investors are selling the (earnings) news and momentum is clearly waning across the market.

New Plays
11:51:06 PM EDT | 01/09/2010
Take Your Pick
By James Brown | We have two ways to play tonight's trade.

New Plays
11:55:48 PM EDT | 01/02/2010
A Test of Patience
By James Brown | The outlook for January was already cloudy before stocks decided to rally into the holidays.

New Plays
11:27:29 PM EDT | 12/26/2009
Relative Strength in Tech
By James Brown | The tech sector has helped lead the market higher and tonight's new candidate is in the diversified electronics industry.

New Plays
11:55:58 PM EDT | 12/19/2009
Looking Ahead
By James Brown | 2009 is almost gone and we're looking ahead toward January.

New Plays
00:47:28 AM EDT | 12/12/2009
Happy With the Status Quo
By James Brown | Fund managers are in no rush to buy stocks.

New Plays
10:59:41 PM EDT | 12/05/2009
Sector Improvement
By James Brown | I still hesitate to add new positions with the S&P 500 stuck under resistance near 1,110. However...

New Plays
11:13:53 PM EDT | 11/28/2009
Scaling Back
By James Brown | Investors may need to take a more short-term approach to their trades...

New Plays
11:36:29 PM EDT | 11/21/2009
Getting Promoted
By James Brown | We are graduating one of our watch list candidates to the active LEAPS portfolio.

New Plays
09:22:21 PM EDT | 11/14/2009
No Conviction
By James Brown | The stock market continues to flirt with resistance near the 1100 level.

New Plays
02:15:49 AM EDT | 11/09/2009
New All-time High
By James Brown | This stock has spent the last ten months building a new base under resistance and it just broke out.

New Plays
03:01:38 AM EDT | 11/08/2009
New All-time High
By James Brown | This stock has spent the last ten months building a new base under resistance and it just broke out.

New Plays
11:50:28 PM EDT | 10/31/2009
Entry Point Dilemma
By James Brown | The S&P 500 has broken its 50-dma, the 1,050 level, and its trendline of higher lows.

New Plays
11:53:16 AM EDT | 10/24/2009
Discipline to Wait
By James Brown | The major averages are struggling with resistance as the momentum fades from this rally.

New Plays
10:09:27 PM EDT | 10/17/2009
Are We Nearing The End Zone?
By James Brown | The stock market continues to march higher and edges closer and closer to potential resistance.

New Plays
00:02:27 AM EDT | 10/11/2009
Sooner Than Expected
By James Brown | The market rallied a lot sooner than expected and the market is near new 2009 highs.

New Plays
11:46:00 PM EDT | 10/03/2009
Next Couple of Weeks
By James Brown | I suspect the market's correction will run out of gas in the next week or two.

New Plays
10:13:25 PM EDT | 09/26/2009
Eyeing the Watch List
By James Brown | Stocks have begun to slip as we approach the end of the third quarter.

New Plays
10:04:20 PM EDT | 09/19/2009
Stocks Look Extended
By James Brown | The stock market looks a little overbought with the S&P 500 up 7% from its September lows just three weeks ago.

New Plays
10:26:33 PM EDT | 09/12/2009
Still Buying Dips
By James Brown | The major indices are breaking out to new 2009 highs. We're adding more candidates to the watch list.

New Plays
08:26:39 PM EDT | 09/05/2009
Missed It By That Much
By James Brown | This bullish LEAPS candidate was on our watch list and almost hit our trigger last week.

New Plays
10:48:40 PM EDT | 08/29/2009
Should Have Been Higher
By James Brown | We had a lot of positive news come out last week. The market should have traded higher.

New Plays
08:56:02 PM EDT | 08/22/2009
Promoted
By James Brown | Instead of a new LEAPS play we promoted a watch list candidate to active duty and added two new watch list candidates.

New Plays
08:01:44 PM EDT | 08/15/2009
Lighter Than Expected
By James Brown | There are too many people afraid they're going to miss the rally.

New Plays
07:52:46 PM EDT | 08/08/2009
How Many Times?
By James Brown | The S&P 500 is up 16% from its July lows. The NASDAQ is up 15% and the small cap Russell 2000 is up 20% from their July lows.

New Plays
07:17:41 PM EDT | 08/01/2009
It's A Virtue
By James Brown | Yes, you probably know what I'm about to say. Investing in LEAPS requires some patience.

New Plays
11:27:24 PM EDT | 07/25/2009
It's All About Timing
By James Brown | Stock markets around the world have produced one of the best two-week rallies in years. Is this the time to jump in?

New Plays
11:47:43 PM EDT | 07/18/2009
Running At Resistance
By James Brown | Stocks have reversed and the market is racing toward resistance.

New Plays
09:57:42 PM EDT | 07/11/2009
On Your Mark!
By James Brown | On your mark. Get set. Go... The stock market looks poised to race lower if investors are disappointed with the first batch of second quarter earnings.

New Plays
09:12:02 PM EDT | 07/04/2009
Which would you choose?
By James Brown | Which discount would you pick? A 5% or 10% discount.

New Plays
06:39:41 PM EDT | 06/27/2009
Offshore Supplies
By James Brown | We want to use the correction in this oil services stock as an entry point to buy LEAPS.

New Plays
09:13:30 PM EDT | 06/20/2009
Lacking A Catalyst
By James Brown | Stocks continue to churn sideways leaving investors without a clear catalyst.

Saturday, June 13, 2009
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Betting On A Bottom
By James Brown | This semiconductor leader has been building a base for months.

Saturday, June 06, 2009
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Tough Market? No Problem.
By James Brown | Sales may be challenging for the auto industry but not for this part supplier.

Saturday, May 30, 2009
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Market Indecision
By James Brown | Stocks are stuck in a trading range. We need to be even more selective when it comes to new plays.

Saturday, May 23, 2009
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The Dollar Falls Down
By James Brown | So how can a longer-term trader play the drop in the dollar?

Saturday, May 16, 2009
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More To Watch
By James Brown | The market looks fragile here so we're adding more candidates with a buy-the-dip entry point.

Saturday, May 9, 2009
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Steaming Ahead on Hope
By James Brown | This transport stock has bottomed.

Saturday, May 2, 2009
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Time to be patient
By James Brown | I am actually rather encouraged by the strength in the S&P 500 last week. However, this is the time to be patient when it comes to launching new LEAPS positions

Saturday, April 25, 2009
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Seabed to Surface
By James Brown | This stock has already constructed a base. Now it's time to build higher.

Saturday, April 18, 2009
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Ignoring the Commodity
By James Brown | Oil service stocks have broken out to new relative highs.

Saturday, April 11, 2009
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Trading Volumes Are Rising
By James Brown | Now that the market is in rally mode volume is likely to increase.

Saturday, April 4, 2009
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Fourth Quarter Bottoms & New Relative Highs
By James Brown | We've got two new candidates showing relative strength.

Saturday, March 28, 2009
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Cashing In on a Legend
By James Brown | How a swarm of diehard fans could make you money.

Saturday, March 14, 2009
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On Your Mark
By James Brown | On your mark. Get set... and wait! Let the entry point come to you.

Saturday, March 7, 2009
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Mark-to-Market
By James Brown | A great way to take advantage of a potential bounce in financials

Saturday, February 28, 2009
New Plays
Market Decline is Broad Based
By Keene H. Little | There are very few places to hide in this market. There are no new plays this week but we should be getting closer now to some good entries for the year.

Saturday, February 21, 2009
New Plays
Gold rallied and financials sold off. Both actions triggered two new play entries.
By Keene H. Little | The flight to safety in gold and out of financials triggered our upper target price on GDX, the gold miner stocks, and the lower target price on XLF, the financial ETF. As of Friday I was feeling a little better about the prospects for the GDX put play than I was about the XLF call play. But our stops are in and we'll let the market talk to us (or spank us, whichever it will be).

Saturday, February 14, 2009
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The Market's Decline Chased the Bulls Away
By Keene H. Little | The market may be nearing the breakdown point and therefore I do not want to get bloodied by trying to catch some falling knives right now. I'm tempted by a couple of stocks I see but instead of jumping on them now I'm going to add a few more stocks to the Watch List section so that we have a few things to watch over the next couple of weeks and get ready.

Saturday, February 7, 2009
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The Market Got a Good Bounce This Week. But...
By Keene H. Little | There was a lot of excitement this past week in the stock market, built on the hopes that an economic stimulus package from Congress and a new and improved "Bank Rescue Package, Version 9.1" to be announced by Monday will definitely, for sure this time, fix what ails us. Let's just say I'm from Missouri on this one (the "show me" state). So we wait a little longer. But there is one stock that interests me at the moment.

Saturday, January 31, 2009
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The Shiny Metal May Soon Lose its Luster
By Keene H. Little | With the hard drop in the stock market there was a rush back into the "safety" of gold which closed another $18 higher than last week's close and up nearly $53 from its low on Thursday. But I think gold will soon be topping and it's a good time to position for the reversal.

Saturday, January 24, 2009
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Stocks Cheaper Than Leaps
By Jim Brown | The market drop over the last three weeks has given us some unbelievable entry points in stocks that are cheaper than leaps.

Sunday, January 18, 2009
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Two Days Until Crude Futures Expire
By Jim Brown | Do I hear $30?

Saturday, January 10, 2009
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Ten Days Until Crude Futures Expire
By Jim Brown | Will we see a repeat of crude at $30 we saw in January futures?

Saturday, January 3, 2009
New Plays
Crude Rallies 35% in a Week
By Jim Brown | War in Israel and Bids to Add Crude to the SPR Pushed Crude Prices Higher.

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