We’ve spent the better part of the last two weeks talking about ‘the plan’ for the pullback, and what we’re going to do when it looks like we’re near the bottom of it. Since we’re probably about halfway there, it’s time to really start taking some critical looks at the names on our watchlist. As [...]

Just a quick note to let you know I’m adding Oriental Financial Group (NYSE:OFG) to the watchlist, which was last rounded out on January 19th. Oriental Financial made its way onto the radar after a routine technical scan last week, and I almost dismissed it. But, there was just enough of a compelling shape to [...]

Just a quick note about Tuesday’s action and what Wednesday likely holds…
In short, no surprises. The bulls, sympathetic bargain hunters, were active early in the day, but when push came to shove (i.e. when the buyers had to commit to those stocks overnight), the dip into the red late in the day said these buyers [...]

In the ongoing effort to provide information and perspective you won’t get anywhere else, today I’m going to serve up something I know the mainstream media hasn’t passed along (and definitely not in this format). We’re going to take a look at the earnings – historical and future – for the S&P 600 Small Cap [...]

Well, we knew it was likely, and the day finally came when we had to pay the piper. The S&P 500 lost 3.9% this week, 2.2% of which came today. It’s a sobering reminder of why you never want to get complacent with the market.
More importantly, what’s next? I’ve got a basic roadmap/answer, and the [...]

Clearly Tuesday wasn’t the follow-through day on last Friday’s weakness; stocks were up pretty handily. Nevertheless, the move only to Thursday’s highs coupled with mediocre volume still leaves a move lower – even if tempered – as the most likely possibility for the foreseeable future.
As promised in the prior update, we want to go ahead [...]

What a week! The S&P 500 fell 1.08% on Friday to lead the market to a loss of about 0.8% from the prior week’s closing levels. While I’d live to say the worst is over, the realist in me has to be, well realistic. That’s not meant to sound alarmist – it just suggests it [...]

Before jumping to any conclusions about today (like whether or not it’s the beginning of the end, or if it’s nothing but a motivation to go “all in” tomorrow), I want to show you a chart that should offer up some perspective.
Readers who’ve been around for a while will know our strategy is longer-term in [...]

Though they still aren’t the final scores for 2009, I think we can reasonably start to grade how well the stocks in each market cap category (small, mid, large) did last year. More importantly, we can compare that to how they’re expected to do next year.
With that in mind, and based on Standard & Poor’s [...]

Today we will be looking at Budget Center Inc., a very interesting company that just went public. It has been around since 2006 and is working to develop a variety of “budget” travel sites. BudgetCenter.com is their main site. There you can find company info including News, Global Strategy, Company Profile, Management Team details, Stock [...]