In the year following six major bear markets of the last century, small cap stocks soared an average 82%. But Louis Basenese says only the most compelling and innovative small caps will make these mouthwatering gains. He says Genoptix, Inc. (Nasdaq:GXDX) and American Public Education, Inc. (Nasdaq:APEI) are two small caps that should be up 50% by this time next year.
In this latest chat with Cash McDash, Justice gets the scoop on high-multiple growth stocks… and why they should be sold short in market conditions like these.
To the untrained eye, the IPO market looks calm. But there are three hidden pressures building up in the new-issues market, says Taipan Daily editor Justice Litle in conversation with hedge fund manager Cash McDash (a pseudonym, of course)…
Takeover Trader editor Louis Basenese has found a stock market indicator that he says is as close to a sure thing as you can get.
Heavy volumes of options trading – particularly when biased to one side – gives a clear signal that a stock is about to make a big movement.
And Louis says Friday’s huge trade in short-term call options for EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) suggests its share price is about to rally big time. Louis says it’s time to long on this stock now…
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Editor’s Note: Justice Litle says new and exciting tech start ups often face a heavy dose of reality in the year after their IPO. It’s stock price falls off the peak it has climbed. This, says Justice, makes clever short plays a lucrative strategy…
So I had a flashback recently. (Not an acid flashback, mind you — never tried the stuff — but a market flashback). It was almost 10 years ago on the nose: August 1998. I was a wet-behind-the-ears college grad, and I’d just flown into Reno/Tahoe for a job interview with Commodity Resource Corp. I’d never seen Tahoe except in pictures (though, of course, I’d heard how amazing the place is).
In the world of investing, sometimes the separate parts are worth more than the whole. Those parts are called “corporate spin-offs,” and as far as investment plays go, they can be one of the safest and most-profitable hands that investors can play – especially against a market backdrop as uncertain as the one we face now.