Weekly Newsletter 03/25/06
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 Weekly Commentary  

Market Summary

The NASDAQ was the only market to show gains this week as investors continued to receive conflicting signals on the direction of interest rates. An indication that rates would continue to rise was provided by evidence of a strengthening economy as jobless claims fell, sales of existing homes rose and the core inflation rate ticked up. There were also contra-indications, however, as long term rates continued to fall. The Fed's Open Markets Committee meets on Tuesday and another quarter point rise is expected. Any language that implies further increases are expected will have a negative impact on the markets. The DOW closed the week flat after closing at a new 5 year high mid-week and the S&P 500 slipped 0.33%. The NASDAQ Composite gained 0.27%. Volume pulled back from last weeks level indicating a lack of enthusiasm by institutions to place bets in either direction.

For the year, the DJI is the strongest performer followed by the NASDAQ and then the S&P 500. The DJI and S&P 500 continue to be on a firm upward trend while the NASDAQ is consolidating in an ascending triangle with a horizontal resistance line at 2325.

A breakout above 2325 would be a bullish sign for the NASDAQ.

With so much uncertainty and falling volume, the number of successful breakouts fell to 18 this week with a gain by weeks end of 1.3%. The standout performer was Emisphere Technologies (EMIS ) which closed 19.17% above its pivot. EMIS was also on our TradeWatch 'Buy at Open' and 'Best Return' lists.

Our TradeWatch Best Return list is showing an annualized return of 69% and our new Buy at Open list an annualized return of 79%.

There was a change at the top of our leading industries list this week as Telecom- Fibre Optics took over from Machinery/Construction-Mining.

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 New Features this Week Additional Value that we added this week

The backtest function was enhanced. See below

This Week's Top Tip Tips for getting the most out of our site

Fine Tuning Your Filters Using Backtesting

You probably know that you can filter our CwHwatch list but what values should you use? We provide some help with two standard filters called "CAN" and 'BOW' which give you a starting point. The CAN filter is set to values approximating the suggestions in How to Make Money in Stocks by William O'Neil. The 'BOW' filter is much more restrictive and is focused on those technical characteristics of a CwH handle that indicate a possible strong breakout at the next session. To help you adjust the filters to your needs, we provide a 'Backtest' feature that allows you to back test your filters over a time period of up to 12 months. We described how to use this feature in detail in our 8/6/2005 Newsletter.

A limitation of the filter back testing was that it did not provide much help if you wanted to find filters that would meet certain breakout day percentage gain or breakout day volume multiple objectives. An enhancement to the filter back testing now gives you extra help in two ways:

  • The filter values that correspond to the % gain and volume objectives are now provided on the backtest results summary
  • The filter values for each stock selected by the back test are available when the 'list' link is clicked on the summary page.

Suppose you want to fine tune the BOW filters to select stocks with a breakout day gain of 5%. To do so:

  1. Click the BOW filter button
  2. Click the Backtest button
  3. Enter the number of days you want to backtest over and enter '5' as the minimum breakout day gain. Click Go.

4. The resulting summary screen shows the minimum values of the filters that would have selected all stocks making at least a 5% gain on the day of breakout. This is only displayed when either or both of the breakout day options is selected.

5. To see the stocks corresponding to the selection, click the 'list' link in the No. of Breakouts column.

6. To see a T/A chart of the stock, click the symbol, or to see how the filter values compare to the actual metrics for the stock, click a 'Compare' link.


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 Market Summary Overview of market direction and industry rotation
Index Value Change Week Change YTD Market1
Signal
Dow 11280 0% 5.25% enter
NASDAQ 2312.82 0.27% 4.87% enter
S&P 500 1302.95 -0.33% 4.38% enter
 Best Performing Index
1 Week 13 Weeks 26 Weeks Year-to-Date
NASDAQ Composite
0.27 %
NASDAQ Composite
1.84 %
Dow Jones
1.64 %
Dow Jones
5.25 %
 Best Performing Industry (by average technical score over each period)
1 Week 3 Weeks 13 Weeks 26 Weeks
Telecomm-FiberOptics Machinery-Const/Mining Machinery-Const/Mining Machinery-Const/Mining
 Most Improved Industry (by change in technical rank2)
Internet-Secur/Network Svcs
+ 33
Retail-Discount/Variety
+ 53
Pollution Control-Equip
+ 108
Telecomm-FiberOptics
+ 168
Charts of each industry rank and performance over 12 months are available on the site

1The Market Signal is derived from our proprietary market model. The market model is described on the site.
2The site also shows industry rankings based on fundamentals, combined technical and fundamentals, and on price alone (similar to IBD). The site also shows daily industry movements.
 Weekly Breakout Report How confirmed breakouts performed this week
# of Breakouts
Period Average1
Max. Gain During Period2
Gain at Period Close3
This Week 18 31.69 5% 1.24%
Last Week 37 32.15 6.92% 7.94%
13 Weeks 466 33.54 14.37%
6.1%
Sector
Industry
Breakout Count for Week
Healthcare
Healthcare-Drugs/Ethical
2
Healthcare
Healthcare-Products
2
Oil & Gas
Oil & Gas-U S Explr/Prod
2
Building
Building-Maint & Services
1
Computer
Computer-Integrated Sys
1
Computer Software
Comp Software-Enterprise
1
Finance
Finance-Misc Services
1
Healthcare
Healthcare-Med/Dent Services
1
Insurance
Insurance-Diversified
1
Insurance
Insurance-Prop/Casualty/TItl
1
Internet
Internet-ISP/Content
1
Leisure
Leisure-Htls/Mtls
1
Mining
Mining-Gold/Silver/Gems
1
Oil & Gas
Oil & Gas-Prod/Pipeline
1
Personal
Personal -Cosmetics
1
1The average number of breakouts in each week over the previous 13 weeks.
2This represents the return if each stock were bought at its breakout price and sold at its intraday high.
3This represents the return if each stock were bought at its breakout price and sold at the most recent close.
 Top Breakout Choices Stocks on our Cup-and-Handle list with best expected gain if they breakout
Category
Symbol
Company Name
Expected Gain1
Best Overall SWB Smith & Wesson Hldg Corp 101
Top Technical STXS Stereotaxis Inc 38
Top Fundamental IFIN Investors Fin Svcs Cp 22
Top Tech. & Fund. DBRN Dress Barn Inc 28
1This is the gain predicted by our Expected Gain model if the stock breaks out. Expected Gains for all cup-and-handle stocks are published on our site.
 Top Second Chances Stocks that broke out this week and are still in buyable range
Category
Symbol
Company Name
Expected Gain1
Best Overall HOM Home Solutions Of America 101
Top Technical HOM Home Solutions Of America 101
Top Fundamental PRLS Peerless Systems Corp 89
Top Tech. & Fund. PRLS Peerless Systems Corp 89
1This is the gain predicted by our Expected Gain model after the stock has broken out which uses the volume on breakout as a predictive term. Because the model variance is +/- 38% the expectation can be negative.

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