If somebody were to ask you what your best stocks are, you would likely name the stocks moving up the most in your portfolio. Your worst stocks? The ones going lower of course. Simply put, the winners in your portfolio are the ones going up. Period. You'll rarely single out one of your best stocks just because it has a low P/E ratio or just because it has a great return on equity. Yes, those things do matter! But if the stock is underperforming the market, or worse, going down, you'll quickly identify it as one of your worst holdings - and you would be right to do so. Now take a look at your portfolio. You probably have some great winners in there. (You better after last month's run-up.) But, you probably have some laggards as well. Hopefully, the mix is ...

Here are the stocks added to the Zacks #1 Rank ("strong buy") List today:

Access National Corp (ANCX) Acxiom Corp (ACXM) AeroCentury Corp (ACY) American Public Education Inc (APEI) Anaren Inc (ANEN) Banco Latinoamericano de Exportaciones (BLX) Big Lots Inc (BIG) Blackrock Kelso Capital Corp (BKCC) Brady Corp (BRC) Capitol Federal Financial (CFFN) Churchill Downs Inc (CHDN) Corrections Corporation of America (CXW) CPEX Pharmaceuticals Inc (CPEX) Deutsche Bank AG (DB) Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc (DPS) Energy XXI (Bermuda) Ltd (EXXI) Entercom Communications Corp (ETM) Flanders Corp (FLDR) Hittite Microwave Corp (HITT) HMS Holdings Corp (HMSY) Inergy Holdings L.P (NRGP) Ingram Micro Inc (IM) Keppel Corporation Ltd (KPELY) KT Corp (KTC) Longtop Financial Technologies Ltd (LFT) Lumber Liquidators Inc (LL) Northrim BanCorp Inc ...

Here are the stocks added to the Zacks #1 Rank ("strong buy") List today:

American Public Education Inc (APEI) Associated British Foods Plc (ASBFY) Atlantic Tele-Network Inc (ATNI) Banco Latinoamericano de Exportaciones (BLX) CapLease Inc (LSE) Compania Cervecerias Unidas SA (CCU) China Petroleum & Chemical Corp (SNP) Knology Inc (KNOL) Kohlberg Capital Corp (KCAP) Netflix Inc (NFLX) NVE Corp (NVEC) RAE Systems Inc (RAE) Rolls-Royce Group Plc (RYCEY) Ross Stores Inc (ROST) WestAmerica Bancorp (WABC) Wyndham Worldwide Corp (WYN) Access National Corp (ANCX) Advance Auto Parts Inc (AAP) American Financial Group (AFG) The Buckle Inc (BKE) Callon Petroleum Co (CPE) Carrizo Oil & Gas Inc (CRZO) Centennial Communications Corp (CYCL) Flanders Corp (FLDR) Hellenic Telecom Organization SA (OTE) Hill-Rom Holdings Inc (HRC) Iconix ...

Today we are featuring top-performing "Small-Cap" equity mutual funds, which primarily invest in equity securities of companies that have market capitalizations of less than $1 billion.

Investors can find such funds by checking out the entire list of the Zacks #1 Rank Small-Cap Equity Funds.3 Super Picks

FBR Focus (FBRVX) was incepted in January 1997. The fund seeks long-term capital appreciation by investing primarily in the equity securities of domestic companies.

FBR Focus Fund invests in small and mid-cap companies that demonstrate consistent earnings growth, better-than-average returns on equity and high levels of free cash flow. It is characterized by a low level of business risk and reflects an approach that is inherently conservative and tax efficient.

The fund has been managed by Charles T. Akre since its inception. Akre has over 30 years of experience in money

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Nanotech Stocks: Profiting From Spintronics With NVE Corp. (NVEC)

by Louis Basenese, Advisory Panelist Senior Analyst, The Oxford Club

When a subscriber recently asked us if we were hot on any nanotech stocks, my immediate reply was, “No.”

But it wasn’t because I’m not excited about the nanotech field…

Over $50 billion in product sales last year included some form of nanotechnology. The National Science Foundation’s asserts the nanotechnology market will top $1 trillion by 2015. You don’t need me to tell you, but I will… Few industries, if any, can boast such strong prospects.

My problem was that time and again all I saw was gobs of money pouring into research without a penny in real profits.

Worse yet, whenever I did find a compelling technology - one capable of actually making money - it was typically buried as a tiny operation beneath a megacap. Even if the

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