Stock-PR Reporting FREE Daily Stock Alerts From Stock-PR.com ________________________________________   Most Active NYSE Stocks   Symbol Company Last Chng. %Chng. Volume C Citigroup Inc $3.97 -0.05 -1.24% 400,226,373 F Ford Motor Co $13.51 -0.22 -1.60% 217,282,249 SPY SPDR S&P 500 ETF $115.70 -0.86 -0.74% 176,906,072 BAC Bank Of America Corporation $16.89 -0.20 -1.14% 139,561,228 GE General Electric Co $17.97 -0.22 -1.21% 98,556,088 PFE Pfizer Inc $16.86 -0.38 -2.18% 96,996,635 XLF Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF $15.69 -0.10 -0.66% 79,083,220 IWM iShares Russell 2000 Index Fund $67.26 -1.00 -1.46% 59,375,498 FAZ Direxion Shs Etf Tr $14.18 +0.31 +2.24% 54,951,242 EEM iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index ETF $41.21 -0.52 -1.24% 51,127,918 S Sprint Nextel Corp $3.72 -0.08 -2.11% 50,432,289 WFC Wells Fargo & Co $30.28 -0.01 -0.03% 37,470,927 BSX Boston Scientific Corp $7.12 +0.05 +0.71% 37,279,070 Q Qwest Communications International Inc $5.04 +0.07 +1.31% 34,190,860 AA Alcoa Inc $14.29 -0.01 -0.09% 33,332,075 XOM Exxon Mobil Corp $66.67 -0.72 -1.07% 33,072,100 SDS ProShares UltraShort S&P500 ETF $31.73 +0.46 +1.47% 32,042,355 HRP HRPT Properties [...]

The comments below were provided by Kevin Lane of Fusion IQ.

We remain cautiously optimistic with the trend up, internals strong, the Russell 2000, the NASDAQ and now the S&P 500 at new recovery highs. Skeptics remain the loudest people in the room and while their concerns may be valid we have learned that the market rewards the minority and confounds the majority.

As seen above the S&P 500 cleared its previous resistance peak near 1,150 (lower red line) and now looks to challenge the 1,200 level. Although there may be some back and filling along the way, we have long argued that there would be one last move up driven by investors who skeptically avoided the market. The fear and greed continuim is always at play and

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Morgan Stanley is warning of a sell-off in US stocks (thanks to The Pragmatic Capitalist for pointing that out)

Certainly, there are legitimate reasons to believe that may be what’s ahead.  We take some issue, however, with one of the specific indicators Morgan Stanley uses to support their argument.

In this image, Morgan Stanley is concerned about the small-cap Russell 2000 stocks outrunning the large-cap S&P 500 stocks.  They looked through a small window.

Perhaps that is a low quality versus high quality matter in this difficult time, but we we are not sure that smaller companies will necessarily do worse than larger companies in this stage of the economy.

While they may be right about the future of the market, we don’t think a short-term chart of the ratio of the Russell 2000 to the S&P 500 is diagnostic or predictive.

Here is a

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Investors who are concerned about the ability to exit a position, as well as to enter a position, and particularly those who use stop loss orders, should be aware of and concerned about the liquidity of the stocks they purchase.

We believe that it is unsound to own more than 1% of the average daily Dollar trading volume of any security.  We prefer to own less than that — preferably 0.5% as a limit.

Consider that if there is a rush to the door, the greater your position size relative to average daily Dollar trading volume, the more your position will move the market.  In a rapidly declining market, limit orders don’t help too much if the market keeps falling below your limit.

Consider that if you use stop loss orders, they become market orders when triggered.  A market order in a thinly traded stock, or one that is thin relative to your

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The bull market that commenced on March 9, 2009, has just market its first anniversary. A summary of the movements of major global stock markets for the past 12 months, as well as various other measurement periods, is given in the table below.

The MSCI World Index notched up one-year gains of 70.5%, whereas the MSCI Emerging Markets Index was on fire with +103.2%. As far as the US indices are concerned, the Dow Jones Industrial Index (+61.4%) and the S&P 500 Index (+68.6%) underperformed mature markets, but the Nasdaq Composite Index (+84.5%) and the Russell 2000 Index (+95.1%) gave investors reason to smile.

BRIC countries such as Russia (+117.5%) and India (+109.0%) were in the lead on the performance rankings, but China (+44.9%) - the first country to commence a bull market advance in November 2008 - has slipped badly over the past few months.

Notwithstanding the huge

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Japanese Small-Caps Hold Big Rewards For Contrarian Investors

by Tony Daltorio, Investment U Research Monday, March 8, 2010

Mention Japan to any global money manager and he or she will probably react with a frustrated look and a weary sigh.

That’s because too many investors have lost fortunes trying to call Japan’s market bottom ever since the Nikkei 225 index began falling from its peak of 40,000 in 1989. So naturally, skepticism runs deep about any real improvement over there.

But this time may be different.

Really.

After all, Japan has a new government with new ideas of how to run the country. In taking office last September, the Democratic Party of Japan (DJP) officially ended more than half a century of dominance by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).

The last time such a large political switch happened was in 1867 when Japan’s imperial court toppled

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Last week was exciting as we saw stocks and gold close above the February highs which confirms we are in a new up trend. The question everyone is wondering is: .

How far will this market go before rolling over?

This is a tough question but we can get a good feeling about the risk and if it’s worth putting money to work or not at this point. Here are my quick points and thoughts about the stocks indexes at the current price (March 5th closing price). • The market is extremely overbought on the hourly and daily charts. Buying here is just chasing prices around, and that is a net losing game. • Small Cap stocks have been on fire making a new higher for the year. This is very bullish but again buying here carries too much risk because after such a sharp price appreciation, we can see it all be given

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We run several different models that help us to determine what the market is favoring in regards to style-growth/value and size-market cap and right now they are pointing to a potential mean reversion trade going long Large Cap Value against Small Cap Growth.

Looking at the chart below you can see that over essentially the last decade the Russell 1000 Value and Russell 2000 Growth ratio has reached extremes around 1.00 and .82.  We are obviously nearing the lower end of the range where the Russell 1000 Value index typically takes over. (Click on chart to enlarge)

Russell 1000 Value/Russell 1000 Growth ETF Ratio

Since these types of mean reversion trades can last for a few years at a time it is important to look at as much data as possible.  Looking at monthly Russell data

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Three weeks ago on February 5th, we saw an extremely high level of fear in the market with selling vs. buying volume at a 9:1 ratio. We note that in 2009 this extreme level of fear occurred at the bottom of each significant pullback.

Since this panic selling low in February 2010 we have seen stocks and commodities work their way higher, which we expected. Overall the broad market looks as though it’s trying to make a move higher.

Below are some ETF charts of gold, silver, oil and the indexes.

Gold lead the market higher in 2009 and also lead the market lower in December of 2009. It looks as though gold could be starting a new trend higher.

You can see the clean breakout of the down channel and then a test of the channel at

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