Investing is much easier than what it used to be. Now you can sign up for your own online trading account and be approved in just a few days. From there all you have to do is enter the symbol of the stock you wish to purchase as well as how many shares you want. With so much competition in the online brokerage market today, many are offering low commission rates as well as free independent research tools to make better trading decisions.

Our name emphasizes the commitment we have to connect subscribers with companies that have huge potential to succeed in the short and long-term future. It is part of our mission statement to help the investment community discover emerging companies that offer excellent growth potential. We offer several ways for investors to learn more about investing in these companies as well as find and evaluate them.

The QualityStocks Daily Newsletter has

...

iCAD, Inc. is an industry-leading provider of Computer-Aided Detection (CAD) solutions designed to enable healthcare professionals to better serve patients by identifying pathologies and pinpointing cancer earlier. The company provides a comprehensive array of high-performance, upgradeable CAD systems for the high, mid and low volume mammography markets. iCAD is currently trusted by more than a thousand women’s healthcare centers worldwide.

The company has been responsible for a number of mammography CAD innovations, including:

• the first system to offer a clear film-to-digital upgrade path • the first system to support up to twelve films in a patient study • the first and only CAD system to search for and mark clinical asymmetries • the first system to report above each image the number of marks made by the CAD system • the first system to provide multiple radiologist viewing stations - including a free-standing, eye-level viewer • the first system to generate printed CAD results and offer the

...

QualityStocks assists publicly traded companies by getting their story out to the investment community while helping investors discover emerging companies with plenty of growth potential. Our name emphasizes the commitment we have to connect subscribers with companies that have huge potential to succeed in the short and long-term future. We believe strong management and vision for the future are crucial for any company to be successful.

The QualityStocks Daily Newsletter has been a real hit with both traders and investors because it keeps their finger on the market’s pulse without having to spend countless hours keeping up-to-date. The publication consolidates information from hundreds of Small-Cap and Micro-Cap Online Investment Newsletters in a summary format, plus provides the latest information on the companies we feature.

To sign up for the QualityStocks Daily Newsletter, visit www.signup.qualitystocks.net

The QualityStocks Blog keeps investors up to date on everything related to the small cap and micro cap

...

December 22, 2008 This is no way to start the holiday week is it? The only folks pleased by today’s action are those driving a Hummer and/or snowmobiling. This type of action is why Chicken Dave still maintains high cash balances at the ETF Digest. Bulls will cheer the light volume today as no big thing but you should expect this type of action in either direction until trading resumes after the New Year. I suspect tomorrow may offer more interesting action since at least there will be news from retail sales, consumer sentiment, and final GDP data. Below is Yahoo/Finance’s numbers and then our man in Geneva puts everything straight for us. ...

by Doug West

The meltdown on Wall Street has taught us all many lessons.

“We Better Learn To Make Our Own Investment Decisions -And Not Let Brokers Make Choices For Us!”

This is a basic fact that we have been teaching for many years now. Most investors either blindly throw money at the market or let a broker do it for them. With just a little time and effort, you can learn to direct your investment accounts and retirement funds on your own.

In this article we want to point you in the right direction, and give you a few crisis tips too.

ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds) are an excellent alternative to mutual funds as an investment vehicle for your retirement or other accounts.

There are ETFs that cover every sector of the market. ETFs offer many advantages over mutual funds. Here are a few:

* Tax Advantages - ETFs seldom sell any equity …

December 16, 2008 Bernanke is living up to his reputation as helicopter drops of cash will rain on markets until his academic research is vindicated. It’s as most have been saying, “when push comes to shove politicians and officials will choose to inflate.” Theoretically, barring heavy central bank sales, investors have been given the green light to buy gold and hold it until the Fed reverses course. Uncle Buck will also take a hit. So, the markets love this and you can buy, so bulls say, what you wish with both hands since the Fed is determined to inflate everything. And, we know it’s the gift-giving season so the Fed tossed the bulls what they needed to make things look better by year-end. [Hmmm, I wonder if Crammer was trashing the Ultra leveraged long ETFs today? And, ...

Looking to create a profit-based "fast-lane" for its Internet traffic, search engine giant Google, Inc. (GOOG) reportedly contacted top phone and cable companies with a proposal, according to today's Wall Street Journal. This changes Google's previous stance on the issue -- Google had "traditionally been one of the loudest advocates of equal network access for all content providers," according to the news article -- but it also follows already announced plans by AT&T Inc. (T) and Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) to charge for "fast-lanes" on the Internet.Of course, this would quite literally generate an entirely new revenue "stream" for these companies, but it flies directly in the face of net-neutrality laws already on the books, which date back to before the surge in Internet usage a dozen or so years ago. Champions of net neutrality cite leaps in innovation and development on the World ...

Report: Russia, China Biggest Bribers; Coffee Prices Continue Falling; October Existing Home Sales Slump; China Wants More Help From BHP; Yahoo Closing in on New CEO; FedEx Lowers Guidance 26%; Lehman Selling French Unit for $1; NFL to Cut 150 Jobs

Companies from Russia and China are most likely to use bribes when conducting business abroad, says a report from Berlin-based corruption watchdog Transparency International (TI), Reuters reported. The least likely to bribe were Belgium and Canada, according to group’s 2008 Bribe Payers Index. Four days after rival J.M. Smucker Co. (SJM) cut its list price for Folgers coffee products, Kraft Foods Inc. (KFT) announced an ...

a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T9VXVyuEITg/ST9XpL-ZqYI/AAAAAAAAAmc/6BFfbo-jRYU/s1600-h/ModelTFord.jpg"img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 252px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T9VXVyuEITg/ST9XpL-ZqYI/AAAAAAAAAmc/6BFfbo-jRYU/s320/ModelTFord.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278033653402282370" //abr /Investors are looking for ways to play the automobile company bailouts, without having to speculate on the General Motors (GM) or Ford (F) stocks. A safer way of speculating on the autos is by buying their convertible preferreds, notes, convertible debentures, and a href="http://stockerblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/pines-and-quibs-and-pds-oh-my.html"minibonds/a, all of which should be paid off before the common shareholders are paid off, in the event of bankruptcy.br /br /General Motors, 4.5 convertible debentures, 2032, (GXM) 25%br /br /General Motors, 5.25, 2032, convertible debentures B (GBM) 34%br /br /General Motors, 6.25, 2033, convertible debentures C (GPM) 36%br /br /General Motors 7.5, 2044, (GMS), 43%br /br /General Motors 7.375 (HGM) 44%br /br /General Motors Senior Notes (BGM) 48%br /br /General Motors 7.25 Notes (RGM) 48%br /br /General Motors 7.25 (XGM) 45%br /br /General Motors 7.25 QUIB (GMW) ...

From the a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2008/1209/breaking35.htm"Irish Times/a.br /br /blockquoteThe group is suffering alongside other big ticket retailers from the economic downturn. Total sales orders fell by 47 per cent in the three months to November 2nd.br /br /It added recently: “We expect market conditions to be challenging and uncertain for the remainder of 2008 and 2009 which includes the important January sale period.”br /br /Shares, which floated at 149p in 2005, closed at just 9p on Monday, giving it a market capitalisation of around £4.5 million. Despite the slump, Land of Leather said it would protect remaining shareholder value./blockquotebr /span class="fullpost"Based on the currently traded price of 6p it puts the market cap at £2.1m according to a href="http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=lanm=Ld="Yahoo/a. However, the Irish Times wnet on to say it has £6.9m in cash with no debt:br /br /blockquoteIn October Land of Leather revealed that its annual pre-tax profits had dived to £2.3 million, ...