Weekly Newsletter 05/29/09
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Market Summary Weekly Breakout Report Top Breakout Choices Top 2nd Chances New Features Tip of the Week
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 Weekly Commentary  

The markets were consolidating within a trading range, but Friday's action, in which the NASDAQ Composite set a new high for the year, suggests they may be ready to move higher following increasing optimism that a recovery could begin as soon as the 3rd quarter.

Last week, the NASDAQ Composite looked in danger of completing a head and shoulders top, but this week it pushed through the 200-dma level and set a new high for the year on Friday. You will often hear us say that resistance becomes support and that's exactly what happened with the 1665 level which proved insurmountable in January. Once that was passed in April, the subsequent pullback found support just below the 1665 level. After a double-test of that support level the index looks ready to test the next resistance level at 1786.

NASDAQ Composite
 New Features this Week Additional Value that we added this week

Email alerts for the new Zacks Strong Buy Watchlist started this week and after a couple of early glitches are now working fine. Unlike our normal email alerts, these alerts are available to Silver subscribers. To receive the alerts you must go to the Zacks Strong Buy page under Mine for Candidates and request the alerts.

These alerts are available to new Trial members also, of course.

Zacks Strong Buy Sell alerts are also working, although we haven't issued any yet.

We are working on an Alert Monitor, a Strong Buy Buy and Sell History page and Strong Buy Breakout Performance Reporting. The monitor and history report should be available by the middle of next week.
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Zacks
 Market Summary Overview of market direction and industry rotation
Index Value Change Week Change YTD Trend
Dow 8500.33 2.69% -3.15% Down
NASDAQ 1774.33 4.87% 12.51% Up
S&P 500 919.14 3.62% 1.76% Down
Russell 2000 501.58 5.02% 0.43% Up
Wilshire 5000 9408.25 3.74% 3.53% Down
 Best Performing Index
1 Week 13 Weeks 26 Weeks Year-to-Date
Russell 2000
5.02 %		 Russell 2000
28.78 %		 NASDAQ Composite
15.55 %		 NASDAQ Composite
12.51 %
 Best Performing Industry (by average technical score over each period)
1 Week 3 Weeks 13 Weeks 26 Weeks
Auto Parts Stores Auto Parts Stores Auto Parts Stores Auto Parts Stores
 Most Improved Industry (by change in technical rank2)
Aluminum
+ 54		 Aluminum
+ 99		 Long Distance Carriers
+ 213		 Long Distance Carriers
+ 210
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. 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 25 14.54 5.3% 2.75%
Last Week 23 13.92 12.81% 7.78%
13 Weeks 190 15.15 20.53%
 10.63%
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 SHOR SHORETEL, INC. 127
Top Technical GMKT GMarket Inc 45
Top Fundamental GMKT GMarket Inc 45
Top Tech. & Fund. GMKT GMarket Inc 45
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 ININ Interactive Intelligence 81
Top Technical EC Engelhard Corp 58
Top Fundamental DDUP DATA DOMAIN, INC. 59
Top Tech. & Fund. DDUP DATA DOMAIN, INC. 59
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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