BreakoutWatch.com Weekly Review for 12/24/2011

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Market Summary

Weekly Breakout Report

Top Breakout Choices

Top 2nd Chances

New Features

Tip of the Week

Prior editions of this newsletter with our valuable Tips of the Week are available here.

Weekly Commentary

We wish all our subscribers and readers a safe and happy holiday season and a profitable and successful New Year.

There will be no newsletter next week.

Note that the markets are closed on Monday, December 26 and Monday, January 2, 2012.

The NASDAQ Composite suffered a setback on Wednesday when Oracle Corp. missed its earnings targets and gave up 12%, dragging other diversified technology companies down with it. The index has recovered since then and is now facing resistance at the 50 day moving average level and then at the 200 dma level. The medium term trend is sideways with a downward bias and we don't expect this to change over the holiday period when volumes are light and interest is diminished.

New Features this Week

Additional Value that we added this week

You can now get an intraday chart of any stock on our 'Alerts Issued Today' page at anytime after the market opens. If the market is not yet open, the previous day's intraday chart is displayed

Hover for intraday chart

When you hover your mouse over any of the symbols, the company name is displayed. If you then move your mouse over the company name it will turn orange and if you the click the company name an intraday chart will appear. This intraday chart uses real time price data from Google. Please note that there are sometimes gaps in the data depending on how frequently the stock trades. Where there are gaps, these will be seen as a straight line connecting the two prices either side of the gap.

We will also add this feature to the Alert Monitor in the near future.

Because of the extra server load in generating the chart, this feature is only available to Trial and Platinum subscribers.

This Week's Top Tip

Tips for getting the most out of our site

Drive safely!

Market Summary

Overview of market direction and industry rotation

Index

Value

Change Week

Change YTD

Trend

Dow

12294

3.6%

6.19%

Down

NASDAQ

2618.64

2.48%

-1.29%

Down

S&P 500

1265.33

3.74%

0.61%

Russell 2000

747.98

3.59%

-4.55%

Down

1 Week	13 Weeks	26 Weeks	Year-to-Date
Best Performing Index
S&P 500 3.74 %	Russell 2000 14.13 %	Dow Jones 3.01 %	Dow Jones 6.19 %
Best Performing Industry (by average technical score over each period)
1 Week	3 Weeks	13 Weeks	26 Weeks
Toy & Hobby Stores	Toy & Hobby Stores	Specialty Eateries	Personal Computers
Most Improved Industry (by change in technical rank²)
Cement + 50	Publishing - Newspapers + 80	Toy & Hobby Stores + 180	Surety & Title Insurance + 197
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	21	22.31	4.26%	3.1%
Last Week	20	21.38	8.9%	6.91%
13 Weeks	291	24	9.03%	2.91%

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