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Archive for the ‘Stock Talk’ Category
Stock Charting and Screening Websites
Free Charting Resources
BigCharts.com
MarketWatch’s source for free charts.
Bloomberg.com
No data company on or off Wall Street sports the reputation that Bloomberg has built up over the years. Even if you can’t spring for the $1,300/month Bloomberg terminal subscription fees, you can turn to the company’s website for free interactive stock charts.
CNBC
CNBC’s charting website isn’t overly fancy or complex, but the financial news network does offer interactive charts that automatically draw trendlines and other technical indicators.
Google Finance
The addition of candlestick charts makes Google’s free financial suite a formidable offering.
MSN Money
The addition of interactive candlestick charts has made MSN’s Money portal a strong contender in the free stock site arena. Still, like most of these charts, you shouldn’t base real-world trades off of them.
QuoteMedia.com
More popular for its robust financial data, particularly historical pricing, the charting could be stronger but does offer interactive and java charts.
StockCharts.com
One of the most popular sources for free technical stock charts.
Yahoo! Finance
While less full-featured that Google’s charts, Yahoo’s financial portal continues to be a popular choice among individual investors.
Free Stock Screening Tools
Morningstar
This company offers investors a nice selection research and screening tools.
Portfolio123
For more complex stock screens, Portfolio123’s free membership is worthwhile.
FinViz.com
This sleek website bills itself as the source for financial vizualizations — and it doesn’t disappoint. One of the key features is a stock screener that allows investors to visually vet stocks based on their chart patterns.
Google Finance
This ubiquitous financial portal offers a reasonably featured screener that allows investors to select their screening criteria in relation to other companies in the broad market.
Zacks Stock Screener
This free stock screening resource from Zacks gives investors the opportunity to get professionally designed screens — or to design their own.
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We would like to congratulate all of our members that acted on our latest alert, IZEA Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB: IZEA).
On Friday IZEA hit the high for the week and is approaching its all time high. That’s great news for our members. We believe IZEA still has great upside this week based on momentum from recent news!
The company just announced on Friday the introduction of a new feature for one of its online social media platforms, SocialSpark.
This new feature, SocialSpark Deals, improves upon the current ‘daily deal’ model by focusing exclusively on e-commerce merchants who are better equipped to track repeat customers and obtain contact information for future marketing.
Read the News Story Here
Not only that, but IZEA has also recently announced the opening of its new West Coast office in California.
We believe that our Tech Stock of the Year, IZEA, has great potential to become one of the world’s leaders in social media sponsorship! Do not let this company and opportunity pass you by!
We encourage our subscribers to do their own research on this exciting company and always use stop losses when trading any penny stock. You can visit IZEA’s website at www.izea.com.
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Penny Stocks are technically defined as stocks priced below $5. However, a more common definition for a “penny stock” is one that trades below $1 and in several cases, even below a penny.
It is often implied, but isn’t necessarily true, that penny stocks are also micro caps with capitalization of less than about $250 million, and is therefore capable of creating vast wealth. Penny stocks are actually found across the full range of capitalization from micro caps to large cap stocks.
As a group, micro cap penny stocks are generally avoided by large funds since prices are very easily affected by sizeable buy and sell orders. Also, capitalization is too small to affect a large fund’s bottom line. Also, there are insider responsibilities involved in buying more than 10% of a publicly held company so to avoid this, large funds usually don’t take up penny stocks – not even the micro cap ones.
While the penny stock market poses a higher degree of risk than the major stock exchanges that trade large cap stocks, they also provide tremendous profit potential for individual investors with small amounts of capital, if they make wise trading decisions. Here are some tips that can help you profit when trading penny stocks:
- Be Diversified! Never put all of your eggs in one basket. Try to invest in at least 5 different penny stock picks at a time. If you have $5,000 to invest, put $1,000 into each stock. When one is sold, replace it with another hot penny stock.
- Never fall in love with a stock! Stick to your plan! If a one of your penny stock picks hits your target price, start using a “Stop Loss”. If the stock continues to climb, move your “Stop Loss” with it. When it stops out, go on to the next penny stock. We have more information on our stock terminology page.
- Be happy with smaller percentage gains! Even if you make 3% to 5% on a stock, it can really add up. Let’s say you make 5% on a one of your penny stock picks every two weeks. That’s a 10% gain on your investment each month or 120% each year! Don’t try to retire on that one hot penny stock purchase. Penny stock investing rewards add up quickly in a relatively short time.
- Use Limit orders to purchase stocks! A market order can execute at a price you may not like. If a breakaway gap takes place at the open, you could be stuck holding the bag. If you sell a large position at the market, your penny stock order may get filled at a price much lower than expected.
- When looking to buy or sell a stock at the market opening, be patient! If you are looking to buy a penny stock, notice how a lot of stocks open strong, rise for about an hour and a half, then start to dip. Then for the next hour things will start to stabilize. Then after the market has been open for two and a half hours, it will start to climb again. Use this same information for selling a penny stock investment. If you missed a selling point when it first opened, wait for that two and a half hour point and see if the penny stock price starts to rise again.
- Never chase a penny stock investment! When a penny stock pick is hot and takes off leaving you behind, let it go! If it never looks back, go on to the next hot penny stock. There are always more stock to buy. Penny stocks are high risk, high gain offerings, by nature quite volatile, and may not recover after a pullback.
- Don’t ride a penny stock into the dirt! If you are down 10% to 15% on a penny stock position, it’s time to cut your losses and get out. If you are well diversified, you will have other promising stocks to help you recover your losses.
- Do not buy a stock based on the number of shares you can buy! We see too many people buying a $0.50 penny stock pick because they want to own 2,000 shares. It doesn’t matter what the price is, remember you are out to make a percentage on your stock investment.
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ROYALE ENERGY INC (ROYL)
Director: Grinsfelder Gary
Acquired 24,000 Common Stock (Non-Derivative security at $3.235) on Oct 20, 2011. Direct holding 2,106 shares/units after transaction. Holdings increased 109.62%.
Insider filing date: Oct 21, 2011
SeaBright Holdings, Inc. (SBX)
Senior Officer (Sr. VP, CFO and Assist. Secy.): Fuller Neal Andrew
Acquired 75,076 Common Stock (Non-Derivative security at $0.010) on Oct 19, 2011. Direct holding 76,076 shares/units after transaction. Holdings increased 7,507.60%.
Insider filing date: Oct 21, 2011
Macy’s, Inc. (M)
Senior Officer (Chief Administrative Officer): COLE THOMAS L
Acquired 72,000 Common Stock (Non-Derivative security at $21.340) on Oct 20, 2011. Direct holding 101,066 shares/units after transaction. Holdings increased 247.71%.
Insider filing date: Oct 21, 2011
iTech Medical, Inc. (IMSU)
Other: ANGELIDIS GEORGE
Sold 246,333 Common (Non-Derivative security at $0.040) on Oct 17, 2011. Direct holding 0 shares/units after transaction. Holdings decreased -100.00%.
Insider filing date: Oct 21, 2011
SCI Engineered Materials, Inc. (SCI.OB)
Director: UNGAR EDWARD W
Acquired 5,000 Common stock, without par value (Non-Derivative security at $1.500) on Oct 19, 2011. Direct holding 11,188 shares/units after transaction. Holdings increased 80.80%.
Insider filing date: Oct 20, 2011
LINCARE HOLDINGS INC (LNCR)
Director: Bryant Angela P
Acquired 42,000 Common Stock (Non-Derivative security at $0.010) on Oct 20, 2011. Direct holding 62,000 shares/units after transaction. Holdings increased 210.00%.
Insider filing date: Oct 21, 2011
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SYNERGETICS USA INC (SURG)
Director: Williams Patricia S
Acquired 1,500 Common Stock (Non-Derivative security at $6.220) on Oct 18, 2011. Direct holding 4,500 shares/units after transaction. Holdings increased 50.00%.
Insider filing date: Oct 20, 2011
SOUTHERN CO (SO)
Senior Officer (Executive VP & COO): TOPAZI ANTHONY J
Acquired 37,805 Southern Company Common Stock (Non-Derivative security at $32.700) on Oct 19, 2011. Direct holding 41,999 shares/units after transaction. Holdings increased 901.41%.
Insider filing date: Oct 20, 2011
PROGRESS SOFTWARE CORP /MA (PRGS)
First-Class Insider (President and CEO.): REIDY RICHARD
Acquired 75,000 Common Stock (Non-Derivative security at $14.570) on Oct 18, 2011. Direct holding 177,033 shares/units after transaction. Holdings increased 73.51%.
Insider filing date: Oct 20, 2011
Propell Corporation. (PROP)
Director: Kalow Mark L
Sold 300,000 Options (Derivative security at conversion or exercise price: $0.250) on Oct 14, 2011. Direct holding 0 shares/units after transaction. Options expires on Apr 18, 18. Holdings decreased -100.00%.
Insider filing date: Oct 20, 2011
CBS CORP (CBS, CBS.A)
First-Class Insider (President & CEO): MOONVES LESLIE
Sold 300,000 CBS Class B common stock (Non-Derivative security at $22.960) on Oct 17, 2011. Direct holding 139,363 shares/units after transaction. Holdings decreased -68.28%.
Insider filing date: Oct 19, 2011
ON TRACK INNOVATIONS LTD (OTIV)
10% shareholder: C. Silk & Sons, Inc.
Sold 1,000 Common Shares, NIS 0.10 par value per share (Non-Derivative security at $1.610) on Oct 18, 2011. Direct holding 0 shares/units after transaction. Holdings decreased -100.00%.
Insider filing date: Oct 20, 2011
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