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U.S. Stocks Pull Back in Earnest as 10 Banks Fail Stress Test … Asian Stocks Retreat on Larger than Expected Losses Feared at Toyota… NY Fed Chair Resigns Under Controversy … Oversold ETF for Today Include EWT, AGG, RTH, QQQQ, LQD ….

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TradingMarkets 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Today

Here are 7 stocks for traders for today from TradingMarkets.com:

  • Struggling automaker General Motors
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    announced a quarterly loss of more than $6 billion on Thursday.

  • Wells Fargo
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    announced after the close that it would be making a common stock offering of approximately $6 billion in a capital-raising effort

  • On a day of widespread profit-taking in the financials, Capital One Financial
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    was up by more than 17% intraday, closing in overbought territory below the 200-day moving average for the second consecutive trading session.

  • Among the companies reporting quarterly earnings on Friday, Toyota Motor
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    is expected to report a per share earnings loss of 3.52, while Beazer Homes USA
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    is expected to announce EPS of -1.60.

  • Down more than 4% after beating analyst quarterly earnings estimates by a nickel, Cisco Systems
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    is now oversold above the 200-day moving average. Fellow tech giant IBM
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    , was down more than 2% intraday and is also oversold above its 200-day moving average.

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TradingMarkets 5 PowerRatings Stocks for Today

Company
Symbol PowerRatings
Blyth Inc. BTH 9
The Middleby Corporation MIDD 9
Steve Madden Ltd. 9
Virgin Media Inc. VMED 9
Netgear Inc. NTGR 9

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Trading Around Once-in-a-Lifetime Economic Events
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For those looking at the opportunities created by economic releases, Larry Connors discusses how traders can act on these market-moving events.

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Understanding volatility is a very critical part of options trading. In part 1 of this series, TradingMarkets contributor Jeff Augen helps options traders to understand more about implied volatility.

How to Exit an ETF Trade, Part 3 – TradingMarkets

In the third and final part of our series on exiting ETF trades, we present what is probably our most widely-used exit strategy for both ETFs and stocks: closes beyond the 5-day moving average.

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PowerRatings Does it Again – Results for 2008!
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The test results for PowerRatings for 2008 are in and again the top rated PowerRatings stocks outperformed the average stock over a 5-day period.

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