The Market Next Week

The
following is TradingMarkets.com’s synopsis

for the market next week. Included are our Stock Scanner standouts, upcoming
IPOs, stock splits and upcoming economic events — all of which may impact
traders in the coming week.

Stock Scanner Standouts:

The following stocks are the highest rated combinations of relative strength
and earnings over three different time periods as found in the TradingMarkets.com
Stock Scanner
.

These are not recommendations to
buy or sell. Also, please remember to use protective stops on any positions.

12 mo RS of 96 and higher and EPR 96 and higher

Company
Name

Symbol

Industry
Group

1-Yr-High

Open

High

Low

Close

Hollywood
Ent.
(HLYW) Music
& video stores
16.91 14.80 14.80 13.61 14.06
InVision
Tech.

(
INVN |
Quote |
Chart |
News |
PowerRating)
Scientific
& Tech. Inst.
47.09 36.17 39.50 36.00 39.40
Multimedia
Games
(MGAM) Gaming
Activities
30.81 28.16 28.35 27.06 27.28
MIM
Corp.
(MIMS) Specialized
health services
21.59 16.00 16.21 15.78 16.17
NBTY,
Inc.
(NBTY) Drug-related
products
18.00 14.81 15.12 14.63 15.10
Net.Bank (NTBK} Savings
and Loans
15.22 14.29 14.24 13.86 14.00

6 mo RS of 96 and
higher and EPR 96 and higher

Company
Name

Symbol

Industry
Group

1-Yr-High

Open

High

Low

Close

Avant
Corporation
(AVNT) Tech.
& system software
23.625 16.50 17.00 16.22 16.88
InVision
Tech.

(
INVN |
Quote |
Chart |
News |
PowerRating)
Scientific
& Tech. Inst.
47.09 36.17 39.50 36.00 39.40
Multimedia
Games
(MGAM) Gaming
Activities
30.81 28.16 28.35 27.06 27.28
Net.Bank (NTBK) Savings
and Loans
15.22 14.29 14.24 13.86 14.00

3 mo RS of 96 and
higher and EPR 96 and higher

Company
Name

Symbol

Industry
Group

1-Yr-High

Open

High

Low

Close

Avant
Corporation
(AVNT) Tech.
& system software
23.625 16.50 17.00 16.22 16.88
InVision
Tech.

(
INVN |
Quote |
Chart |
News |
PowerRating)
Scientific
& Tech. Inst.
47.09 36.17 39.50 36.00 39.40
Multimedia
Games
(MGAM) Gaming
Activities
30.81 28.16 28.35 27.06 27.28
NBTY,
Inc.
(NBTY) Drug-related
products
18.00 14.81 15.12 14.63 15.10
Net.Bank,
Inc.
(NTBK) Savings
& Loans
15.22 14.29 14.24 13.86 14.00

Upcoming IPOs
for the Week of February
22

Corcept Theraputics
(CORT) $14-$16 by US Bancorp Piper Jaffray

Integrated Defense Technologies (IDE) $18-$21 by Credit Suisse
First Boston

For
more information, please visit our IPO
Calendar
.

Splits

Stock Symbol Ratio Payable Ex
Date
Affiliated
Computer
(ACS) 2:1 Feb
22
Feb
25
Ball
Corp
(BLL) 2:1 Feb
22
Feb
25
Bisys (BSYS) 2:! Feb
22
Feb
25

Need more splits
information? Click here.

Upcoming Economic Events

Week of February 25
March 1

Date Time
(ET)

Release

For

Consensus Prior
Feb
25
10:00 Existing
Home Sales
Jan NA 5.19M
Feb
26
10:00 Consumer
Confidence
Feb NA 97.3
Feb
27
08:30 Durable
Orders
Jan NA 1.7%
Feb
2
7
10:00 New
Home Sales
Jan NA 946K
Feb
2
8
08:30 Chain
Deflator-prel.
Q4 NA -0.3%
Feb
2
8
08:30 GDP-prel. Q4 NA 0.2%
Feb
2
8
08:30 Initial
Claims
2/23 NA NA
Feb
2
8
10:00 Chicago
PMI
Feb NA 45.1
Feb
28
10:00 Help
Wanted Index
Jan NA 46
Mar
1
10:00 Auto
Sales
Feb NA 5.3M
Mar
1
12:00 Truck
Sales
Feb
NA 7.1M
Mar
1
12:00 Personal
Income
Feb
NA 0.4%
Mar
1
08:30 Personal
Spending
Jan
NA -0.2%
Mar
1
08:30 Michigan
Sentiment-Rev.
Feb NA NA
Mar
1
09:45 Construction
Spending
Jan NA 0.2%
Mar
1
10:00 ISM
Index
Feb NA 49.9

Have a great weekend,

Brice