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U.S. Stocks Edge Higher … Retailers Among Biggest Gainers … Asian Stocks Rally on Japanese Spending Pledge … Most ETFs in Neutral Territory, Overbought ETFs Include: IFN, EWZ, XLU …
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TradingMarkets 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Today |
Here are 7 stocks for traders for today from TradingMarkets.com:
- The acquisition of Centex Corporation
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PowerRating). Analysts are expecting EPS of 1.51. - Earnings per share of 93 cents are what analysts are expecting from Chevron Corporation
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For a list of today’s highest PowerRating stocks, click here.
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TradingMarkets 5 PowerRatings Stocks for Today |
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Symbol | PowerRatings |
| ITT Educational Services | ESI | 9 |
| Haverty Furniture Companies Inc. | HVT | 9 |
| Royal Gold | RGLD | 8 |
| Newmont Mining Corporation | NEM | 8 |
| Leap Wireless International | LEAP | 8 |
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The Making of a New Bull Market, Part 3 – TradingMarkets
In the last two trading lessons, we looked at the past 7 bull markets since 1982 and the common characteristics of these bear-to-bull market transitions. Today, Larry Connors continues his in depth analysis of the 8 common themes of most new bull markets.
Battle Plan Trade of the Week: DIA Are Forever – TradingMarkets
For our Battle Plan trade this week, we went back to the wellspring of overbought ETFs trading below their 200-day moving averages, with the Dow Diamonds ETF. The overbought ETF picked up a gain of more than 2.5% in 7 days.
A Simple Day Trading Strategy – TradingMarkets
In this article by TradingMarkets contributor Markus Heitkoetter, you will learn how to have confidence in your trading decisions by using a simple day trading strategy to trade the futures market.
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TradingMarkets Daily PowerRatings Analysis |
PowerRatings Does It Again – Results for 2008 – TradingMarkets
The 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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