Hey effy congratulations!!!
Instead of being down 60+% you are only down 58%
Looks like a buy on the rumor sell on the news traders rally to me. How that works is this...when there is no rumor to have a bullish up trend over a period of time,,,,surprise positive news comes out and sparks a rally. Add to that a nice positive bullish day for the dow and markets and you get a nice rally for a beaten down stock in a beaten down industry. Had the news come on a 133 Dow down day I doubt there would have been much upside. Combine the two factors and you get a nice pop. Whether it is a traders and eventual suckers rally we shall see, it is certainly a traders rally.
Short term/day trading never fight the tape and look to ride out this rally till it peters out and reverses when the next negative story hits the news wire. Effy talking about a Bottom?

Good luck with that. Remember stocks never go straight up or straight down. The short term trend is up the long term trend is still down and that has not been broken by a one day rally. I don't see the mortgage industry and co's in this industry having any decent earnings coming in the next 6-12 months. I don't see real estate sales turning around and without that happening I don't see mortgage lenders doing well. In fact I think the coming months will see the Worst period in decades for mortgage lenders. You don't need a crystal ball to see that coming. Never try and pick bottoms wait for signs the industry co is turning around. A co having to borrow billions to stay a float was interpreted as a positive by traders willing to jump in and go for some $$$ short term. Is having to borrow billions to keep the co alive afloat really a good thing? No.
I continue to see this stock either wallowing right around here (17-22) for months and when the declining earnings rumours begin the stock will slide further(17-?).
The way I have made alot of money in the last 26 years has been to invest in turnaround plays such as CFC(which it is not yet). I have learned not to be too eager and early on turn around plays. You don't want dead money or further downside risk. You wait patiently for the sector and industry and co to show signs of improvement. Todays news wasn't it. You can see some inexperienced investors wanting to jump into CFC and try and pick the bottom thinking this is it. Odds are they will get hurt by either dead money or the stock going up slightly and wallowing or making new lows. (((You can ride this rally to its conclusion/reversal if you're are a nimble trader))When CFC shows me real signs of turning around on both the technical side and especially the fundamental side then I will go long. Turn arounds you have to analyze the fundamental side much more so that the technicals. I don't try to buy bottoms, pick or guess bottoms. I am a trend trader. I will watch and wait and sacrifice a few $$$ by not attempting to pick the bottom and instead buy in when the trend reverses and the fundamentals for CFC and the sector improve. I do not expect that to be for awhile. I'll buy CFC at $26 swing/long term (let my profits run)IF this is the bottom. I don't think CFC is going to make a trend reversal for quite some time. I couldn't trade today as I had other commitments. I will try and squeeze some $$$ out of this traders rally long and short.
That is as clear as I can state my analysis on CFC. Good Luck.
Now effy can spout some more of his gibberish.....