Week in Review: Market Analysis (cont.)
Friday's results sent a clearer message. The major indexes shook off early losses, typical behavior in a healthy market - but this time, leading stocks also made their mark. The IBD 100 vaulted 2.6%, crushing the broad market's results and pointing to strength among top stocks. Friday's market action is stuffed with leading stocks rising in brisk volume. That's a 180-degree turn from Thursdays' action, which showed many leaders falling in heavy trade. Over the past few days, we've discussed how the market's leadership has expanded lately, with highly rated equities from a number of industries joining the early-moving energy, agriculture and machinery stocks that first grabbed the baton a few weeks ago. That trend continued on Friday.
Sohu.com jumped 3.83 to 61.84 on 2 1/2 times its typical turnover. Citigroup upgraded shares to buy from hold and upped its price target on the China-based Internet portal provider. Sohu will report earnings on Monday. Analysts see profit surging 106% to 37 cents a share. Fellow Chinese dot-com Sina gained 3.30 to 47.05, surging above its 200-day moving average. The stock's Accumulation/Distribution Rating has climbed to B from a D rating last month. Both stocks have had a roller coaster ride since going public in 2000. Plagued by a tech market already in the early stages of a huge nose dive, both stocks fell hard for the first few months of their existence. Both staged rocket rides off the 2002 bottom and into late 2003, then spent the next few years consolidating. They have since regained much of their lost luster ââ¬â especially Sohu, which now sits just 4% off its all-time high. Chinese Internet content provider Baidu.com, a big winner in its own right after a successful 2005 IPO, has also been rebounding from a sharp correction. The stock bounced 6% in rapid volume Friday. It's building the right side of a deep base started in late 2007.
There's a reason XxxxxxxCapital.com pays such close attention to a stock's price action and its volume - one rarely goes far without the other. And when prices make big moves without supporting volume, or volume spikes without price gains coming along, that's often a sign of trouble.
It is imperative that you cut your losses short. Never let a stock fall much beyond your stop-loss target. At XxxxxxxCapital.com, our members are given a well-thought out, proven method for minimizing losses after ramping up heady gains. Selling quickly lets you preserve your capital for new buys. It also helps you maintain your confidence by avoiding crushing losses.
With routine precision by side-stepping the heavy losses incurred by most, once again we have preserved most all of our sizeable compounded annual gains. Where would your net worth be had you grown your funds with exponential returns, year-after-year? Meanwhile, no market rally has ever started without a follow-through. Trade alongside with us when the Stock Market stages itââ¬â¢s next follow-through - as big-money institutional investors jump in to buy shares!
Meanwhile, DON'T IGNORE YOUR WATCHLIST. Keep your watchlist fresh to find the best opportunities for your cash. With each market follow-through to a new rally, new leaders typically emerge from consolidated bases. Delete companies that have broken down. Look for stocks with superior fundamentals that are making calmer corrections. Also remember that the next wave of market leadership may not resemble the last rally's. Rather than guess, wait for the leadership to develop on its own.
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This past week, our Classic Fund rose 2.76%. Thus far in 2008, the fund has gained 6.48%, and is currently 87% vested. Thus far in 2008 it outperforms the Nasdaq by 15.13%, the S&P 500 by 11.28% and the Dow by 9.29%!
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Our "limited"-margin fund also added 2.76% on the week. For all of 2008 the fund is up 6.48%. Currently our premier fund is also 87% vested. Thus far in 2008 it too outperforms the Nasdaq by 15.13%, the S&P 500 by 11.28% and the Dow by 9.29%!
Our Pro Fund easily outperformed - SURGING 34.17% for all of 2006! Xxxxxxx Capital finished 2006 with our Pro Fund having outperformed the Nasdaq BY A WHOPPING 24.65%, the Dow by 17.88% and the S&P 500 by 20.55%!
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Just as Monday marked a stealth rally for the market, Tuesday's down day wasn't as bad as it might appear on the surface. For one thing, the market's losses were modest compared with the big gains chalked up lately. The Nasdaq surged 4.9% in the prior week, one of its best weekly performances in a long time. Even after Tuesday's decline, the tech-laden index has barely given back one-fifth of last week's advance. If the market's going to pull back, it's encouraging to see it relinquish just a fraction of its winnings. Meanwhile, leading stocks mostly held firm, showing continued resilience. Only a handful of highly rated stocks suffered sizable losses. Of the few that did, most were thinly traded issues that lack the liquidity to be considered true, institutional-quality leaders.
Over the past few months, the market had tried to rally several times. Each time, stocks would stage tepid breakouts, only to quickly stall.Theyââ¬â¢d go nowhere, or worse, fall sharply and knock investors out with quick losses. Now, weââ¬â¢re seeing leaders delivering big breakouts in hefty volume. Instead of stalling, theyââ¬â¢re bolting higher from there, following through impressively and giving buyers a welcome cushion of gains. Meanwhile, crude oil and gas prices hit all-time highs Friday. Yet stocks are powering ahead, ignoring surging commodities prices and other signs of inflation, not to mention potential recession. Remember: The stock market always looks a head, not behind.
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