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For Monday April 30, 2007  

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Dow +15.44 at 13120.94, Nasdaq +2.75 at 2557.21, S&P -0.18 at 1494.08

We are about to enter May - the month of flowers.

The markets for the most part closed up for the week yet again. This was the most active earrings week for the quarter and as they had taken down estimates most decent earrings were met with buying.

This buying was most evident in the 30 Dow stocks as big caps have been doing well and the small ones trailing.

To end the week the big names HON, MMM and MSFT lead the way. MSFT had a big jump in sales do to strong Vista sales. (I have not installed as usually wait for the first service pack - if you have done so please leave a note about it on the OT section of the message board)

The GDP came in weaker than expected. The advance report on gross domestic product in the first quarter showed GDP growth slowed compared to the previous quarter.

The report showed that GDP grew at an annual rate of 1.3 percent in the first quarter compared to the 2.5 percent growth seen in the fourth quarter. Economists had expected a more modest slowdown in the pace of growth to 1.8 percent.
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The Commerce Department said that the slowdown in growth compared to the previous quarter reflected a downturn in exports, an upturn in imports, a slowdown in consumer spending on nondurable goods, and a downturn in federal government spending.

Here is how the major indexes performed this week.

 

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And the sectors

 

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The bull market is now number 4 in duration but not yet so high in increase in prices. This chart however is using the Dow and it has greatly underperformed the market. Check the VLE chart later in this letter and see that is has gone up 167% since its low 4 years ago so 41% a year is pretty fantastic. If the Dow had kept up with the broad market it would now be at 19,200.

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It was an amazing week for our watch list plays this week with 33 stocks hitting their buy point, probably one of the best weeks and only one (DXPE) closed lower on the day than its buy point. In the next two session however it ran up $10.00 

For ourlemon_3.gif special situation stocks the week ended down as they got hit with a short selling fling from a short selling site that attacks in mass, stocks that have made a big run up and have small floats. Yikes are they going to fight the tiger next.

Maybe I better mention that we do have a link to a disclaimer on each newsletter and on the site. I am not a broker so cannot give financial advice  this newsletter and the site are only for educational purposes -- whoops I am not a teacher.. is only for informational purposes.

 

Read the April 30 - NUCON-RF, Inc. Chairman Lawrence C. McQuade Provides Update on State of Affairs      Click
 

Ok so you know that this week NNRF came under attack by a shorting site. This is why I think they did it. A year ago January GlobeTel Communications,  GTEM a small USA VOIP and wireless company, announced a huge contract from a Russian company for $600 million to install wireless networks to 30 Russian cites. Why would a small company like them and in the USA get such a contract. Maybe to Americans it was not so strange but to me it was bizarre as there are so many qualified companies here in Russia that it made no sense. I checked out the Russian company and could find nothing so checked to see if there was a new bid at the government to buy the right to frequencies for wireless and no bids had been submitted. The stock price was shooting up like mad on GTE and no one believed me that it was a phony deal. Of course the deal did not come about and the stock is 25 cents again. So stocklemon without checking on NUCON-RF figures maybe they are not real. I invited them to come to Russia and see. Anyway that is why the attack. They are 150% wrong totally wrong. The chairman of the board of NUCON-RF as you know was in the past  the United States Assistant Secretary of Commerce, Vice Chairman of Prudential Mutual Fund and Executive Vice President with W.R. Grace & Co (they have sales of $2.8 billion) A man like this does not become the Chairman of the Board of NUCON-RF unless there is some very solid structure and plan with the company. - Here is a bit of news. It is something I have written about a few times as it is major and a strong reason to be invested in the Nuclear sector in Russia now. If some thought I was making it up about the formation of the huge nuclear holding company - well Putin is a believer.

Putin Signs Bill to Set Up State-Owned Nuclear Industry Giant in Russia

http://www.mosnews.com/money/2007/04/28/nucleargiant.shtml

And who is the CEO of NUCON-RF - non other than the former Deputy Minister of Nuclear Energy right at the time of the beginning of the world's largest expansion in nuclear energy. There was a good press release this week  - a definitive agreement with the International Center of Environmental Security (ICES) of the Ministry of Nuclear Energy of Russia. Note in section 4 that they will define areas in which to use FEECOM/BIECOM, NUCON-RFs own propriety shielding material. I tell you folks it is really progressing very well and you can see that they are connected to the top in the sector.

Here is an article on NUCON-RF from seekingalpha.com

With the events taking place and being unfolded to you in the coming days weeks and months I trust that you will extremely pleased to be invested in NNRF. In the last few days, I like some of you, show a draw down and the shorts have their moment to play. This is a solid company with amazing leadership. And longs always make more money than shorts. For someone who bought the stock at $5 and sold at $10 they made 100% profit but for someone who shorted at $10 and covered at $5 they made only 50% profit. For the same move in price the longs made twice as much.

But this week the shorts did do their thing and sold heavily though many of the shares were naked meaning there were actually no shares to borrow. Even so, when they do buy back they will help drive the price. All shorts are eventual buyers and this is the good thing about them. I expect this week we will be pleased with some company information that may come out but am not sure that it will have an immediate huge effect on the stock though it may. The chart is damaged technically and it would be better I think if we could build a base even if it did drop a bit more. You see that it took a couple of weeks to run up from this level of the 62% retrace so if it took that long to consolidate and build a base it would be a stronger chart. I think a quick rise would invite another round of short selling so to take some time would allow the RSI to settle also. We know fundamentally the stock is greatly below a fair price now but as I mentioned in the Video this week - $10 is a psychological barrier and stocks on the first try seldom can hold it as so many people take profit there on the first attempt. The good thing about that is everyone sees that it was there and as the company news keeps getting better this price becomes like a target magnet so give it some time for the chart to correct itself as it will. I know many people got stopped out as the RSI dropped below the 70 line. Others like me who either did not have stops set of are holding long term for the tax break will just be patient as many good thing are now taking shape it seems with the company. This stock lemon thing brought a lot of attention to the company and that will mean more buyers in the future as they get to know the company.  Many of the people who shorted will in time become longs as they will now start to follow the company events.

One thing is curious. That in the posting on that site it mentioned that Barry Davis has 1 million shares - he bought them by the way and these are restricted shares so he cannot sell for the time limit. They wanted to make this sound like a bad thing but it is a great thing. He has contacts with many brokerage firms who have clients interested in new ideas and also knows large investors of course. So Barry wants to share the company story and information as widely as he can as he has his own interest also in the situation. If the company paid someone there is no incentive directly but if you own shares which you cannot sell for typically a year or two than you work your butt off at no cost to the company. So in my opinion if I hear that someone well connected in the markets is helping to spread the word about the company I hope they have a ton of shares so they will be 200% motivated.

Many people had not bought on the first move up so wonder when to get in. Let us watch on Monday and see. The shorts are totally mistaken fundamentally but at the moment they still may have the chart on their side. You know we like 3-4 day pullback bounces but this may bounce then have to test again so it may take a bit to set up. That site may try to stir up their group with more nonsense but it only goes so far as one look at the leaders of NUCON-RF gives you a clear ides of the direction. By the way lets check the NUCON-RF website soon as it may have new material.

This is the home of Velkont (as it says in Russian on top of the building) one of the current pending acquisitions of NUCON-RF. Velkont has approximately 550,000 square feet of production facilities and employs 1,400 skilled workers. Their website is here http://www.velkont.ru/

If you are in doubt about any of our special situation stocks you can give me a call as my USA auto forward number is on that page. Our time is 8 hours ahead of Wall Street time. Unlike the website that is trying to knock this stock and does not give their name or contact information at all. We who are sharing truthful company information have our home numbers on our sites.

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CYRX did really well on Friday after its drop. I had so many phone calls mostly form people with support that I totally missed the low and only added more shares over $2. I had bought quite a bit over $3 on Thursday so a heck of a draw down but I think it will be a short lived draw down. This stock railed 35% from its low on a down day so huge for those who were watching and bought it so low. I think there may be something soon to come as otherwise we could not have seen such a big move up on Friday and a close above support. This is now a perfect buy point right at support. (well not as perfect as $1.60 would have been.) Anyway I will sure be checking for any news on this one a the EMA about to cross and you know about fireworks.

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I have used this stock chart in the past but today use only this part. The stock ran from $0.70 to over $2 in a short time and all looked great but then the bottom fell out - oh no Mr. Bill. So some sold and some were stopped out and some held. Note the cross over about to happen with the 200-day and 50-day. As you know this stock went to $24 in a year.

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This chart looks about the same a move from $0.70 to over $2 all looks great then oh no.....

Note the crossover of the 200 and 50-day has already happened so a very bullish sign.

Fortunately this is coffee and if tea were rapidly replacing coffee it may not be good to buy but since coffee is hot all over the word (get it) the sales of it are great. This company is little known so far by many investors yet it has grown from 325 (about) farmers to 120,000 and they recently added 3,000 in Jamaica and now the country of Ethiopia for more supply. No one is gong to come along with a better modem or switch as this is not high tech - this is coffee so no real surprises on the downside. Peets Coffee PEET trades with a PE of 47 and Green Mountain Coffee GMCR trades at a PE of 62. Projections from reliable sources for earrings are from $0.30 to 0.50 into 2008 regardless of the exact time it takes. As a young company it may not be able to trade at such high PEs but at only a 30 PE at 30 cents in earnings the stock price would be $9. Note that this chart's RSI also showed the move below 70 right at the short term sell point if you were only trading the stock. Watching that makes for a convenient stop if you do not wish to hold through a retrace. I  think we will be very pleased with the long term performance of this stock. It ran up 300% in a couple of weeks so not surprising to see a retrace.

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The Dow now is very close to the top trend line resistance and note the RSI like our stocks above is running in the overbought area so caution.

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The S&P 500 is similar and hit resistance and so far pulled back a bit.

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This longer term chart of the S&P 500 is shown here using the concept of the chartist Matt Frailey where it shows that the bull market is when all is over the 20-month EMA and the RSI above 50 and a bear when RSI is below 50 and the index below the 20-month EMA. I am showing it as even though the chart above looks overbought short term, this monthly chart sure looks like the index will go to at least test its highs.

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Also for the short term this indicator of the number of stocks in the S&P 500 above their 50-day MA is getting high again.

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The top 100 stocks for the Nasdaq are also at the top trend line in this weekly chart and stochastics again over 80.

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In the monthly however and represented here as the QQQQs we see a break out so tech may be getting back in favor? Maybe too early yet to tell but best close in a few years.

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Here the SOX has a clear break out.

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The weekly of the Russell 2000 at resistance and high stochastics.

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Gold was down for the week as once again our buy and sell indicators worked perfectly. You know if you do not trade futures you can by gold using GLD as it trades at one tenth the price of gold. For the last 10 months using the buy sell signals would have gained a lot of points long an short.

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Oil not much to say as it sill in channel and again near top resistance.

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I buy rubles with dollar and getting fewer of them each time lately. If it cannot bounce here the next point of support you can see but other indicators suggest a rally coming this summer or earlier.

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The Value Line is a good one to show the broad market and it is up 167% since the low.

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Next week has a very positive seasonal bias. 

Both the OTC and SPX have been up about 75% of the time with an average gain in excess of 1%.  http://alphaim.net/

 

The economic calendar from briefing.com

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This stock was put on the watch list saying it was not a strong candidate but it was used in the morning video to point out the possible bear flag and it worked exactly that way. So watch for this pattern in stocks especially ones that have many red volume days that are higher than green ones.

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lemonaide_3.gif We had some short term lemons working last week but we also did have 33 stocks that were pure lemonade so here are some more that may also become tasty.

 

RMIX golden cross and first level at $8.50 (I typed thirst level a moment ago)

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CLS at $6.75 and later into gap at $7.00 but at that point would need big volume.

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RBC at resistance and trend just overhead. The meeting of the moving averages and the fireworks move on Friday is kind of normal trying to keep a death cross from forming so if we play this lets be quick or keep a tight stop as this may be a fake out.

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MSO not a great chart as the averages are reversed but still a play over $19.50 even knowing the woman's background. :-)

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HMSY a nice chart with cup and handle. A buy at $23 break and good volume could make for a very nice move of $4 in time - a measured move.

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MGRM is a pullback play. YOU see other stocks that make huge moves up also retrace. Your stop would be either under the trend line and 200-day or the Friday and Thursday low depending on you. You could also wait until a high volume run rate and a move over the Friday high but of course safer to buy closer to support.

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CVM a penny . Not a favorite for me but over $0.90 may work and has recently had the EMA crossover.

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MHK has a break out over $94.50

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ACI pretty nice chart and waiting for a move over $38.20

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And the last one for  this weeks letter is TK. We got their break out at under $52 and now it has the next buy on the break of $60. By the Way someone called and they did not realize that we have new watch list additions each day on the site. It seems impossible but this newsletter does get posted to many sites around the world so maybe they never saw our site. The message board also has a variety of stock suggestions and some are excellent but are outside the type we put on the list so check them often

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May 1, 2 and 9 are holidays in Russia so it is a custom for a lot of people to just go ahead and take both weeks off and go to their summer homes or for a travel vacation. The traffic in the city seems weird these week as it is very noticeably diminished. This as you may know is the shopping center park near my home and taken last summer as it is too early now to plant. There will be nice tulip displays however in front of the former KGB building as an example and if it go to the city center I will takes some shots.

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 By the way if you want a good workout and come to Moscow go to http://maps.google.com/ and click on the "get directions" tab then in the top from box type New York and in the second one type Moscow. Then in the directions pay attention to step 24 and you will stay healthy.

That's a full lid for today - Will see you all during the week.

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