tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071743852989743098Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:21:06 +0000http://smartstockinvestment.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Stock Geek)Blogger173125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071743852989743098.post-586119637890265414Sun, 05 Feb 2017 06:33:00 +00002017-02-04T22:33:55.601-08:00 Super Bowl Sunday in February is probably the biggest sports event in United States. While people are expected to gather around sports bar drinking beers or stay at home eating pizza and BBQ, some companies are also expected to get revenue boost during this time. First of all, when you and your buddies are drinking Bud Light, the official NFL beer sponsor, you are helping its parent http://smartstockinvestment.blogspot.com/2017/02/super-bowl-sunday-in-february-is.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stock Geek)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071743852989743098.post-9013028903019525244Wed, 01 Feb 2017 18:34:00 +00002017-02-01T10:34:07.564-08:00 On Tuesday, January 24, 2017, President Donald Trump signed the executive memorandum to revive Keystone Pipeline and Dakota Pipeline that have been blocked in the previous Obama administration. This yet another swift executive order from President Trump creates hope for investors who hold stocks of the companies impacted by both major pipelines. The Street on the same day reportedhttp://smartstockinvestment.blogspot.com/2017/02/what-stocks-to-buy-with-trumps-keystone.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stock Geek)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071743852989743098.post-8757333502280185433Fri, 03 Aug 2012 06:23:00 +00002012-08-02T23:23:54.465-07:00 8x8, Inc. (EGHT) has been trading in the $4 range since February of this year.  Share price has moved so little that most people probably have forgotten about it.  However recently the stock has quietly rose up and is now trading at $5.48 per share.  The technical chart shows the stock is on a breakout with both 50 day MA and 200 day MA rising.  We may see some pull back to http://smartstockinvestment.blogspot.com/2012/08/8x8-inc-eght-quitely-rising.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stock Geek)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071743852989743098.post-2070068743531479506Wed, 28 Dec 2011 06:45:00 +00002011-12-27T22:45:54.382-08:00 After losing more than two third of its value for the year, shares of defense contractor  Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (KTOS) may about to begin a bullish cycle.  The company yesterday received three year contract worth $13 million and a week before received contract for US missile program worth $11 million.   The stock is off the 52 week low of $4.61 per http://smartstockinvestment.blogspot.com/2011/12/time-to-buy-kratos-defense-security.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stock Geek)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071743852989743098.post-3242986405849434729Thu, 06 Oct 2011 06:15:00 +00002011-10-05T23:15:28.675-07:00The whole Chinese Solar sector has been abandoned by investors for a long long time as reduction of government subsidy provides no future for the solar companies.  With investors expecting consolidation of the whole sector and some companies even going bankruptcy, it is not surprising to see these Chinese Solar stocks that used to be traded in double digits are now all at or near penny http://smartstockinvestment.blogspot.com/2011/10/recovery-of-solar-jks-tsl-yge.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stock Geek)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071743852989743098.post-5946619976456117887Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:46:00 +00002011-09-25T17:46:38.827-07:00The market has been in turmoil as US and European countries are facing rising debt.  Last week major indices tanked as Fed Chief Bernanke's new move failed to comfort the anxious investors.  While investors are fleeing most equities, some investors are actually making money in the down market by spreading their nested eggs into a special family of ETFs - the Ultra Short ETFs. &nbsphttp://smartstockinvestment.blogspot.com/2011/09/hedging-against-plunging-commodity.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stock Geek)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071743852989743098.post-2578790708117296085Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:07:00 +00002011-08-25T11:07:37.774-07:00The Oracle of Omaha makes his move again! Earlier today Bank of America Corporation(BAC) announced today that it reached an $5 billion agreement to sell 50,000 shares of Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock with a liquidation value of $100,000 per share to Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. in a private offering.  In addition, Berkshire Hathaway will also receive warrants to purchase http://smartstockinvestment.blogspot.com/2011/08/warren-buffett-to-invest-bank-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stock Geek)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071743852989743098.post-8511202074215355555Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:53:00 +00002011-08-03T07:53:36.472-07:00 Nine straight days sell off in all major indices.  So are they going to fall further?  Dow has already broke the significant 200 day average line of 12,000 and is currently trading at 11,735, testing the next support.  If it break further we could fall another 700 points before we see any possible buyers. http://smartstockinvestment.blogspot.com/2011/08/market-sell-off-where-is-dow-jones.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stock Geek)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071743852989743098.post-3356846426321750184Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:38:00 +00002011-07-28T07:38:12.715-07:00The Chinese demand for meat has been growing rapidly as individual income have been growing.  Therefore it is worthwhile to look at company like Zhongpin Inc. (Nasdaq: HOGS), a meat and food processing and distribution company with over 390 meat products.  As the sixth largest meat producer, the company serves customers like Wal-Mart, KFC and McDonalds and even export it's meat productshttp://smartstockinvestment.blogspot.com/2011/07/chinese-hunger-for-meat-zhongpin-inc.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stock Geek)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071743852989743098.post-3210299688611432001Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:47:00 +00002011-07-21T08:47:58.129-07:00While the market has been on turbulent ride recently - going down 100 points in a day and up 100 points the next day, this Chinese internet security company has been going up steadily from $16 per share to $25 per share and did not have the same volatility as the market.  The name of the company is Qihoo 360 Technology Co (NYSE:QIHU), which provides internet and mobile security products in http://smartstockinvestment.blogspot.com/2011/07/smart-play-in-turbulent-market-qihoo.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stock Geek)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071743852989743098.post-7646173357840585308Thu, 07 Jul 2011 05:32:00 +00002011-07-06T22:32:09.847-07:00The hard beaten Chinese stocks present great buying opportunity for the high quality ones such as the Beijing based Youku.com Inc (ADR) (NYSE:YOKU).  For those of you who never heard of the company, it is also called the Youtube of China.  However beside the user generated video content, Youku.com also partnered with 1,500 license content holder include recent partner with Time Warner(http://smartstockinvestment.blogspot.com/2011/07/great-potential-in-youkucom-inc-adr.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stock Geek)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071743852989743098.post-2042448789855202818Thu, 30 Jun 2011 06:22:00 +00002011-06-30T07:37:47.424-07:00The market has not been friendly to Chinese ADRs this year as some US listed Chinese companies revealed questionable accounting practices.  Shorters saw the opportunity and punished any stock with headquarter in China - including quality ones.  And this may very well be the opportunity to discover these decent Chinese stocks that were the wrong target for shorters. One such company ishttp://smartstockinvestment.blogspot.com/2011/06/e-commerce-china-dangdang-too-cheap-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stock Geek)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071743852989743098.post-8063291076973469636Tue, 28 Jun 2011 04:20:00 +00002011-06-27T21:20:36.643-07:00The first wave of internet revolution took place back in 2000 with superstars like Amazon,com (AMZN) and Priceline.com(PCLN).  Although both internet giants were traded in single digit after the internet bubble burst, both are now today traded in triple digits with share prices at $201 and $487 respectively.  If you missed the opportunity in investing either of those internet http://smartstockinvestment.blogspot.com/2011/06/pandora-media-next-big-internet-stock.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stock Geek)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071743852989743098.post-6458767108420820078Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:56:00 +00002011-06-07T07:56:18.740-07:00With year long slide in price, most people have abandoned shares of Corinthian Colleges (Nasdaq:COCO) with uncertainty grows over government's probe on the entire for-profit college sector.  However the Department of Education's release of a softened version of the "gainful employment" rule recently clears away the uncertainty that has been hammering the stock price.  Shares of http://smartstockinvestment.blogspot.com/2011/06/corinthian-collegesnasdaqcoco-back-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stock Geek)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071743852989743098.post-7356954227400221010Fri, 20 May 2011 15:48:00 +00002011-05-20T08:48:13.262-07:00Shares of Foot Locker (FL), a sportswear retailer, surged 10.83% to $24.6 per share as the company posted strong earning for the first quarter with 13.3% increase in sale and 76% surge in net income.  The company also raised its dividend by 10% to $0.165 per share or annual yield of 2.68%.  Technical chart shows strong bullish trend with both 50 day and 200 day moving average rising. &http://smartstockinvestment.blogspot.com/2011/05/foot-locker-rising.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stock Geek)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071743852989743098.post-1022353627288874728Fri, 06 May 2011 04:11:00 +00002011-05-05T21:11:46.687-07:00Price of silver has plunged for 4 straight days and is down more than 27% since the high on Friday.  So one way to play the plunge in silver price is to invest in ETF named ProShares UltraShort Silver(NYSE:ZSL) which seeks daily investment results that correspond to twice (200%) the opposite of the daily performance of silver.  And since Friday the ETF has gained more than $10http://smartstockinvestment.blogspot.com/2011/05/silver-price-collapsing-proshares.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stock Geek)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071743852989743098.post-4906703503818316443Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:16:00 +00002011-04-21T08:16:01.874-07:00Shares of Electro Optical Sciences (MELA) surged 7.25% in the morning to $3.7 per share with no news announcement.  The medical instrument maker makes non-invasive detection device for skin cancer.   The company's flagship product MelaFind is still under FDA review for pre-market approval so the company has not yet generate revenue.  The company burns about $5 million in cash per http://smartstockinvestment.blogspot.com/2011/04/stock-moving-higher-electro-optical.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stock Geek)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071743852989743098.post-6765243152270211269Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:57:00 +00002011-04-15T08:57:34.731-07:00Shares of Seattle based L&L Energy (Nasdaq:LLEN) have surged 24% since yesterday as bargain hunters and short squeezes probably push the stock up rapidly.  The stock just reached new 52 weeks low this week on concerns of lack of transparency of Chinese companies.  Although L&L Energy is based in Seattle the company's main operations are actually in China and probably cause http://smartstockinvestment.blogspot.com/2011/04/bouncing-back-l-energy-inc.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stock Geek)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071743852989743098.post-8827580388301281724Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:55:00 +00002011-04-13T08:55:23.694-07:00Shares of GTX Inc skyrocketed 34.55% to $3.7 per share as Citigroup analysts upgrade the rating of the stock from Hold to Buy.  The company makes small molecules that selectively target hormone pathways to prevent and treat cancer, fractures and bone loss, muscle loss and other serious medical conditions. Since the company is in the lucrative cancer market with one drug on thehttp://smartstockinvestment.blogspot.com/2011/04/cancer-stock-moving-higher-gtx-inc.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stock Geek)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071743852989743098.post-3971382272755073471Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:59:00 +00002011-04-12T08:59:47.071-07:00While the market is doing very poorly today due to disappointing first quarter report from Alcoa, shares of nursing facilities operator Skilled Healthcare Group (SKH) surged 10.49% to $15.49 per share as the company is putting itself up for sale.  After becoming a penny stock last July to as low as $1.43 per share the stock went on to gain 980% in the next nine months.  The http://smartstockinvestment.blogspot.com/2011/04/stock-bucking-trend-skilled-healthcare.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stock Geek)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071743852989743098.post-1916655752361359175Mon, 11 Apr 2011 15:51:00 +00002011-04-11T08:51:36.367-07:00Shares of most Rare Earth Metal stocks are on rally mode today with most stocks up anywhere from 6% to 10%.  Molycorp, the US based rare earth company rose 6.94% to $71.85 per share, Canada based REE surged 10.12% to $15.88 per share and another Canadian rare earth company AVL also surged 8% to $10.02 per share.  Chinese based rare earth metal stocks SHZ and CHGS jumped 8.4% and 9.9% http://smartstockinvestment.blogspot.com/2011/04/hot-sector-of-day-rare-earth-metals.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stock Geek)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071743852989743098.post-4321132626953899112Thu, 07 Apr 2011 05:21:00 +00002011-04-06T22:21:09.819-07:00President Obama's new energy policy aims to cut oil import by one-third over the next decade.  To achieve the goal, President Obama suggested more investment in electric cars, natural gas run trucks, and biofuels refineries.  One of the company that could benefit is UQM Technologies (UQM) which develop energy efficient electric motors for electric cars.  The company's http://smartstockinvestment.blogspot.com/2011/04/obamas-energy-strategy-stock-uqm.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stock Geek)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071743852989743098.post-4177766023512761413Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:06:00 +00002011-04-06T08:52:37.099-07:00President Obama's proposed energy policy aims to cut oil import by one-third over the next decade.  To achieve the goal, President Obama suggested more investment in electric cars, natural gas run trucks, and biofuels refineries.   To the investors, this speech points to many stocks that may benefit, one of such stock is Oshkosh Truck (OSH), a truck maker which develops hybrid http://smartstockinvestment.blogspot.com/2011/04/obamas-energy-strategy-related-stock.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stock Geek)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071743852989743098.post-9099119424101519250Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:00:00 +00002011-03-31T09:00:44.499-07:00President Obama's energy policy speech on Wednesday provides direction for where investors should put their money in for the years to come.  In the speech at Georgetown University, the president said US should cut oil import by one-third over the next decade to reduce the impact to the economy by event like the turmoil recently in the Middle East and North Africa.  To achieve the goal, http://smartstockinvestment.blogspot.com/2011/03/obamas-energy-strategy-related-stock.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stock Geek)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071743852989743098.post-6065750015512387345Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:23:00 +00002011-03-28T08:23:51.229-07:00According to February issue of Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Home Depot Inc., the nation's largest home improvement store and a component of Dow Jones Industrial Average, is hiring more than 60,000 temporary workers in US and adding permanent employees for the second consecutive years.  Not only the company is preparing for the busy March to June season but also the increase in consumer confidencehttp://smartstockinvestment.blogspot.com/2011/03/home-depot-inc-is-hiring.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stock Geek)0