Market Summary
| Dow |
11619.51 |
+17.01 |
(+0.15%) |
| Nasdaq |
2315.40 |
+11.44 |
(+0.50%) |
| Russell 2K |
715.71 |
-1.11 |
(-0.15%) |
| S&P 500 |
1282.41 |
+5.41 |
(+0.42%) |
| S&P 100 |
590.92 |
+2.23 |
(+0.38%) |
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Current Targets and Stops
| Symbol |
Picked |
ST |
SSL |
| AAPL |
$93.00 |
$225.00 |
$175.00 |
| CPNE |
$0.50 |
$4.50 |
$1.45 |
| CREE |
$25.00 |
$50.00 |
$23.00 |
| EFSF |
$0.18 |
$0.50 |
$0.16 |
| NIHK |
$0.04 |
$0.13 |
$0.08 |
| PNWIF |
$1.80 |
$6.00 |
$3.00 |
| QID |
$38.67 |
$42.19 |
$35.00 |
| RIMM |
$115.00 |
$120.00 |
$112.00 |
| SPKL |
$0.69 |
$2.00 |
$0.90 |
| TCGD |
$0.87 |
$2.00 |
$0.65 |
| TTGL |
$0.84 |
$3.00 |
$1.73 |
ST Denotes Suggested Target.
SSL Denotes Suggested Stop Loss.
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June 2008
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June 22, 2008 : Friday's Meltdown and Special Announcement
Special Announcement: Limited Service Until July 1st It's time for a little vacation. Normally, when I take a trip, it's somewhere there's an internet connection and I keep up to date on my notebook computer. Next week I won't have that option. I'll be out of touch with the electronic world temporarily...
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May 2008
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May 31, 2008 : OTCJ: PhotoChannel: So, What's the Big Deal? A Review
Comments in the BLOG Late Friday I published a BLOG on the status of my current suggested trade- short the NASDAQ COMP through QID (AMEX: QID). This particular security trades as a negative proxy to the ETF for the NASDAQ 100- QQQQ. If the QQQQs go up 2%, the QID trades down about 3%, and vice versa...
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May 30, 2008 : Merriman Curhan Ford & Co.'s Research Report on PhotoChannel Networks, Inc.
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May 28, 2008 : PhotoChannel: Big Development- I Mean Really BIG!!!!
PhotoChannel (OTC BB: PNWIF) Game Changer If you read my BLOG yesterday afternoon, you know PNWIF had perked up a bit during the trading session, and now we know why. PNWIF announced an absolute game changerpre open today, and if the market recognizes the magnitude of today's news, we could be in for...
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April 2008
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April 05, 2008 : Micros Showing Sign of Life: Two Looking Very Strong
Comments in the BLOG Lots of Blogging for your entertainment and education on the RIMM trade I am in fairly heavily this week. So far, I'm not doing too well. While I still believe the trade will make money to some extent, my timing on really loading up on those put options was not great. I should have...
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February 2008
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February 07, 2008 : PhotoChannel Networks: Anatomy of a Victory
Comments in the BLOG There were two new BLOG postings for your review this week. First, I covered an 8K filing on Titan (or should I say Titanic) (OTC BB: TTGLE), which had more moderately disturbing news contained within. Secondly, I covered the year end audited financial statements issued by PhotoChannel...
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November 2007
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November 13, 2007 : Pickle Unveils Three New Locations: PhotoChannel Breakout
Comments in the BLOG There is a new BLOG posting today on a major breakthrough from our friends at PhotoChannel (OTC BB: PNWIF). Those of you who follow the story know I started with this one at $1.80 in October of '06, and today the stock has broken out. As I write this, it is trading in the $4.50...
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June 2007
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June 25, 2007 : PhotoChannel Floundering; Maybe Yes, Maybe No
PhotoChannel Floundering? Maybe Yes, Maybe No PhotoChannel (OTC BB: PNWIF) has followed them all down of late as we seem to be in a "cash at any cost" market environment. Typical June mentality. I was hoping this year wouldn't be as bad as past Junes. Micros are still taking on the chin as we ease into...
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June 02, 2007 : Do You Still Love Me Now?
Comments in the BLOG There was only one new BLOG for your review this past week. I had to publish more commentary on the continuing sell off in Commerce Planet (OTC BB: CPNE). Technically, as far as I am concerned, all levels of resistance have now given way, and there is no longer any telling where...
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February 2007
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February 20, 2007 : Photo Flying- Upload and Pickup Embraced By Consumers
Comments in the BLOG It's not posted yet. I have just returned from a long holiday weekend, and don't have the energy to put together some intelligent comments on the recent meteoric move in CPNE. However, check the BLOG about an hour after the open tomorrow, and I'll have some comments on trading expectations...
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February 10, 2007 : Drinking the Kool-Aid: Musings of a Grizzled Microcap Vet
Comments in the BLOG The BLOG is chock full of new entries over the last 48 hours. Readers have been asking for updates on NIHK, EFSF, CPNE, PNWIF, and USEI. I complied on all of the above, and posted new thoughts- fresh starting Thursday. We are having a great time with several of these ideas, and...
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January 2007
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January 20, 2007 : Somebody Loves PhotoChannel
Comments in the BLOG After a screeching first couple of weeks in January the microcap market is taking a bit of a breather. Several OTC Journal ideas approached target prices this past week, and two made them- CPNE got to about $1.90 with a target of $2- PNWIF got to about $3.90 with a target of $4...
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December 2006
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December 21, 2006 : Commerce Planet: Thoughts for 2007;PNWIF and NIHK Rocking
Comments in the BLOG There are two new BLOGS up on this week's two streaking stocks: PhotoChannel Networks (OTC BB: PNWIF) and Nighthawk (OTC BB: NIHK). Both had big runs this week and you should be making a great return if you got positioned properly. Read today's BLOGs for my thoughts on each idea...
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December 16, 2006 : TTGL Blows Past $100 Million; PNWIF News For You Only
Comments in the BLOG There is a major revelation out of Photochannel Networks (OTC BB: PNWIF). I learned about it late Friday afternoon. Guess what- OTC Journal subscribers will be the only investors to get dialed into this development early on. Read Fridays afternoon's BLOG on PNWIF and get the 411...
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December 04, 2006 : PhotoChannel Up 175%- Wonder Why?
PhotoChannel (OTC BB: PNWIF): Q4 and Q1 Numbers Rocketing PhotoChannel provided disclosure on the company's Q4 performance today, and a Q1 update. I know the timetable is confusing, but here's the way it is- while the rest of the world is talking about Q4 numbers as being Oct - Dec- PhotoChannel's fiscal...
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November 2006
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November 07, 2006 : Can PhotoChannel Save Kodak?
Can PhotoChannel (OTC BB: PNWIF) Save Kodak? They're Going To Try Here's an excerpt from my 9/23 introductory edition on PhotoChannel. Based on today's news, you would have to admit this was a pretty good call: Here's another potential catalyst for a skyrocketing stock price. Did you know that Kodak...
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November 01, 2006 : PhotoChannel To Reverse
Some Eye Opening Market Info Want to read something amazing about this current relentless move up in the large cap stocks? The S&P 500 has closed above its 21-day moving average for 69 consecutive sessions and above its 10-day moving average for 25 consecutive sessions. Going back to 1962, the SPX...
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October 2006
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October 19, 2006 : Stop&Shop Signs With PhotoChannel
Stop & Shop Signs With PhotoChannel (OTC BB : PHCHF) WalMart and Costco Canada have both signed on with PhotoChannel. CVS, with its 5,000 plus neighborhood pharmacies came on board this summer. Today, it was Stop & Shop, one of the largest grocery chains in the North East, signing up to have...
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September 2006
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September 27, 2006 : PhotoChannel: Hot IPO Could Drive Shares
PhotoChannel Networks (OTC BB: PHCHF; TSX: PNI) - Shutterfly (NASDAQ: SFLY) IPO Imminent I am informed that the aforementioned ShutterFly (NASDAQ: SFLY) should open for trading this Friday. It was aforementioned in this past weekend's intro edition on the reincarnated PhotoChannel. Shutterfly is raising...
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September 23, 2006 : PhotoChannel Networks; Dot Bomb Turned Dot Profitable
PhotoChannel Networks (OTC BB: PHCHF; TSX: PNI) Today's new idea has profits, profits, profits written all over it. This industry group is going to get extremely hot in a month or two, and investors will be searching for ideas in the space. Guess what- they are only going to find two pure plays, and...
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February 2001
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February 13, 2001 : Envoy Communications (NASDAQ: ECGI) Stock Update
Important Announcement: Trading Alert released after the close on Thursday pending market conditions and potential news announcement. Market Comment The last 10 trading days have been brutal. The NASDAQ has given back nearly all of its January gains which were triggered by the surprise drop in interest...
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January 2001
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January 23, 2001 : Breaking News On PhotoChannel Networks (OTC BB: PHCHF)
Breaking News On PhotoChannel Networks (OTC BB: PHCHF) Our weekend edition was devoted to PhotoChannel Networks, a stock we covered in 2000 which we felt was ready to turn back up after dropping from $1.6875 in September to a recent low of $.22. As we write this update the stock is rebounding nicely...
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January 20, 2001 : PhotoChannel Networks (OTC BB: PHCHF) Stock Update
For the first time in months small stocks are beginning to trade well. With year end tax selling over, and a revitalized market for technology stocks, small stocks are beginning to come off the bottom after the worst nine months in the history of the NASDAQ. The management of many small companies were...
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December 2000
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December 29, 2000 : MedGrup, (OTC BB: CODX), PhotoChannel Networks, (OTC BB: PHCHF), IQrom, (OTC BB: IQCOM), PawnBroker, (OTC BB: PBRR)
This edition contains our year end updates and thoughts on the remaining companies we have featured. These include MedGrup (OTC BB: CODX), PhotoChannel Networks (OTC BB: PHCHF), IQrom (OTC BB: IQCOM), and PawnBroker (OTC BB: PBRR). Next week's first edition of 2001 will include a look back at 2000, a...
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December 02, 2000 : A Christmas (or Chanukah) Present From Our Friends at PhotoChannel (OTC BB: PHCHF; MSE: PNI)
Market Comment If the market had closed for the year yesterday we would have set the following records: The worst year on the NASDAQ in the history of the NASDAQ The second highest volume day in the history of the NASDAQ (yesteday's capitulation sell off) The worst November in the history of the NASDAQ...
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November 2000
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November 04, 2000 : PhotoChannel Networks (OTC BB: PHCHF; MSE: PNI) UPDATE
NetSol International Trading Alert- Red Hot We are finally rolling into November and small stocks are beginning to trade consistently well for the first time in months. Our last two Trading Alerts have both been winners, with NetSol International (NASDAQ: NTWK) closing above $11 from Thursday's alert...
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September 2000
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September 24, 2000 : PhotoChannel Networks, Inc (OTC BB: PHCHF; MSE: PNI) Stock Update
This will be a long weekend edition with a lot to cover. There was major news on Blue Zone and PhotoChannel to share with you. It was a crazy week in the markets. The NASDAQ market has been down 10 out of the last 14 trading days, giving back all of August's gains and then some. This morning was particularly...
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September 19, 2000 : PhotoChannel Networks (OTC BB: PHCHF; MSE: PNI) News
We have two important pieces of information to share with you today- An exciting news release from PhotoChannel (OTC BB: PHCHF) and the announcement of a Trading Alert. Trading Alert Tomorrow After The Close Despite the fact that market conditions continue to test our patience there are individual situations...
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September 14, 2000 : PhotoChannel Networks, Inc. (PNWIF) News
Market Comment September has been a tough month. The NASDAQ has dropped nearly 10%. Wall Street was buzzing with anticipation for the resurgence of the Bull Market after traders and fund managers returned from vacation in Post Labor Day work mode. As usual, the masses were wrong and the market has acted...
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July 2000
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July 15, 2000 : A Glimpse Into the Future
Market Comment This past week saw a major rotation of capital out of defensive cyclicals and back into the high-flying, high growth, high tech NASDAQ stocks. The month of June was all about the economy as far as the market was concerned. It was characterized by sideways, choppy trading. This was the...
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June 2000
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June 07, 2000 : Duplicate
Market Comment As we predicted in last weekend's newsletter this has been a choppy week with slight upside bias. Friday's PPI number is huge for the market direction. Wall Street is totally focused on interest rates. The current rebound has been fueled by rising unemployment, decreasing housing starts...
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June 01, 2000 : PhotoChannel Networks (OTC BB: PHCHF), Recommended by Emerging Growth Stocks
This Friday we will be issuing a new profile. This is a very exciting technology company that is already enjoying a substantial revenue stream. This particular stock lost 40% of its value along with every other stock in April and early May. However, this stock has not followed the rest of...
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May 2000
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May 21, 2000 : Market Comment on Blue Zone, Pawnbroker.com, and PhotoChannel Networks, Inc.
Despite the fact that the market is continuing to behave poorly several of the companies that we follow had great press this past week. There was a favorable article in the New York Times on PawnBroker.com (OTC BB: PBRR), and Blue Zone (OTC BB: BLZN) was featured in a major Canadian newspaper again. ...
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May 12, 2000 : PhotoChannel Networks, Inc. (PNWIF) Stock Review
Today's profile is the first in a series of five that we will be bringing you over the next several months. Generally we like to release one new profile per month. Due to recent unfavorable market conditions, we have not released a profile since February 18th. The recent market turmoil has left many...
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