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On Friday, February 26, 2010 an article in the “Making Money - Investors Corner” section of Investor’s Business Daily (IBD) written by Paul Whitfield, caught my attention. The article was about breakaway gaps as a bullish form of action. Whitfield illustrated several examples where stocks with price surges of 10% in a day [...]

GDP…
The U.S. GDP (Gross Domestic Product) was announced as 5.7% for the fourth quarter of 2009 and the stock market immediately celebrated the good news by jumping up and then back down.

We’ve been getting quite lot of questions related to PowerOptionsApplied lately, so we’re going to address some of them.

Simple Tech’s stock price and its stock option volumes have been very erratic over the last several months. Simple Tech’s stock price took a significant hit in the middle of September and also around the first of November, but since the middle of December it’s stock price been on the upswing.

There’s been a lot of banter lately about health insurance and this article is NOT about health insurance, at least not the kind related to doctors, hospitals, Congress, etc.
Individual or Group?
We will examine whether it is better to insure stocks individually or as a group. In an article published several years ago, we explained [...]

Fuel System’s (FSYS) stock option volume was up yesterday while its stock was down almost 10%.
If you’re looking to purchase a car or convert a car to operate on natural gas, then Fuel Systems is for you. Fuel Systems provides components for alternative energy in the transportation segment. Fuel Systems IMPCO subsidiary provides [...]

Nobel Drilling’s (NE) stock options volume is significantly up today and its stock price is down about 6%.
Noble Drilling is in the business of providing drilling services for the oil and gas industry. Noble has over 60 offshore drilling rigs including semi-submersibles, drillships, jackups and submersibles.

Sun Microsystems (JAVA) stock options volume went into orbit yesterday and its stock price was up about 4%.
Sun Microsystems once-upon-a-time proclaimed itself as the “dot in dot-com,” but fell from grace with the dot-com implosion.
Sun is in the business of providing software, servers, storage, networking and desktop systems. The company is known for developing [...]

Coinstar’s (CSTR) call option volume was significantly up on Friday and its stock price was down almost 9%.
If you’re looking to rent a DVD or get rid of all of your pocket change, then Coinstar is the company for you. Coinstar provides DVD rental kiosks and self-service coin counting machines.

CommVault Systems (CVLT) call option volume was significantly high on Friday, while its stock price was down about 2%.
If you’re concerned about you’re company’s computer system crashing and want to make sure all of your important data is safe, then CommVault’s products may be just what you are looking for. CommVault Systems provides data [...]