I have revised the earnings spreadsheet yet again. Page 1 contains the raw earnings numbers, page 2, which has not been completed yet, will calculate the percentage increase. The current criteria for making the list are: 1) less than 50m shares in the float; 2)4 straight quarters of positive earning growth. I had considered making at least one quarter of triple digit growth a criteria, but it elimi...

Last week the IBD 100 took a serious pounding, down overall about 5% and I counted 19 of the 100 stocks finishing positive for the week. RBN was the top gainer, breaking out on earnings early this week, and giving back half of it on Thursday. It is the only stock on the IBD 100 that had a gain of over 10%.APEI was the second biggest gainer, and considering the carnage that happened in the market We...

On March 11, I created a mock portfolio on Clearstation which held the sector ETFs (SPDRs) and tracked their progress. I have posted them in the order of the gain (or loss) since then. The energy sector is up 13%, and seems to be holding up well, but since it hit it's peak in mid-May, there have been a lot of high volume selling days. CMF is negative, but trending up, so although I think money is c...

"The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved"Jeremiah 8:20 Ok, summer just got started, and the harvest is not in, but we are not saved yet. For once, the implosion of the day did not come from the financials. Here is NVDA, not long ago a market leader.Energy stocks are starting to fall apart. It looks like the small caps are going first, then watch out for the mid and large caps...

The market closes early today for the holiday, so don't expect a lot of significant action today. Headlines are screaming about oil over $145, but the market is rallying off it's morning low.There are no breakouts showing up on my list, and nothing moving up big, but lots of small cap energy, solar, and materials stocks are getting creamed pretty bad.No earnings reports this morning, from last nigh...