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[setravis]

1) Stock Pick:
    HOMS  Homestore.Com Inc (NASDAQ: HOMS)

2) Reason behind the pick:
    Really nice chart. "I like , I love, I want some more of it!" Nice looking move today.
    Good volume and price action. IMHO I think she is ready for more.
    Looks like it wants to Breakout..... Ascending Triangle.
    Strong volume on the upside. Stock did the correction off the high, it is now in solid         
    traction seeking new highs. Back above the 13-dma and also the 50-dma.
   
    Technicals
Record Price High
Record Price Break Out
Percentage Gainer

Last Price Quote is:
13.50%above 13-day EMA
inf%above 50-day EMA
RS Rating: 94 

Fundamentals
Key Data:
Market Cap (M): $923.66 
P/E Ratio: 256.06 
PEG Ratio: 3.98667 
Next Earnings: 05/11/2006
Last Analyst Rating: Mkt Perform

Give it a profile:

Homestore Inc.
30700 Russell Ranch Road
Westlake Village, CA 91362
Phone: 805-557-2300
Fax: 805-557-2680
Web Site: http://www.homestore.com

DETAILS   
Index Membership: N/A
Sector: Technology
Industry: Internet Information Providers
Full Time Employees: 1,456


BUSINESS SUMMARY   
Move, Inc., supplies online media and technology solutions for real estate industry professionals, advertisers, and providers of home and real estate-related products and services in North America. The company operates in three segments: Media Services, Software, and Print. The Media Services segment provides marketing and Web site solutions. This segment offers various services, such as classified advertising services that include enhanced listings, virtual tours, and online brochures; display advertising services that provide display advertising opportunities to individual real estate professionals; and directory listings that include directories of REALTORS, home builders, lenders, and self-service storage facilities. It also offers design and set-up of the Web sites, and hosting and maintenance services. The Software segment consists of Top Producer, which provides software solutions and related services to real estate professionals. Top Producer is the client management and marketing software specific to real estate agents. The Print segment comprises Welcome Wagon, which offers local and national merchants the opportunity to reach movers through targeted direct mail services; and Homestore Plans and Publications that offers consumers and building professionals to select new home designs and project plans from a range of home plans and project plans available. The company was incorporated as InfoTouch Corporation in 1993 and changed its name to Homestore.com, Inc. in 1999. Further, the company changed its name to Homestore, Inc. in 2002. It is now known as Move, Inc. The company is headquartered in Westlake Village, California.

[statement00]

1) EXFO (EXFO Electro Optical Engineering Inc)

2) While scanning some stocks today looking for ascending triangles I found EXFO. I haven't competed in this contest before and won't have tiime to scan stocks this weekend so I'll go with it. Strong breakout today from the 6.71 resistance. No resistance overhead. Plenty of volume with the breakout. Average volume is 102k so it just makes the requirements. Also bullish MACD with nice crossover. Analyst targets are between 5.50 and 8.00 with the majority issuing a buy rating.

[thai626]

Good luck to whoever chose MBAY as it was my first pick.  Hopefully SVA will be the eventual winner 

1)  SVA ---- SINOVAC BIOTECH LTD


2)  Sinovac has been hammered lately for the past few months.  I think it is time for a turnaround.  It has bounced off the support level established in June 05, AND there is a wolvewave pattern that has formed of late.  Based on this and the fact that they should have preliminary results of their clinical trials for bird flu vaccine due out in march should give rise to Sinovac's stock value for the coming month.

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[bamboo]

1) Stock Pick:
    BGO:  Bema Gold Corp (AMEX: BGO)

2) Reason behind the pick:

    Although the stink DROOY mess me up big last contest, still get 10%+ profit in my real trading. You can not lose on trading gold stock under such kind of enviroment. This time I pick BGO in case gold going crazy again in the coming spring.

    The gold market has been drifting for the past few weeks as it consolidates its recent gains. After a brief flirt with the $535 support the gold price has rebounded back above $550 and ready to attack $570+ again, silver created 20-year new high this week. Oil refuse going down and Dollar looks weak recently. inflation is picking up again. I bet another bull run is here to come. don't get surprise if one day you get up, gold print $600 suddenly.

   BGO is resuming it's uptrend and continue outperforming $HUI index for weeks. who knows how high it will go?

[KCScott]

SLW - Silver Wheaton

Description:

Silver Wheaton Corp. engages in the purchase and sale of silver. It purchases silver produced by Luismin mines in Mexico and the Zinkgruvan Mine in Sweden. The company was incorporated in 1994. It was formerly known as Chap Mercantile, Inc. and changed its name to Silver Wheaton Corp. in 2004. Silver Wheaton is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Why They Are Hot:

VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 23, 2006--Silver Wheaton Corp. (TSX:SLW - News; AMEX:SLW - News) is pleased to announce that it has agreed to purchase 4.75 million ounces of silver per year, for a period of 20 years, from Glencore International AG, equivalent to the production from their Yauliyacu mining operations in Peru. With this acquisition, Silver Wheaton is expected to have annual silver sales of over 15 million ounces in 2006, increasing to 20 million ounces by 2009 and thereafter.

Silver Wheaton will pay an upfront payment of US$285 million, comprised of US$245 million in cash and a US$40 million promissory note, and US$3.90 per ounce of silver delivered under the contract (subject to an inflationary adjustment after three years).

In order to fund the US$245 million cash consideration, Silver Wheaton intends to use cash on hand of US$120 million, together with US$125 million of bank debt. = No Dillution of Shares

They'll Pay $3.90 per Once? - Silver Bullion Closed Today at $ 10.13 Per Once  

The Chart: Awesome!



Broke out to new highs on volume - Wish it would have waited 2 days  

Oversold? RSI doesn't seem to Move it down

ADX & MACD: The Trend is strong

Looks Good to Me - Now Go Buy it so I can finally win (or at least finish green)

[pensandoenti67]

CNES

Why : CNES Entire Network Product Line FCC Approved
Tuesday January 31, 8:37 am ET


VALENCIA, CA--(MARKET WIRE)--Jan 31, 2006 -- ConectiSys Corporation (OTC BB:CNES.OB - News), a developer of automatic meter reading technologies, announced today that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has certified and issued Grant IDENTIFIER: SNKHNET50BS8 for its 8C-BaseStation; one of three grants issued representing the entire network equipment for commercialization and sales. View FCC IDENTIFIER: SNKHNET50BS8 (http://www.conectisys.com/H-Net/H-Net_Index/FCC_Approvals/8CH_BaseStation_Grant.pdf)
ADVERTISEMENT


H-Net(TM) Networks and products have been designed exclusively for the Electric Utility Industry. When you combined the above FCC Grants, on a free public band, the results are a unique wireless technology that employs a robust plug and play machine to machine, neuron driven data encrypted commercial communicator ready for commercial release and sales in the US, Canada and South America.



2) Big rumor of big contract by on or after March 15 with a big California company, got an email with this link..

http://www.sce.com/PowerandEnvironment/ami/


3) CNES chart just crossed the Golden Cross see chart below:

//http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=cnes

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[pompano]

DYMTF  Dynamotive for me.  Had breakout type volume this week with a news release imminent. (Rumor that I will buy).  Supposedly this deal involves Mitsubishi Heavy industries.  Besides that the alternative energy sector has been doing quite well lately.. Also last week they were certified by the EPC which is an imp. step in legal and regulatory recognition of Biooil. I know some might question this pick with the run it has had the last few days buy I believe it will continue into next week.  That volume is telling me to hold on tight just a while longer.   

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[vitucho]

Stock Picking Contest (4th Edition - From 6/March/2006 to 10/Apr/2006)

To Submit your Stock Pick, reply to this Topic following the Standard Layout:

1)   Stock Pick
(Ticker & Name of the Company)

2)   Reason behind this pick
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3)   Stock Chart
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Important: Do not use this thread to another purpose rather than submitting your stock pick. For organizational purposes, any reply that is not a stock pick will be deleted.

[stocky]

NICH: Nitches

I like the company for the following reasons:

1. Microcap, profitable co.

2. Undervalued

3. Davids Pick

4. Near 52 week high

5. Comes strongly on my mock random filter

6. I like the sector and brand name of Dockers for which the Co. has supply license.

The company sells women's clothing wholesale to retailers such as Kohl's Corp. and Stein Mart Inc., in October acquired a remaining 72 percent stake of lingerie company Designer Intimates Inc. In the first quarter, which ended Nov. 30, new business from Designer Intimates contributed $6.4 million to Nitches sales.

Nitches swung to a profit of $520,000, or 42 cents per share, from the year-ago quarter's loss of $12,000, or 1 cent per share. Sales jumped to $14.7 million from $6.3 million a year earlier.

I will buy 10% of my portfolio in this pick, at Monday Open.

Goodluck all.

[dragan]

     1. my pick is PTII.OB, Patch International Inc.

     2. Junior oil/gas with outstanding background:

         - float only 3 M, outstanding shares 5 M....
         - they have money, no need for dilution, no PP..!!!
         - recent start of Oil-sands Consortium in Alberta, they will start APEC...!
         - they will present in NY on Mar 8, small cap investors meeting....
         - talks in progress in N. Africa ( incl. Libya ), and Bolivia
         - excellent management, "they will have a lot of news in 2006".....
         - oil-sands will replace OPEC...
         - PTII is almost at 52 wks high, but in my opinion will go much higher after Mar 8...



I do not know how to post the chart on this board, so I will just incl. two web sites where you can see the charts:

http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui

http://pro.investortoolbox.com/oit/charts/Corporate_Snapshot.asp?Timespan=130&Symbol=PTII&cpf=undefined


PTII

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[physioo]

pick i like is
RDCM

Reasons
profitable again in last quarter
strong chart
just bounced at 10 day MA
52 high
good vol
low float

http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=rdcm

good luck ppl

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[Lucas Scott]

My pick is PPHM

Spring is often the time when biotechs shine and I like PPHM's technical setup. On the long term chart posted below, I see a similar setup now to 3 years ago, when PPHM went from a swing low of $.46 to a swing high of $2.12 in two months. The volume in Feb-Mar 2006 hadn't been seen since May-Jun 2003. On the short-term chart, PPHM is consolidating in a big flag formation. Friday's close near the low end of the channel means I get a good entry price in this contest, and entry point is an important factor in a one-month contest.

Peregrine Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, engages in the research, development, manufacture, and commercialization of biotherapeutics for the treatment of cancer, viruses, and other diseases using targeted antibodies. The company's products portfolio includes Cotara for brain cancer, which is in Phase II/III registration trial, and Tarvacin, an anti-phospholipid therapy agent for the treatment of solid tumors and chronic hepatitis C virus infection.

[Stocky2000]

1)   Stock Pick
Ticker YMI 
Company: YM BioSciences

2)   Reason behind this pick
This company has a good pipeline in the drug research. And has 17 million cash, and just 210 millions market cap. I am looking for a breakout. We have got an ascending triangle with strong volume a matter of time we break 6 the chart is ready to rock. It seems this company is not on the radar yet and so well known.

YM BioSciences, Inc., a development stage biopharmaceutical company, engages in the research and development of products primarily for the treatment of cancer. Its product candidates in the clinical stage of development include Tesmilifene, Nimotuzumab, AeroLEF, Norelin, and Radiotheracim. Tesmilifene, which is in phase III clinical trial, is a small molecule chemopotentiator for the treatment of metastatic and recurrent breast cancer. Nimotuzumab, which is in phase II clinical trial, is an antiepidermal growth factor humanized monoclonal antibody for the treatment of epithelial cancers. AeroLEF, which is in phase II clinical trials, is a proprietary formulation of both free and liposome-encapsulated fentanyl administered by pulmonary inhalation, is being developed for the treatment of severe and moderate acute pain and cancer pain. Norelin is a phase II clinical trial product for the treatment of sex-hormone dependent cancers. Radiotheracim is a radiolabelled humanized monoclonal antibody, targeting the epidermal growth factor receptor, and is being developed for the treatment of brain cancers. The company also has a portfolio of preclinical compounds shown to act as chemopotentiators while protecting normal cells. YM BioSciences has a collaborative agreement with Sanofi-Aventis to investigate the effect of combining tesmilifene and docetaxel for the treatment of women with rapidly progressing metastatic breast cancer. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Mississauga, Canada.

3)   Chart

[rish]

1) My Pick: UIS     Unisys Corporation

Unisys Corporation provides information technology (IT) services and solutions to businesses and governments worldwide.

2) Reasons: Strong ascending trendline since lows of Oct/05. Three upper gaps in chart at 6.72, 9.40 and 11.45 - the 6.72 gap was filled just at end of January. Resistance to be overcome in the 7.00 range but after that it is clear sailing all the way to the 9.40 gap. The 200 day moving average is flattening out and Macd and DMI are moderately bullish.
Lets go for the gaps!

3) Charts:

[usedcasting]

1) CRAY
2) My pick is CRAY because I have lost more money on this stock than any other. I fell in love with it a couple of years ago, and henceforth it fell for me. I mean fell. Anyway lesson learnt. Cray is in a turn around mode as we all know. Tech is presently hot. They make very fast computers with huge capacity. These computers are in greater demand, but the market is very competitive, so cost is a major aspect. I'm hoping for a run to $2.75 an then to fill the gap for a win in this contest. I took half a position in this on friday, I hope CRAY didn't notice. Good luck to all!
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