Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Barchart.com's Chart of the Day - Spansion (CODE) for Dec 15, 2014

Source: Barchart.com's Chart of the Day - Spansion (CODE) for Dec 15, 2014

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The Chart of the Day belongs to Spansion (CODE). I found the semiconductor company when I sorted the All Time High list for the stocks with the most frequent new highs then used the Flipchart feature to review the charts. Since the Trend Spotter signaled a buy on 10/31 the stock shot up 55.49%.

Spansion Inc., headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, is engaged in designing, developing, manufacturing, marketing, and selling Flash memory solutions. Flash memory is used in nearly every electronic device including cars, printers, networking equipment, set-top boxes, high-definition TVs, games, cell phones and other consumer electronics. The Company's patented MirrorBit' technology forms the foundation for enabling Flash memory solutions optimized for both code execution and data storage. Spansion also offers total Flash memory solutions that incorporate software, hardware, packaging and are verified and compatible with third-party silicon.

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Barchart technical indicators:

96% Barchart technical buy signals
Trend Spotter buy signal
Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
15 new highs and up 51.80% in the last month
Relative Strength Index 85.25%
Barchart computes a technical support level at 30.02
Recently traded at 32.00 with a 50 day moving average of 21.66

Fundamental factors:

Market Cap $1.96 billion
P/E 76.63
Revenue expected to grow 28.40% this year and anther 4.20% next year
Earnings estimated to increase 28.90% this year, an additional 87.82% next year and continue to compound at an annual rate of 39.75% for the next 5 years
Wall Street analysts issued 2 strong buy and 7 buy recommendations on the stock

The 50 day parabolic time/price technical indicators has been an extremely good technical trading indicator on this stock and should be used as an exit point.

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Saturday, December 13, 2014

Annual Changes to the NASDAQ-100 Index

Source: Annual Changes to the NASDAQ-100 Index

Fri December 12, 2014 8:05 PM|GlobeNewswire | About: NDAQ

NEW YORK, Dec. 12, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (NDAQ) today announced the results of the annual re-ranking of the NASDAQ-100 (Nasdaq:NDX), which will become effective prior to market open on Monday, December 22, 2014.

The following three companies will be added to the Index: American Airlines Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:AAL), Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) and Lam Research Corporation (LRCX).

As a result of the revision in the index methodology allowing multiple share classes of index participants to be included in the index, the following three securities will also be added to the index: Comcast Corporation Class A Special (Nasdaq:CMCSK), Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc. (FOXA) Class B (Nasdaq:FOX) and Liberty Global (LBTYA) plc Class C (Nasdaq:LBTYK).

The NASDAQ-100 Index is composed of the 100 largest non-financial companies listed on The NASDAQ Stock Market ^® and dates to January 1985 when it was launched along with the NASDAQ Financial-100 Index^®, which is comprised of the 100 largest financial stocks on NASDAQ®. These indexes act as benchmarks for financial products such as options, futures, and funds. The NASDAQ-100 is re-ranked each year in December, timed to coincide with the quadruple witch expiration Friday of the quarter.

On a cumulative price return basis, the NASDAQ-100 Index has returned almost 3,140% since inception, although past performance is not indicative of future performance.

The NASDAQ-100 Index is the basis of the PowerShares QQQ Trust (QQQ) which aims to provide investment results that, before expenses, correspond with the NASDAQ-100 Index performance. In addition, options, futures and structured products based on the NASDAQ-100 Index and the PowerShares QQQ Trust trade on various exchanges.

As a result of the re-ranking, the following three companies will be removed from the Index: Expedia, Inc. (Nasdaq:EXPE), F5 Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq:FFIV) and Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. (Nasdaq:MXIM).

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The information contained above is provided for informational and educational purposes only, and nothing contained herein should be construed as investment advice, either on behalf of a particular financial product or an overall investment strategy. Neither The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. nor any of its affiliates makes any recommendation to buy or sell any financial product or any representation about the financial condition of any company or fund. Statements regarding Nasdaq's proprietary indexes are not guarantees of future performance. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Investors should undertake their own due diligence and carefully evaluate companies before investing. ADVICE FROM A SECURITIES PROFESSIONAL IS STRONGLY ADVISED.

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Security Now 485 | TWiT.TV

Source: Security Now 485 | TWiT.TV

Expensive Lessons

December 9 2014

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Poodle Bites (again!), TURLA - an APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) targeting Linux, and very expensive lessons learned from Target and Sony's recent security breaches.

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