| TOP PICK | 43.820 | Kenneth P. Norquay, CMT | Just had a fairly sharp pullback. Really nice pattern based on the inter day chart. Draw a line under the lows and put your stoploss just a little below that. | 2008-02-12 | |
| Comment | 50.970 | Jeff Parent | With all the volatility in the market right now, it is getting very tricky to identify trends. You have to look at the leaders, which would include Apple (AAPL-Q), Cisco (CSCO-Q) and Microsoft (MSFT-Q). Cisco and Microsoft are not doing too much and have had a lot of volatility in the last 6 months. Apple is the one that is healthy. | 2007-12-14 | |
| PAST TOP PICK | 46.190 | Richard Croft | (A Top Pick May 18/06. Up 53%.) A straddle. | 2007-05-10 | |
| Comment | 46.550 | Richard Croft | Caller purchased a Put Option. The Put Option goes up if the US market goes down. This market could have a bit of a correction, so this is not a bad play. | 2007-04-26 | |
| PAST TOP PICK | 42.890 | Richard Croft | (A Top Pick May 18/06. Up 10%.) A straddle having both a Call and a Put with a $40 stroke price. Would have been expired by now. | 2007-03-15 | |
| PAST TOP SHORT | 41.540 | Larry Berman CFA, CMT, CTA | (A Top Short July 24/06. Up 14.1%.) Small caps have under performed. The idea was to be long large Cap and being Short small Cap. Got stopped out of his position. | 2006-10-11 | |
| PAST TOP PICK | 38.910 | Richard Croft | (A Top Pick May 18/06. Up 33% when it was covered.) A July 40 straddle involving both a call and a put on the index. | 2006-08-30 | |
| TOP SHORT | 36.410 | Larry Berman CFA, CMT, CTA | The risk for this group is considerable. We are in a bear environment and want to be sellers of rallies. Wait for it to get 10/15 points higher before shorting. | 2006-07-24 | |
| BUY | 37.360 | Peter Hofstra | Right now, strong tech earnings are not being rewarded, but when quality tech names are cheap, there is a good chance to get in low in the cycle. This has a lot of excellent companies with pristine balance sheets. | 2006-07-10 | |
| TOP PICK | 39.050 | Richard Croft | A straddle involving both a call and a put on the index with a $40 strike price. The cost is $2.25US per straddle X 100 ($225). Not predicting where the market is going, but that it will go up or down by more than $2.25 by July. | 2006-05-18 | |
| TOP PICK | 40.490 | Richard Croft | This is a straddle that involves both a call and a put. Designed where you think the underlying security will move beyond the cost of the straddle. E.g. if you buy a $40 straddle that costs $3, you are not concerned with which direction the QQQQ goes; only that it goes beyond $3. Option premiums are at 10-year low. Look at March/April options. | 2006-02-13 | |
| PAST TOP PICK | 41.700 | Richard Croft | (A Top Pick Aug 3/05. Up 3.5%.) The options on this are still relatively cheap. | 2005-11-22 | |
| DON'T BUY | 39.210 | Paul Harris, CFA | Thinks the NASDQ is expensive. Trades at a very high multiple relative to other areas. | 2005-08-12 | |
| BUY | 39.450 | Bill Carrigan | Feels the NASDQ is poised for a new bull cycle. Long term chart shows it has been building a large base. | 2005-08-09 | |
| TOP PICK | 40.060 | Richard Croft | Feels that in the next year, US technology will turn around and give a better performance. This is probably the easiest way to play that. Looking at buying January 2007 $40 call options on the NASDAQ. | 2005-08-03 | |
| WEAK BUY | 39.270 | Laura Wallace | She would never buy and Index or an ETF as she believes in active management, but it's a cheap way of playing and getting diversification of the NASDAQ if you feel very strongly on that sector. | 2005-07-25 | |
| TOP PICK | 38.300 | Richard Croft | Not sure that this sector is undervalued so much as he feels the next move probably will be led by the tech sector. If he was looking for any kind of a turn around in the US market, it would be out of this sector. | 2005-07-12 | |
| PAST TOP PICK | 35.950 | Larry Berman CFA, CMT, CTA | (A Top Pick Dec 15/04. Down 11%.) Was very close to the high when it was picked. | 2005-05-11 | |
| PAST TOP PICK | 37.980 | Richard Croft | (A Top Pick Dec 14/04. Down 6%.) Was really a call option. Wasn't positive on the US market. | 2005-02-16 | |
| TOP PICK | 39.990 | Richard Croft | Recommending Call options. They are relatively cheap. This is merely a short term trade. You could get a run in the 1st month or 2 of about 6% in the NASDQ which would be about 100% on the call option. A short term trade. | 2004-12-30 | |
| TOP PICK | 40.330 | Larry Berman CFA, CMT, CTA | All 3 Top Picks are in technology based on his theme that technology will be outperforming. This is another way to play technology and much more diversified. Chart shows a new high and has been in an uptrend. | 2004-12-15 | |
| TOP PICK | 40.477 | Richard Croft | These are typically growth stocks. The call options on the NASDAQ are the cheapest they have been in 8 years. You could buy a call on the NASDAQ and get a decent run in the first quarter. You'll have to be nimble. | 2004-12-14 | |
| BUY | 28.660 | David Burrows | A good way of getting market exposure without taking a "company" risk. Keep a stop/loss on it. | 2003-05-13 | |
| BUY | 25.770 | Kevin O'Leary | If you buy shares in this, write a "call option" for 90 days. A great low risk strategy. | 2003-04-10 | |
| DON'T BUY | 24.490 | Bruce Campbell | Technology is still weak. | 2003-03-06 | |
| BUY | 26.940 | David Burrows | Could have a pretty good rally over the short while. | 2003-01-13 | |
| DON'T BUY | 24.750 | David Baskin | Too early to buy into NASDAQ. | 2002-07-03 | |
| BUY on WEAKNESS | 41.490 | Jeff Morrison | A little high now. Expects a pull back. | 2002-01-08 | |
| BUY | 41.670 | John Zechner | Could have a good move. | 2002-01-04 | |
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