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chuck44l · #1 (**permalink**) 09-13-2008, 08:08 PM

Stay tuned i am in the process of putting together my list of stocks to radar for the week. I am hoping to have them up late Saturday night or early Sunday. Should be a great week with many oppurtunities. Chuck

chuck44l · #2 (**permalink**) 09-14-2008, 07:30 PM

Stocks on my radar lst for the week of September 14 08.
OOIL This one has bullish written all over the chart!!!!

SPNG was on my radar list a couple of weeks ago but never ran, However i have been hearing of lots of interest on SPNG in the last few day so i am putting it back on my list of stocks to watch.

GM This chart looks really nice imo and some good news could head this thing north with minimal resistance. Support at 12.47 Resistance of 13.26 14.31 and then a possible test of 16.34

Next on the list is RDWG last week we had a nice 75% pop and then back down, Im still expecting news on this stock and have heard rumor of maybe Monday or Tuesday. Keep RDWG on radar!!!!
The next two picks are very risky as they were beat down very hard last Monday after the feds stepped in but i do believe that there could possibly be some huge upside, These two stocks are FRE and FNM If you choose to get in either of these i suggest you use a tight stop as these can be very volitile!!!! I don't believe that these two are chart plays at this time but will post the charts anyways.

FNM chart

Here is wishing everybody a green week and remember I am not a registered broker these are just a few suggestions, Do your own DD. Chuck.

chuck44l · #3 (**permalink**) 09-18-2008, 05:27 PM

OOIL is on my radar list for the week. Here is an interesting artical that i come across, It just goes to show the popularity of this technology all over the world.
From the London Financial Times.

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Biofuels: Hopes ride on next generation
By Fiona Harvey, Environment Correspondent

Published: September 15 2008 09:19 | Last updated: September 15 2008 09:19

It did not take long for biofuels to turn from one of the darlings of the environmental movement to the bugbear.

As recently as 2004, green groups such as Friends of the Earth were calling for an expansion of biofuels to make road transport greener. Biofuels, derived from plants, are carbon-neutral over their lifetime ? the plants absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as they grow, which is released back into the atmosphere as they are burned. This makes them one of the few ?clean? alternatives to petrol as a transport fuel.

But when food prices started to rise sharply last year, environmental groups and development charities were among the first to blame biofuels as a major factor, and they called for an immediate moratorium on the production of ethanol.

The biofuel industry, however, was working on an answer ? one that could even solve the squeeze on their profits as the cost of their raw material has soared.

That answer is a second generation of biofuels made from waste products ? straw, husks, weeds ? with the same calorific qualities as ethanol or biodiesel, making them suitable for use in vehicles. These offer the promise of clean fuels that would fulfil the strictest environmental criteria while not competing with food for fertile land.

Companies are pursuing two ways of making these new fuels. One is a continuation of the brewing process that converts grain or sugar to ethanol: the enzymes that break down grains are set to work on the straw or ?corn stover? ? the waste material left over when the maize has been taken off the plant.

Perfecting this biological method is difficult: fermenting starch or sugar into alcohol is easy, but waste products contain much larger amounts of lignin, which makes up the tough cell walls of plants and is harder to break down. The process is also costly.

The other method, just as complex, is the thermal method, by which the waste products are heated to produce a synthetic gas, which is then put through something like the Fischer-Tropsch process, whereby it is recombined to form a liquid fuel.

Lee Clements, investment manager at Impax Asset Management, favours the latter, which produces a fuel that more closely resembles mineral petrol or diesel. ?It?s quite possible that both technologies will be used commercially, but that one will dominate,? he says.

A third possibility, which is regarded as more exotic, is making biofuels from algae. Certain types of algae produce substances that can be turned into fuels, using carbon dioxide as a feedstock. Riggs Eckelberry, chief executive of Origin Oil, says his company is looking at several strains of algae which can be harnessed in this way. He plans to start shipping standardised containers full of algae which customers can use to set up their own biofuel refineries.

Plants could also be genetically engineered to make them easier to turn into biofuels, for instance by making crops that produce the enzymes needed to break down lignin within their own cells.

Mariam Sticklen, of the department of crop and soil sciences at Michigan State University, says: ?Plant genetic engineering promises to have key roles in decreasing biofuel production costs.? Companies such as Syngenta and Monsanto are beginning to come up with crop varieties with such qualities.

So far, second-generation biofuels from waste products have been produced in the laboratory, at great expense, but have not been demonstrated on a large scale.

Biofuels companies insist that they are close to commercialisation. Several companies are working on demonstration facilities: Range Fuels is building a factory in the US using a two-step thermo-chemical conversion process; Iogen has built a facility to process 40 tonnes of wheat straw a day; Verenium commissioned what it said was the US?s first second-generation demonstration facility in May; Virent is expanding from its small biorefinery that uses a catalytic process to make biofuels. Mr Eckelberry expects to start shipping commercial products in 2010.

Mr Clements of Impax says it could take another three to five years to ramp up production to full commercial scale. By then, he thinks, cellulosic ethanol and other second-generation biofuels will be able to compete on cost with fossil fuels.

Sceptics point out, however, how long it has taken just to get this far. Scientists have been working on such second-generation biofuels since the early 1970s, although much of the research was shelved when oil price pressures eased.
Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2008

chuck44l · #4 (**permalink**) 09-19-2008, 02:12 AM

PMI Radar this one for Friday Sept 19. Was looking around tonight and found this, I believe that there is a great chance that PMI could have a nice run tomorrow. Dividend news out after the bell

Press Release Source: The PMI Group, Inc.

The PMI Group, Inc. Declares Quarterly Dividend on Common Stock
Thursday September 18, 7:52 pm ET

WALNUT CREEK, Calif., Sept. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The PMI Group, Inc. (NYSE: PMI - News) today announced that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend in the amount of 0.25 cents per common share. This represents a reduction of one cent per common share from prior quarters. This quarterly dividend is payable on October 15, 2008 to shareholders of record on September 30, 2008.
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About The PMI Group, Inc.

The PMI Group, Inc. (NYSE: PMI - News), headquartered in Walnut Creek, CA, provides innovative credit, capital, and risk transfer solutions that expand homeownership and fund essential services for our customers and the communities they serve. Through its wholly and partially owned subsidiaries, PMI offers residential mortgage insurance and credit enhancement products. For more information: The PMI Group, Inc..

Cautionary Statement: Statements in this release that are not historical facts, or that relate to future plans, events or performance are "forward-looking" statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Readers are cautioned that forward-looking statements by their nature involve risk and uncertainty because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that will occur in the future. Many factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by forward-looking statements, and there can be no guarantee of amounts of dividends that will be authorized by the Board in the future. Such factors include, among others, national or regional recessions, and further deterioration in the housing, mortgage and related credit markets. In particular, declines in housing values and/or housing demand, deterioration of borrower credit, higher unemployment rates, changes in interest rates, higher levels of consumer credit, higher mortgage default and claim rates, lower cure rates, higher claim sizes, the aging of our mortgage insurance portfolios, adverse changes in liquidity in the capital markets, the inability of loans servicers to process higher volumes of delinquent loans, and the further contraction of credit markets could negatively affect our US Mortgage Insurance Operations' paid claims and, as a result, our financial strength. These factors could also negatively affect the amount of excess capital available for dividend or contribution to PMI. In addition, past or future rating agency downgrades, an inability on our part to satisfy covenants contained in our credit facility, and/or our inability to execute capital initiatives could negatively affect our results of operations and financial condition. Other risks and uncertainties are discussed in our SEC filings, including our Annual Report Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007 (in Item 1A) and our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2008 and June 30, 2008. We undertake no obligation to update forward-looking statements. I will admit the chart don't look the greatest but here it is.

chuck44l · #5 (**permalink**) 09-19-2008, 02:28 AM

FRE was another pick to radar this week, Very nice day today closed up 44% Keep your radar on both FRE and FNM, I feel that both of these stocks have HUGE potential to have a big run as i think many investors have both of these on radar and a few green days may help with investor confidence and you can get a boat load of shares for a fraction of the price compared to other financials.

chuck44l · #6 (**permalink**) 09-19-2008, 08:41 PM

WOW What a day, What a week!!!! Thank you everybody it was a great week here at the all new SNO. Stay tuned i will be posting more on these stocks and others throughout the weekend.

chuck44l · #7 (**permalink**) 09-20-2008, 04:50 PM

I plan on having my weekly stock picks ready to add to your watch lists sometime Sunday evening. I will send out notices via email and messenger after i have them posted here at SNO. If you are not on my list to get email and messenger alerts and would like to be feel free to add me @
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chuck44l · #8 (**permalink**) 09-20-2008, 08:44 PM

From MarketWatch
STOCKS TO WATCH
GE, American Express, 3Com, GM, Marriott

By Sue Chang, MarketWatch
Last update: 5:46 p.m. EDT Sept. 20, 2008Comments: 1SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- The stock market's focus on Monday will remain on financial stocks as Treasury officials and Congress wrangle over the details of a $700 billion rescue package for the financial sector.
Companies in the financial-services sector that were left off a government list banning short sellers from trading certain stock may be seeking inclusion. General Electric Co. (GE:General Electric Company
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GE 26.62, +1.83, +7.4%) , American Express (AXP:American Express Company
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AXP 40.40, +2.68, +7.1%) , Capital One (COF:Capital One Financial Corporation
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COF 56.05, +2.05, +3.8%) , and CIT Group (CIT:CIT Group Inc
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CIT 11.16, +0.46, +4.3%) are just a few of those omitted from the list despite having large businesses in the financial sector. For GE, financial services make up about 45% of its overall business.
GE declined to comment on whether it will seek SEC's approval for addition to the list, but American Express said it was just beginning to look into the possibility of being added. The Securities and Exchange Commission ban covers 799 stocks and is in effect until midnight on Oct. 2. See related story
On the earnings front, 3Com Corp. (COMS:3Com Corporation
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COMS 2.09, +0.18, +9.4%) is expected to report first-quarter earnings of 6 cents a share, according to analysts polled by FactSet Research.
AutoZone Inc. (AZO:AutoZone, Inc
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AZO 130.79, +2.26, +1.8%) is projected to post earnings of $3.90 a share in the fourth quarter.
CarMax Inc. (KMX:CarMax, Inc
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KMX 16.50, +1.31, +8.6%) is forecast to post earnings of 11 cents a share in the second quarter.
GM credit line
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GM 13.08, +1.68, +14.7%) said it will use the remaining $3.5 billion of its $4.5 billion secured revolving credit facility to boost its liquidity position as it continues its restructuring efforts.
"Accessing the funds available to us is a prudent liquidity measure. Drawing on the revolver now improves our liquidity position at a time when the capital markets have become more challenging," said Walter Borst, treasurer, in a statement.
The funds will also be used to settle $750 million of debt maturing in October, and to pay Delphi Corp. some $1.2 billion as part of its reorganization efforts. GM also said it completed a $322 million debt to equity exchange.
Apple adapters
Apple (AAPL:Apple Inc
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AAPL 140.91, +6.82, +5.1%) will exchange power adapters sold with 3G iPhones for a new redesigned adapter due to risk of electric shock. The company said it received reports about metal prongs breaking and remaining in a power outlet in a small number of the adapters sold. So far, no injuries have been reported.
All adapters will be exchanged free of charge starting on Oct. 10. The offer applies only to 3G iPhones sold in the United States, Japan, Canada, Mexico and certain Latin American countries.
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Ambac Financial (ABK:AMBAC Inc
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ABK 3.87, -2.80, -42.0%) said a downgrade by ratings agency Moody's Investors Service would leave its guaranteed investment contract business short of collateral to meet liabilities. The company also postponed plans to pump $850 million into a new municipal bond insurance business called Connie Lee and cancelled a $50 million share buyback plan that was announced earlier this year.
Fannie reorganization
Fannie Mae (FNM:Fannie Mae
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FNM 0.69, +0.20, +40.8%) is changing its organizational structure. The mortgage giant's three lines of business -- single-family mortgage guaranty, capital markets, and housing and community development -- and their leadership -- will report directly to President and CEO Herbert M. Allison Jr. The structure and function of government and industry relations is under review, the company said in a statement. Allison also said that he would continue to review Fannie Mae's organizational structure to make needed changes.
"Fannie Mae is building a new organizational structure as we take the company in a new direction to serve a dramatically changing market," Allison said. "The company's organization will be flatter, with clear lines of authority and strong checks and balances, and a closer link between our businesses and top management. Above all, we will embrace and make needed changes so we can better help to stabilize and serve the market ahead."
Marriott bombing
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MAR 28.17, +0.75, +2.7%) issued a statement on its corporate Web site saying "at approximately 7 p.m. local time (Saturday), an apparent car bomb exploded outside of the Islamabad Marriott in Pakistan. The bomb caused extensive damage to the front of the hotel and started a fire. Marriott International and the hotel are working with local authorities and rescue personnel to assist victims."
A suicide car bomb attack on the hotel killed at least 40 people and wounded some 100, including foreigners, according to media reports. Dozens more are feared to be trapped inside the burning hotel. See full story
Fitch downgrades
Fitch Ratings lowered its ratings outlook on Comerica Inc. (CMA:Comerica Incorporated
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CMA 42.00, +5.42, +14.8%) to negative from stable because of rising levels of nonperforming assets, weaker earnings, and a deterioration in capital ratios. Fitch has an A+ long-term issuer default rating, and a short-term IDR of F1 on Comerica.
Fitch Ratings downgraded ratings of Sears Holdings Corp. (SHLD:sears hldgs corp com
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SHLD 101.48, -1.52, -1.5%) because of negative same-store sales and an unclear long-term retail strategy. Fitch cut Sears' long-term issuer default rating to B+ from BB, and its secured bank facility rating to BB+/RR1 from BBB-. About $3.6 billion of total debt is affected. The outlook is stable.
"The rating actions reflect significant pressure on operating margins on negative comparable store sales trends and continued share repurchases in the current challenging operating environment leading to weaker credit metrics," Fitch said in a statement.
Sue Chang is a MarketWatch reporter in San Francisco.

chuck44l · #9 (**permalink**) 09-21-2008, 05:53 PM

Chucks picks to radar for the week of Sept 21 08
FRE looking for a continuation of Thursday and Fridays rally here.
Volume is picking up and the indicators are turning.

FNM same thoughts as FRE these two stocks tend to trade very simular.

OOIL Im hoping we have found a bottom here. This one is getting a lot of recognition world wide here is a write up from the London Financial Times .
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Biofuels: Hopes ride on next generation
By Fiona Harvey, Environment Correspondent

Published: September 15 2008 09:19 | Last updated: September 15 2008 09:19

It did not take long for biofuels to turn from one of the darlings of the environmental movement to the bugbear.

As recently as 2004, green groups such as Friends of the Earth were calling for an expansion of biofuels to make road transport greener. Biofuels, derived from plants, are carbon-neutral over their lifetime ? the plants absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as they grow, which is released back into the atmosphere as they are burned. This makes them one of the few ?clean? alternatives to petrol as a transport fuel.

But when food prices started to rise sharply last year, environmental groups and development charities were among the first to blame biofuels as a major factor, and they called for an immediate moratorium on the production of ethanol.

The biofuel industry, however, was working on an answer ? one that could even solve the squeeze on their profits as the cost of their raw material has soared.

That answer is a second generation of biofuels made from waste products ? straw, husks, weeds ? with the same calorific qualities as ethanol or biodiesel, making them suitable for use in vehicles. These offer the promise of clean fuels that would fulfil the strictest environmental criteria while not competing with food for fertile land.

Companies are pursuing two ways of making these new fuels. One is a continuation of the brewing process that converts grain or sugar to ethanol: the enzymes that break down grains are set to work on the straw or ?corn stover? ? the waste material left over when the maize has been taken off the plant.

Perfecting this biological method is difficult: fermenting starch or sugar into alcohol is easy, but waste products contain much larger amounts of lignin, which makes up the tough cell walls of plants and is harder to break down. The process is also costly.

The other method, just as complex, is the thermal method, by which the waste products are heated to produce a synthetic gas, which is then put through something like the Fischer-Tropsch process, whereby it is recombined to form a liquid fuel.

Lee Clements, investment manager at Impax Asset Management, favours the latter, which produces a fuel that more closely resembles mineral petrol or diesel. ?It?s quite possible that both technologies will be used commercially, but that one will dominate,? he says.

A third possibility, which is regarded as more exotic, is making biofuels from algae. Certain types of algae produce substances that can be turned into fuels, using carbon dioxide as a feedstock. Riggs Eckelberry, chief executive of Origin Oil, says his company is looking at several strains of algae which can be harnessed in this way. He plans to start shipping standardised containers full of algae which customers can use to set up their own biofuel refineries.

Plants could also be genetically engineered to make them easier to turn into biofuels, for instance by making crops that produce the enzymes needed to break down lignin within their own cells.

Mariam Sticklen, of the department of crop and soil sciences at Michigan State University, says: ?Plant genetic engineering promises to have key roles in decreasing biofuel production costs.? Companies such as Syngenta and Monsanto are beginning to come up with crop varieties with such qualities.

So far, second-generation biofuels from waste products have been produced in the laboratory, at great expense, but have not been demonstrated on a large scale.

Biofuels companies insist that they are close to commercialisation. Several companies are working on demonstration facilities: Range Fuels is building a factory in the US using a two-step thermo-chemical conversion process; Iogen has built a facility to process 40 tonnes of wheat straw a day; Verenium commissioned what it said was the US?s first second-generation demonstration facility in May; Virent is expanding from its small biorefinery that uses a catalytic process to make biofuels. Mr Eckelberry expects to start shipping commercial products in 2010.

Mr Clements of Impax says it could take another three to five years to ramp up production to full commercial scale. By then, he thinks, cellulosic ethanol and other second-generation biofuels will be able to compete on cost with fossil fuels.

Sceptics point out, however, how long it has taken just to get this far. Scientists have been working on such second-generation biofuels since the early 1970s, although much of the research was shelved when oil price pressures eased.
Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2008
OOIL chart.

The next pick ZIPI is a very interesting Ebay based buisness ( The way of the present and future imo) The chart speaks for itself here!!!!
ZIPI chart.

The next one is for all of you NYSE players out there. DOW what a strong stock this has been. The chart im going to post is a 3 month chart but if you are interested pull up any chart on DOW 1 year 10 year all shows a steady uptrend (very nice). DOW Chart.

GCHK made a nice move last Friday, This one could use some volume but definatly worthy of a radar imo.

RDWG has been on my radar for the last several weeks and basicly has done nothing but is due for some news of a RM any day now. I currently have a substancial position in RDWG. The chart.

chuck44l · #10 (**permalink**) 09-21-2008, 05:59 PM

The next pick is another NYSE stock and a continuation of last weeks radar list. GM chart.

Here is one of my favorite new technologies, A wind powerstock Green Star Alternative Energy. GSAE chart.

XSNX im hoping to pop this one for a nickle or so this week on a dip to .30 and then a possibe test of .35 to .36 area.
XSNX chart.