Invest Stock Market Boutique Bank Popular Inc. (NYSE: BPOP)

You may have noticed that my analysis always starts from the perspective of all-stocks-are-bad-unless-they-make-me-money. This one is no different. Banco Popular (NYSE: BPOP) is the lead brand for the NYSE listed firm Popular Inc. The bank became highly profitable selling programming services to other banks in Latin America in part because nobody south of the border really wants to deal with "Mr Puneteiro" unless they have to.*  

Banks in other countries with governments toppled by the U.S. banking system depicted in such movies as "Missing" with Jack Lemmon are super-suspicious of large American banks like Bank of America or Citi Group.

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This gave Banco Popular an edge until Richard Carrion spun off programming to form Evertech (NYSE: EVTC). Today Popular suffers from lackluster earnings in the 41st percentile. Its price rise over the last year has been lackluster as well but has picked up recently. This is important because the firm has been the target of large mutual funds in the past. It is also rising up off of a 6 year consolidation base. The stock could be purchased today for $32.28. If purchased a prudent stop limit order would be set 5.5% behind at $30.50. The stop limit order protects investors from flash crashes induced by program traders and dark pools. A small stock such as this is always a possible candidate for such an attack.  
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* Watch the ingenious Molotov video "Frijolero."

Invest Stock Market Recommendation Atmos Energy Corporation (NYSE: ATO)

Atmos Energy Corporation (NYSE: ATO) is a raptor at the top of the food chain when it comes to all-natural-gas distribution. The company was founded by Charles K. Vaughn. Vaughn Center in Plano Texas (perhaps the most boring city in the world) is named after the founder of Atmos.

 Less boring is the fact that Atmos built a replica of a community to practice and teach natural gas safety. That community is Gas Town. Why would they do that? Natural gas is a clean energy source relatively speaking among the sooty, residue filth ridden oil industry.

Hopefully the entire industry will be forced out of energy production within a decade. Natural Gas Watch In the meantime we are stuck with these creepy petroleum companies still blighting our landscapes. Natural gas is responsible for a surprising number of deaths nationwide. An important website if natural gas companies infiltrate your community with lines is http://www.naturalgaswatch.org. 

This organization explains its existence in that a Google search of "natural gas explosion" generates 2.2 million hits because of the regularity of natural gas explosions in the country. Regardless of any further demonizing of the natural gas industry I can express Atmos Energy Corporation shares have been rising. This rise has been on moderate earnings. More details inside this all-stocks-are-bad-unless-they-make-me-money hangout.

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Invest Stock Market Leading Insurer Aspen Insurance Holdings (NYSE: AHL)

Aspen Insurance Holdings (NYSE: AHL) is under a proxy attack by rival Endurance.  No small wonder that the currently entrenched management doesn't want to give up this honey pot. 

in 2013 alone CEO Christopher O'Kane earned $4,672,077.  He earned just $887,085 as salary.  He also garnered a whopping $1,180,577 bonus.  The company was further drained by a $2,426,680 stock award as well as $177,735 from other dribbles according to EDGAR statements.

The board of directors headed by O'Kane recently had the balls to title their April 17th poison pill a "shareholder rights plan."  This is clearly a nod to the Moran v. Household International decision of the Delaware Supreme Court that upheld a same titled "shareholder rights plan" that acted as a poison pill. 

This particular use of a poison pill by Aspen Insurance Holdings (NYSE: AHL) is yet another example of a fat-cat entrenched board abusing its collective power. 

This is simply the truth of how the financial system works today.  Investors can only vote by selling out. 

What is very interesting is that there doesn't seem to be much selling out of this stock.  It has continued to rise.  This upward push is exactly what put this stock on my broad watch list. 

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Invest Stock Market Gold and Silver in Eurasian Minerals (NYSE: EMXX)

Invest Stock Market Gold and Silver in Eurasian Minerals (NYSE: EMXX) Here a real hair raiser.

It's called Eurasian Minerals (NYSE: EMXX). They are a bunch geologists, physicists, and mining engineers who run round the globe hunting down rare mineral deposits. For this reason they are smashed into a small class of high speculative stocks called prospect generators.

Eurasian Minerals (NYSE: EMXX) started out as an operation largely funded by Rick Rule's group. The team succeeded in bringing in the bacon to the degree that they jumped the border.

These Canadian financial wet backs are now in America! Eurasian started on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE) and flipped sides to the American Stock Exchange (AMEX).

Now they are on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) The company has enjoyed a recent surge in share prices but still has broken neither the intermediate nor the long term trend on either the weekly or the monthly price charts.

 The only reason I am discussing this stock now is that the surge in price is holding to the point that this may be the beginning of a bottom. This stock has traded as low as $0.65. With the stock trading in the low eighties (cents) the most risky stop loss level I allow for in my own trading is $0.74.

This is a gutsy trade because the stock is trading so low. I understand that very few of my students will have the courage to take this trade. For those who do it is really important to use stop limit orders. That is because stop limit orders are held in a flash crash should this stock come under attack from a dark pool.

 

Invest Stock Market Opthalmic Dissorder Company Allergan (NYSE: AGN)

How to Pull the Trigger: Allergan (NYSE: AGN) is currently trading below its 10 day moving average. Buy this rising momentum stock on a break above the 10 day moving average. Do not buy if this stock fails to rise above its 10 day moving average. Delete Allergan Incorporated from your watch list if the share price falls below $155.60. Why is this such sage advice? A recent study in 4th ranked JFQA shows extremely high returns to investors. The values for Jensen's Alpha are in the range that Warren Buffet garnered for his investors. We're talking annual average alphas above 18%. See Han, Y.; Yang, K.; and Guofu Zhou, "A New Anomaly: The Cross-Sectional Profitability of Technical Analysis." Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA), 48 (2013), 1433-1459. Another big plus Allergan (NYSE: AGN) has going for it is strong earnings. The company stock surged in April when Valeant announced intentions of a merger. The upward price reaction of this stock indicates that the market has taken the news favorably. Just remember that this is a stock that is enjoying price highs based on a supposed future transaction that could evaporate at any moment. For that reason option positions are not recommended. Trade the company with shares of stock. Place a tight initial stop of no more than six point five percent of the entry price. This will protect the portfolio in the event of a drop in the share price. Do not buy this stock if the price languishes below the 10 day moving average. Always watch the trend on the S&P 500. The easiest way to do this is to simply run a 200 day moving average of the ETF SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY). This allows you to see the trend clearly. By very cautious about adding new positions when the SPY is trading below the 200 day moving average.