new opportunities

Visa is holding out very well in a bear market. Do not know how this will evolve. In case it holds out then this shows a coil formation and has a huge upside.

Books on trading

Here is a nice list of books for trading:

• A Complete Guide to Technical Trading Tactics by John L. Person


• A Short Course in Technical Trading by Perry J. Kaufman


• Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein


• Beating the Street by Peter Lynch and John Rothchild


• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell


• Bollinger on Bollinger Bands by John A. Bollinger


• China Shakes the World: A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future by James Kynge


• Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits by Philip A. Fisher


• Contrarian Investment Strategies in the Next Generation by David Dreman


• Creating Wealth: Retire in Ten Years by Robert G. Allen


• Dave Landry on Swing Trading by Dave Landry


• Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns by Thomas Bulkowski


• Enhancing Trader Performance by Brett N. Steenbarger


• Entries and Exits: Visits to 16 Trading Rooms by Dr. Alexander Elder


• Evidence-Based Technical Analysis by David R. Aronson


• Financial Fine Print: Uncovering a Company's True Value by Michelle Leder


• Financial Freedom Through Electronic Day Trading by Van K. Tharp


• Financial Shenanigans: Detect Accounting Gimmicks & Fraud by Howard M. Schilit


• Fire Your Stock Analyst by Harry Domash


• Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance by Nassim Nicholas Taleb


• Fortune's Formula by William Poundstone


• Four Steps to Trading Success by John F. Clayburg


• Getting Started in Chart Patterns by Thomas Bulkowski


• Getting Things Done by David Allen


• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't by Jim Collins


• Hedge Fund Masters by Ari Kiev


• Hedgehogging by Barton Biggs


• High Probability Trading by Marcel Link


• Hot Commodities by Jim Rogers


• How Charts Can Help You in the Stock Market by William L. Jiler


• How I Made 2,000,000 in the Stock Market by Nicolas Darvas


• How to Buy Stocks by Louis Engel


• Inside the House of Money by Steven Drobny


• Intermarket Analysis: Profiting from Global Market Relationships by John J. Murphy


• Investing with Exchange-Traded Funds Made Easy by Marvin Appel


• It's When You Sell That Counts by Donald L. Cassidy


• Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques by Steve Nison


• John Neff on Investing by John Neff


• Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street by Michael Lewis


• Market Wizards by Jack D. Schwager


• Mastering the Trade by John F. Carter


• Methods of a Wall Street Master by Vic Sperandeo


• New Market Timing Techniques by Thomas R. DeMark


• Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham


• Option Volatility & Pricing: Advanced Trading Strategies by Sheldon Natenberg


• Options for the Stock Investor by James B. Bittman


• Options, Futures and Other Derivatives by John C. Hull


• Pit Bull: Lessons from Wall Street's Champion Day Trader by Martin Schwartz


• Pivot: How One Simple Turn in Attitude Can Lead to Success by Alan R. Zimmerman


• Professional Stock Trading: System Design and Automation by Mark R. Conway


• Reminences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefèvre


• Rule #1: The Simple Strategy for Successful Investing by Phil Town


• Screening the Market by Marc H. Gerstein


• Secrets For Profiting in Bull and Bear Markets by Stan Weinstein


• Stock Market Primer by Claude N. Rosenberg


• Studies in Tape Reading by Rollo Tape


• Sun Tzu on Investing by Curtis Montgomery


• Technical Analysis Explained by Martin Pring


• Technical Analysis of Stock Trends by Edwards and Magee


• The Art of Low Risk Investing by Michael Zahorchak


• The Essays of Warren Buffett : Lessons for Corporate America by Warren E. Buffett


• The Four Pillars of Investing by William J. Bernstein


• The Future for Investors by Jeremy Siegel


• The Global-Investor Book of Investing Rules by Philip Jenks and Stephen Eckett


• The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey


• The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham & Jason Zweig


• The Master Swing Trader by Alan S. Farley


• The Maui Millionaires by Diane Kennedy and David Finkel


• The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley


• The Misbehavior of Markets by Benoit Mandelbrot and Richard L. Hudson


• The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing by Jason Kelly


• The New Market Wizards by Jack D. Schwager


• The New Money Masters by John Train


• The New Science of Technical Analysis by Thomas R. Demark


• The New Trader's Tax Solution by Ted Tesser


• The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need by Andrew Tobias


• The Psychology of Trading: Tools and Techniques by Brett N. Steenbarger


• The Secrets of Economic Indicators by Bernard Baumohl


• The Single Best Investment: Consistently Creating Wealth by Lowell Miller


• The Stock Market Jungle by Michale Panzner


• The Stock Trader's Almanac 2007 by Yale Hirsch


• The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness by Dave Ramsey


• The Vital Few vs. the Trivial Many by George Muzea


• Timing the Market: Using the Yield Curve, TA, and Cultural Indicators by Deborah Weir


• Trade Stocks & Commodities by Larry Williams


• Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom by Van K. Tharp


• Trader Vic II--Principles of Professional Speculation by Victor Sperandeo


• Trading Classic Chart Patterns by Thomas Bulkowski


• Trading for a Living by Alexander Elder


• Trading in the Zone: Master the Market with Confidence by Mark Douglas


• Trading Rules by William F. Eng


• Trend Following by Michael W. Covel


• Trend Trading: Timing Market Tides by Kedrick Brown


• Ugly Americans by Ben Mezrich


• Unconventional Success by David F. Swensen


• Understanding Options by Michael Sincere


• Way of Warrior Trader by Richard D. McCall


• When to Sell by Justin Mamis and Robert Mamis


• Winning on Wall Street by Martin Zweig


• Yes, You Can Time The Market by Ben Stein

(thanks to :http://www.thekirkreport.com/2006/11/the_100_most_in.html)

taking advantage of a rally

Credit crunch has taken it's toll on the world market and it is now time again to find some investment opportutunities.

Following are the shares which seem to have a possible breakout.

• Banco Bradenco
• Approach res inc.
• Bovie medical corp.
• Companhia Brasil
• City Holdings
• Coinstar inc.
• Gafisa Inc.
• Hawaiian holdings
• Mastercard
• Vision sciences
• Vivo participaceons
  

Wk 29

Potential winners AND the buy pt:

1. Pride international (PDE) [ 37.21]
2. CNH global (CNH) [ 58.49]
3. CF inds hldgs (CF) [already exended 10% beyond buy pt: 66.6]
4. Riverbed (RVBD) [ 46.76]
5. Oriental education (EDU) [already extended 3.2% beyond buy pt:56.41]