Friday Jan 05, 2007

Sneak peeks

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Sneak peeks

by J. Christoph Amberger

Through some Byzantine connections of hers, the best wife of ‘em all had obtained a review DVD of a German movie that the august members of the Academy are considering a contender for Best Foreign Film. Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others) is a 2006 German production that garnered various European awards last year. The story takes place in pre-glasnost East Germany in 1984 and focuses on the Stasi’s surveillance of a suspect writer and his actress girlfriend.

“They managed to capture the drabness rather well,” she remarked after the first couple of scenes. (She first got to see the hands-on achievements of socialism that very same year, when I took her to East Berlin for a day over the Christmas vacation.)

I liked the movie especially because of a curious phenomenon that has been occurring in Germany over the last couple of years. It’s a thing called “Ostalgia” -- Eastalgia -- and is a deep, emotional longing of those former East Germans who could not keep pace with the western pace of life: A longing for the closed world of socialism, which in retrospect seems to have been well ordered and easy to understand, inhabited solely by lovable curmudgeons who all knew their proper place in society and were connected by an “andere Menschlichkeit,” a different brand of humanity.

Of course, that’s just pure bunk. But there is now a whole generation of Germans who were born and grew up in the seventeen years since the Berlin Wall came down. As I noticed during recent visits to Germany, many of them have been brought up with an entirely sanitized version of this socialist world of sneaks, informers and secret policemen.

“Eastalgians” from East Berlin have voted the unrepentant successors to the Socialist Unity Party into the city government of Berlin -- including the Western half I grew up in and that had been able to resist incorporation into the Paradise of Workers and Farmers throughout the Cold War.

A highly recommendable flick. “It is as it was,” to quote the late John Paul II.

--- That was the second sneak peek of the week. Yesterday, I had asked the Taipan Group editors to provide me with some unaudited summaries of their publications’ track records.

Adam Lass, who had launched WaveStrength Options Weekly -- aptly called WOW -- last year, was the first to respond:
 
“Everyone knows the blue chips are where you want to be in rough waters. However, these mammoth ‘stock market cruise ships’ move somewhat slowly even in the best of times.

“In 2006, the S&P 100 put on almost 16%, a good year enough year if you are willing to settle. But there are hidden icebergs lurking even here, as not every stock on that list enjoyed even that modest level of success. In the early months of 2006, I spent most of my time devising a way of isolating exactly which of these 800lb. gorillas is about to surge in either direction. It’s called the Two Step Prime Mover, and it can reliably spot four to forty week price moves just as they begin.

“My colleague Bryan Bottarelli then comes in behind me and (using his experience on the CBOE trading floor) selects an option contract that multiply the power of that move tenfold.

“Does it work? The proof is in the pudding: in the foreshortened trading year of 2006 -- we launched the open WOW beta test in July, every single option contract we have recommended using the Prime Mover system has increased in value. That’s right, all of them.

“Of the 20 recommendations issued since launching in late July, 15 have gone on to gain double digits or more. Seven of those have exceeded 100%. And three have more than tripled in value. Our price-weighted average max gain for 2006 is 85% and our aggregate gain is 1,546%. And we are showing no signs of slowing this year either: 2007’s two trading days have seen two more new max gains totaling 27%.”

Our compliance editors are still auditing the numbers before our legal department runs them through their grinder, so don’t quote me on them. But we’ll have the official final tally out for you next week so you can check for yourself.

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Earnings Announcements for January 8, 2007

Bank of Granite Corporation, Horizon Health Corporation, Nu Horizons Electronic Corporation, Schnitzer Steel Industries Inc, and Team Inc are releasing earnings.

Unlock Dates for January 2007

1/10/07 - Cowen Group is unlocking 11.2 million shares.

1/16/07 - Millennium India Acquisition Company Inc is unlocking 7.25 million shares.

1/22/07 - Chart Industries Inc is unlocking 12.5 million shares.

1/24/07 - Geomet Inc is unlocking 10.25 million shares.
 
Upgrades and Downgrades

Saba Software upgraded by Wedbush Morgan from Hold to Buy.

Mothers Work upgraded by B. Riley & Company from Neutral to Buy.

Aqua America upgraded by HSBC Securities from Neutral to Overweight.

NVIDIA downgraded by Am Tech / JSA Research from Buy to Neutral.

Cooper Companies downgraded by Matrix Research from Buy to Sell.

AT&T downgraded by Matrix Research from Strong Buy to Buy.

Motorola downgraded by Oppenheimer from Buy to Neutral.

Marvell downgraded by Credit Suisse from Outperform to Neutral.

Dell downgraded by JP Morgan from Neutral to Underweight.

Gap Inc downgraded by Stifel Nicolaus from Buy to Hold.

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Quote of the Day:

“Hillary Clinton is running fourth in Iowa in the presidential polls. Things are so bad her new Secret Service code name is NBC.”

- Jay Leno, Jan. 3, 2007

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