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TFN eNews 12/23/2009: Last-minute gains before the holidays!

Published via e-mail broadcast on December 23, 2009

In today’s TFN eNews:

* Cashing in

* Silence of the Markets

* And a merry Christmas to you, too!

Dear TFN eNews reader,

TFN closed out of 3 open positions today. Our web posting advised readers of our free editorial reports Today’s Top 3 Penny Stocks and 3 Penny Stocks With Winning Potential to take 19% gains on ZAP (OTC:ZAAP)… 15% on Keryx Biopharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:KERX)… and 61% gains on Emtec, Inc. (OTC:ETEC).

Merry Christmas!

Of course, there are a number of positions that currently show a loss. We still think all these picks we presented to you are darn good stocks… with a fighting chance to make you substantial gains in 2010.

But every investor has different requirements. I encourage you to use the coming 9 days to re-evaluate your losing stocks in your portfolio… and try to offset some capital gains by realizing some losses on stocks you don’t feel as optimistic about any more.

*** The TFN headquarters are located in an old Baltimore town house at 16 W. Madison Street. We share the building with another financial publishing division. Their staff is about eight times that of ours. and especially before Christmas, they are a noisy bunch.

Not so today. The building is quiet. Everyone got a head start on the holidays. Only the keyboards at TFN are clicking.

But this is typical for the pre-holiday markets. Analysts and traders, too, must have tuned out and gone home. Because trading volumes all over the world were thin as crepes. Japanese markets were closed for the Emperor’s birthday.

But while it’s become the “in” thing to bow to the Emperor, TFN’s Laura Cadden used the opportunity to hug the god of mammon. To members of our premium service Hot Stock Confidential, she wrote:

“Compugen Ltd. has seen its share price surge over 70% this morning on news of a ‘Discovery of Demand’ agreement for three of its therapeutic peptide product candidates with Pfizer. Sell your shares of Compugen Ltd. (NASDAQ:CGEN) and enjoy those holiday gains!”

CGEN gave us 78% gains in about 7 weeks and rang in as double-digit gainer #74 for 2009.

With that winner in our pockets, we went ahead and let Radiant Pharmaceuticals Corporation go as a tax loss sale. For loser #21.

*** TFN, too, will be closed starting tomorrow. We’ll be back on the 28th of December, to see what opportunity the dregs of 2009 will yield.

For the time being, we wish you a happy holiday season!

***Widely unnoticed, this change in local building codes is about to send demand for this recession-starved commodity flying.

3 undervalued stocks could generate gains of 200% or even 300%… for early investors with guts and foresight! Learn more here…

http://www.todaysfinancialnews.com/HSC/timber/EHSCKC15.html

*** Quote of the Day:

“Among the intelligentsia, there have always been many who are ready to jump on virtually any bandwagon that will take them to the promised land, where the wise and noble few — like themselves — can take the rest of us poor dummies in hand and tell us how we had better change the way we live our lives.” — Thomas Sowell, Creators.com

Recommended Reading:

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Forget Copenhagen: The coal industry is alive and well

Today’s Top 3 Financial News Stories:

MoneyNews.com – Bank of America: Stocks to Rise 15 Percent in 2010 “Bank of America-Merrill Lynch analysts predict stocks will rise about 15 percent next year amid low interest rates and improved economic growth.”

FT.com — Winter rally keeps 2009 peaks in view “The last full day’s trading for many bourses before Christmas saw global stocks continue their winter rally and challenge of 2009 peaks.”

Bloomberg.com — Stocks Erase Gain, Dollar Drops After Home Sales Miss Forecasts “U.S. stocks erased their gain, the dollar weakened and Treasuries rallied after sales of new American homes unexpectedly fell last month, spurring concern about the durability of the economic recovery. Oil advanced following a bigger-than-forecast decrease in inventories.”

Cordially yours,

J. Christoph Amberger

Executive Publisher, TodaysFinancialNews.com

P. S. Shocking Prediction for 2010: “Crude oil will hit $150 a barrel”: These 3 reasonably-priced companies not only will pass most of their profits on to shareholders… but stand to gain 20%, 50%, even 100% as oil prices soar! Read on…

http://www.todaysfinancialnews.com/HSC/OIL/EHSCKC01.html


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