bearish stocks, 2011-05-06

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Silver Weekly Option a Nail Biter The iShares Silver Trust (NYSE: SLV) options fall while one trader may have turned bullish in the Energy Select SPDR (NYSE: XLE)...... Big Media Weighs Worth of Online Magazines There may still be some value in 'traditional' sites...... Markman: Dollar Daze If the greenback continues south, stocks will head north..... Picky Buyers Seek Emerging Market ETFs Broad-based emerging market ETFs are struggling. Find a country and possibly an inverse ETF to trade...... Electronic Arts’ Best Quarter May Be Behind It Challenges loom ahead for the rest of 2011...... eBay Shares — 3 Pros, 3 Cons The mobile commerce boom should help this stock...... Car Rental Companies Charging as Much as $9 for Gas to Refill Loaners Car rental companies are gouging consumers on gas prices if they don't fill up after renting, with fees as much as $9 a gallon...... Thursday’s Apple Rumors — iPad 3-D A new screen may come with the tablet's next model...... Inept Fed Creates Commodity Bubble Market charts indicate Federal Reserve policies will bring inflation, higher interest rates and a recession...... Markman: Obama’s 7.5% Solution The joblessness rate needs to come down fast...... OpenTable Shares — 3 Pros, 3 Cons Uncertainties surround this pricey stock...... Thursday’s Stocks to Watch: Electronic Arts, BMC Software ERTS rises after the company beats profit estimates...... Playing an Earnings Trend in Auxilium Buy a put option on Auxilium Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: AUXL) to prepare for an earnings sell-off...... GM Profits Nearly Quadruple, Yet Stock Still a Dud General Motors is flat from its 2010 IPO price of $33, and despite growth in its first quarter 2011 earnings investors still don't seem to be impressed with the automaker...... Is There a Bin Laden Trade? Try a covered call option trade on Energy Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLE), US Oil Fund (NYSE: USO)...... A Gold Bottom Signals a Put Spread Sell a SPDR Gold Trust (NYSE: GLD) put options spread If the ETF hits its $140 bottom...... Why This Pullback Won’t Last The sell-off will likely end this week or early next, so investors should prepare to buy. ..... 3 Booming Emerging Market Picks Brazil, India, Africa offer ways to capitalize on surging emerging market demographics...... 5 ETFs Every Diversified Investor Should Trade If you're looking for ways to diversify your trading portfolio, these ETFs to buy represent a very solid start...... Will Baby Boomers Bring an End to the Bull Market? Baby boomers' funds fueled the U.S. bull market of the 1980s and 90s. What happens when they sell stocks to finance their retirement and cut back on spending?..... 10 Stocks Up 10X in 10 Years From iconics tech stocks to a soft-drink maker to a mining giant, here are some standout stocks that have exploded 1,000% or more in the last 10 years...... Second Chance to Buy BHI Investors who missed getting into Baker Hughes Inc. (NYSE: BHI) may have an opportunity to buy close to its bullish support line...... Traders Take ‘Sell in May’ to Heart An accelerating three-day selloff has stocks down 1% already this month...... Silver Tanks, Option Traders Adjust The iShares Silver Fund (NYSE: SLV) saw heavy downside trading in the options market today...... Industrial and Material SPDRS Top Options Industrial SPDR (NYSE: XLI) and Materials SPDR ETF (NYSE: XLB) top midday option trading volume......

3 American Tech Players Embraced by Japan The country has begun to embrace foreign companies......     Renren Shares — 3 Pros, 3 Cons The stock is pricey, and competition is tough...... Wednesday’s Apple Rumors — iPhone Talk Heats Up A fall release for a new model is looking likely...... 10 Small-Cap Stocks to Bail Out of Today Small caps can be some of the most innovative and profitable companies, but pick the wrong one and you could do some serious damage to your portfolio...... Dunkin’ Donuts to Sell Stock in $400M IPO Dunkin Donuts Brands will hold a 2011 IPO stock offering to raise up to $400 million, but is the specialty beverage giant's initial public offering a good buy?..... Stock Faceoff: Computer Sciences vs. IBM It's tough to beat Big Blue's prospects...... Baidu Shares — 3 Pros, 3 Cons Growth should continue, but the stock is getting pricey...... Hard Times for Western Digital Options trader believes Western Digital (NYSE: WDC) could drop 5.5% in three weeks...... Is China’s Economy Hitting a Great Wall? A pop of the real estate bubble could have a huge impact...... Wednesday’s Stocks to Watch: Green Mountain, Varian Green Mountain (GMCR) climbs after a beat-and-raise quarter...... Sony Security Breach Could Cost $2 Billion Sony hackers made off with vital information after the recent security breach, and NYSE:SNE stock could be hurting as the cost of the hacking tops $2 billion by some estimates...... 5 Small-Cap Stocks to Buy Here are five small-cap stocks that are likely to post spectacular earnings results this week...... KOL Offers Energized Covered Call Trade A covered call option on Market Vectors Coal ETF (NYSE: KOL) profits from a rise in energy prices...... Mine SLV Below 50-day Moving Average Investors should average into positions in the iShares Silver Trust (NYSE: SLV) on declining prices...... Precious Metals Should Reign King After Short Correction Investors can expect the U.S. dollar to fall sharply to its lows made in 2008, and another sharp rally in gold and silver...... 7 Summer Drink Creations That Could Juice Fast Food Stock Margins Starbucks, McDonald's, Sonic and Arby's are rolling out new specialty beverage sales as part of a summer menu to boost margins...... Osama is Gone, But Expensive Crude Oil Isn’t Oil supply and demand have more to do with crude oil prices than anything else, so the death of Osama bin Laden doesn't matter much to futures traders...... Weiss Ratings Rates U.S. Credit Weiss Ratings gives the U.S. a rating of C, just two notches above junk...... ‘Holy Grail’ Dividend Stock Yielding 11% Foreign telcom dividend stock Partner Communications (NASDAQ: PTNR) offers low risk and above-average projected returns...... 7 Communications Penny Stocks to Buy These little stocks have the ability to deliver some spectacular gains when the bull picks up steam again...... Stocks Slump as Asset Bubbles Shrink The market cools off with oil and precious-metal prices heading lower...... Sirius, Citi See Heavy Options Trading CBOE Volatility Index (CBOE: VIX) is up as uncertain market sees option volume in Sirius XM Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI), Citigroup (NYSE: C)...... Food Producer ETF Feeds Hunger for Commodity Funds Commodity ETFs are gaining popularity among exchange traded funds investors, and a new Global X Food ETF just launched this week...... Intel, Nokia Top Midday Option Volume Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) see huge options volume while the CBOE Volatility Index (CBOE: VIX) rises above 17. ..... Boingo Brings Short-Term Promise, Long-Term Hurdles The company risks selling something that's increasingly free.....