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Yesterday, I bought some call options (actually a bull vertical spread) on IMAX because it bounced from support. I have been following IMAX for years because my stock buddy, Judy, had alerted me to it, in April 2008! Judy liked the 3D theater concept. Check out my first post on IMAX. Judy tells me she first bought IMAX at about$1.25 per share. It is trading premarket today at $30 based on buy out rumors. Over the years a lot of Judy’s “concept” stocks have been bought out by other companies. From time-to-time I post Judy’s picks. Here is a monthly chart of IMAX. (She obviously bought IMAX cheaper before 2008.)

• The 30-year-old founder and chief executive of Groupon, Andrew Mason, could raise as much as $950 million from investors in the next few weeks, laying the groundwork for a multibillion-dollar initial public offering in 2011.
• The social buying site, which offers coupons for local businesses, has so far locked up $500 million in fresh capital from Fidelity Investments, Morgan Stanley, T. Rowe Price, and other large investors allowing Mr. Mason and eight other directors to take a significant amount of cash off the table.  In the coming weeks, the company could bring in another $450 million, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Thursday.
• If successful, Groupon's latest fund-raising effort would be the largest ever for a start-up (if?)
• On Dec. 20, Groupon hired its first chief financial officer, Jason Child, a former Amazon.com executive. By Thursday, Fidelity, T. Rowe Price, Morgan Stanley, and others had committed $500 million.
•  Meanwhile, Groupon, with revenue above $1 billion, continues to grow at a breakneck pace. In the last month, the site�s subscriber base has jumped 42.3 percent to more than more than 50 million worldwide, the company said.
• Groupon could be rushing its debut, in part, to cement its dominance in the online advertising market. While Groupon is the 800-pound gorilla, it is a highly competitive space that has spawned scores of clones that are becoming viable threats. The No. 2 player, LivingSocial, has more than 10 million subscribers and recently raised $175 million from Amazon.  For now, Groupon has first-mover advantage. But that edge can quickly evaporate as Friendster and MySpace learned when Facebook entered the social media fray years ago.
• If they raise all this money privately and then become the first to go public in this space, they will become the de facto winner, said Peter Falvey, co-head of technology investment banking for Morgan Keegan. They have a good lead, but the idea is to go for the knockout punch an I.P.O. would be a huge branding event.
• For Groupon's new class of investors, it is all about that eventual payday. By jumping in now, T. Rowe Price, Fidelity and Morgan Stanley get an opportunity to peer into the company�s books and more important, get in before the public offering so the potential for a windfall is greater.

Courtesy FinViz.com, I wanted to share the 2010 multiple market performance �" futures contract returns �" for 2010. You might be surprised which markets rose the most in the year.

Here’s the chart with one day left to close out 2010:

Wouldn’t it be neat to have this chart at the beginning of 2010? Wishful thinking. We have to make our positioning in real time with the information we have.

It might be no surprise that precious metals (palladium, silver, and gold) comprise the top of 2010, but did you know how much silver outperformed gold?

Silver prices moved from the $17 level almost doubling to the present value of $31, while gold opened 2010 near $1,100 and ended $300 per ounce up to $1,400. I think most people �" myself included �" didn’t realize the strong performance of silver relative to gold �" at least in pure percentage terms.

The second major fact is that most agricultural commodities across the board did very well, especially Cotton, Coffee, Corn, Wheat and Soybeans. Even sugar beat the S&P 500 this year.

Speaking of stocks, the Small-Cap Russell 2000 beat the S&P 500, rising 26% to the NASDAQ 100’s 19% and the S&P’s 13%.

Smaller, high beta stocks tend to outperform in the early to mid stages of a bull market �" though 2010 had its share of ups and downs and wasn’t as strong as 2009’s near non-stop rally.

Crude Oil and the S&P 500 roughly turned in the same percentage �" up 12% to 13% on the year.

The US Dollar Index, despite the bearish sentiment, ended 2010 about where it started, gaining 1% �" though it too had strong up and down trends during the year.

Currency futures in general were mixed, with the biggest gains above coming from the Japanese Yen and Aussie Dollar �" both up around 14%.

I’ll follow-up with inter-market comparison charts, but in the meantime, have a great New Year’s and I wish you a wonderfully productive 2011!

Corey Rosenbloom, CMT
Afraid to Trade.com

Do not look for predictions of the market over the next year. No one knows what the market will do. All we can do is discern the current trend and ride it until it ends. We end the year in the middle of a QQQQ short term up-trend, which reached day 28 on Thursday. The prior short term up-trend lasted 51 straight days and was followed by a 2 days short term down-trend. With the exception of this brief down-trend, the market has been rising for 79 days! It doesn’t get much better than this. The monthly chart of the QQQQ (Nasdaq 100 index ETF) shows the large rise in tech stocks since the early 2009 bottom, followed by a few months of consolidation in 2010 and the continuation of the up-trend for the past 4 months. The QQQQ has risen +18.4% since December 30, 2009. At Thursday’s close of 54.66, the QQQQ is slightly below the 2007 pre-decline top of 55.07. Will it hit resistance here? The Worden T2108 indicator is only at 65%, in neutral territory. So, I will remain fully invested in mutual funds in my university pension, and holding stocks and options in my trading accounts. Next year will undoubtedly bring some down-trends, and I will reduce or eliminate my long positions when they become evident. Until now, let’s all enjoy this incredibly strong market up-trend. Happy New Year to all of my valued readers. I hope you have benefited from my posts. Let me know.

• gmi: 6
• gmi-r: 10
• t2108: 65

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Long Swings

Window

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(sma(volume,20) >= 500000) and (close() > 7) and (adx(10) > 30) and (pdi(10) > mdi(10)) and (high() < sma(close,5))

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ARM	NYSE	ArvinMeritor, Inc.	12/30/2010
BLC	NYSE	Belo Corp.	12/30/2010
CAH	NYSE	Cardinal Health Inc.	12/30/2010
CMO	NYSE	Capstead Mortgage Corporation	12/30/2010
FNB	NYSE	F.N.B. Corporation	12/30/2010

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Swings

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(sma(volume,20) >= 500000) and (close() > 12) and (force_index(3) <= 0) and (force_index(13) >= 0) and (adx(10) > 30) and (high() < high()[-1]) and (high()[-1] < high()[-2]) and (close() > sma(close,10)) and (close() > sma(close,20))

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BBT	NYSE	BB&T Corporation	12/30/2010
COF	NYSE	Capital One Financial Corporation	12/30/2010
JPM	NYSE	JPMorgan Chase & Co.	12/30/2010
OC	NYSE	Owens Corning	12/30/2010
RJF	NYSE	Raymond James Financial Inc.	12/30/2010

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FAS	NYSEARCA	Direxion Financial Bull 3x Shares	12/30/2010
IYF	NYSEARCA	iShares Dow Jones U.S. Financial Sector Index Fund	12/30/2010

1-2-3-4

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(sma(volume,20) >= 500000) and (close() > 12) and ((adx(10) + adx(20))/2 > 30) and (pdi(10)+pdi(20) > mdi(10) + mdi(20)) and (low() < low()[-1]) and (low()[-1] < low()[-2]) and (high() < high()[-1]) and (high()[-1] < high()[-2])

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AIG	NYSE	American International Group Inc	12/30/2010
AKS	NYSE	AK Steel Holding Corp	12/30/2010
BAC	NYSE	Bank of America Corporation	12/30/2010
BC	NYSE	Brunswick Corporation	12/30/2010
BCR	NYSE	C. R. Bard, Inc.	12/30/2010

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Cross

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(sma(volume,20)>=500000)and(close() > 12)and(sma(close,5)>sma(close,15))and(close() < sma(close,5))and(close() > sma(close,15))and(high() < high()[-1])and(close() > open())

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AA	NYSE	Alcoa, Inc.	12/30/2010
AF	NYSE	Astoria Financial Corporation	12/30/2010
AGL	NYSE	AGL Resources Inc.	12/30/2010
AXL	NYSE	American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings, Inc.	12/30/2010
BC	NYSE	Brunswick Corporation	12/30/2010

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Triangle

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(sma(volume,20) >= 500000) and (close() > 12) and (close() > sma(close,20)) and (high()[-2] > high()[-1]) and (high()[-2] > high()) and (low()[-2] < low()[-1]) and (low()[-2] < low()) and (high()[-1] > high()) and (low()[-1] < low())

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CAT	NYSE	Caterpillar Inc.	12/30/2010
DBD	NYSE	Diebold Inc.	12/30/2010
FLR	NYSE	Fluor Corporation	12/30/2010
LO	NYSE	Lorillard, Inc.	12/30/2010
MTZ	NYSE	MasTec, Inc.	12/30/2010

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Reverse

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(sma(volume,20)>=500000)and(close() > 12)and(high()[-2] > high()[-1])and(high()[-1] > high())and(low()[-2] > low()[-1])and(low()[-1] > low())and(close()[-2] <= open()[-2])and(close()[-1] <= open()[-1])and(close() >= open())and(volume() > 1.5 * sma(volume,20))

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Breakouts

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(sma(volume,20) > 200000)and(close() > 7)and(high() >= max(high,40))and(high()[-1] >= max(high,40)[-1])and(volume() > 1.5 * sma(volume,20))and(close() > open())and(volume()[-1] < sma(volume,20))and( (close() - low()) >= (0.75 *(high() - low())) )

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IXC

NYSEARCA

iShares S&P Global Energy Sector Index Fund

12/29/2010

Revival

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(sma(volume,20)>=500000) and (close() > 12) and (close()[-1] - low()[-1] <= 0.1 *(high()[-1] - low()[-1])) and (close() - low() >= 0.95 *(high() - low())) and (close() > sma(close,15)) and (close() > sma(close,50))

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LPL

NYSE

LG Display Co., Ltd.

12/30/2010

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Reversals

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(sma(volume,20) >= 200000) and (close() > 12) and (low() <= min(low,40)[-1]) and (volume() > 2*sma(volume,20)) and (close() > open())

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Short Swings

Cross

Scan Code From www.StockScanPRO.com:
(sma(volume,20)>=500000) and (close() > 12) and (sma(close,5) sma(close,5)) and (close() < sma(close,15)) and (low() > low()[-1]) and (close() < open())

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AEM	NYSE	Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited	12/30/2010
AGO	NYSE	Assured Guaranty Ltd.	12/30/2010
BMO	NYSE	BMO Financial Group	12/30/2010
CIG	NYSE	Companhia Energtica de Minas Gerais - CEMIG	12/30/2010
FNF	NYSE	Fidelity National Financial Inc.	12/30/2010

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1-2-3-4

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(sma(volume,20) >= 500000) and (close() > 12) and ((adx(10) + adx(20))/2 > 30) and (pdi(10) + pdi(20) < mdi(10) + mdi(20)) and (low() > low()[-1]) and (low()[-1] > low()[-2]) and (high() > high()[-1]) and (high()[-1] > high()[-2])

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DFT	NYSE	DuPont Fabros Technology	12/29/2010
DLR	NYSE	Digital Realty Trust, Inc.	12/29/2010
MFE	NYSE	McAfee, Inc.	12/29/2010
VVC	NYSE	Vectren Corp	12/29/2010

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PGX

NYSEARCA

PowerShares Preferred Portfolio

12/29/2010

Swings

Scan Code From www.StockScanPRO.com:
(sma(volume,20) >= 500000) and (close() > 12) and (force_index(3) >= 0) and (force_index(13) <= 0) and (adx(10) > 30) and (low() > low()[-1]) and (low()[-1] > low()[-2]) and (close() < sma(close,10)) and (close() < sma(close,20))

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MFE

NYSE

McAfee, Inc.

12/29/2010

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Window

Scan Code From www.StockScanPRO.com:
(sma(volume,20) >= 500000) and (close() > 7) and (adx(10) > 30) and (pdi(10) < mdi(10)) and (low() > sma(close,5))

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ACV	NYSE	Alberto-Culver Company	12/29/2010
ARG	NYSE	Airgas, Inc.	12/29/2010
BBY	NYSE	Best Buy Co.	12/29/2010
BMO	NYSE	BMO Financial Group	12/29/2010
DFT	NYSE	DuPont Fabros Technology	12/29/2010

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PGX

NYSEARCA

PowerShares Preferred Portfolio

12/29/2010

Revival

Scan Code From www.StockScanPRO.com:
(sma(volume,20) >= 500000) and (close() > 12) and (close()[-1] - low()[-1] >= 0.9 *(high()[-1] - low()[-1])) and (close() - low() <= 0.1*(high()-low())) and (close() < sma(close,15)) and (close() < sma(close,50))

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LLL	NYSE	L 3 Communication Holdings Inc.	12/29/2010
LMT	NYSE	Lockheed Martin	12/29/2010

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YCS

NYSEARCA

ProShares UltraShort Yen

12/29/2010

Reverse

Scan Code From www.StockScanPRO.com:
(sma(volume,20) >= 500000) and (close() > 12) and (high()[-2] < high()[-1]) and (high()[-1] < high()) and (low()[-2] < low()[-1]) and (low()[-1] < low()) and (close()[-2] >= open()[-2]) and (close()[-1] >= open()[-1]) and (close() <= open()) and (volume() > 1.5*sma(volume,20))

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NBL

NYSE

Noble Energy, Inc.

12/29/2010

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Triangle

Scan Code From www.StockScanPRO.com:
(sma(volume,20) >= 500000) and (close() > 12) and (close() < sma(close,20)) and (high()[-2] > high()[-1]) and (high()[-2] > high()) and (low()[-2] < low()[-1]) and (low()[-2] < low()) and (high()[-1] > high()) and (low()[-1] < low())

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FDX	NYSE	FedEx Corporation	12/30/2010
HAR	NYSE	Harman International Ind. Inc.	12/30/2010

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Breakdowns

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(sma(volume,20) >= 200000) and (close() > 7) and (low() <= min(low,40)) and (low()[-1] <= min(low,40)[-1]) and (volume() > 2*sma(volume,20)) and (close() < open()) and (volume()[-1] < sma(volume,20)) and (close()-low() <= 0.25*(high()-low()))

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Reversals

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(sma(volume,20) >= 200000) and (close() > 12) and (high() >= max(high,40)[-1]) and (volume() > 2*sma(volume,20)) and (close() < open())

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