You would have to live on the moon not to see and be impressed by Zanett, Inc. (ZANE)

A $0.31 cent stock YESTERDAY, ZANE issued some great news about landing a huge number of new contracts (Read it here) and it took off.  It reached a HIGH of $2.50 before closing at $2.09. That is impressive by any measure.

The caution here is this is a company whose average daily volume was 16K shares and it has traded 7.9MM shares today!…on a public float of only 3.3MM shares.

Here is the chart:

Wow and Wow! This ship will crash to Earth at some point, but not yet.  Anybody doing a Tim Sykes and shorting the stock today is in a world of hurt.  Watch the trailing indicators (MACD, RSI and Stochastics) to see when the right time to short is.  Be careful, this could be a multi-day runner.  The first day of something THIS BIG with real news and HUGE investor interest could mean that this hangs around here…or even advances.

ZANE has made some people fortunes today.  Let’s see if we can make a fortune on the way down, too.

Good luck and good trading,

Jeffrey Dean

Editor

American Sierra Gold Corporation (AMNP) was all over the boards just a few months back.  An exciting new issue with two strong gold properties in Nevada and Mexico, it seemed to have no limits as to how far it could go.  However, like all promoted stocks the promotion eventually stopped, traders took profits and the stock “came back to earth”.

AMNP is at an interesting place right now.  The stock chart seems to indicate that the stock has stabilized from looking at the MACD, RSI and its price action recently.  Having said that, it made a similar base at around 47 cents in late January, but then pushed through that to now trade around 38 cents.  Is this the bottom?…I hope so!

Let’s take a look at why AMNP captured traders’ imaginations in ‘09. AMNP has two projects that seem to have great potential.  Its Urique project in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Mexico is their home run.  It is contiguous to NYSE listed company Gold Corp’s (GG) El Sauzal mine which is very profitable.  To the end of 2008, that mine had produced 1,072,000 ounces of gold and Goldcorp has reported proven and probable reserves of 470,000 ounces left on the property.  the Urique Project, encompassing 71,334 acres, has the potential to be as prolific as the El Sauzal mine according to the company.  However, the earliest revenue from that mine is expected to be 2012.

Its Discovery Day project in Nevada is small in comparison to the Urique project, but is projected to be revenue generating much, much sooner.  In fact, estimates I have read claim that the mine will produce significant revenues for AMNP by the end of the 2010 fiscal year (7-31-10).  Recent press releases touted the fact that the mine has been reopened and they are working towards production in the near term.

AMNP has what every mining and exploration company needs: Financing. The company announced, with great fanfare, an equity-based financing agreement with Tobermory Holding Ltd., a European institutional investor.  According to the latest Q available, AMNP has made two draws against that agreement totalling $800,000.  The initial commitment is for $6MM with up to an additional $10.5MM of financing available.  Of course, AMNP must hit certain milestones, but the fact that they have the financing is huge.  I will read their latest Q (whenever it is issued) to see just how the company is progressing.

AMNP’s Chart…with my annotations

AMNP has got some real potential IMO.  However….remember that for every surge in price, traders who are stuck in  losing position will sell into any strength.  There are a lot of angry traders out there….from reading the boards.  If the company decides to promote their stock again, that could make this thing fly.  Don’t forget to factor in the price of gold into your equation.  Now that the hype and hysteria have died down, AMNP actually looks like a good company with some exciting prospects.

Good luck and good trading,

Jeffrey Dean

Editor-in-Chief

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I have known about Adaptec, Inc. for many years…even traded it once or twice.  It has mostly fallen off of my radar screen lately because it really hasn’t been that attractive.  I was doing screens on Stock Fetcher this morning and I was amazed to see that ADPT was on my screen for stocks that are down 8 days or more.  That speaks opportunity to me, but not in the way I normally speak about stocks.

Adaptec, Inc. provides hardware and software data center solutions globally.  Founded in 1981, it may not be around very much longer.

If you were going to put a company in your “back pocket” for awhile, this might be the one.  I am typically a short-term holder and after the most recent market meltdown, I am going to stick to that philosophy.  A long term trade to me is a month.  But, it might be a good strategy to put some Adaptec shares away in an account that is long-term.

Why?  Because of several simple reasons:

1. The company is for sale.  In December of ‘09, ADPT announced the engagement of Blackstone Advisory Partners to ” assist in the sale of the company’s assets and operations”;
2. The company is currently trading at less than its net cash position
3. The company is trading for less than tangible book value

At $3.16 in cash at the latest Q, ADPT is clearly a “free stock”.  It is unclear what premium its operations and assets will command, but I don’t think I am going out on a limb by saying that ADPT will sell for more than cash.

Here is a chart that tells the tale of the once-mighty ADPT:

• Sellers are dominating clearly…very few up days over the past two months
• The MACD is strongly bearish, but the histogram indicates that the strength of the signal might be waning
• The stochastics are oversold (no surprise there)

Here is ADPT’s website so you can do your own due diligence.

ADPT may have some bounce in the near term, especially if the stochastics continue to show an oversold signal.  However, the pay day for traders in ADPT will be the sale.  I am very curious about how the company is valuing itself.

Good luck and good trading,

Jeffrey Dean

Editor-in-Chief

P.S. - I am working out of the home today and I got one of those special stories that every work-at-home parent dreams of.  My absolutely adorable 4-yr. old Daughter, Teagan, needed to be in my lap while I wrote this blog.  Needless to say, I wasn’t very efficient.  Who cares?  I am reminded how blessed I am…by her and her three siblings.

Here is a picture so you can see just how blessed I am.

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Today’s alert company Biopack Environmental Solutions Inc. (BPAC) is a second look for many Soup members.  I previewed this stock with members in early 2010 and, in a multi-day move, returned a solid 42% gain.

It was one of the easiest moves I have watched in a long time. The chart is setting up nice right now, and I am hoping that we are all in for another nice ride. continue

My apologies to the movie Network, but I am really ticked at Kender Energy, Inc. (KNDR).  Here is a company that seemingly had “the world on a string” and I believe has really let traders down.  Right now, the company is at the mercy of the discussion boards and chat rooms.

What do I mean ” at the mercy of discussion boards and chat rooms”?  It means that the company has, for all intents and purposes, disappeared.  The last PR was December of ‘09.  The PR before that was for the signing up of a distributor in one of the largest markets in the world…..Hawaii?  Two problems with that is that Hawaii is tiny AND KNDR doesn’t even have a working prototype.   The only “news” I get is on the boards and you know how reliable that is!

KNDR has a very exciting solar technology that they are touting.  (Web link here)  I have talked to a number of people about KNDR and they all agree that IF they can commercialize it, the technology could be huge.  According to my sources, KNDR MIGHT have an Alpha system by mid-2010.  What is an investor to do until then?

Since I like KNDR’s technology so much, I have gone over and above the “call of duty” to do research on them.  I called their IR firm (who is out of business and not returning calls), I have emailed the company on numerous occasions and I have talked with others about KNDR.  The company never got back to me and no one had any inside info on the company.

Here is their chart….You can see a steady decline and a lack of interest on the part of traders.

Will KNDR become a sub-penny stock?  It could, but I doubt it.  The company needs to put out some meaningful PR and let traders know that they have a pulse. If they get some news, this stock could rocket! There are a lot of people in the stock and they are rooting for it, too.

Be careful of the boards.  Many of the posts that I am seeing are highly suspect.

I am rooting for KNDR and their “solar engine”.  I am just not rooting that hard.

Good luck and good trading,

Jeffrey Dean

Editor’s note on 2-4-10 - I got an email from Robert F about KNDR that I thought made great sense.  Here is what he wrote:  “Read your blog, I agree with you that the company has been too silent. You would think that at a time when the company is in need of investor support, that they would give shareholders more transparency.” I couldn’t agree more

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Friday’s biggest price decliner on the NASDAQ was Yucheng Technologies Limited (YTEC). The only PR I could find was that the stock got downgraded from Market outperform to Market perform by Avondale, a research firm.  The stock was trading for under $7.00 on Thursday at close.  Friday saw a massive selloff and is now trading for roughly half that.

A typical market overreaction?  Maybe, but I thing that YTEC won’t be down too long.

Yucheng Technologies Limited (YTEC) describes itself as the “Leading IT Solutions Provider for the Chinese Financial Services Industry”.    Essentially, the company provides information technology (IT), software, solutions, and services to the banking sector in the People’s Republic of China

Here is what I was able to glean from the financials (9-30-09 Q)

• $1.18 in cash per share
• No long-term debt
• Strong cash position
• Great ratios
• Profitable Operations

True, the rampant growth of the company has slowed, but it is still a very strong company.  Traders and investors seem to be punishing the company for its dismal earnings report for 2009 and a less ambitious outlook for 2010.

Here is an annotated chart to demonstrate just how steep the drop was.

Of note: The stock dropped hard on Friday, but it gapped up at open today by 7 cents.  It appears that others suddenly saw YTEC as a bargain and bid the stock up.

Interesting stock to watch and now it is priced much more attractively for traders.  Will YTEC recover and close the bearish gap?  I am watching it with interest myself to see.

Be careful not to “catch the falling knife”.  My gut is telling me that the knife has stopped falling.  However, it may limp slightly downhill or sideways for awhile before it re-establishes a bullish trajectory.

The faint of heart need not apply.

Good luck and good trading

Jeffrey Dean

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Carbon Dioxide (CO2) has gotten a bad rap for causing pollution, the greenhouse effect AND global warming.  Deservedly so, in most cases.

Fossil fuels such as oil, gas and coal have powered the world’s economic growth since the days of the industrial revolution.   As the world economies expand, so does the need for fossil fuels.  The U.S. Energy Information Administration projects that global energy consumption will increase 50% by 2030 to over 112 million barrels of crude oil per day.  The economic cost is significant with the price of oil and coal setting new highs seemingly every day, but the environmental impact is staggering with BILLIONS of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere annually.

What if there was a way to turn that pollution into profits?

Yes!  That is what today’s alert company Carbon Sciences, Inc. (CABN) is doing! continue

Today’s alert company is “mission-driven”.  Here is the mission that they are on:

Today’s alert company is: Biopack Environmental Solutions Inc. (BPAC).  And, it is a global leader in what is expected to be a $170 BILLION industry by 2014 - The “Sustainable Packaging Industry”.
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I have  a lot of fun with ticker symbols….some are fitting for the stock they represent, but others are unintentionally funny…like BLAP.  To me, it reminds me of the old Batman TV show when the words like “POW” or “WHACK” are superimposed on the screen during fight scenes.  What would “BLAP” represent?  Probably, if someone tripped and landed on their rear ends.

Seriously, though, BLAP is a stock that bears watching.  The stock was a recent high flyer (a little pump and some good news) and has retraced its recent gains.  The company continues to put out positive news and it appears that the sellers have all “gone home”.  Nothing recent with news, but I have a call in to the company to see what is going on.

BLAP is a design house specailizing in creating cutting edge iPhone, Facebook and Twitter applications.  They have little or no income, but have put out a whole host of positive PR.  You can take a peek at Yahoo! Finance to see.  Whether their intitiatives turn into income is yet to be seen, but BLAP, to me, is only a chart play right now.

Here is the chart…and, you will see what I mean.

This is a high-risk, high-reward play.  BLAP, despite a ticker symbol that sounds like a rude sound, has potential and bears watching.  Any break downward from here and the stock should be avoided.  Any strengthening could mean that buyers are coming back in.  I would like to see more recent PR’s from the company and with no financial data published, that increases the risk on this deal.

Good luck and good trading

I like the company Hard to Treat Diseases, Inc. (HTDS). The name doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, but I have blogged it in the past (read it here) and it did REALLY well for my readers. My staff also did a “technical trade report” on HTDS back in early November (read it here).

I continue to track HTDS and think that now might be a good time to take another look.

Volatility has been the keyword for HTDS.  When I first profiled it, it was trading at around .01, it zoomed shortly after to .014 (a gain of over 40%).  Then it dropped to .008 and zoomed back to set a 52-week high of 2.1 cents.  Here is the chart so my readers can see for themselves.

Here is some background info on the company from my previous blog:

It is in the Pharma business, but not really much of a player.  They have operations in Serbia and China under two separate operating divisions and appear to have a “story to tell”.  .

In China they operate through Shenzhen Mellow Hope Pharm Industrial Co Ltd.. According to the company, Mellow Hope is the biggest exporter of Biological Vaccines in China.  HTDS purchased Mellow Hope in February of this year in an all-stock transaction.  It appears that the company has a viable product line and an active global client base.  Here is a link to the Mellow Hope web site that makes for interesting reading.

In Serbia, they have a controlling interest in a company called Slavica Bio Chem Company. Their primary focus involves the enhancement and modification of existing approved drugs such as “Virazole” for the purpose of chemical repair of damage to the CNS (central nervous system), MS (Multiple Sclerosis), SARS, Hepatitis C and HIV.

The challenges I see for HTDS is making all of these positive press releases into real numbers on the income statement.  Also, they have a capital structure as confusing and as byzantine as any I have seen.  Their puppet masters, Minamar Group, have got all sorts of preferred, restricted, under-the-table shares that I can’t figure out the capital structure.  Keep in mind, also, that pinksheets.com has given these guys CAVEAT EMPTOR (let the buyer beware) because HTDS does not report ANYTHING….at least not yet.

I told you that trading HTDS is living dangerously.

SO…..this is a short-term trade only IMO. To me this is only a chart play.  Watch to see if the stock holds this resistance and turns positive again.  HTDS is very like SPNG.  It has such a bloated capital structure that it is almost impossible to move the stock out of sub-penny land.  But, it could be a nice play right where it is.

Good luck and good trading

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