Tuesday, 11/13/07
Posted 11/13/07,  09:31 pm

(Scroll down to see Jim's comments below)

 
 
Today's date:  Tuesday, 11/13/07

  Dow Jones: 13,307 +319
  NASDAQ:   2,673 +89
  S&P 500:   1,481 +41
 
 
 
Opening Segment 1 Title: 'On The Rebound'

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Featured Stock(s): General comments from Jim about the market action today, and implications for the future behavior as he sees it.

No specific stock picks this segment.


See Opening Segment 2, below...

        
JJC:   What a day! I mean, you can practically taste the euphoria, up 320 points...
We don't get a lot of that, right?...

It was hard fought, but it is why we stay in the game...

Look, all I can do is tell you it can get better, but this is why we didn't panic last week... and we didn't panic yesterday... because opportunity does exist...

But what kind of opportunity are we talking about?...

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I think we've got a week of good market now...

This rally gives us a week's worth of good... That's what my historical judgment and the pattern says when we get this oversold...

Now, I'm not saying we're going to be up every one of the next five days, but we should be higher than we are now - a week from today...

So, that's your window to take advantage of the short-term positive action. When it's over though, hey!... Be repositioned...

Think about 1990 again... Think of this as a week-long vacation in a bull market, before we have to go back to that dreary world of sub-prime and CDOs (i.e., collateralized debt obligations), and the Fed that's going to let us down...

Back and forth, starting again next week...

 

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The Bottom Line!:  It is bizarre, and it's maddening, and it's kind of incomprehensible... but I think we've got a week of strength ahead of us. We know it will end, and the miserable, unforgiving and brutal market we've been living with will come right back, but enjoy it for now, and stay with Cramer...



[See Jim's 2nd Opening Segment stock picks below... ]

 

 

 



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Opening Segment 2 Title: 'History Lesson'

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Featured Stock(s): Genentech Inc. (DNA)
Celgene Corporation
(CELG)

        
JJC:   Finally we get a day that doesn't make me want to rush home to my dirty linoleum floor to guzzle that cheap scotch to wash the pain away...

There's still a bull market somewhere, and we get them periodically, okay?... We just had one this day... But, we've seen it all before...

In 1990, I saw these rallies. They were beautiful. They were... you just wanted to grab them, hold onto them... It was just so sweet. And then the stocks went down again...

... except for the stocks with the highest growth.

Pharmaceuticals and biotech stocks....

Remember, you don't stop taking your medication, just because the bank seizes your home... and you sure don't stop trying to cure cancer.

So the biotechs, after this five-day rally, will come back in vogue...

Tonight, I've got three that don't fit into today's mode, but they fit into the 1990 mode...

These stocks could make you money, but that's secondary, because we're buying them for capital preservation through this period.

Even if these stocks don't turn out to be mega-winners, I do believe they'll generate more upside than you get in cash or treasuries, or many of the stocks that are rallying right now, back to almost where they were, before they start going down again...
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We're going to biotech because, if there are going to be longer-term winners in this market... and here, I'm speaking about winners between here and year-end... I think it ought to come from high-growth biotech stocks, and that's what happened in 1990...

And I expect my three names to do very well...

But you've got to recognize that, in this market, after the oversold rally's over, doing okay is a triumph...

I'm going to give you my first two now... a couple of steadier biotech names with less risk, that didn't do well today at all... One of them was down... and then I'll come back with a third which, to me, looks most like AMGN in 1990... [See it here] with high risk, but the highest growth...

The more conservative pair are two... one that I haven't liked at all that I'm going positive on - I haven't liked it in months, but I'm going to go positive on here, because it was down and I like the opportunity... and that's Genentech Inc. (DNA)...

And the other that's tried and true that I'm coming back to, that's done nothing, that it's time... okay, it's Celgene Corporation (CELG)...

Neither of these is going to erupt this week... this is not something that you've got to buy tomorrow. Scale in... When the rally ends next week, these are going to be men (left) standing...

 

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The Bottom Line!:    I do like Celgene Corporation (CELG) more, but Genentech Inc. (DNA) is cheaper... DNA has more of a catalyst near term and, in the 1990 playbook, DNA and CELG belong to a small, select group of stocks that should hold up, even after the oversold rally is done. I think they have potential to actually make you money if we get a recession... if the Fed doesn't ease... if we get a financial crisis... and I say what more could you ask for?...

 

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