I have been watching a couple of stocks very closely the past couple of weeks and am waiting to pounce.  They are both technology related, but one is online sales and the other is computer bits and bytes.  Overstock.com and Cirrus are my picks for this week. I am going to start with my favorite, Overstock.com or NASDAQ: OSTK.  At the time of this article it is trading around $22.94 and is riding the price roller coaster between $22 and $23 with change.  The 52-week high is at $26.50 and I expect it to take off to the low $30...

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Those looking for a solid performer with huge room and potential for growth, listen to this pick.  In fact, get to the mountain!  Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (NASDAQ: GMRC) is a great stock teetering on a tipping point.  I believe it is ready to climb, I am actually putting my money on it. Continual improvement is something I always have believed.  As a novice investor, there is much room to learn.  I have up to this point learned how to build a solid portfolio, which has produced for me quite well.  My strategy is a long term one that I coined...

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Just the other night, Chris Hubinsky, my friend and co-founder of H&L Ventures, and I laid out our first quarter stock investments.  I wanted to share our stocks and re-iterate our investment strategy.  Also, I am going to talk about a stock from our last strategy meeting. We started this very small investment company in January of 2007.  H&L Ventures, Ltd. has been blessed with a 20% profit margin in the first two years.  We believe the credit can be awarded to our strategy, "free money".  The majority of stock we purchase is high dividend yielding stocks or giant corporations.  We chase after...

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It is coming up on the summer months, and there are two great stocks to help earn you some lemonade money for the upcoming heat.  There is a great one to watch and another great one to pounce on right now for almost instant returns.  I am talking about General Electric (NYSE: GE) and Harvest Energy Trust (NYSE: HTE). The stock to watch is GE.  General Electric is currently much lower than their usual range in the $30's sitting at $10.94.  Just looking at the technical, I expect them to drop in between $8-9 range in a month or two.  However, even...

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Everyday as you watch the news or even check your email, you hear or see something about the stock market, whether it's how the Dow is doing for the day or a great stock tip for some company.  Whatever the case, the stock market is making big news for a good reason, people are making money! To understand stocks better we'll need to go over what some of the numbers mean and two of the biggest strategies for buying.  First, the number you see on the ticker when you look up the symbol isn't necessarily what you'll buy it for.  That...

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