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Market Sentiment Alert for Tuseday, August 17th, 2004




1) At the close today, our Dollar-weighted Put/Call Ratio ($wPCR) Engine picked the following stocks as good SHORT candidates due to their BEARISH (very high p/c ratio) reading:

Krispy Kreme Doughnuts (KKD) with a $wPCR of 21.8,

Calpine Corp (CPN) with a $wPCR of 11.2, and

Eli Lilly (LLY) with a $wPCR of 9.45;





2) And, our Dollar-weighted Put/Call Ratio Engine picked the following stocks as good LONG candidates due to their BULLISH (very low p/c ratio) reading:

Anglogold Ashanti Ltd. (AU) with a $wPCR of 0.00,

United Technologies (UTX) with a $wPCR of 0.02, and

U.S. Steel Corp. (X) with a $wPCR of 0.11.


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Please note that put/call ratio's forward-looking window is from one to three trading days from the signal day. Once you are in the trade, you should monitor the up-to-date put/call ratio reading as the confirmation of the trade's direction; or, in case of reversal of the put/call ratio value, as an exit signal.





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