Stock Positions We Are Monitoring.     
        Tiger Software:                                12/22/2008          (C) 2008 William Schmidt, Ph.D.                   william_schmidt@hotmail.com

    Tax loss selling will cause lots of cross-currents until January.
   
            Buy these stocks for the expected rally thru early January.
                    Stocks That Crossed above 50-day ma
                    with rising CLosing Power and IP21<.15

                                  ABFS Arkansas Best 28.26 +1.62
                                  ANSS ANysys 28.75 -.90
                                  ATLO Ames National 24.21 -1.03
                                  OTTR Otter Tail Corp 23.01 -.55
          Place closing stops just below 50-day ma.
      

Short Positions: 
       
                      TISI = 21-day ma of Accum. Index.  IP21=current value of Accum. Index.   
           In general, we will cover short sales, especially if their CLosing Power downtrends are violated.   
      
Long Positions: (These are arranged so that the most recent are shown first.)
             Important in this weak market   Sell on automatic Sells, falls back below 50-day ma,
                       false breakouts and breakdowns by Closing Power below uptrends.   

    

   Sell   AXYS     44.92 -7.22     Closing Power has broken down to a 12 month low, 

                           Commodity Investments
                                                 
        Platinum 1620   857.20 +5.80    AI>0 and at declining 50-day ma.
                                            

        GBG (name change)   - Great Basin   1.35    IP21<0  AI/200=118    
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                 Tahiti Stocks = 21 months' 

  WMT is the highest AI/200 stock now.  It is ar resistance of its flat 30wk ma. 
            AI/200=146     55.99 +.25      False breakout above 57 resistance.
            Seems best to buy it near 50 in this market.

   CVX 69.39 -1.46   AI/200 =128 dropped back below 50-day ma  Hold 21 months after purchase.
                                    IP21<0 .   Closing Power has been violated and it is below its ma..

   XOM  74.91     AI/200=120   IP21=.13    Hold 21 months after purchase.
                             Closing Power has been violated and it is below its ma..                                    
                             Tahiti Stock at end of 3rd and 4th quarters of 2007.