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Revisiting the Cramer Crackle

On January 25th I wrote a blog entry called “2006’s Biggest Cramer Crackle!” I was referring to Rediff.com (REDF). It jumped up 29% in price on the next opening day. I was actually assuming that the thing would settle back down. Glad I didn’t predict that it would because it actually is UP 60.2% FROM THAT OPENING PRICE. The other stock mentioned that day Danone (DA) is also up 6.8% from its next day’s opening price.

There were other large Cramer Crackle stocks since January 25th:
Sirenza Microdevice (SMDI) Cramer Crackle: 20.4%
Omnova Solutions (OMN) Cramer Crackle: 33%
NMT Medical (NMTI) Cramer Crackle: 21.6%
Acadia Pharmaceutical (ACAD) Cramer Crackle: 26%
Pan American Silver (PAAS) Cramer Crackle: 6.2%
Bookham Inc (BKHM) Cramer Crackle: 22%
LifeCell Corporation (LIFC) Cramer Crackle: 11.6%
Hexcell Corporation (HXL) Cramer Crackle: 10.1%

Jim Cramer talked about this effect on his Real Money radio show on Monday 6 February. He said that you should never pay more than 25 cents than the previous closing price.

That’s pretty good advice for the following stocks that FELL after their Cramer Crackle prices:
(as of closing Wednesday 8 Feb)
Omnova: -11.9%
Pan American Silver: -5%
Bookham: -11.7%
LifeCell: -6.3%
Hexcel: -4.3%

See! You don’t always want to buy them the next morning.

Here’s some winners (Percentages post-Cramer Crackle as of 8 Feb):
Sirenza: 3.9%
NMT Medical: 2.0%
Acadia: 6.1%

MMM-008: Groundhog Day

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Stocks where Jim Cramer has changed his mind:
Genentech DNA: 1/9: Buy, 1/11: Sell
Talisman TLM: 11/22: Sell, 12/21: Buy
Abercrombie & Fitch ANF: 1/4: Buy, 1/27: Sell
CSC: 11/22: Sell, 12/23: BUY, 1/27: Sell
Charles & Colvard CTHR: 12/8: BUY, 1/27: SELL (of course, down 30%)
He also mentioned Tiffany’s.
Tiffany & Co TIF 11/22 Buy, 11/30: Sell, 12/8: Buy, 12/14: Sell

Stocks below their mention price:
Jan 20th The Pantry PTRY (possible Home Depot takeover) down 2.7%
24th Diamond Offshore DO (one of the best drillers) down 2.2%
TrustCo Bank Corp TRST Too cheap to be believed -0.6
Jan 25th XM Satellite Radio XMSR -4.5%
Applebees APPB -6%
Jan 27th Goodyear Tire GT dropped -17.6% on weaker forecast( Jim said it is the first time in 11 years that he’s recommended it. Its’ now a LOT cheaper)
NASDAQ Stock market NDAQ -8.4% also on lower outlook.

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MMM-007: The Free Lunch

Digs our teeth into what Jim Cramer calls the only Free Lunch in the business: Diversification. The Instant X-Ray tool helps make our free lunch. New Money describes index mutual funds. Our Guru knows the next big thing.

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Stocks that are down below the price BEFORE Cramer said to Buy them:
Alberto-Culver ACV -2%
Genentech DNA -7%
Neurocrine Biosciences NBIX -5.5%
Boeing BA his favorite DOW stock -3.8%
PW Eagle PWEI makes PVC pipes for natural gas -9%
Medicis Pharmaceutical MRX antiwrinkle injections: Restylane -6%
Matsushita Electric (the last of the 7 samurai) MC -2%
Lexar Media LEXR the flash media play -14%
Amgen AMGN (the most undervalued of the biotechs) -3%

2006’s Biggest Cramer Crackle!

Today, Wednesday (actually during yesterday’s after-hours trading) we saw one of the largest Cramer Crackles (the difference between the closing price and the opening price after a Cramer mention) since the first Mad Money episode aired. Did you get some? Cramer pumped Rediff.com as the Yahoo, nay the Google, of India. He mentioned it at 6:13:11 PM ET on Mad Money. Then at 6:14:20 you started seeing it on the bottom of the screen $15.70 up .68, $16.80 up 1.78, $17.31 up 2.29, $17.80 up 2.78. All this by 6:15:37.

Can’t you just see these guys sitting at their computers with their stock order entry form open and filled out with everything except the ticker symbol? By the time Cramer gets the letter F out of R-E-D-F, they’re already hitting the Submit button on their market order for the stock.

The strategy of buying in the afterhours doesn’t always work for the Cramer Crackle play. But this time it did. Whoever got some at $17.80 was able to sell it on Wednesday for between $18.81 and $21.40, that’s up between 5.7% and 20.2% respectively.

The stock’s 90 day average number of shares traded is 393,952. On Tuesday evening between 6:00 and 7:00 it traded 543,250 shares. And the total volume on Wednesday was 12,935,244.

By contrast, Danone (DA) the other featured stock on the same show, had only a 1.3% Cramer Crackle.

Wow, folks sure miss the .com days don’t they?

MMM-006: Bank Pays You Dividend of $50

Mashup of Jim Cramers stock picks with the highest dividend yield stocks. Reinvested dividends. The 4 best board games to play. Guru Roulette. New Money: What is an ETF? Explore the HIDDEN LINK!

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The mashup between the highest-dividend paying stocks and Cramer’s Buy list:

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Two Roads Diverged

The two portfolios in the Portfolio Smackdown! diverged today. The ETF portfolio suffered hits from the Asia (VPL) and Emerging Market (VWO) downturns today, -2.7% and -1.9% respectively. While the MMM Cramer 2006 portfolio rose due to strength in the energy sector. Nabors (NBR) rose 1.9% and Talisman (TLM) rose 2.37%. Bottom line: the ETFs stand at a 3.4% gain and MMM Cramer is at an 8.4% gain. Notice at the bottom of the Portfolio page are the previous trades made in the portfolio and the dates the trades were enacted.

MMM-005: A True Triple-Buy Stock!

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The Mashup between IBD 100 and Cramer’s Picks:

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Cramer on NPR

Didja catch NPR this morning? Nice feature on Cramer’s Mad Money. Check it out! Lots of extra links there to check out.

Swaps Today NBR for ENG, CTRN for GME

Sold 1190 Englobal (ENG) at $11.13 and bought 168 Nabors (NBR) for $78.78 at 10:30 as promised.

Sold 314 GameStop (GME) at $39.98 and bought 288 Citi Trends (CTRN) for $42.51 at 10:30.

You’ll see it on the Portfolio page tonight.

ENG Downgraded, IBD Free

The MMM Cramer 2006 portfolio slipped today while the ETF posted a small gain, slightly narrowing the gap. Mostly due to an analyst downgrade from Buy to Neutral of Englobal (ENG). We’ll see how that works out. Let’s take half off the table tomorrow at 10:30. Might swap that half into Nabors (NBR), but I need to do some checking before then, otherwise rest in cash.

Jim also says to take some GME off the table. I think we may swap completely out at 10:30 ET tomorrow just to keep the bookkeeping easy. Stay tuned…

Also, Investor’s Business Daily is free this week. Take advantage of it! Hint: You can download past issues too. Get ’em while the gettin’s good.

Will put out a new podcast either tomorrow or Friday so be on the lookout for MMM-005! And I’ll pick the winner of Cramer’s Book and the RARE Mad Money notepad. If you haven’t entered the drawing yet, listen to the MMM-004 podcast (below) for details, but do it quickly!