Fast Money Stock Picks

Fast Money Stock Picks – January 15, 2009 – A Different Kind of Crash

The traders didn’t make any picks today because CNBC was busy covering the plane crash in New York. Sorry.

Fast Money Stock Picks – January 14, 2009 – Short Frenzy

Seymour:
DRYS – DryShips – Sell
Refiners – Sell
SNY – Sony – Short
GLD – SPDR Gold Trust – Sell – Final Trade

Macke:
SHLD – Sears – Short
WMT – Wal-Mart – Sell
SNY – Sony – Short
TM – Toyota – Buy
AAPL – Apple – Buy – Final Trade

Najarian:
WFMI – Whole Foods – Short
ABB – ABB Limited – Buy – Final Trade

Adami:
TSO – Tesoro – Buy – Final Trade

Fast Money Stock Picks – January 13, 2009 – Financials

Adami:
HON – Honeywell – Buy this company if you want to play the space
GS – Goldman Sachs – Could be a good point to get into this

Najarian:
HSBC – HBC – Watch it; there could be trouble ahead
CMCSA – Comcast – Could soon go higher

Finerman:
BAC – Bank of America – Watch; financials could be reaching their long-term lows

Terranova:
LQD – iShares iBoxx $ Invest Grade Corp Bond – Buy

Seymour:
BIDU – Baidu – Buy
FXI – iShares FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index – Buy

Fast Money’s 100 Trades for First 100 Days (of Obama’s administration):
#1: ATHN – AthenaHealth – makes internet-based software to organize medical billing and diagnosis records, a process which Obama has pledged $50 billion to support

Pops (stocks that jumped higher):
IYR – iShares Dow Jones US Real Estate ETF (3%) – Finerman: Expect a bumpy ride
KEY – KeyCorp (6%) – Dick Bove of Ladenburg Thalmann said he didn’t foresee further failures in the US banking system
FIG – Fortress Investment Group (15%) – Adami: It’s a good pop for them
INFY – Infosys Technologies (6%) – Seymour: I own this stock
OIH – Oil Service HOLDRS ETF (2%) – Finerman: I sold my puts, I’m hoping to see a bounce now
ZGEN – Zymogenetics (25%) – Announced a partnership with Bristol-Myers Squibb to co-develop its hepetitis C drug PEG-interferon lambda

Drops (stocks that slid lower):
SNE – Sony (4%) – Seymour: I think it could slide to $22
LXK – Lexmark International (13%) – Najarian: It’s all bad things
BCS – Barclays (11%) – Seymour: Watch for margin compression
BA – Boeing (3%) – Finerman: Be careful here
ADBE – Adobe Systems (7%) – Najarian: It might be an opportunity at this level

Fast Money Stock Picks – January 12, 2009 – Retail and Financials

Finerman:
IYR – iShares Dow Jones US Real Estate – Short
FCE.A – Forest City – Short
CTV – CommScope – Put it on your radar

Pete Najarian:
DRYS – DryShips – Watch for profit-taking
EXM – Excel Martitime – Watch for profit-taking

Adami:
WMT – Wal-Mart – Buy, then take the trade off if it moves big
TGT – Target – Short, then take the trade off if it moves big

Jon Najarian:
HBC – HSBC – Put it on your radar; options action is looking similar to what happened to Bear Stearns and Lehman, but it could stop

Suze Orman:
PGF – PowerShares Financial Preferred – Buy if you’re looking for a financial play
SDY – SPDR S&P Dividend – Buy as an easy way to diversify your portfolio

Pops (stocks that jumped higher):
MO – Altria (2%) – Finerman: It has good cash flow
KFT – Kraft (3%) – Investors hope that falling milk prices will help

Drops (stocks that slid lower):
HOG – Harley-Davidson (12%) – Adami: Nobody’s buying motorcycles
UAUA – United Airlines (5%) – Pete: This is a great time to take profits
HIG – Hartford (18%) – National Assoc. of Insurance Commissioners rejected a plea to loosen reserve standards for cash-strapped companies
X – US Steel (13%) – Adami: I wouldn’t say buy it tomorrow (Tuesday), but maybe Wednesday
EQR – Equity Residential (6%) – Finerman: It was way overdone to the upside
BNI – Burlington Northern (6%) – Morgan Stanley downgraded it to ‘underweight’ due to an anticipated slowdown in traffic
MGM – MGM Mirage (8%) – Will take a charge of $1.2 billion in the 4Q related to its acquisition of Mandalay Resort Group
SAY – Satyam (84%) – Allegations of accounting fraud
AMZN – Amazon.com (6%) – Broadpoint AmTech downgraded it to ‘sell’, and suggested it could suffer a further slump in ’09
FSLR – First Solar (8%) – Investors took profits after analysts named it as a front runner in the solar sector

Fast Money Stock Picks – January 9, 2009 – Healthcare and Biotech (again)

Najarian:
VIX – VIX – Watch; investors are not nearly as nervous as they were
DNA – Genentech – Could go higher
FCX – Freeport McMoRan – Take a look
AKS – AK Steel – Take a look
BBY – Best Buy – Buy if it gets near $23
ENER – Energy Conversion Devices – Buy – Final Trade

Finerman:
BBT – BB&T – Short
AEO – American Eagle – Buy – Final Trade part 1
ANF – Abercrombie & Fitch – Short – Final Trade part 2
XBI – SPDR S&P Biotech – Buy
IBB – iShares NASDAQ Biotechnology Index – Buy

Seymour:
SNE – Sony – Sell
ERJ – Embraer – Buy – Final Trade
*If you’re a debt player, look at:
JNK – SPDR Barclays Capital High Yield
TIPS – iShares Barclays TIPS Bond Fund
*If you want to play emerging markets look at:
MSD – Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Debt
ESD – Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund
*For oil plays look at:
HAL – Halliburton
SLB – Schlumberger

Karabell:
SCHW – Schwab – Buy – Final Trade

Mike Huckman, CNBC:
DNA – Genentech – Keep an eye on it
Roche (private) – Watch
*Watch for news:
GENZ – Genzyme
CELG – Celgene
AMGN – Amgen

Pops (stocks that jumped higher):
SHLD – Sears (13%) – Finerman: Stay away
PALM – Palm (91%) – Unveiled its new touch screen phone, the Pre, to great reviews
PBR – Petrobras (4%) – Seymour: I’m short the name
DE – Deere (11%) – Moved higher along with other ag names
FCX – Freeport McMoRan (8%) – Seymour: Industrial metals are rallying
MON – Monsanto (10%) – 1Q forecasts more than doubled and it increased its 2009 profit forecast
YRCW – YRCW Worldwide (49%) – S&P raised its credit rating, Wachovia upgraded it, and new union paycuts will save it millions

Drops (stocks that slid lower):
WFC – Wells Fargo (16%) – Karabell: It’s more of a bad financials story than a bad WFC story
OREX – Orexigen Therapeutics (15%) – A new study on its obesity pill, Contrave, didn’t produce substantial results
COH – Coach (18%) – Reduced its 2Q profit forecast due to weak holiday sales