Okay ITALY, I love Italy by the way. Their shoes and clothes are to die for. We have found several stock picks and penny stocks before related to shoes and clothes. Spending time in fashion shows in Milan there is A LOT to realize about Italy. Gelato at the canals of Milan, Gelato with an Italian model on the canals of Milan even better, or Double Chocolate Gelato with two Italian models on the canals at Milan may be the best. BUT BULGARIA, and even worse if you ask any northern Italian are the Chinese sweatshops outside Florence and further to the South. Bulgaria now knocks off shoes and sells them to the EU and pays its works a fraction of the skilled Italian artisan. Even Italians are ripping off Italians. What is the effect??? The largest industry fashion is in BIG trouble in Italy with 5% of companies already shutting down and another 30% on the fence. PETA has actually dented the industry a bit and I sadly say as I think any person who would walk right by a homeless man begging in LA on their way to attend a PETA rally should be tried in court for being a trader to their species. To each their own, after all, there are no homeless in the US. Then PETA can tell me to take off my crocodile shoes. The point of this mild digression was to point out that there are problems everywhere in the EU before they even really try to take on the issue of getting Greece out of default then what about Spain, Portugal, Ireland, and France???

Hmm… South America may have earthquakes, but that is part of the reason for the vast variety and yield of crops from there. The durable goods sector in South American can yield some hot stocks and penny stocks. I still say fade regional banks and go strong exporters (S.A.) and S.A. funds, and sell the EU. The Euro may fall for a while vs. the Dollar. I don’t care who is in political office particularly who is President as we have to make money either way, but at least entertain me and make a decision. At least Bush the sequel constantly made decisions followed by decisions about his decisions and made us laugh about it. Our current President took a nation so ultra left pulling where I heard comments from some of the hardest leaning right wingers out there that maybe the line between religion and politics had been breached in the GOP and that a bit of Democratic control might help and he actually turned this notion by inviting the Republicans right back into power. Putting down certain politicians would be redundant so I can’t say buy the dollar, but I really, really, really want to.

That’s all…hope you enjoyed the full moon over the weekend…expect a full moon Monday at the open and opening volatility… Enjoy our penny stock picks, stock market analysis, hot stocks, stock newsletter and stock market trends.

SpeculatingStocks.com Releases 3 Scary Good Stock Picks for Halloween

SpeculatingStocks.com has chosen BIDZ, IVN and ATVI as its 3 Scary Good Stock Picks for Halloween and beyond!

October 28, 2008 — SpeculatingStocks.com has released 3 Stock Picks for Halloween and beyond! Begin watching the stock picks below. SpeculatingStocks.com believes they will start moving to the upside this Halloween week.

BIDZ is an online jeweler, somewhat of a niche mini-eBay in the used jewelry space online. SpeculatingStocks.com’s second stock pick, IVN is a small cap, gold penny stock currently in talks with the Mongolian government to receive approval to develop a copper and gold mine in the country. For IVN, approval from the Mongolian government could be a watershed event for them and their partner Rio Tinto. Their third scary good stock pick released is ATVI. Activision Blizzard (ATVI) is positioned for rapid growth through their World of Warcraft, Starcraft and Guitar Hero brands.

SpeculatingStocks.com founder Russ Urban commented, “We believe these stock picks have a great shot at creating significant returns for investors.”

SpeculatingStocks.com Stock Pick: Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. (IVN)

Stock Price: $1.94

Ivanhoe Mines, Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a mineral exploration and development company. The company holds interests in and conducting operations on mineral resource properties principally located in Central Asia and Australia as well as projects in Mongolia and Kazakhstan.

On September 30th, a company executive from IVN commented that he saw no reason for IVN’s drop. At that time, IVN was trading at $6.40. IVN has been severely oversold and now appears to have finally found a bottom just below the $2.00 level.

Rio Tinto, one of the largest mining companies in the World, is a strategic partner of Ivanhoe Mines. IVN and Rio Tinto are negotiating with Mongolia’s government to develop a copper and gold mine in the country.

They are looking to develop the Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold project in Mongolia’s South Gobi Region. If IVN receives approval by the Mongolian government, we could see IVN shares rebound and correct big to the upside.

We believe gold will rebound and benefit IVN as well.

SpeculatingStocks.com Stock Pick: BIDZ.com, Inc. (BIDZ)

Stock Price: $6.22

BIDZ.com, Inc. is an online jewelry retailer offering its products through a live auction format at Bidz.com as well as a fixed price online retail store at Buyz.com.

BIDZ has been profitable the past several quarters. We believe BIDZ will benefit by people selling their gold jewelry.

BIDZ is currently trading at a market cap of only around $147 million, which we believe is low considering their growing brand and future potential.

BIDZ could see a major short squeeze with over 25% of its 12.12 million float short.

SpeculatingStocks.com Stock Pick: Activision Blizzard, Inc. (ATVI)

Stock Price: $11.69

Activision Blizzard, Inc. operates as an online and console game publisher. Some of the company’s brands include World of Warcraft, Starcraft, Diablo, Guitar Hero and Call of Duty.

We believe ATVI is the #1 gaming stock in the stock market right now with the most future potential in its industry. World of Warcraft is about as big of a money maker as it gets in the gaming industry.

It is speculated that ATVI could be releasing Starcraft II around February or March of 2009. The original Starcraft is still regarded as one of the greatest games of all time and Starcraft II is expected to be a huge money maker as well.

Guitar Hero is very popular with console gamers. Guitar Hero and World of Warcraft create a ton of positive buzz marketing for Activision Blizzard. We believe it will be hard for any other gaming company to compete with ATVI.

ATVI is down at pre-Blizzard merger levels and appears significantly undervalued at a market capitalization of around $15.4 billion.

It is important to find great companies at the right time in their stock charts. We expect the stocks mentioned above to become hot stocks after the recent stock market downturn.

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