Stocks and Dollars

Top averages hug the flat line Friday, signifying calm ahead of U.S. elections and a key meeting of the Federal Reserve in the week ahead.

Kapitall submits:

The following is a list of small-cap stocks that have seen significant institutional inflows over the last three months. All the stocks in this list have market caps between $250M and $300M.

We won’t be going into detailed analysis for each stock. The goal here is to give you a starting point for your own analysis.

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Gino Verza submits:

Previous articles discussed market mispricing in ClickSoftware’s (CKSW) stock relative to its fundamental value with focus on the company’s financial performance. Here we address the same issue by comparing ClickSoftware with Interactive Intelligence (ININ), a small cap, software application provider. The context for this analysis is free cash flow, determinant of fundamental value.

The comparison involves various metrics with particular emphasis on the Dollar size and on the rate of growth of free cash flow (FCF) relative to the companies’ own stock prices (charts). The issue to resolve is the extent to which the companies’ performance metrics are reflected on their respective stock prices.

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EUR/USD continued to engage in choppy sideway trading last week. The price pattern suggests that consolidation from 1.4150 is a triangle pattern. Hence, while some more sideway trading would be seen initially this week, downside would be contained by 1.3733. On the upside, break of 1.4079 will indicate up trend

USD/JPY’s late break of 80.40 support suggests that recovery was finished at 81.97 and recent down trend has resumed. Initial bias is on the downside this week and further decline should be seen to 79.75 low next. On the upside, above 80.86 minor resistance will turn intraday bias neutral and

GBP/USD’s strong rally last week suggests that pull back from 1.6104 is finished at 1.5649 after drawing support from 55 days EMA. Initial bias remains on the upside this week for a test on 1.6104 first. Break there will confirm rally resumption and should target 61.8% projection of 1.5296 to

USD/CHF jumped further to as high as 0.9929 last week, just inch below mentioned target of 0.9932/1.0181 resistance zone, before turning into sideway trading. Initial bias remains neutral this week and some consolidations might be seen. But still, with 0.9662 support intact, rebound from 0.9462 is expected to continue. Above

AUD/USD continued to engage in sideway trading below 0.9998 last week. Further consolidations would still be seen in near term and risk of another fall remains. Below 0.9651 will bring deeper pull back to 38.2% retracement of 0.8770 to 0.9998 at 0.9529 and possibly below. On the upside, break of