Mastery in Full Effect for August 2007

E*TRADE Financial Corporation (NYSE:ETFC) has since fallen on their face as we had anticipated, from $19 to the current price of $15.77. We covered them with an Ice-T flavor in an article titled:
E*TRADE (ETFC): Despite Q2 profits the stock falls harder than Nino Brown
E*TRADE should have blew away Wall Street last quarter with all the activity the market has seen in the past 3 months but they failed. Nice work dudes.

Metalico, Inc. (AMEX:MEA) has had a nice ride now that Hilary Kramer and the other analysts have come on board. We mentioned them back in July and the share price has fallen, but Mastery was on course and the stock has been on a nice 15% rally since Friday. Revisit - It's time for Metalico (MEA) to Ride the Lighting

As much as Wall Street hates the stock Not everyone hates Jones Soda, and shares of Jones Soda (NASDAQ:JSDA) are up 11% over the past 5 days. Coke and a smile anyone?

In June we said - I hate to say it, but Apple Inc. (AAPL) is going up and unless you've been hiding under a rock, the stock is trading at $131 a share. The best part of that article is we pimped AT&T (T) and Research in Motion (RIMM) as iPhone plays, both of those stocks have done well, and RIMM has bounced more than 50% since we recommended it in our article.

From our Forum we said on August 3rd, 2007 that Take-Two Interactive (TTWO) would make a comeback and it was just a matter of time. No one saw BioShock coming, but what we did see was a beat up stock that was trading at levels that was worth the risk. They hit a 52-week low earlier this month and since then the stock has rallied like a true RockStar (bad pun, but it's fun), in the last 5 days the stock is up 20%. 1-2-shabadoo baby -- Take-Two comes back from the Dead

So what did the Masters miss?

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) may start to recover - AMD has been just sitting around and it's share price has been shrinking. Shares of the chip maker are at $12 and change, a far cry from their 52-week high of $27.90. As much as we all hate the stock, don't count them out, AMD has a wicked way of coming back when you least expect them to.

Nobody likes JetBlue (JBLU), but that will change - JetBlue did make a great run but has since come back down, don't worry, these airline stocks always pull something out of their ass, it's just a matter of time.

As always the articles that we write about we track the changes on our Portfolio page. You may notice we have quite a few stocks in the red, but note that our subscribers that get our actual true picks that we endorse and they pony up for a cheap annual fee. Besides recommending stocks, we also inform our subscribers about market conditions and how much cash versus stocks/securities they should be holding. We saw the subprime crisis coming, and in July we said cash out your gains and be 60% Cash and 40% stocks. You can't just buy and pick stocks at random without knowing how much you should be holding and when you should be taking gains. The Masters sold the majority of their stocks in July, so our portfolios have only taken a small hit - can you say the same?

Enough of the lame ad speak we know, but come back next month, when we will have the deal of the century going with a newsletter platform that all of you have been crying for, stay tuned. Thanks for reading fellow Masters, be careful out there, use your best judgment and keep on rocking the Casbah.

Article written by: The StockMaster Staff
Article posted on: August 22, 2007

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