HQ Sustainable Maritime (Amex:HQS) sells tilapia (bulk, packaged, and prepared tilapia-based meals), nutraceuticals, and feed products for other fish farmers.  HQS shareholders had a rough spring.  In mid-March, shares broke down and have lost over a third of their value.   While the chart doesn't yet reflect any reversal, or even a basing pattern, I believe [...]

China stocks and other emerging market plays are nothing new here, but I was surprised to see how many BRIC (Brazil – Russia – India – China) stocks placed in this week's IBD 100.  The IBD 100 is a list of technically and fundamentally leading stocks generated using the Investor Business Daily's proprietary techniques.  While [...]

Ron Sen, one of my favorite technical analysis bloggers, posted an interesting chart today of microcap Chinese biodiesel company Gushan Environmental Energy (NYSE:GU) (thumbnail below reproduced with permission – click to see Sen's original article). The good doc suggests that Gushan may be bottoming from a technical perspective.  He knows far more than I about technical analysis, [...]

Like many microcap traders, jumping in and out of the dozens of U.S.-traded Chinese microcaps has been my bread-and-butter over the past few years. Until now.  Something has changed, and until I get a better sense of how severe the change is I am staying away from China stocks.  Today I sold my last positions, [...]