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Schaeffer's Street Chatter Highlights the Following Stocks: Able Laboratories, CREE, and InterDigital Communications.


CINCINNATI -- Today's "Street Chatter" from Schaeffer's Investment Research focuses on: Able Laboratories (Nasdaq:ABRX), CREE (Nasdaq:CREE), and InterDigital interdigital

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 Communications (Nasdaq:IDCC IDCC Integrated Dual-use Commercial Companies ). "Street Chatter" is a report that analyzes three newsworthy stocks that are generating a lot of attention on Internet message boards. "Street Chatter" is published on www.SchaeffersResearch.com - the home of Bernie Schaeffer and Schaeffer's Investment Research.

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Street Chatter:

1. Able Laboratories (Nasdaq:ABRX) is a generic pharmaceuticals firm with a list of products that include a generic equivalent of popular attention deficit disorder attention deficit (hyperactivity) disorder (ADD or ADHD)
 formerly hyperactivity

Behavioral syndrome in children, whose major symptoms are inattention and distractibility, restlessness, inability to sit still, and difficulty concentrating on one thing for any
 drug Ritalin. The company's other drugs target pain, inflammation, and cardiovascular problems, as well as neurological issues such as attention and manic-depressive disorders. Since hitting a January low of 15.60, the shares have slowly ground higher into resistance at the 22 level. From a longer-term perspective, the equity is currently resting on support at its rising 20-month moving average. The stock has not suffered a monthly close below this trendline since September 2002. A bounce off this support line could help to shove the security through overhead resistance.

This drug company continues to hover beneath the radar of most traders and the Street. According to according to
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 Zacks, only one analyst currently follows the firm with a "buy" rating. Any additional coverage could add some lift to the stock's rally. Despite the fact that short interest plunged 15 percent in October, more than 12 percent of the equity's float remains sold short. At the security's average daily trading volume Trading volume

The number of shares transacted every day. As there is a seller for every buyer, one can think of the trading volume as half of the number of shares transacted. That is, if A sells 100 shares to B, the volume is 100 shares.
, it would take almost 16 days for the bears to cover these pessimistic positions. An unwinding of these bearish Bearish

Words used to describe investor attitude. A bearish investor believes that a particular asset or the market as a whole will decline in value.


bearish 
 bets could easily fuel a significant rally in the stock. According to our Equity Scorecard (available via Schaeffer's Gold), the stock carries a rating of 8.0, making this an attractive bullish play.

Click the following link to see both the Equity Scorecard and Monthly Chart of ABRX Since April 2002 with 20-Month Moving Average: http://www.schaeffersresearch.com/wire?ID=11720.

2. According to Yahoo! Finance, Cree (Nasdaq:CREE) develops and manufactures semiconductor materials Semiconductor materials are insulators at absolute zero temperature that conduct electricity in a limited way at room temperature (see also Semiconductor). The defining property of a semiconductor material is that it can be doped with impurities that alter its electronic properties  and devices based on silicon carbide silicon carbide, chemical compound, SiC, that forms extremely hard, dark, iridescent crystals that are insoluble in water and other common solvents. Widely used as an abrasive, it is marketed under such familiar trade names as Carborundum and Crystolon.  (SiC), Group III In the periodic table Group III covered what are now called
  • Group 13 elements: boron (B), aluminium (Al), gallium (Ga), indium (In), thallium (Tl)
  • Group 3 elements: scandium (Sc) and yttrium (Y) plus the Lanthanide and Actinide series elements.
 nitrides (GaN), silicon and related compounds. The firm's SiC and GaN materials technology is the basis for many of the devices that it develops and produces. CREE focuses its expertise in SiC and GaN materials on four product areas: light emitting diodes See LED.  (LEDs), including blue, green and near ultraviolet (UV) LED chips and high-power packaged LEDs; power switching products; radio frequency (RF) and microwave devices, and near UV lasers. Pessimism abounds on this tech stock. The equity's Schaeffer's put/call open interest ratio (SOIR SOIR Schaeffer's Put/Call Open Interest Ratio
SOIR Simultaneous Operations on Intersecting Runways
) checks in at 0.99, as puts nearly equal calls in the front three months of options. What's more, this reading is higher than 89 percent of all those taken over the past year. Furthermore, the number of CREE shares sold short jumped six percent higher over the most recent reporting period to 20.4 million shares - its highest level since January. This accumulation of bearish bets accounts for more than 28 percent of the stock's float and is more than six times its average daily trading volume. Wall Street even has its doubts about the company, as six of the eight analysts following CREE rate it a "hold" or worse.

This wealth of pessimism seems greatly misplaced mis·place  
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 when you consider the security's technical performance. On a monthly basis, CREE has outperformed the Nasdaq Composite The Nasdaq Composite is a stock market index of all of the common stocks and similar securities (e.g. ADRs, tracking stocks, limited partnership interests) listed on the NASDAQ stock market, meaning that it has over 3,000 components. It is highly followed in the U.S.  since July 2003. Since July of this year, the shares have rallied along the support of their 10-day and 20-day moving averages, more than doubling in price. Over this time period, the equity has also enjoyed the steadfast support of its rising 10-week trendline. This combination of technical strength and investor pessimism has resulted in an Equity Scorecard rating of 7.0. CREE may still have further upside ahead of it as this mound of pessimistic sentiment unravels in the form of increased buying pressure.

Click the following link to see the Equity Scorecard and Daily Chart of CREE Since July 2004 with 10-Day and 20-Day Moving Averages: http://www.schaeffersresearch.com/wire?ID=11720&obspage=2.

3. InterDigital Communications (Nasdaq:IDCC) develops and licenses circuitry designs, software, and other technology using CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) A method for transmitting simultaneous signals over a shared portion of the spectrum. The foremost application of CDMA is the digital cellular phone technology from QUALCOMM that operates in the 800 MHz band and 1.9 GHz PCS band.  and TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) A satellite and cellular phone technology that interleaves multiple digital signals onto a single high-speed channel. For cellular, TDMA triples the capacity of the original analog method (FDMA).  (code- and time-division multiple access) wireless telecommunications standards. The company is also developing microchips and software to enable voice and data transmissions in mobile phones and portable computing devices. From a technical perspective, the stock has finally broken free. Since mid-August, the shares were range bound between resistance at 17 and support at 15.50. However, the equity has finally broken above overhead resistance and is currently poised to finish the week above its 10-week and 20-week moving average for the first time since late July. Looking ahead, the shares must still contend with their 10-month (at the 18 level) and 20-month (at the 19 level) moving averages. These long-term trendlines have capped the stock's monthly closes since February.

Sentiment is somewhat mixed on this security. The equity's SOIR sits at 0.48, as calls more than double puts among near-term options. This reading is also higher than only 42 percent of all those taken over the past 52 weeks. Meanwhile, short interest dropped by 12 percent in October to 2.7 million shares. These bearish bets now account for 5.42 percent of the security's float, which is still relatively high. What's more, the equity's short-interest ratio short-interest ratio

A ratio that is used for market analysis and is calculated by dividing short interest by average daily volume. Technicians use the short-interest ratio as a tool to determine market direction.
 rests at a lofty 9.52 days to cover. These pessimistic positions could add some serious support to the shares in a short-squeeze situation. Wall Street has yet to jump on IDCC's bandwagon, with only four analysts following the firm (two "buys" and two "holds"). Any upgrades and/or additional coverage could also send the shares shooting higher. IDCC is one stock traders may want to keep an eye on to watch.
- Shak.

See also: Eye
 to see if it can hold above resistance at the 17 level.

Click the following link to see the Daily Chart of IDCC Since July 2004: http://www.schaeffersresearch.com/wire?ID=11720&obspage=2.

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Schaeffer's Investment Research, founded by Bernie Schaeffer in 1981, is a financial information and trading resources company. It publishes Bernie Schaeffer's Option Advisor, the nation's leading options subscription newsletter. The firm's contrarian approach focuses on stocks with technical and fundamental trends that run counter to investor expectations. The firm's website, http://www.SchaeffersResearch.com, is recognized as one of the leading information sources for stock and options traders and was cited as the top options website by both Forbes and Barron's. Click here for more details about Schaeffer's trading methodology: http://www.SchaeffersResearch.com/method.
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