Loyal readers know I am loathe to toot my own horn. Not because I lack an ego -- heck I'm on TV where a big ego is a requirement! -- but because I always worry about pissing off the trading gods.

Still, I'll take a flier today onl,y and point out how well LXK and UTI did yesterday.  The former up 7.5% from the open; the latter, 5.7%.  Nice, and I guess I was heartend becuase overall the market went down, and I was bearish to boot.  So, I'll take it.

As for today, one long and a few shorts. I'll start with the long first and that's ...get full access to this article by registering for FREE.

And that is the final word from AVG Anti-virus, where I spent the better part of Wednesday warding off a nasty computer bug.  Head's up: if you see "Antivirus Soft" pop up on your computer, it's a FAKE!