The other day I briefly mentioned the rampage solar stocks have been on…  most solar stocks that is.  CSIQ has been feeling the pain since coming in below expectations and hasn’t really recovered since.  I’m still inclined to play the bullish side on the hotter stocks, but given a sector crash, it’s always nice to look at the underperformers since they often keep their headstart in on the reversals.

Support turns to resistance and makes a nice short point.  ARO was just on my list since the autotrader had been daytrading it in the recent past, but a lot of the retailers are at this point right now so you can take your pick of whichever you like most.

I don’t necessarily love or hate McDonalds, but the chart is nice.  A gap down that’s served as resistance a couple times gives some potential both ways.  If it breaks up over $76, maybe the weak January will start looking like a sloppy double bottom.  If $76 proves to be a ceiling, there’s some nice downside to play.

I pointed out LULU last summer as a potential bearish swing trade.  Since then, the stock went from $38 to $85.  Whoops!  At least it was on my watch list for a couple bullish swing trades (although I sadly didn’t make any money on it throughout that whole run somehow).

I guess I should give DT credit for putting it back on my radar at the last breakout, but it’s really just giving credit to the IBD list for moving it back to #1.  That means volatility one way or another.  $75 was the breakout point for the move, so we’re at an interesting point here that will either be a bounce or a breakdown.  Good for active trading with proper risk management, bad for holding and hoping.  Play accordingly.

Silver posts obviously always apply to SLV, AGQ, ZSL, and any of the various silver futures.  Gold and silver have been on a rampage lately and have accelerated over the past quarter and a half, as seen on the weekly chart above.  You’d be suicidal to go bearish now, but this could get interesting if it keeps brewing.  Hopefully the bulls will continue to run wild a little longer and we’ll get a nice crash sometime in 2011.

LULU, home of the milfs.  I never liked them much as a brand, but just like Crocs, they have their niche.  It’s at an interesting point with a lot of potential downside.

Since CAT seems to be leading the bearish trend of the S&P 500, it looks like a decent short for a general market downturn.  If the market hangs around in distribution, this might be a good range bound play.  And if the market turns bullish, I’d probably ignore this since there are other better options I could consider right now.