This Week on StockHouse July 9 to 13

For a quick run-down on the top stocks, posters, blogs, and discussions, check the StockHouse Top Five (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/article.asp?edtID=19944).

Sometimes an unexpected news release moves your trading stock, but Don Rodgers wrote in his Trading Discipline column that it’s even more important to know when to sell when faced with market surprises.

(http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/editorial.asp?edtID=19942)

The profits have been made from the earliest stage of the uranium bull market, but the Casey Report offered several pointers to help investors make money in the next stage of the uranium exploration cycle. (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/editorial.asp?edtID=19949)

While Steven Saville is long term bullish on commodities, it’s hard to convince him that the price increases in the metals mining sector have nothing to do with the rise in inflation. (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/editorial.asp?edtID=19947)

The editors of the Bio Check column noticed that big pharma companies have been aligning themselves with developers of RNAi technologies recently. (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/editorial.asp?edtID=19948)

Shares of the Medipattern Corporation (TSX: V.MKI) soared when the company announced a partnership with a unit of GE Healthcare (NYSE: GE). Reporter Sean Mason checked out the buzz on the company’s BullBoard, and found users optimistic about the maker of computer-aided diagnosis solutions. (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/article.asp?edtID=199460)

Harry Boxer, this week’s Weekly Wizard, picked four stocks with charts that could improve in the intermediate term. (http://www.stockhouse.com/shfn/editorial.asp?edtID=19952)

Greg Silberman answered the very important question: where should I be investing my money anyway? He wrote that oil stocks are likely to outperform gold stocks in the next six months. (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/article.asp?edtID=19937)

Danny Deadlock argued that Rand A Technology (TSX: T.RND), a services and technology provider for engineering companies, could be perceived as a takeover target (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/article.asp?edtID=19936).

And the Micro-cap Spotlight reiterated its price target for Financial Content (OTC: BB: FCON), noting a big jump in the company’s revenue.  (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/editorial.asp?edtID=19941).

All you need to do, wrote Totally Technology columnists Leon Hamerling and J. Paul, is look at the performance of the Nasdaq 100 ETF, the QQQQs, or cubes, to see that technology innovation is thriving in North America. http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/article.asp?edtID=19957

One vitally important tool for investors who are doing due diligence on interesting companies is the EDGAR website, the repository for all of the SEC-required filings. The Financially Fit crew detailed the key filings that investors should peruse. (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/article.asp?edtID=19955)

John J. De Goey was irate at the suggestion that a mutual fund fee cap is a step forward in mitigating costs for investors. (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/article.asp?edtID=19956)