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BUY: NetScout Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTCT) $9.03 (7/17/07)

Sell price: $9.49 or
Sell date: August 17, 2007
Stop loss: $8.53 (-5.1%) - ATR(10) * 2

Strong contracts in during Q1
Increased guidance just before quiet period
EMA/MACD very bullish
Fibonacci analysis very bullish

Profile: Netscout Systems, Inc (Netscout), designs, develops, manufactures, markets, sells and supports a family of products that enables the performance and availability of critical business applications and services in complex, high-speed networks. The Company manufactures and markets these products as an integrated hardware and software solution that is used by enterprises, governmental agencies and service providers worldwide. During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2007 (fiscal 2007), Netscout introduced a next-generation multi-function instrumentation device named the nGenius AFMon.

BUY: Tele Norte Leste Participacoes SA (ADR) (NYSE: TNE) $21.90 (7/16/07)

Sell price: $23.00 or
Sell date: August 16, 2007
Stop loss: $20.72 (-5.8%) - ATR(10) * 2

EMA/MACD very bullish
Fibonacci analysis bullish
Stochastic analysis very bullish
Great institutional support

Profile: Tele Norte Leste Participacoes SA (Tele Norte Leste Holding Company (TNL)) is a telecommunications services provider in Region I of Brazil, offering an integrated communications product portfolio that includes traditional fixed-line, mobile, broadband, Internet service provider (ISP) and other services to residences, consumers, small, midsize and large business users, and government entities. The Company markets its services under its Oi brand name. TNL’s traditional fixed-line business includes local, long-distance, public telephone and network usage services in Region I. During the year ended December 31, 2006, approximately 86% of TNL’s consolidated revenues were generated through its operations in the stable fixed-line sector and the data market. The mobile segment was responsible for the remaining 14%. TNL’s subsidiaries include Telemar Norte Leste S.A. (Tmar), its fixed-line subsidiary, and TNL PCS S.A (Oi), its mobile phone telecommunications subsidiary.

BUY: Century Aluminum Company (NASDAQ: CENX) $66.40 (7/13/07)

Sell price: $69.72 or
Sell date: August 13, 2007
Stop loss: $61.90 (-6.8%) - ATR(10) * 2

Strong break-out on very strong volume
Very positive moneyflow, great accumulation
Has upside potential left - still cheaper on a P/E and PEG basis than (AA), (AL), (SPSX), (NX)
EMA very bullish
Fibonacci analysis bullish
Stochastic very bullish

Profile: Century Aluminum Company (Century Aluminum or Century) is a holding company engaged in producing aluminum. The Company’s principal subsidiaries are Century Aluminum of West Virginia, Inc., Berkeley Aluminum, Inc., Century Kentucky, Inc. and Nordural ehf. The Company’s aluminum facilities include Nordural in Grundartangi, Iceland, Hawesville, Ravenswood and Mt. Holly in the United States. During the year ended December 31, 2006, it produced approximately 680,000 metric tons of primary aluminum. As of December 2006, Century had an annual production capacity of 745,000 metric tons. In addition to its primary aluminum assets, the Company had a 50% joint venture interests in the Gramercy alumina refinery, located in Gramercy, Louisiana and a related bauxite mining operation in Jamaica. The Gramercy refinery supplies substantially all of the alumina used for the production of primary aluminum at the Company’s Hawesville, Kentucky primary aluminum facility.