ATF rank and file losing faith in agency leadership

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Top leaders at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, already under fire from lawmakers in the wake of the “Fast and Furious” debacle, also get harsh marks from the men and women who serve under them, according to an internal survey.

An ATF memo obtained by FoxNews.com reveals that rank-and-file workers at the beleaguered federal agency, where whistleblowers who first alerted lawmakers to the “gun-walking” scandal say they were threatened or even punished, don’t trust the agency’s leaders.

“A key area in which ATF fell short was leadership,” the e-mail from ATF Headquarters, describing the results of the internal survey, reads.

“Most troubling were responses to the question – ‘My senior leaders maintain high standards of honesty and integrity.’”

Just 44 percent of ATF employees said that their leaders maintained such standards last year, according to the Partnership for Public Service, the non-profit that administers the annual survey to government employees.

On “leadership effectiveness” in general, ATF scored a 40.5, placing the agency nearly last among government agencies, at 215th out of 228 agencies surveyed. That rating was the first since the “Fast and Furious” scandal broke, and it is down 10 percentage points from the year before.

Oops…a battery cable cover can cause electrical system malfunction on 2003-2010 5&6 series.

WASHINGTON (CNNMoney) — Stronger job growth has brought “good news” recently, but overall, it remains “out of sync” with the modest growth of the U.S. economy, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Monday.

“The improvement in the labor market over the past year — especially the decline in the unemployment rate — has been faster than might have been expected, given that the economy during that time appears to have grown at a relatively modest pace,” Bernanke told the National Association for Business Economics on Monday.

Government numbers show the U.S. economy has added more than 200,000 jobs each month since January, and the unemployment rate has fallen to 8.3% from 9% in just five months. Meanwhile, the U.S. economy has been growing relatively slowly, most recently at a mere 3% annual pace.

Bernanke called those figures a ‘puzzle.’ For the unemployment rate to fall that significantly, the economy should have been growing much more quickly.

Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — Just hours after the United States warned that North Korea would achieve nothing with threats or provocations, Pyongyang moved a long-range rocket it plans to test fire to a launch pad Monday, a South Korean Defense Ministry official said.

A U.S. official said the United States also has seen signs the North Koreans are preparing to launch a long-range rocket.

The news broke at the start of a two-day nuclear summit in Seoul that is bringing together leaders from the United States, Russia, China and dozens of other nations to discuss how to deal with nuclear terrorism and how to secure the world’s nuclear material.

Overshadowing the summit’s message of international cooperation was an announcement by North Korea that it plans to carry out a rocket-powered satellite launch in mid-April.

South Korea has said it considers the satellite launch an attempt to develop a nuclear-armed missile, while U.S. President Barack Obama said Monday such a launch would bring repercussions.

“Here in Korea, I want to speak directly to the leadership in Pyongyang. The United States has no hostile intent toward your country,” Obama said during a speech to students at Seoul’s Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.

“But by now it should be clear, your provocations and pursuit of nuclear weapons have not achieved the security you seek. They have undermined it.”

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Is the new requirement that people buy health insurance unconstitutional?

That’s the principal question before the Supreme Court this week as it takes up the 2010 health care reform law.

The Affordable Care Act is meant to help more people get affordable health insurance coverage — including the 49 million uninsured today — and bring health costs under control. But those goals could be harder to achieve if the court strikes down the “individual mandate.”

Just how much harder is not certain.

The individual mandate is intended to work in conjunction with two other new rules in the law: Insurers must offer everyone coverage regardless of health status, and insurers may not charge people with pre-existing conditions more than other policyholders in their geographic area who have the same plan.

The argument goes like this: The mandate, which wouldn’t start until 2014, would mean the vast majority of Americans will be insured, and that would reduce the costs imposed by the uninsured on everyone else.

WASHINGTON—By Saturday, a short queue had already formed on the sidewalk outside the Supreme Court building, filled by people with hopes of snagging prime seats for what will likely be historic oral arguments debating the fate of President Barack Obama’s health care law.

Those few souls, who braved a weekend of rain for the hottest ticket in town, will be joined by thousands more over the next three days, as activists from far and wide descend on Washington, D.C.

Tea parties, unions, liberal advocacy organizations, religious groups and nonaligned curiosity seekers are arriving outside the court, with rallies planned in front of the steps and in the nearby parks surrounding the building. Groups are busing thousands into the city from around the country for the three-day marathon. Demonstrations, counter-rallies and prayer vigils will be held each day under the watchful eye of security personnel and the discerning observations of hundreds of reporters from news agencies that have dispatched entire teams to cover the hearings.

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A good catch by The Daily Caller’s Caroline May: As of this morning, two provocative web addresses — Socialists.com and Communists.com — redirect to the Barack Obama campaign website. Type “Socialists.com” into your browser and you’ll swiftly be greeted with an invitation to “like” Obamacare. (Yes, that is the current landing page for Obama’s campaign site — an invitation to express support for Obamacare!) May reports:

It is unknown who the responsible party is.

While it’s unclear if the campaign can come up with a solution for this, Twitter users have already begun to take notice.

“Someone is being cheeky: go to http://communists.com or http://socialists.com” tweeted @zaijian.

“So http://Socialists.com and http://Communists.com redirect to Obama’s website. Yeah, this is going to be a fun campaign,” added @DavidKenner.

The prankster behind this actually betrays uncommon insight into the conflict of visions that exists in this country. In one corner, free marketeers. In the other, collectivists and statists. Individuals range along the spectrum, but it doesn’t change the nature of the conflict, which was introduced in the twentieth century but, surprisingly, was still not settled by the outset of the twenty-first, despite the evidence of numerous failed centrally planned economies.

It serves no point to try to rename “socialism” or “communism” or to eliminate the words from our lexicon. The terms refer to theories of social and economic organization in the same way that “capitalism” does — and the theories continue to attract adherents to greater and lesser degrees. The president has openly stated his approval of wealth redistribution and has also displayed a marked tendency toward central planning, particularly in the area of energy policy. Why he should balk at being called either a “socialist” or a “communist” puzzles me. Why not attempt to defend his ideas instead of hiding behind conservative rhetoric as he pushes a progressive agenda? I’d never recoil from the label of “capitalist”even though “the 99 percent” thinks capitalism is evil. What does it matter to the president if half the country doesn’t like his ideas? Oh, right. That’s why it matters. He has an agenda to push, yes, but he has to win reelection to push it. That’s why this prank is so brilliant. I’d love to hear the president explain why he doesn’t want those links to redirect to his website. Or, better yet, I’d love to hear him explain why he does.

Expanding the definition of “cracker,” a t-shirt featuring the photo of the man who shot Trayvon Martin is now available for purchase.

As seen (above), the shirt has a picture of George Zimmerman and the words “Pussy Ass Cracker.” Zimmerman, a 28-year-old Hispanic, killed Martin, 17, last month while acting as a neighborhood watch captain in Sanford, Florida.

The shirt’s “pussy ass cracker” line is apparently a reference to lyrics from the rapper Plies’s song “100 Years,” which bemoans stiff sentences handed out by racist judges.

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Coming off of only its second weekly loss in 12 weeks the stock market is up solidly on the back of renewed broad-based buying.

Stocks opened the day on a decidedly positive note. The move was helped along by strength in Europe, where Germany’s DAX helped lead efforts to advance following a multi-month high in its latest business climate reading. That helped temper concerns related to Spain’s ability to implement fiscal reform. Additionally, a speech this morning by Fed Chairman Bernanke seemed to suggest that the Fed recognizes the need to remain accommodative in its policies, given that job market conditions remain far from normal.

Health Care stocks have had an impressive session so far. The sector is currently sitting on a 1.3% gain with help from health care facilities plays and managed care providers. Industrials and Financials are close behind with gains of 1.2%.

Telecom and Utilities — both defensive in nature — are each up 0.2%. Their lackluster performance today is consistent with how they have fared in 2012.

Without higher oil prices to provide Energy stocks with a boon, the Energy sector has lagged the rest of the market for most of the session. Collectively, Energy stocks are currently up 0.4%, which is less than half of what the broad market has put together. Oil prices have chopped along the neutral line for most of the session and currently sit at $106.80 per barrel, which makes for a 0.1% loss.

An increased tolerance for risk has allowed the dollar to drift lower. Its descent has left it lagging a collection of competing currencies by about 0.4% after it had been relatively flat this morning.

The only consequential piece of domestic data released today was the pending home sales report for February. In a surprise slip, they fell 0.5% from the prior month. DJ30 +117.65 NASDAQ +36.71 SP500 +12.64 NASDAQ Adv/Vol/Dec 1865/765 mln/590 NYSE Adv/Vol/Dec 2190/290 mln/755

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NEW DELHI — A Tibetan exile lit himself on fire and ran shouting through a demonstration in the Indian capital Monday, just ahead of a visit by China’s president and amid a series of self-immolations done inside Tibet to protest Beijing’s rule.

Indian police, who had already tightened security in New Delhi for President Hu Jintao’s visit, swept through the protest a few hours later, detaining scores of Tibetans.

The man apparently had doused himself with something highly flammable and was engulfed in flames when he ran past the podium where speakers were criticizing China and Hu’s visit.

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“Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has been giving a four-part lecture series to the students at George Washington University.

No one really expected it to be much more than a publicity stunt.

However, the first two lectures have made a big splash.  First, he systematically destroyed any defense for a gold standard.  Then he argued that the Fed wasn’t to blame for the housing bubble.

It is becoming more and more clear that these lectures are actually an aggressive defense of the Federal Reserve.

Given that Bernanke is a sitting Fed Chairman, it’s hard to imagine that he thought these lectures would be overlooked.

Art Cashin, UBS Financial Services director of floor operations agrees.  From today’s Cashin’s Comments:

Bernanke At The Barricades – As you recall, last week Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke began his series of four lectures to students at George Washington University.  In the first two, he dissed the idea of the gold standard and praised Paul Volcker for courageously wringing runaway inflation out of the U.S. economic system.

It is becoming apparent to many of us that Mr. Bernanke intends these lectures to be a spirited defense of the Fed itself.  The critique of the gold standard was more a lecture on why you could not replace the flexible Fed with an inflexible “herd rule” process.

The defense of Volcker was directed at why you need the Fed to fight inflation.  You needed us then and you need us  now.  Watch the two up-coming lectures and other speeches this week.  Ben is on the offensive to save the Fed.”

Markets are registering overbought again…not that this meant anything lately.

Can we expect the market to keep climbing higher ? Looking at momo names like Apple up only $0.68 it is hard to believe.

DOW UP 136

S&P UP 13.8

NASDAQ UP 35

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ISSUE GAINERS                 SYMBOL   EXCH   LAST PRICE   MONEY FLOW    RATIO 
                                                          (in millions) 
Apple                          AAPL    NASD      598.59      +234.6       1.51 
iShrs Russell 2000             IWM     ARCA       83.77       +53.0       3.06 
Google                         GOOG    NASD      643.59       +15.9       1.21 
IBM                            IBM     NYSE      206.73       +15.8       2.05 
Qualcomm                       QCOM    NASD       67.61       +15.4       1.64 
Abbott Labs                    ABT     NYSE       60.82       +12.3       3.47 
iShr FTSE China 25             FXI     ARCA       37.21       +12.3       2.41 
EMC Corp                       EMC     NYSE       29.36       +12.1       2.99 
McDonald's                     MCD     NYSE       96.33       +12.0       1.80 
Procter & Gamble               PG      NYSE       67.70       +11.8       3.12 
BHP Billiton                   BHP     NYSE       72.04       +11.6       2.82 
IntercontlExchange             ICE     NYSE      139.86       +10.5       5.53 
Wynn Resorts                   WYNN    NASD      130.65       +10.5       1.40 
Johnson & Johnson              JNJ     NYSE       65.04       +10.4       2.00 
Caterpillar                    CAT     NYSE      109.00        +9.9       1.64 
Citigroup                      C       NYSE       37.35        +9.7       1.27 
Verizon Communications         VZ      NYSE       39.19        +8.7       1.88 
pricelinecom                   PCLN    NASD      727.60        +8.6       1.17 
Microsoft                      MSFT    NASD       32.37        +8.3       1.38 
FedEx                          FDX     NYSE       92.65        +8.0       1.71 

ISSUE DECLINERS               SYMBOL   EXCH   LAST PRICE   MONEY FLOW    RATIO 
                                                          (in millions) 
PwrShs DB USD Bullish          UUP     ARCA       21.95       -64.0       0.06 
First Tr Inds/Prdcer Dur       FXR     ARCA       19.46       -32.9       0.00 
iShrs MSCI Japan               EWJ     ARCA       10.03       -29.6       0.03 
SPDR S&P 500                   SPY     ARCA      140.78       -20.7       0.89 
ExxonMobil                     XOM     NYSE       86.59       -20.7       0.47 
JPMorgan Chase                 JPM     NYSE       45.54       -17.8       0.58 
iShrs MSCI Emerg Mkts          EEM     ARCA       43.23       -17.8       0.68 
Intel                          INTC    NASD       28.04       -17.1       0.44 
Baidu                          BIDU    NASD      147.67       -14.7       0.80 
General Electric               GE      NYSE       19.99       -14.2       0.45 
Tiffany & Co                   TIF     NYSE       71.70       -12.2       0.38 
Philip Morris Intl             PM      NYSE       87.78       -12.0       0.47 
Deere & Co                     DE      NYSE       82.43       -10.9       0.55 
Cisco Systems                  CSCO    NASD       20.67       -10.6       0.45 
Chevron                        CVX     NYSE      107.53       -10.6       0.59 
Yandex                         YNDX    NASD       24.31        -9.9       0.20 
Amazoncom                      AMZN    NASD      198.26        -8.8       0.86 
Freeport McMoran               FCX     NYSE       38.70        -8.3       0.69 
iShrs Tr MSCI EAFE             EFA     ARCA       55.21        -7.7       0.57 
Merck                          MRK     NYSE       38.42        -7.4       0.36

NYSE

New Highs 113 

COMPANY                       SYMBOL      HIGH                VOLUME 
-------                       ------      ----                ------ 
Abbott Labs                   ABT         60.88              775,079 
Accenture PLC A               ACN         65.50              555,728 
Advance Auto Parts            AAP         90.13               52,006 
AegonNVNon Cum Sub Nts        AEK         26.13               21,468 
Airgas Inc                    ARG         87.47               52,164 
Allergan                      AGN         94.87              186,912 
Alliance Data Sys             ADS         127.08              29,891 
Bebidas de Americas ADS       ABV         43.22              245,731 
Bebidas de Americas ADS C     ABV/C       35.63                3,045 
Amer Eagle Outfitters         AEO         17.50            1,037,667 
American Express              AXP         57.98              505,669 
Amer Vanguard                 AVD         20.92               16,682 
Anheuser Busch                BUD         73.06               83,622 
Armstrong Wrld Ind            AWI         59.78              108,056 
BP Prudhoe Bay Royalty Tr     BPT         126.89              18,759 
Bally Technologies            BYI         47.47               68,458 
Beam Inc                      BEAM        58.85               74,393 
Big Lots Inc                  BIG         46.66               74,846 
BlackRockStrategicBond        BHD         14.32                6,935 
CBS Corp B                    CBS         32.56              918,916 
CBS Corp A                    CBS/A       32.82                  404 
CDI Corp                      CDI         17.85               12,445 
Cabelas                       CAB         39.21              176,136 
Capital One Fincl             COF         56.38              547,635 
Carriage Services             CSV         6.95                 4,670 
Chipotle Mexican Grill        CMG         420.84              65,540 
Church & Dwight               CHD         49.53               33,379 
Cincinnati Bell               CBB         4.15                87,558 
CinemarkHldgs                 CNK         22.67               88,328 
Coca-Cola                     KO          71.79              581,297 
Colgate-Palmolive             CL          96.71              214,813 
Constellation Brands A        STZ         23.77              114,041 
Constellation Brands B        STZ/B       23.65                  300 
Core Labs                     CLB         131.44              22,562 
CubeSmart                     CUBE        12.10               89,256 
Diageo PLC                    DEO         98.08               64,696 
Diebold Inc                   DBD         39.98               81,916 
Disney                        DIS         44.25            1,990,684 
El Paso Corp                  EP          30.30              988,832 
Extra Space Storage           EXR         28.38               61,845 
Fair Isaac                    FICO        44.03               21,469 
FleetCor Technologies         FLT         39.89               21,834 
Fomento Economico             FMX         78.05               13,877 
Foot Locker                   FL          32.05              321,695 
GP Strategies                 GPX         17.15               11,040 
Gabelli Hlthcr & Well         GRX         8.19                 3,827 
Gap Inc                       GPS         26.84              819,434 
Global Cash Access            GCA         7.02               319,107 
WW Grainger                   GWW         218.27              66,172 
Guidewire Software            GWRE        35.00               29,172 
Hlth Care REIT 6.50 Pfd J     HCNpJ       25.25                6,900 
Herbalife                     HLF         72.11              214,672 
INVESCO                       IVZ         26.67              352,239 
Imperva                       IMPV        40.04                  529 
Independence Hldg             IHC         10.15                2,443 
InterXion Holding             INXN        18.32               57,655 
InvenSense                    INVN        22.35              490,638 
Jarden Corp                   JAH         40.56              330,647 
KapStone Paper & Pkg          KS          21.31               42,889 
Kenexa                        KNXA        32.09               26,309 
Kilroy Realty                 KRC         46.66               38,421 
Kinder Morgan                 KMI         39.24              201,384 
LeapFrog Cl A                 LF          8.20               107,024 
LifeTime Fit                  LTM         52.68               19,987 
Limited Brands                LTD         49.53              315,190 
Lowe's Cos                    LOW         31.14            1,364,086 
Luxottica Grp                 LUX         36.46               54,075 
Manning & Napier              MN          15.27                9,339 
MarriottVacations             VAC         28.29               16,941 
Mastercard                    MA          430.21             128,000 
McCormick & Co Vtg            MKC/V       52.56                  900 
McCormick & Co                MKC         52.77               47,159 
Mead Johnson Nutrition        MJN         82.97              278,106 
Metro Health Ntwks            MDF         9.38                34,061 
Mindray Med Intl ADS          MR          33.94               23,760 
Mine Safety                   MSA         41.66                8,477 
MS Cap Tr V 5.625% Cp Scs     MWO         24.48                3,900 
Nacco Indus                   NC          116.88               3,433 
Nordstrom Inc                 JWN         55.48              105,493 
Nu Skin Enterprises           NUS         62.02               90,024 
Omnicom Grp                   OMC         50.68              116,207 
PVH Corp.                     PVH         92.13              222,076 
Philip Morris Intl            PM          88.25              763,521 
Pier 1 Imports                PIR         18.53              137,599 
Plantronics                   PLT         39.93               97,450 
Polaris Indus                 PII         73.48              374,445 
Praxair                       PX          113.59             141,467 
Prestige Brands Hldgs         PBH         17.75               30,175 
Progressive Corp              PGR         23.04              185,189 
Raytheon                      RTN         52.99              253,746 
Realty Income                 O           38.52               33,318 
Rentech Nitrogen Ptrs LP.     RNF         26.86               33,971 
Roper Indus                   ROP         101.06              45,639 
STAG Industrial               STAG        14.15                4,235 
Salient MLP & Engy Infr       SMF         26.00                3,357 
Sherwin-Williams              SHW         108.66              72,383 
Simon Property Group          SPG         145.10             103,746 
SolarWinds                    SWI         41.19              452,114 
Sovran Self Storage           SSS         49.63                6,464 
Sturm Ruger                   RGR         49.95               85,337 
SYNNEX                        SNX         43.42               30,424 
TJX Cos                       TJX         39.39              523,981 
Teledyne Tech                 TDY         63.11                7,293 
Tempur-Pedic                  TPX         84.83              113,840 
Teradata Cp                   TDC         69.50               99,505 
Tim Hortons                   THI         54.52               29,083 
Total Sys Svcs                TSS         22.99               50,251 
Vaalco Engy                   EGY         9.63               143,127 
Valmont Indus                 VMI         117.92              61,869 
VISA  (Cl A)                  V           120.17             556,095 
Western Digital               WDC         42.81              727,307 
Wright Express                WXS         66.23               41,726 
YUM! Brands                   YUM         71.19              370,747 

New Lows 7 

COMPANY                       SYMBOL      LOW                 VOLUME 
-------                       ------      ----                ------ 
BlackRock Utility & Infr      BUI         18.16               13,691 
Colony Finl 8.5% Pfd A        CLNYpA      24.74               18,500 
East Am Natl Gas Tr           NGT         22.00                1,450 
General Steel Hldgs           GSI         0.79                75,416 
Kimco Realty Dep 6  Pfd I     KIMpI       24.50               19,300 
Nortel Inversora ADS          NTL         19.24                8,412 
Promotora de Info ADS         PRIS        3.39                 3,383

NASDAQ

New Highs 144 

COMPANY                       SYMBOL      HIGH                VOLUME 
-------                       ------      ----                ------ 
ACI Worldwide                 ACIW        41.10               25,215 
ASB Bancorp                   ASBB        13.11                  100 
Accelrys                      ACCL        8.45                32,578 
Advisory Board                ABCO        87.83               14,970 
Affymax                       AFFY        14.15              720,245 
Alexion Pharm                 ALXN        95.01              319,599 
Allot Comm                    ALLT        21.75               24,039 
Ameris Bancorp                ABCB        13.45                2,500 
Analogic                      ALOG        66.55                3,710 
Angeion                       ANGN        6.10                   400 
Arctic Cat                    ACAT        42.64               28,141 
Arena Pharmaceuticals         ARNA        2.88            12,958,664 
Ariad Pharm                   ARIA        16.38              828,951 
Bank of Kentucky Fincl        BKYF        26.95                2,277 
Beacon Roofing Supply         BECN        26.08               34,809 
Bed Bath & Beyond             BBBY        67.17              200,806 
Blackbaud                     BLKB        33.73                7,440 
Bridge Capital Hldgs          BBNK        13.03               12,096 
Bryn Mawr Bank                BMTC        22.60                2,200 
Buffalo Wild Wings            BWLD        93.33              320,302 
Cal-Maine Foods               CALM        42.40               58,178 
Callidus Software             CALD        8.10                21,567 
Calumet Specialty Prdts       CLMT        26.39               41,699 
Carmike Cinemas               CKEC        13.51               25,105 
Carrols Restaurant Group      TAST        12.87               60,952 
Casey's General Stores        CASY        55.19               29,804 
Celgene                       CELG        77.44              341,322 
Centerstate Banks             CSFL        7.94                 8,753 
Cerner                        CERN        78.28              230,434 
Check Point Sftwre Techs      CHKP        63.94              184,644 
Cirrus Logic                  CRUS        24.85              203,923 
Cisco Systems                 CSCO        20.75            4,263,352 
Comcast                       CMCSA       30.25            1,192,045 
Comcast A Sp                  CMCSK       29.85              364,506 
Conn's                        CONN        16.02               25,203 
Copart                        CPRT        53.49               20,774 
Credit Acceptance             CACC        105.49              12,989 
Cubist Pharmaceuticals        CBST        44.59               62,073 
DXP Enterprises               DXPE        45.00               10,535 
Daily Journal                 DJCO        80.00                  489 
Discovery Comm C              DISCK       46.93               26,182 
Discovery Comm A              DISCA       48.93               83,201 
Dollar Tree                   DLTR        95.87              143,725 
Dorman Products               DORM        48.42               11,653 
Electro Rent                  ELRC        18.94                5,210 
Elmira Savings Bank           ESBK        21.37                1,295 
Emclaire Financial Corp       EMCF        18.59                  145 
Equinix                       EQIX        149.29              82,610 
eResearch Tech                ERT         7.78                63,605 
Exar                          EXAR        7.99                18,899 
Expedia                       EXPE        34.77              198,387 
Extreme Networks              EXTR        3.95                82,804 
FEI Co                        FEIC        48.75               66,728 
Fastenal Co                   FAST        54.59              175,179 
Finish Line  (Cl A)           FINL        26.16              211,334 
First Intst BancSys Inc       FIBK        15.00                9,226 
First Tr ISE Cloud Comp       SKYY        21.25                9,792 
First Tr NASDAQ100EqWt        QQEW        27.08                2,403 
Firsthand Tech Value Fd       SVVC        39.74               43,934 
Fiserv                        FISV        69.90               66,597 
Francesca's Holdings          FRAN        33.74               75,662 
Global X NASDAQ 500           QQQV        29.57                  812 
GRAVITY Co ADS                GRVY        3.20               325,169 
Great Wolf Resorts            WOLF        5.73                40,576 
Guaranty Bancorp              GBNK        1.93                 8,666 
Guaranty Federal Bancshrs     GFED        9.33                   110 
HSN Inc                       HSNI        38.77               37,258 
Hackett Group                 HCKT        5.46                51,929 
Hain Celestial Group          HAIN        44.13               20,794 
Heritage Oaks Bancorp         HEOP        4.96                 8,319 
Herzfeld Caribbean            CUBA        7.65                34,202 
Hibbett Sports                HIBB        54.93               35,157 
IAC/InterActive               IACI        50.50               56,307 
IF Bancorp                    IROQ        12.27                  100 
IRIS Intl                     IRIS        13.43               11,120 
inContact                     SAAS        5.97                12,639 
Infinity Pharmaceuticals      INFI        12.20               15,537 
Integrated Elec Services      IESC        3.99                11,466 
Integrated Silicon Sol        ISSI        11.20               12,253 
Intel                         INTC        28.09            6,097,521 
Intl Bancshares               IBOC        21.39               14,276 
Intuitive Surgical            ISRG        538.90              28,657 
iShrNasdaqBiotch              IBB         123.32              20,677 
Jive Software                 JIVE        27.65               55,065 
Joe's Jeans                   JOEZ        1.33                52,621 
KLA-Tencor                    KLAC        53.39              266,890 
LNB Bancorp                   LNBB        6.30                 5,239 
Ligand Pharmaceuticals        LGND        18.74               15,347 
Liquidity Services            LQDT        48.34               55,507 
LivePerson Inc                LPSN        17.44               54,018 
MAKO Surgical Cp              MAKO        45.00              176,229 
MTS Systems                   MTSC        53.72               12,052 
Madison Square Garden         MSG         34.65               55,249 
MarketAxess Hldgs             MKTX        37.79               34,631 
Mattel Inc                    MAT         34.27              235,633 
Maxim Intgrtd Prod            MXIM        28.96              209,003 
Monster Beverage              MNST        61.35              105,593 
NASDAQ Prem Inc & Growth      QQQX        15.56               12,167 
Neteasecom                    NTES        60.15               86,980 
O'Reilly Automotive           ORLY        91.40               76,307 
OSI Systems                   OSIS        63.93               22,125 
Old Line Bancshrs             OLBK        10.20                1,558 
Old Sec Cap Tr I 7.8% pfd     OSBCP       4.70                   100 
Oritani Fincl                 ORIT        14.71               41,265 
Patrick Industries            PATK        10.95               19,766 
Peet's Coffee & Tea           PEET        77.00               24,089 
Pharmacyclics                 PCYC        28.49               67,614 
PwrShs SP SmCp Cons Discr     PSCD        32.46                1,735 
PwrShs S&P SmCp Cons          PSCC        34.18                2,153 
PwrShs S&P SmCp Hlth Cre      PSCH        35.27                2,434 
pricelinecom                  PCLN        727.70             290,608 
Procera Networks              PKT         22.18               44,311 
Qualcomm                      QCOM        67.96            1,944,234 
Rand Logistics                RLOG        9.10                 8,043 
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals     REGN        120.90             165,220 
Ross Stores                   ROST        58.64              487,911 
Ruths Hsptlty Gr              RUTH        7.49                14,237 
Ryanair Hldgs PLC (ADS)       RYAAY       35.86               50,332 
SS&C Techs Hldgs              SSNC        23.41                8,613 
Saba Software                 SABA        12.71               32,217 
Santarus                      SNTS        5.71                73,816 
Snyders-Lance                 LNCE        25.49               29,409 
Sourcefire                    FIRE        50.47               92,758 
Spectranetics                 SPNC        10.76               31,351 
Starbucks                     SBUX        55.88              730,602 
SurModics                     SRDX        15.93                4,999 
Synacor                       SYNC        7.90                49,300 
Taylor Capital Group          TAYC        14.25                5,616 
TIBCO Software                TIBX        31.94              268,452 
Town Sports Intl Hldgs        CLUB        12.55               19,111 
Tractor Supply Co             TSCO        90.66              448,145 
US Ecology                    ECOL        21.62               53,188 
Ubiquiti Networks             UBNT        32.69              106,602 
Ulta Salon Cosmetics          ULTA        94.73               75,333 
Ultralife                     ULBI        5.50                24,059 
Umpqua Hldgs                  UMPQ        13.58               49,491 
United Bancorp                UBCP        9.52                 5,175 
Utd Community Fincl           UCFC        2.19                24,345 
Verenium                      VRNM        4.15               652,804 
Verisk Analytics Inc          VRSK        47.28              310,656 
Volterra Semiconductor        VLTR        33.26               95,764 
WPP Group PLC (ADS)           WPPGY       70.06               22,924 
Wright Medical Group          WMGI        19.47               18,730

Zumiez                        ZUMZ        36.76               22,986 

New Lows 7 

COMPANY                       SYMBOL      LOW                 VOLUME 
-------                       ------      ----                ------ 
A123 Sys Inc                  AONE        1.48             3,132,453 
Cleantech Solutions Intl      CLNT        1.88                28,216 
D Medical Industries          DMED        0.35                21,299 
Deer Consumr Prdcts           DEER        3.10                33,087 
ProShs UlShrt Nsdq Biot       BIS         22.98                1,500 
Pure Bioscience               PURE        0.29                 5,498 
Sunshine Heart                SSH         8.50                   300

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S&P A/D Line

NASDAQ A/D Line 

-CALLS- 
OPTION    EXP.DATE       STRIKE PRC.     VOLUME        LAST S/PRC.    NET CHANGE 
BAC        3/30/12          10.0000         510            0.1800      up 0.0400 
BAC        4/21/12           9.0000         229            1.1200      up 0.1100 
INTC       5/19/12          26.0000         103            2.2700      up 0.3200 
DIA        4/21/12         136.0000         100            0.1400      up 0.0400 
DIA        4/21/12         135.0000         100            0.2500      up 0.0600 
FCX        3/30/12          40.0000          89            0.3100      up 0.0900 
LVS        3/30/12          60.0000          84            0.4200      up 0.1700 
AAPL       3/30/12         600.0000          79            7.0500      up 0.5700 
SUN        5/19/12          42.0000          78            0.3100      dn 0.3900 
FCX        3/30/12          39.0000          66            0.7400      up 0.2500 

 -PUTS- 
OPTION    EXP.DATE       STRIKE PRC.     VOLUME        LAST S/PRC.    NET CHANGE 
LVS        5/19/12          50.0000         268            0.6800      dn 0.2000 
X          3/30/12          29.0000         144            0.4400      up 0.0000 
LVS        5/19/12          55.0000         134            1.8100      dn 0.3900 
LVS        5/19/12          45.0000         134            0.2500      dn 0.0700 
FCX        3/30/12          37.0000         110            0.1400      dn 0.0900 
FCX        3/30/12          38.0000         100            0.3200      dn 0.1600 
AAPL       3/30/12         600.0000          81            9.0000      dn 1.8100 
MSFT       3/30/12          32.0000          77            0.1600      dn 0.1700 
COF        4/21/12          55.0000          74            1.2800      dn 0.1200 
SU         4/21/12          33.0000          68            0.7600      dn 0.3300 

 -VOLUME- 
 CALLS      PUTS           TOTAL 
9201    11287        20488

-CALLS- 
OPTION    EXP.DATE       STRIKE PRC.     VOLUME        LAST S/PRC.    NET CHANGE 
HD         4/21/12          50.0000        2938            0.8200      up 0.1200 
BAC        3/30/12          11.0000        2024            0.0300      up 0.0000 
BAC        3/30/12          10.0000        1831            0.1700      up 0.0300 
AAPL       3/30/12         600.0000        1723            7.1000      up 0.5900 
VVUS       6/16/12          13.0000        1358           10.8000      up 1.3000 
INTC       5/19/12          26.0000        1328            2.2700      up 0.1300 
BAC        4/21/12          10.0000        1202            0.4600      up 0.0600 
BAC        5/19/12          10.0000        1166            0.6500      up 0.0700 
EMC        4/21/12          30.0000        1094            0.5400      up 0.1200 
PEP        7/21/12          70.0000        1032            0.3600      up 0.0700 

 -PUTS- 
OPTION    EXP.DATE       STRIKE PRC.     VOLUME        LAST S/PRC.    NET CHANGE 
INTC       4/21/12          28.0000        1159            0.6300      dn 0.0900 
PBR        10/20/12         25.0000        1140            1.6500      dn 0.2100 
INTC       4/21/12          27.0000        1078            0.2800      dn 0.0400 
WMT        9/22/12          60.0000        1060            2.3500      dn 0.0500 
TLT        6/16/12         120.0000         900            9.2600      up 0.4100 
TLT        6/16/12         108.0000         900            1.9100      up 0.0400 
AAPL       3/30/12         575.0000         866            1.2100      dn 0.7800 
VVUS       4/21/12          18.0000         780            2.2300      dn 0.1700 
DAL        5/19/12          11.0000         734            1.6400      dn 0.0200 
AAPL       3/30/12         580.0000         733            1.8000      dn 0.9600 

 -VOLUME- 
 CALLS      PUTS           TOTAL 
291117    237516        528633