Shares of Aspen Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AZPN) will see a huge rally in today’s trading, after moving the company announced that fourth-quarter financial results. The stock reached as high as $ 17.15 mid-day trading, and the last check was up 13.83% to $ 15.80, the average daily volume of 579,820 to 1,840,000. The set is a 52-week range of $ 9.14 – $ 17.53. Currently trading above the 50-day and 200 day moving average. The stock gained 19.97% in the last three trading sessions.

Shares of Dycom Industries Inc. (NYSE: DY) is soaring in today’s trading, after moving the company disclosed its fourth quarter financial results. The stock reached as high as $ 15.95 mid-day trading, and the last check was up 10.41% to $ 15.27, the average daily volume of 383,962 to 1,390,000. The set is a 52-week range of $ 7.30-$ 18.78. Currently trading below the 50-day and 200 day moving averages. The stock gained 20.54% in the last three trading sessions.
Shares of Peregrine Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: PPHN) is rallying today’s trading, after moving the company reported a promising median overall survival 20.7 months, Phase 2 study in advanced breast cancer. Small cap stocks have reached a high $ 1.88 mid-day trading, and the last check was up 12.21% to $ 1.47, the average daily volume of 486,038 to 1,860,000. The set is a 52-week range of $ 1.17 – $ 3.10. Currently trading below the 50-day and 200 day moving averages. The stock gained 16.53% in the last three trading sessions.

As our long time followers know we have been bullish and successfully trading AAPL, RIMM and a host of other hardware / technology companies.  We want to bring to your attention a few important things to consider about these two now as well as an ETF that could offer you tremendous upside in the short-term.

First lets look at RIMM which has been very much so overshadowed by AAPL in the last 12 months due to iphone and ipad growth.   Case in point:

No major tech stock has gone more quickly from hero to goat than Research in Motion, maker of the Blackberry smartphone. This was possibly one of the great growth stories of the last six years (when sales grew anywhere from +35% to +127% in any given year), but Apple’s (Nasdaq: AAPL) stunning success with the iPhone and the iPad have led investors to think RIM’s days of growth are over. And they ran as fast as they could, pushing shares down from above $80 last September to below $50 in early July (before a recent rebound to $56).

We believe this creates significant value and positions RIMM as well as several other hight growth tech companies as solid value plays from where they trade now. Consider the following:

For the ETF junkies there is one ETF that we believe should explode based on the smart phone war as The Street called it:

As the Droid X and iPhone 4 duke it out in the smartphone arena,Research in Motion(RIMM) plans to unleash its own product into the fray. iShares S&P North American Technology-Multimedia Networking Index Fund(IGN) is an ETF that should profit from this battle.

Needless to say there is tremendous upside in the smart phone sector;

Global sales of these phones jumped 886 percent in the second quarter from a year ago and within the U.S, Android (along with the broader smart phone industry) vastly outperformed expectations.

We expect to play these positions short-term as well as mid to long-term for the growth portion of our portfolios.  Make sure to follow us on Twitter for the most up to date investment information and due diligence we find and leave a comment to tell us your pitch for these stocks.  Understand and know your risk when investing.

Okay, maybe not 100 times, but we have mentioned it a few times and when we first featured a little company called $VSTNQ in “Bankruptcy Good for Our Bank” , we were confident in the positive news the company was releasing even though it was going through bankruptcy. We don’t get in to too many penny stocks, however, this one has really faired us well. Closing at $0.56 on March 1st it has continued to sky rocket several times over. We featured it two more times

And if you thought that was good VSTNQ has rallied all the way up from $0.56 to $0.95!! NINETY FIVE CENTS!

in Our Bankruptcy Call are On The Run and then again, in If We’ve Said it Once…

I hope you got on because it’s trading over $1.13!

Now, we’re saying it again I hope you got on because it’s trading over $1.69! That’s over 30 times!