What can you buy in this crazy market? Market Beating Stocks.com created a proprietary stock screen called "MAV": Momentum And Value. We use the MAV screen to search stocks that have shown strong price momentum over the past three months, a proxy we use for identifying high investor demand. But value is just as critical as momentum in today's market where fear and volatility still rule the roost.

Value stocks are more reasonably priced and offer more protection in a volatile market with sharp downward moves. After selecting the stocks with the highest momentum, we then rank our selections based on those stocks that carry the strongest value indicators. Our "value rankings" evaluate a number of criteria including PE multiples, price to sales ratios, relative industry comparisons, and growth rates. Once ranked, our last consideration is the stock's recent chart action to ensure the timing is right and that recent price movements represent good "buying" opportunities.

This was truly an historic and tumultuous week on Wall Street. The S&P 500 crashed, losing 18.2% over the past five trading days! The NASDAQ did only a little better losing 15.3% for the week. The level of panic and fear was clearly evident, with policy makers stepping up their efforts to provide stability and reassurance to investors. The behavior of the stock market and governmental actions taken over this recent period will likely write new material for the history books. But it is the overriding fear and exteme pessimism among investor sentiment that we now find encouraging.

The biggest news from last week was again centered on the financial sector and the economy. The bailout plan that was approved may have stemmed some bleeding, but it failed to jolt the market back on a positive course. Last week marked big downturns in global markets, as fear spread across the globe. In a remarkable event, Global central banks coordinated an emergency rate cut on Wednesday, but this dramatic action failed to move the market in a material way. In addition, the Fed announced plans to buy short term commercial paper in an effort to unfreeze credit markets, but this too failed to turned the market.

Market Beating Stocks looks for stocks that are poised for a breakout, meaning a 30% price gain target within 6 months. How do we find these stocks? We search over 8,000 stocks daily using our proprietary stock screen called "MARP": Momentum At Reasonable Prices. The MARP screen searches for stocks that have shown strong price momentum over the past three- and six- month periods reflecting strong investor demand. From that starting point, we narrow our selections down to only those stocks that remain reasonably priced. We use a number of criteria to evaluate "reasonableness" including PE multiples, price to sales ratios, relative industry comparisons, and growth rates. Finally, we review each stock chart to ensure recent price movements represent good "buying" opportunities.

What stocks does our MARP strategy currently show? Sun Healthcare (SUNH) and Comfort Systems (FIX) are both currently on our buy list. Let's review each one briefly.

Are you looking for fast moving stocks that still have room to run? Market Beating Stocks has created a proprietary stock screen called "MARP": Momentum At Reasonable Prices. We use the MARP screen to search for stocks that have shown strong price momentum over the past three and six month periods. These are stocks that are showing strong investor demand. From that starting point, we narrow our selections down to only those stocks that remain reasonably priced. We use a number of criteria to evaluate "reasonableness" including PE multiples, price to sales ratios, relative industry comparisons, and growth rates. Finally, we review each stock chart to ensure recent price movements represent good "buying" opportunities.

What stocks does our MARP strategy currently show? NN Inc. (NNBR), Thermadyne Holdings (THMD), DXP Enterprises (DXPE) are all currently on our buy list. Let's review each one briefly.

Emcor Group (EME) showed up on our stock screen today and after review, we jumped on it. EME has demonstrated strong earnings and sales growth over the past twelve months, yet in our view, remains very attractively priced. Earnings and Sales have grown 60% and 26.8% respectively over the past 12 months, but their PE ratio is under 14.

Just for comparison, EME earnings growth and return on equity have both been better than 80% of their industry, yet their valuation as measure by the PE ratio, remains lower than 60% of competitors. Those kinds of numbers suggest to us that EME is very reasonably priced.

We like Centene Corp (CNC) based on their strong earnings and sales growth over the past twelve months.

The stock has shown strong price momentum since their April lows and has been up 22% over the past three months. Growth in earnings and sales over the past twelve months has been 115% and 33% respectively, both very high numbers.

We like Olin Corp (OLN) based on exceptional top line sales growth, along with strong earnings.

We think the stock is attractively priced given a PE ratio of 15 versus sales growth of nearly 60% over the past 12 months. Earnings growth has also been very good at 26% over the last year, although the company did miss expectations slightly in the July 25 quarterly report.

Another down week for the stock market as it tumbled 1.2% and 3% on the S&P and NASDAQ respectively. Declines were broad-based as only the Healthcare sector rose over the past 5 days. The NASDAQ fell more sharply than the overall market, with the largest declines on Wednesday of last week.

The main catalysts remain surging oil prices, the struggling financial sector and concern over a weak economy. Overall the market has lost 14% YTD and the S&P 500 has lost nearly 20% since highs hit in October. We sense that the investor gloom index (if there were one) hit new highs last week. Unfortunately, we suspect things will likely get gloomier before getting better.

Another tough week just ended (June 27, 2008) for stocks as the the S&P and NASDAQ tumbled 3% and 3.8% respectively. Declines were broad-based as nine out of ten sectors fell, this on top of the 3% weekly loss from the prior week. Four out of the five trading days showed losses, but it was the action on Thursday that made up for the lion's share of the weekly decline.

The main catalysts remain surging oil prices, the struggling financial sector and concern over a weak economy. Overall the market has lost 8% in June, and over 12% YTD, in a period of high volatility. Clearly this is a tough market for long investors trying to make money and most should be happy with just losing less than the market.

We like Almost Family, Inc. (AFAM) based on their earnings and sales growth, low valuation, demographics, and strong analyst support.

AFAM earnings growth over the past 12 months has been 57% and that is better than 73% of their industry competitors. Revenue and Earnings have both been growing consistently quarter over quarter for the past two years.

MarketBeatingStocks.com likes American Physicians Services Group (AMPH) based on their earnings growth, low valuation, strong analyst support, and recent price momentum. AMPH earnings growth over the past 12 months has been astronomical at 358%, and that is better than virtually all of their industry competitors.

While it is true that a major acquisition last year accounted for much of that extreme growth, even after normalizing, we think earnings have grown around 40% which is still better the majority of their industry competitors. With a PE ratio around 6 (one of the lowest in the industry), we think the stock is still undervalued relative to peers and its growth prospects.