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I own all of these stocks in one capacity or another.

Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (ANF: 50.78 +0.57%) This company is a scourge on our fine earth. If you wear their clothes, your sartorial taste is appalling and I hold you in the same regard as murderers, rapists, and Ducati enthusiasts.

I got short at $54 for the millionth time (read this, and these). I may cover some of my short at 51.40 since it looks like $49 will hold. However, back around $55 and I’m in. Notice the volume at the $50 psych level, and the minimal volume at $55. Moreover, I might be willing to live with the pain of m

Retail stocks have been getting hammered and consumers remain under heavy pressure. That should delight doctrinaire contrarians. Buying when times are bad can definitely produce great results down the road, so this may, indeed, be a good time to look for retail bargains. But since we don't yet know how close or far we are from a significant bottom, such investing is best approached with careful and discipline. Presented here are 10 stocks, some well known with others flying under the radar, produced by a model that has shown an ability to cherry-pick within this presently-beleaguered group.

"If (investors) insist on trying to time their participation in equities, they should try to be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful" -- Warren Buffett, 2004 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Letter

Over the past several months, retail has been among the areas hardest hit during the market's downturn. Clothing, electronics, furniture and department stores have all taken their licks.

Abercrombie & Fitch

Filed under: Gap Inc (GPS), Abercrombie and Fitch (ANF), Under Armour'A' (UA), Technical Analysis, Stock screen, Liz Claiborne (LIZ), Stocks to Buy, Recession

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I write about all of the different things I want to accomplish here on this website and one of the important parts of analyses like these are to find out if they are truly working in the ‘real world’. In other words, what’s the use of writing something up if I don’t take the times

My quest is to find shorts where the recession isn’t priced yet. Obviously, the “short homebuilders and Fins” trade was better last year. There may still be downside, but I want the uncovered plays.

One uncovered play is (ANF: 70.64 +0.81%).

Retailers have sucked for some time, but I think that there is a supposition that teens are recession proof. Why else is ANF holding up?

Look, if we are going into a consumer-led recession, ask yourself, will ANF have a better two years going forward, or worse? I’m trying not to “over think” this.

It looks like it is rolling over and unless this piece o

American Eagle Outfitters (AEO) is a staple clothing retailer in most US and Canadian malls that caters to the 15 to 25 year old demographic.<!--more--> It is in the process of expanding its concept store Martin + OSA to focus on the under served 25 to 40 year old market, as well as other new concepts that should be strong growth drivers in the future. AEO has very strong brand recognition with 12 to 19 year olds and is ranked 2^nd only behind Nike in a spring 2007 survey by Teen Research Unlimited.

AEO opened it’s first store in 1977 and has aloyal customer base that has grown up alongside

A closer look at clothing retailers American Eagle Outfitters (AEO) and Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF) suggests the future may be less grim than expected, especially for ANF.

It is hard to believe, but this blog is approaching five years in operation, with the first post placed back on May 12, 2003! This is actually entry #1,797, and I am now up to reviewing entry #18! It

Looking through the list of top % gainers this morning , I came across an 'old favorite' of mine, Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF) which as I write is trading at $78.49, up $1.37 or 1.79% on the day. (As sometimes is the case, the stock as the morning went on is no longer on the list as I write, but being the author of this blog, I always reserve the right to write up a stock that made the list as I was researching the stock but then dropped off the list as other stocks moved higher as w