What is a good topic for our investor's group to focus on next month? We pretty much stick to stocks.?

It needs to be a topic that has a variety of stocks in an industry or grouping. At least four of the stocks should be worth reporting on and have Value Line reports.
I know Cable TV is the number one industry now. Does anyone else have an interesting idea?

BRIC has been done in the last year, but Russia is scary. We haven't done Dogs in a few years.

"Dogs of the Dow" strategy

Do you currently have a series 65 license if not obtain one as soon as possible? I have personally found the foreign currency exchange market more profitable then stocks, in regards to short term gains.

check wikipedia on the article 2007 and see upcoming events of companies

ROW. Rest of world. US companies that get most of their revenue from doing business in emerging markets other than Brazil, India, Russia and China.

I think 3d seismic stocks are a great investment right now. Oil Companies use these companies to create 3d maps of oil fields. My favorites in this area are Mitcham, MIND, and Bolt Technology, BTJ. Here is a link on this area:

http://www.top10traders.com/ViewPost.asp...

Here are links for MIND and BTJ:

http://www.top10traders.com/ViewHolding....

http://www.top10traders.com/ViewHolding....

Hope this helps.

Ask your friends, which stores, restaurants, service providers, shops they frequent regulary are experiencing significant increase/decrease in traffic or service levels. Check out those that are publicly traded. Then determine if the reasons for the increase decrease are perminent. Usaully, a company experiencing fall off in customer volume or in service level is due to deeper reasons and is a sell indicator if the company is in your portofolio. And, contrawise. Employee moral is a great indicator of how well a company is doing. They cut out the free coffee shortly before they cut dividends or pay off all the profits to the officers. They have lots of employee beny's while the good times keep rolling. This is especially true in fast growing companies. Very key here is the change in service levels. Use this discussion as a way to get a list together.

Also, consider going outside valueline. So many companyies have grown so large, and the valueline universe is so small, that most of the companies within valueline have no more corners to grow on, that is, you can only have one home depot per block. You need something with room to expand still. To believe otherwise, you may just consider buying an index fund.