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Stocks and sectors to track - methods to utilze...

These are interesting and challenging markets - volatile and confusing. There are also many instruments and tools at your disposal. ETFs are ways to make sector bets - there are 2x and 3x volatility versions. Of course, other methods are using coverered calls for income and spreads for growth.

Here is a large list of tickers, roughly 80 in the BigWatch>
AAPL AKAM AMAG APOL BRCM CECO CELG CMG COST CREE DGIT DRIV ENER FSLR GILD GLW GOOG IMGN INTC JPM NFLX NVDA RHT RIMM SLAB SNDK SPWRA STP VMW WFR IBN INFY ACH BIDU CTRP EDU NTES SNDA ERJ MELI FLS FLR SGR MDR SQM AVAV AUY FCX KGC CCJ NRG MOS MON POT MVL DRYS BG BHP RIO VIP AMSC APA ATW CHK COG DO ESV GHM HES ITRI LDK NE NFX RIG STO SU PCZ SUN SYT TSO VLO ZOLT USO DIG DUG GLD GDX PBW SLV EEM FXI FXP EWZ TBT

and then the Biotech Watch>
ABII ACOR ALTH AMAG AMED AMGN AMLN BABY BIIB BMRN CELG CEPH CYBS CYPB EBS ENDP GENZ GERN GILD HOLX ILMN IMGN ISRG KNDL LIFE MDVN MEDX MELA MNTA MYGN ONXX OPTR OSIP PDLI SGEN SLXP SQNM TEVA THOR VIVO VPHM VRTX XNPT

Here is an attempted sort into categories>

COMMODITIES
Agriculture
MON
MOS
POT
Metals
GLD - ETF
GDX - ETF
UGL - ETF
FCX
KGC
X
AUY
Oil & Gas
DIG - ETF
DUG - ETF
USO – ETF
VLO
TSO
RIG
NE
DO
SLB
HAL
SU
PCZ
Wind
PWND
Water
FLS
Solar
STP
FSLR
SPWRA
ENER

Technology
Hardware
AAPL
RIMM
BRCM
SIGM
MLNX
MRVL
QCOM
Software/Internet
AMZN
GOOG
VMW
AKAM
BCSI
MELI
BIDU
NTES
SNDA
EDU
APOL
CTRP?
Biotech
AMAG
IMGN
OSIP
MDVN

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