Wild Stock Market Report: Week 4

You ever look at a stock chart and notice that there seems to be an awful lot of up and down with that line? They call that a "volatile" stock, and it is dangerous, because you never know what that thing is going to do. It could shoot up 50 points in a day, making day traders millions. It could plummet fifty points and send those same traders off the side of the new 35W bridge.

Or... it could simply continue to go up and down for long, painful stretches of time, eventually making you wonder why you invested anything in it at all.

Make the jump for who's up and who's down.

Rating: Buy

Rating: Strong Buy

Rating: Hold

NIklas Backstrom (BAX): Here again, it may be too late to buy in without being dubbed a bandwagoner, but Backstrom showed this week that he still has what it takes. The performances against the Capitals and the Blackhawks were nothing short of amazing, and with a little help from his team, both of them certainly could have been shutouts. He is, without a doubt, the sinlge most important reason why this team is at .500 and not three games below right now.

Rating: Strong Buy

Rating: Sell

Todd Richards (SUIT): Let's get something straight. I'm a big Todd Richards guy. His system would be amazing if the players could execute it more than one game at a time. However, the up and down nature of this team, the inconsistency in effort, the fix one issue only to have another pop up... it will bite him in the end. It shouldn't, but it will. Players don't get fired, coaches do. In this case, that is very unfortunate. And I hope I'm wrong about it.

Rating: Sell