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Builders: Nice Facade, Trouble in the Attic

By Joshua Hayes

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 I love leading stocks. When I invest in the stock market, I want to be long the best stocks in the best sectors. Right now, one of the top sectors out there based on six-month price performance is building -- residential/commercial, which is up 19% as a group since Jan. 1. While I love being long the best stocks in the market, there is one time that I do not want to be long. That's when the current crop of leaders is in a group of stocks that were already long-term leaders. Right now, based on price performance, the leaders are all in the same industry groups we saw lead the market from 2003 to 2005. The building -- residential/commercial sector is one of those groups. Now, while I have been showing you a lot of leading stocks with exciting chart patterns, there have been two major problems....

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