Stock Question?

Is there any significance to a stock that goes up on the days when the market goes down, and goes down on the days when the market goes up?

And where do people find the best advice about the stock market, if one doesn't have insider trading information?

Get a financial advisor. It would be much better than going it on your own and having to constantly pull your hair out over market fluctuations.

(the money you want to have exposure to the market that is)
The rest should be in bonds. Commodities look pretty hot now too. Skip the REITs.

I've got some money in my company's stock, which I can get a discounted price from the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. I'm not sure if I should pull it out, and just put it in a CD (like my father says).

a wee bit and buy a cd to please dear old dad. But keep buying it! I love employee stock purchase plans. Often a really, really good deal.

Real Estate Investment Trust. Usually gives high dividends. Since it is real estate and some think the 'bubble' will burst soon in that sector it might not be a good time to get in.

Stocks that go up when the market goes down (and vice versa) usually do so because they are in a field that can profit from the win or lose of the rest. For example a company that deals with bankrupcy will go up even though the rest of the economy might suffer. Biotechs might go up if there is a new breakthrough, same with some of the techs. Money is looking to go somewhere.

As far as the stock you are holding you know how the company you are working for is doing, do some research, read as much as you can then decide.

invest in a mutural fund that pays the largest dividend you can find. Make sure this mutual fund is stable, and then collect the money instead of reinvesting the dividend. You will not be sorry, and get a check every quarter.

I believe what you are talking about is relative strength/weakness.
http://www.stockcharts.com/education/IndicatorAnalysis/indic_priceRelative.html

Technical analysis of stocks suffers because people prefer fundamental analysis which is more easily transmitted as a narrative.Invest in what you know is fundamental analysis but technical analysis is what everybody else in the world knows.

Laws which make CEOs personally responsible for financial reports have ended the days of irrational exuberance.Creative accounting has moved over to mortgages,regulation squeezed one part of the credit bubble which caused another area to bulge.

Financial advisors say you should invest in something you are comfortable with but if that is not something they are selling they have a tantrum.One adviser says conservative investing is like living with mom and the stock market is riskier but more rewarding like moving out.Terry Savage has "chicken money" for the wimps and Suze Ormun gets wimps to invest in the stock market through long term care insurance.

I used to listen to a show on the AM band where people would call in and ask for stock tips.The host had callers with thick accents ask when the bubble stock they invested all their money into would come back,he would give different answers but the callers would all react like children who had just heard that NORAD had shot down Santa.