The summer is over which means beaches are empty and classrooms are crowded. But it isn’t just kids staring dull-eyed at the blackboard: Men and women across the country are also back in school benefitng for-profit education companies. This is a diverse sector encompassing a wide variety of different institutions such as DeVry (DV) Apollo Group (APOL) ITT Educational Services (ESI) Bridgepoint Education (BPI) Strayer Education (STRA) and Corinthian Colleges (COCO) to name just a few. Online or on campus these schools teach a wide range of skills including health care criminal justice information technology and construction trades. Investors haven’t been ...

Demand for education increases when the economy is suffering. However, investing in yourself might be a better option than education stocks.

Education Stocks on the Rebound

Editor's Note: The following is a free edition of Jeff Cooper's Daily Market Report.  For a FREE 2-week trial click here.Come out upon my seas Cursed missed opportunitiesAm I a part of the cureOr am I part of the disease-Clocks (Coldplay)The bullish argument: It's 2003 all over again. However the daily chart from the spring of 2002 through 2003 shows some conspicuous differences in the pattern between then and now.While it's possible to connect the dots between 2 drives to a low into the undercut low of October 2002 (an undercut of the July low) the market hasn't yet traced ...

The large cap loser list for April consists of former safe havens that have suffered from investor shifts to sectors that might benefit from economic recovery.