[SteveR]

seeing that Northrop-Grumman just won a multi billion dollar contract, that might be a good direction to look in. Government and military companies are the easiest to make money on. Read the insider magazines, see who wins big contracts, buy their stock that day, hold onto it for a little while, sell. The big ones after 9/11 were Raytheon, Lockheed, Haliburton, and General Dynamics.