Cramer's 'Mad Money' Recap: Cracking the Playbook

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"Tonight I'm giving you the only thing you really need," Jim Cramer told "Mad Money" viewers Friday. "That is my game plan. You need to know what's coming up and what to do about it."

Cramer revealed that each Friday night going forward he will give viewers a game plan to know how best to play the market in the next work week.

"This is how the game plan works," he said. "I tell you the lay of the land and how to play it."

The markets have been in constant struggle between the hard landing folks and the soft landing people. "They are battling it out like the Crips and Bloods," he said.

Cramer is betting against the hard landing folks who he thinks are wrong in their outlook. "It doesn't matter that they are wrong," he said, "because there are a lot of them."

He thought for the short term it looks like the hard-landing folks will have the edge next work week. But he suggested viewers balance their portfolios with stocks that would benefit from whichever group won out.

The stocks to buy if there is a hard landing are:

• Verizon(VZ Quote),
• Pepsi(PEP Quote),
• Altria(MO Quote),
• Kimberly Clark(KMB Quote) and
• GlaxoSmithKline(GSK Quote).

But the soft-landing guys could win, so investors looking to profit from a potential soft landing should look to buy:

• Caterpillar(CAT Quote),
• ConocoPhillips (COP Quote),
• Chesapeake Energy(CHK Quote),
• Nabors(NBR Quote) and
• JoS. A. Banks(JOSB Quote).