Five Stock Picks for the End of Chaos

Stock quotes in this article: MO , PG , T , KO , XOM  

If they drop later, then you buy.

There is some benefit to buying the chaos. You don't have to stand there when they open them up; you can sell off a little and wait.

But when you buy up, you buy on yesterday's quicksand, which sometimes turns to terra firma but most often doesn't.

Random musings: We took some action in the chaos of yesterday in ActionAlertsPlus.com, so we are not worried about what to do today. Check it out ... Congratulations to Doug Kass for being "all in short" for the crash. I know that this was one of the best calls I have ever seen made, and Doug remains the must-read on the network of TheStreet.com sites.

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At the time of publication, Cramer was long Altria.

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