Top Takes From RealMoney

The RealMoney contributors are in the business of trading and investing all day on the basis of ongoing news flow. Below, we offer the top five ideas that RealMoney contributors posted today and how they played those ideas.

Dell-Perot

By Jim Cramer
7:04 a.m. EDT Weird Dell(DELL Quote)-Perot Systems(PER Quote) hookup. I guess Dell wanted some recurring revenue. I bet this stops the nascent run in Dell.

Positions: None

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Dollar/Yen

By Helene Meisler
10:05 a.m. EDT Just prior to my time off late last week, I made a fuss over the dollar/yen chart, stating that it had not made a lower low down through 90. This morning finds it not only having rallied sharply but having crossing through a steep downtrend line as well as peeking its head up through that resistance at 92.

As I said last week, the relentless rise in the stock market began right around the point the dollar/yen peaked and headed lower, so a potential bottom here should add to the overbought situation in the stock market.

U.S. Dollar vs. Japanese Yen Source: Barchart.com

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Verichip Jumping on the H1N1 Bandwagon

By Hal Uy
11:58 a.m. EDT Shares of Verichip(CHIP Quote) are up over 200% on news that the company has been granted an "exclusive license for patents used in Virus Triage Detection Systems for H1N1 Virus." The problem is that CHIP hasn't developed a test yet for H1N1 based on the Virus Triage Detection System.

With pandemic flus generally lasting less than two years, even if the the company is successful, the H1N1 pandemic will be long over. Here is the white paper (note: it's a .pdf file) on the test they want to develop.