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Stockprowler looks under the rocks to find those little stocks with the potential to make the BIG moves. Stockprowler screens NASDAQ, NYSE, AMEX, and OTC stocks trading under $1. These stocks offer the speculator considerable leverage. It is not uncommon for these stocks to make moves of 30%, 50%, or more. Please read our disclaimer before trading in any stocks mentioned on this Website ... Here's the Stockprowler Report for April 2006:

Stockprowler Watch

Here are some stocks we are watching closely!

Our next pick will be
6/4/06!

DIMEZ

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PLNI

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Stockprowler's wild card pick for
April 2006.....

Dime Bancorp Litigation Tracking Warrants (NasdaqNM: DIMEZ)

Closing Price Friday 4/07/2006: 17 cents

Stockprowler first looked at DIMEZ back in April 2005 when the Anchor Savings Bank vs United States case was being litigated in Federal Court. It looked like it had 10 bagger plus potential back then and we believe it still does. So what is this all about?

The lawsuit was filed against the United States government way back in January of 1995 by Anchor Bancorp, which later merged with Dime Bancorp. Between 1982 and 1985, Anchor acquired 8 failing savings and loan operations. Four of the acquisitions involved financial assistance from the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC). Liabilities in these transactions exceeded assets by $650 million. Anchor alleged that FSLIC agreed that this sum could be recorded as goodwill, and that Anchor would not have made the acquisitions if this had not been the case.

Enacted in 1989, the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act required that the aforementioned goodwill be eliminated immediately. The company argues that this action placed severe restrictions on its activities and forced the company to sell valuable assets under liquidation-like circumstances.

Washington Mutual (NYSE: WM) bought out Dime Bancorp several years ago and inherited Dime Bancorp's lawsuit. The DIMEZ financial instruments are termed warrants, but in fact, are more akin to rights. They offer the buyer an opportunity to receive common stock if a particular event not related to price of the common stock occurs. There is no exercise price, nor is there a definitive expiration date... the warrants expire shortly after litigation has been concluded. The warrants offer purchasers the opportunity to receive 85% of a settlement after taxes and lawyers fees have been taken out. The warrants trade as DIMEZ, although the underlying stock for the warrants is Washington Mutual (NYSE:WM).

The number of shares of Washington Mutual that a holder of the DIMEZ warrants is entitled to after settlement of the litigation is difficult to determine and is dependent on several variables. The trial itself was concluded in July 2005 and we are awaiting the court's decision. The court could award anything from $0 to $983 million. If the judge were to award the maximum amount, it would make the DIMEZ warrants worth somewhere between $7 and $8 …or over 40 times the 17 cents that they closed at on Friday! Far fetched you say? Well, in another S&L breach of contract lawsuit filed against the U.S. government, that of Glendale Federal Bank, Chief Judge Loren A. Smith found that the government was liable for $908.9 million in damages!

Of course, you could also receive nothing. In the event that the court does not award damages, the warrants would be worthless. It is a crap shoot. Don't wager more than you can afford to lose.

Well, all right, that's it for now… place your bets, sit back and relax. Remember, this is speculation not investing and quite often we get rewarded BIG for taking a chance…

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