Welcome to the weekend everyone, and not just any weekend - a three-day weekend. Of course, if your holiday weekend is anything like mine -- wildly busy -- then you may be longing for a return to the normal trading/work schedule by Sunday afternoon. Heck, it's already been overwhelming in my household, with the whatnot of getting everything ready... the food, the gifts, the whole shebang. And, I'll confess I'm still not done with my shopping yet. I suspect many of you aren't either, still stumped as to what to get that person on your list that's just hard to buy for. May I make a suggestion? I know there was a point in time when a gift had to be something you could wrap up and put a bow on. The advent of the digital age really has changed what constitutes an appropriate gift though. My dad, for instance, loves his annual gift subscription to Netflix (and for some reason won't sign up for himself). My 12-year old wants little more than gift cards he can use to download video games and make in-app purchases. My wife wants... well, she wants stuff, but that's a different story. My point is, digital gifts are the new norm, and we've got some creative gift-giving ideas that everyone loves but not everybody will buy for themselves - the gift of great stock picks, delivered via e-mail. On the off-chance you don't know, the SmallCap Network newsletter also operates two premium services. One of them issues swing trading ideas -- several per week -- with most of them being stocks priced at less than $10, where the action can get heated. This Under the Radar Movers service will also send out the occasional long-term pick. And some of the URM's picks have been jaw-dropping winners. In early December the Under the Radar Movers team locked in a 50% gain on Goldfield (GV), and in late-November these guys pinned down a 100% profit on Heat Biologics (HTBX). Thing is, it's not as if gains of that magnitude are anything unusual for the URM newsletter. The Under the Radar Movers' long-term picks are just as good. Earlier this month lead analyst James Brumley reaped a 54% profit on Rudolph Technologies (RTEC), with a holding period of less than seven months. For investors looking for something a little heavier-duty that includes ongoing, deep market analysis, economic perspective, plus a ton of great stock picks, the Elite Opportunity Pro newsletter delivers, in spades. On November 14th the EO Pro service locked in a 59% profit on the Direxion Daily S&P Biotech Bull 3X ETF (LABU), and around that same time John Monroe and his crew nailed down a 44% gain on the Direxion Daily Small Cap Bull 3X ETF (TNA). And those are just some of the short-term swing trades. The Elite Opportunity Pro service also manages a list of long-term picks. One of them is Amazon.com (AMZN). John had the guts to pick it in August of last year (when it wasn't easy to buy) and EO members have been rewarded handsomely for his foresight. See, AMZN has gained 65% in the meantime. I could go on, but you get the idea. To answer the follow-up question about which one you want, the answer is, it depends. The Under the Radar Movers newsletter is mostly a means of delivering a lot of small cap, sub-$10 trading ideas without a lot of other chatter (though there is some market commentary). It costs less than the Elite Opportunity service, but the EO Pro is considerably more robust. It's chock full of commodity analysis, near-term and long-term market analysis, and of course, plenty of stock-picking. Both newsletters are also offered with several attractive subscription terms. And, both newsletters offer a free, two-week test drive. You really can't go wrong, whether you're buying it for yourself or for someone else. Better still, you don't have to brave the crazy, crowded malls to cross the gift off your shopping list. On other fronts, red-hot Radient Technologies (RTI) dished out some interesting news today. On the surface it may not seem like much. When you get into the nitty-gritty of it though, there's a small detail that could end up being a very big deal down the road. A company's board members come and go. Most of the time it doesn't mean much. Those decisions are usually politically or socially driven , and often don't make much of an impact on the business. Every now and then though, the addition of a new board member can be seemingly innocuous until you look at that new member's history. Sometimes there's a very specific skill, talent or knowledge a director brings to the table, and we have to think it wasn't a coincidence Mr. Jan Petzel was added to Radient's Board of Directors this week. He isn't a household name, though some of you may have heard it. Petzel is a former Goldman Sachs guy, and he's one of the guys that got Eldon Capital off the ground... where he's now the Managing Partner. That's not the interesting part of his entry into the picture though. See, Petzel was also on the board of directors of Cognis GmbH, which is a global supplier of specialty chemicals and nutritional ingredients. Sound familiar? Yep, that's the same business Radient Technologies is in. What's noteworthy was while Petzel was on the board at Cognis, it was acquired by BASF at a price of about $3 billion. Maybe that's what Radient is leading up to. Maybe it isn't. Either way, given Petzel's history, he has to know a lot of the best people in the ingredient business to know. He also knows how to get things done. The guy really is a game-changing addition to the Radient board. Add it to the list of reasons RTI is up 240% over the course of the past couple of weeks. We'll sign off for the day and the week there, and wish you all a wonderful holiday break. We'll be back on Tuesday to kick off the last trading week of the year, which is bound to be exciting. In the meantime, don't forget to simplify your last-minute shopping by gifting the Under the Radar Movers newsletter or the Elite Opportunity Pro newsletter.