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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- It's people's choice time for = January effect=0A= candidates.

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Every year, investors in tiny stocks look for the January = effect. Some say it's a=0A= mythical notion -- the idea that small companies' shares will rise = each and every January.=0A= I asked CBS MarketWatch viewers for their top = choices: small companies=0A= that are growing rapidly but whose shares are in the dumps. (Se= e=0A= Part I: Tegal Semiconductor and MTR Gaming.)

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Marc Robins, an independent small-stock analyst at www.redchip.com,=0A= tells me the so-called January effect "has not been as = pronounced in the last two=0A= years. The summer rally in 1998 flopped, giving rise to a fall = frenzy, which moderated the=0A= January rally."

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This year, tax-loss selling "crept into November, = resulting in a December=0A= buying eruption," says Robins. "That doesn't mean the = bounce won't come, it just=0A= won't be as springy."

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Others on Wall Street say U.S. markets are in for a smashing = January. The reasoning=0A= there: the 1999 stock rally drove many stock indexes to record = highs. But small-cap=0A= stocks, as measured by the Russell 2000 index ($RUT: news, msgs) and the Standard & Poor's 600=0A= Index ($SML: news, msgs), trailed the pack. (See stock chart = above.) Just maybe, it's time=0A= for the so-called value stocks, the ones without a dot.com = at the ends of their=0A= names, to have their day in the January sun.

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What's more, a relative handful of stocks, the large, = technology-driven ones, drove the=0A= huge gains of the high-profile Nasdaq Composite ($COMPQ: news, msgs) and Nasdaq 100 ($NDX: news, msgs)=0A= indexes. Some two-thirds of all U.S. stocks, many of them in = manufacturing, tobacco,=0A= railroads, trucking, real estate and gold, went nowhere in = 1999.

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It was a narrow rally, in other words. Adding insult to injury: = small stocks suffered=0A= end-of-the-year tax selling. Investors, marking their losses for = tax reasons before Jan.=0A= 1, 2000, further depressed the small shares.

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At 33-year-old "Stock Trader's Almanac," publisher = Yale Hirsch in New Jersey=0A= calls this year a "stealth bear market . . . the not-so-nifty = 9,000." The=0A= almanac pioneered the strategy of picking underperforming stocks on = Dec. 15 and holding=0A= them until Feb. 15. See=0A= related story for more.

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Robins at Red Chip still sees a January bounce. His candidates = include Nobel Learning=0A= Communities Inc. (NLCI: news, msgs). "Its price has suffered because of = tax loss=0A= selling," Robins says. "It doubled from $4.50 to $9 until = November, when it=0A= plunged to $5. Education is shaping up as a big issue in the = presidential election=0A= campaign, and NLCI is likely to benefit in particular from the = growth of private preschool=0A= programs." (Shares of the Pennsylvania company sell for about = 6 on Nasdaq; market=0A= capitalization is a scant $26 million.)

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Microvision's Terminator = technology

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Another from Robins: Measurement Specialties (MSS: news, msgs), which trades on the American=0A= Stock Exchange, runs a consumer sensor business that  is = expanding into the=0A= industrial arena, Robins says. "Profits are up 100 percent = this year." (Market=0A= cap is $71 million for the New Jersey company, which recently said = it would sell a German=0A= brand of fiber-optic traffic sensors in Latin America and = Asia.)

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And our viewers, most of whom own stakes in the companies = they're proposing as January=0A= high-fliers?

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CBS MarketWatch.com viewer Larry Segal = writes: "Microvision=0A= Inc.(MVIS: news, msgs) is developing a heavily patented technology = called Virtual Retinal Display.=0A= Simply, a beam of light is scanned directly on the retina allowing = the viewer to view=0A= objects and data without the need for a flat panel display. = Microvision has established=0A= partnerships with leading players, and as Bluetooth (in Europe) and = other wireless=0A= application protocols rapidly evolve, Microvision may play a lead = role in offering=0A= alternative and superior displays." The company's Web sites = are www.mvispages.com and www.mvis.com.=0A= Several viewers called or wrote in to suggest Microvision is = developing a wireless cell=0A= phone that can project the equivalent of a 15-inch personal = computer monitor onto a human=0A= eye, without adding weight to the phone. (The Washington state = company's shares sell for=0A= about 23 on Nasdaq; market cap is $225 million.)

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Mike Schaefer wonders about MathSoft Inc. (MATH: news, msgs), a Massachusetts software developer=0A= that serves students who study math and science. Since we last = wrote about MathSoft, al= most=0A= a year ago, the Nasdaq-traded shares have gone, well, nowhere. = Schaefer calls Mathsoft=0A=   a "small but growing company with a web site about to = open up that may=0A= generate some interest. The site is going to be called www.freescholarships.com.&q= uot; MathSoft says=0A= the new Web site will "assist students and their families in = meeting the rising costs=0A= of a quality education." Sales in the most recent quarter grew = 12 percent from a year=0A= ago to $7 million. (MathSoft shares sell for about 3 9/16; market = cap is $35 million.)

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Alan Tobey says he sees an opportunity in Regis Corp. (RGIS: news, msgs). "How far from the=0A= mainstream frenzy can a stock get?" says Tobey from = California. Regis is the largest=0A= owner/franchiser of hair salons. "Stuck at $20 (a share on = Nasdaq) after a decline=0A= from $30 despite consistent growing revenues, profits and = same-store sales, this leader in=0A= its industry still has only a 3 percent market share and immense = growth potential,"=0A= Tobey says about the Minneapolis company, which earlier this month = bought 112 salons.=0A= Tobey says Regis is a "buy-what-you-know" stock that = belongs in the=0A= buy-and-forget category for the long term." (Market cap: $780 = million.)

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Alliance has ties to = Taiwan

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Jim Varney says Alliance Semiconductor (ALSC: news, msgs) owns about $1 billion worth of pre-tax=0A= shares of several related companies, including United = Microelectronics Corporation, a=0A= Taiwan computer chip maker. "UMC is one of the top producers = of chips in=0A= Taiwan," says Varney, who expects UMC's Taiwan-traded shares = to be listed as American=0A= Depositary Receipts in the U.S. market. Alliance, at 15 a share on = Nasdaq, has a market=0A= cap of $635 million. The shares, though, haven't exactly languished = this year; in the past=0A= six months they have about doubled in value. (See chart.) = The company is based in=0A= Silicon Valley, Calif.

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Julio Ocasio, another CBS MarketWatch reader, writes: = "Trans World Music=0A= Corp (TWMC: news, msgs) is one of the largest brick-and-mortar = music retailers. It's suffering from=0A= the perception that the Internet is going to be the death of (such) = retailers. Great=0A= balance sheet, no debt, $200 million in cash. Their music site is = www.twec.com and is competitive = with any other music=0A= site." The Albany, N.Y., company recently said that consumers = can return merchandise=0A= purchased at the Web site to any of the company's 985 U.S. stores. = (At 10 on Nasdaq, the=0A= shares give Trans World a market cap of $534 million.)

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Finally, several viewers, along with Salomon Smith Barney = analyst Victor Halpert,=0A= pointed to Israeli software services company ForSoft Ltd. (FORS: news, msgs). "The company is=0A= undertaking big projects around the world, and has a backlog of = projects," says=0A= Halpert, who sees the software consultant earning 90 cents a share = next year. The shares=0A= sell for about 11 1/2 on Nasdaq. About $3 of that is cash and cash = equivalents. Projecting=0A= a revenue growth rate of 40 percent in the year 2000, Halpert says = ForSoft shares could=0A= reach 20. ForSoft (market cap: $150 million) logged nine-month = sales of $45 million, a=0A= gain of 28 percent from the year-earlier period. ForSoft is one of = several companies=0A= controlled by another Israeli company, publicly traded Formula = Systems (FORTY: news, msgs).  =0A= The shares trade on Nasdaq.

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Folks, if some of the above candidates don't fit neatly into the = profile of a=0A= January-effect candidate -- especially the part about shares = battered by year-end tax=0A= selling -- well, blame the red-hot U.S. stock market.

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