It took all week, but the S&P finally broke its four-session losing skid and finished in the green on Friday. All the major indices managed a slightly higher close on the final day of this frustrating week plagued by trade war fears. In the end, the Dow finished the week lower by approximately 1.55%, while the NASDAQ was off 1.3% and the S&P slipped a little more than 1%. The market got some help on Friday from positive industrial and consumer confidence reports. The Dow moved forward by 0.29% to 24,946.5. The S&P was only up 0.17% to 2752, but that was enough to get back on the plus side after four straight days of losses. The NASDAQ was breakeven, but technically advanced 0.25 of a point (or 0%) to 7482. Let’s hope the worst of the tariff concerns are behind us, because the market will have enough to worry about next week with the FOMC meeting. Unless there’s some news out of Washington or overseas, the Fed will likely be the biggest event of the week. The Committee is expected to raise rates, but the market will really be paying attention to any hints that there could be more than three rate hikes in 2018. In the portfolios, Brian Bolan has been the most active (and profitable) editor over the past few days. Yesterday, he sold a stock in Home Run Investor for a triple-digit profit...and he did so again today in Technology Innovators. He cashed in a double-digit winner as well, while replacing Thursday's sell in HRI with a new addition. In Surprise Trader, Dave booked double-digit profits for two positions. Read more in the highlights section below: Today's Portfolio Highlights: Technology Innovators: Brian Bolan is cashing in some big winners these days. Yesterday, he sold a stock in Home Run Investor for a 100% return, and today he logged another triple digit winner in this portfolio. Nutanix (NTNX) was one of the first additions to TI back in October and it has done very well since then. Brian was thinking about taking profits after an investment bank issued a sky-high price target of $71. He followed through on Friday by selling the enterprise cloud platform provider for an impressive gain of 103% in just about 5 months. But that wasn’t all. The editor also decided to pull profits in WorkDay (WDAY), which provides enterprise cloud applications for human resources and finance. The company was added shortly before its fiscal third quarter results in November, when it continued an impressive string of positive surprises. It beat again in February. Today it was sold for a very solid return of 21% in four months. Read the full write-up for more on Brian’s reasons for taking these profits. Surprise Trader: Dick’s Sporting Goods (DKS) and Ulta Beauty (ULTA) entered the portfolio at the same time…and now they’re leaving at the same time with double-digit returns each. Dave added these retailers just a little over a week ago in the runup to their quarterly reports. They were both smart moves. The editor decided to book the profits ahead of the weekend, selling ULTA for about 11% and DKS for approximately 10% after just eight days in the portfolio. Read the full write-up for more. Home Run Investor: The portfolio replaced its 100% winner from yesterday by adding Zendesk (ZEN) today. Earnings estimates for this quarter have moved lower, but are on the rise for next quarter and the full year. In fact, expectations for the year have soared to a 5-cent profit from a 4-cent loss in just the past 60 days, while estimates for next year are on the rise as well. Brian Bolan believes that this software development company will double this year and continue to move higher next year as well. Read the full commentary for more info on this new addition. Counterstrike: “Considering it was a quad witch Friday, volume and volatility was extremely low today. Quad witch is the expiration of stock-index futures, stock options, stock-index options, and stock options. This event can lead to big volumes and crazy moves, but today was somewhat muted. There was expected to be rebalancing of over $20 billion in trades, but I’m sure that volume was as high as expected. "Volume was right around where it was all week after taking into account quad witch. To me, traders are waiting for what the Fed has to say next week, so we could continue to see some choppy trading until the middle of next week. "I’m looking for the market to settle in early next week ahead of the Fed. That means volumes and volatility should remain low until Wednesday. After that, anything goes. The Feds language will be more important than the action. I expect big moves out of bonds, which should translate to big moves in stocks to finish the week. We will adjust as needed.” – Jeremy Mullin Have a Great Weekend! Jim Giaquinto Recommendations from Zacks' Private Portfolios: Believe it or not, this article is not available on the Zacks.com website. 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