Trading Ideas for Wednesday

2008.05.27 @ 11:59 PM Eastern | LINK | 0 Comments

The stock scan conducted after the close on Tuesday found 24 winners and 24 losers. Click on the column headers to sort the list below. The scan is designed to find stocks that are current “in play”; criteria includes price movement, range and liquidity (500,000 shares on the day, 20-day average volume of 1.5 million shares). The entire list has been ranked and sorted relative to performance against the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ 100 indexes. Please refer to the podcast for background information.

Portfolio Strategy for May 27

2008.05.26 @ 9:33 PM Eastern | LINK | 0 Comments

There is no commentary for this week’s issue. I’m in Mexico City and the 7,000+ feet altitude is not agreeing with me much. Sorry for the inconvenience. ACTION FOR THIS WEEK The Conservative Retirement portfolio was rebalanced on May 1, 2008 and requires no further action until June 2, 2008. ALLOCATION FOR THE STRATEGIC PERFORMANCE PORTFOLIO This portfolio should be rebalanced at the open on Tuesday, May 27 to the following percentages: 18.78% VXF 14.20% EEM 12.60% GSG 25.61% FXF 28.81% TLT ALLOCATION FOR THE EX-U.S. PORTFOLIO This portfolio should be rebalanced at the open on Tuesday, May 27 to the following percentages: 22.45% IEV 10.47% EEB 13.55% EWC 14.87% EWW 12.75% GSG 25.91% [...]

Podcast: A Look at Gold

2008.05.22 @ 7:44 AM Eastern | LINK | 0 Comments

On May 13, we alerted Portfolio Strategy subscribers to the overlooked outlook for gold. While researching Trading Ideas for Wednesday, I noticed there was a new-found flight to safety into gold stocks. It seems that The Goldbugs were getting excited over a broken downtrend line to the upside. Right click ON THIS LINK and select “Save Target/Link As…” to save the MP3 file to your computer. Five gold-related companies found by the stock scan: AEM, AUY, EGO, GG and NEM. Today, we will look at three of the strongest performing companies of late: EGO, AEM, and GG. streetTRACKS Gold Trust (GLD) Metals – [...]

Trading Ideas for Thursday

2008.05.21 @ 9:43 PM Eastern | LINK | 0 Comments

The stock scan conducted after the close on Wednesday found 20 winners and 72 losers. Click on the column headers to sort the list below. The scan is designed to find stocks that are current “in play”; criteria includes price movement, range and liquidity (500,000 shares on the day, 20-day average volume of 1.5 million shares). The entire list has been ranked and sorted relative to performance against the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ 100 indexes. Please refer to the podcast for background information.

Podcast: Oil & Gas Operations Industry and BRK

2008.05.21 @ 2:43 PM Eastern | LINK | 0 Comments

In a recent podcast for Portfolio Strategy subscribers, we discussed crude oil and oil-related ETF’s. Right click ON THIS LINK and select “Save Target/Link As…” to save the MP3 file to your computer. Our daily stock scan found 88 Trading Ideas for Monday. What stood out was the fact that 22 of those were companies in the energy sector. Today, we will focus on the oil & gas operations industry and look at three of the strongest performing companies (PXP, EOG, ECA). As an extra bonus, we’ll be looking at a short call made by Doug Kass that is getting a [...]

Trading Ideas for Wednesday

2008.05.20 @ 11:14 PM Eastern | LINK | 0 Comments

The stock scan conducted after the close on Tuesday found 41 winners and 36 losers. Click on the column headers to sort the list below. The scan is designed to find stocks that are current “in play”; criteria includes price movement, range and liquidity (500,000 shares on the day, 20-day average volume of 1.5 million shares). The entire list has been ranked and sorted relative to performance against the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ 100 indexes. Please refer to the podcast for background information.

Trading Ideas for Tuesday

2008.05.20 @ 2:45 AM Eastern | LINK | 0 Comments

I was out of the office today. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Podcast: Managing a Portfolio

2008.05.19 @ 12:00 PM Eastern | LINK | 4 Comments

In today’s podcast, we discuss the New Realities of Personal Finance, the technical differences between trading and actively managing an investment portfolio, and why true diversification coupled with a dynamic asset allocation process is the only way to respond to market forces. Right click ON THIS LINK and select “Save Target/Link As…” to save the MP3 file to your computer. In case you missed it yesterday, we did a podcast exclusive to subscribers that reviewed the InVivo objective sentiment survey, crude oil, ETF rankings and digressed a little into the philosophy of Wu Wei. Performance of InVivo Model Portfolios The table below shows [...]

Trading Ideas for Monday

2008.05.18 @ 10:37 AM Eastern | LINK | 0 Comments

The stock scan conducted after the close on Friday found 77 winners and 11 losers. Click on the column headers to sort the list below. The scan is designed to find stocks that are current “in play”; criteria includes price movement, range and liquidity (500,000 shares on the day, 20-day average volume of 1.5 million shares). The entire list has been ranked and sorted relative to performance against the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ 100 indexes. Please refer to the podcast for background information.

Podcast: Sentiment, Oil & ETF Ranking

2008.05.18 @ 9:00 AM Eastern | LINK | 0 Comments

In today’s podcast, we review the InVivo objective sentiment survey, crude oil, ETF rankings and digress a little into philosophy: Right click ON THIS LINK and select “Save Target/Link As…” to save the MP3 file to your computer. Objective Sentiment Survey The InVivo Objective Sentiment Survey tracks the number of buy and sell signals amongst the constituent stocks of the S&P 100 and NASDAQ 100 indexes. If you wish to compare this to the previous week, last week’s numbers are here. At the close, the S&P 100 index had 66 on buy and 34 on sell while the NASDAQ 100 index had [...]

Portfolio Strategy for May 19

2008.05.17 @ 6:13 PM Eastern | LINK | 0 Comments

This past week saw in a number of commodities continue upwards and a new high set in the Canadian equity market. The U.S. Dollar treaded water while bonds perked up a touch. Action for Tihs Week The Strategic Performance and Ex-U.S. model portfolios should be rebalanced at the open on Monday, May 19 according to percentages indicated on their respective pie charts below. The Conservative Retirement portfolio was rebalanced on May 1, 2008 and requires no further action until June 2, 2008. Performance of InVivo Model Portfolios The table below shows the performance of our model portfolios on a total [...]

A Conversation with Bill Moyers

2008.05.17 @ 3:23 PM Eastern | LINK | 0 Comments

Leave it to Charles Rose to spend an hour with Bill Moyers who provided seasoned insight into the current environment in the U.S. within a historical context. It’s a really good piece. If you have kids, they might like Noodles on My Back.

Quarterly Trader’s Workshop

Members are invited to attend the next workshop scheduled for February 22 – 26, 2010. Join me for the entire week from 9:00 to 11:00AM Eastern in a small group setting where you can pick my brain. The focus is on the key concepts of hit-and-run technical trading. I will demonstrate the method by calling trades in real-time for the E-mini S&P futures.

No special software is required. The workshop is conducted online in webinar format with audio and charts streaming via browser. Charts and audio will be archived for those unable to attend. More…

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InvivoAnalytics.com is a community of traders and investors determined to be masters of their own financial destiny.

The founder, Teresa Lo, has been online since 1998, the year she retired after a 12-year tour of duty on the sell side of the securities industry. She is currently the senior portfolio strategist at a private investment management firm. More…