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Trading Ideas for Wednesday
The stock scan conducted after the close on Tuesday found 48 winners and 25 losers. Click on the column headers below to sort the entire list.
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 Review: June 2008
June 2008 capped a quarter that most mutual and hedge fund managers would like to forget. According to Bloomberg, last month saw “the Dow Jones Industrial Average to its worst June since the Great Depression, as record oil prices, credit-market writedowns and a slowing economy threatened to extend a yearlong profit slump.”
Trading Ideas for Tuesday
The stock scan conducted after the close on Monday found 20 winners and 17 losers. Click on the column headers below to sort the entire list.
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 July 21
This week saw some fun action in the markets. As traders entered the Twilight Zone, Pete and I did a podcast to comment on our observations.
We also answered a subscriber question about why the Conservative and the Strategic Performance portfolios are constructed the way they are. The key point is that a retirement portfolio should have some funds allocated to each one, depending on your wealth level and income needs. I’ve re-printed that part of the Q&A at the bottom of this article for your convenience.
There was one more question in my inbox [...]
Trading Ideas for Monday
The stock scan conducted after the close on Friday found 22 winners and 35 losers. Click on the column headers below to sort the entire list.
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 Friday
The debate is on: is this a sucker’s rally or, as Bob Pisani reported this morning, a possible bottom. Only the hairdresser knows for sure.
Of course, less-forgiving investors might feel like stoning the stock exchange, much like some Pakistani investors.
Is the bell tolling for the ag business? Does news of Trump selling his Palm Beach house to a Russian fertilizer mogul for $95 million qualify for a significant sentiment top?
The stock scan conducted after the close on Thursday found 18 winners and 93 losers. Click on the column headers below to sort the [...]
Trading Ideas for Thursday
WSJ.com reported after the close that “The Dow Industrials surged 276.74 points, or 2.5%, to 11239.28 after a wave of buying swept through the financial sector. Shares of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers and Bank of America rose 20% or better. Another steep drop in oil prices also helped drive the stock rally.”
Surprised? Not me, yet I am constantly amazed how the masses herd time and again, the same way as they have since the dawn of financial history.
Late last week, I heard someone say on CNBC — something to the effect that — if [...]
Member Q&A
We have quite a few questions related to portfolio strategy and trading tools in the mailbag.
James
I had a question on how the InVivo Universal Stops handles extreme moves in the markets. An example is the daily chart on my TradeStation account for Freddie Mac (FRE). The buy stop on July 10th was 11.23 but then it reverted to a sell stop on July 11th at 4.49 without the buy stop price of 11.23 ever having been hit. Is this some quirk in the program or do I have something wrong here?
Teresa
Let’s take a look [...]
Trading Ideas for Wednesday
The stock scan conducted after the close on Tuesday found 15 winners and 79 losers. Click on the column headers below to sort the entire list.
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.
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Member Q&A: Is This A Bottom?
We have a quite a few questions in today’s mailbag. Let’s start with one that’s on everybody’s mind:
Everyone
Is this the bottom?
Teresa
I’ve already given my opinion on the psychology of today’s market in Too Soon Old and The Twilight Zone. My experience to date in the financial markets is that it’s never different this time, and anytime the mantra becomes “It’s different this time”, it is generally a big turning point.
One thing we can never, ever underestimate is the motivational power of collective self-interest as the incentive for people — even grandstanding, windbag senators — to put aside [...]
Podcast: Entering The Twilight Zone
The market appears to have entered The Twilight Zone: Treasury and Fed pledge aid for ailing mortgage giants, Bob Pisani’s mother gets a sad quarterly statement, Hedge ‘funds of funds’ tax loophole closes, and Lehman Brothers calls bottom of credit recession.
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. — Richard Bach, Illusions
Information on Prospect Theory can be found at the Nobel Prize website.
Right click ON THIS LINK and select “Save Target/Link As…” to save the MP3 file to your computer.
Financials were beaten senseless once again as investors remained high on POT. [...]
Trading Ideas for Tuesday
The stock scan conducted after the close on Monday found 10 winners and 56 losers. Click on the column headers below to sort the entire list.
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.
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