Portfolio of the Week [Archive] - Page 13 - Mr. Market's Stock Picking Forum

Rob

05-17-2006, 05:01 PM

Sorry, folks, I'm really busy and probably will be unable to get the score up until later this evening or tomorrow. In the meantime, I have a question about Karel's CELL. If you read this news story (http://yahoo.reuters.com/stocks/QuoteCompanyNewsArticle.aspx?storyID=urn:newsml:re uters.com:20060509:MTFH10518_2006-05-09_22-20-08_WNA4151&symbol=CELL.O&rpc=44), it says:

"Brightpoint sets six-for-five stock split
Tue May 9, 2006 6:20 PM ET
May 9 (Reuters) - Brightpoint Inc. (CELL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) on Tuesday said its board approved a six-for-five stock split, to be effected through a 20 percent stock dividend.

The split is payable on May 31 to holders of record on May 19, the company said in a news release. (Reporting by Neha Singh in Bangalore)"

So the question is: is this really a split or just a huge honkin' dividend? If you were charged with keeping the score, how would you score this? I'll read the suggestions when I get home later this evening and figure out which way to go.

IIC

05-17-2006, 05:03 PM

Maybe if there was some sort of prize more people would participate...Doug(IIC)

skiracer

05-17-2006, 05:07 PM

Maybe if there was some sort of prize more people would participate...Doug(IIC)

Let's all throw in $5 or $10 a week and winner takes all at the close on Friday
Either we all open PayPal accounts or we send the money to the winner from each of us every week. That might make it alittle more interesting. Oh yeah, and starting this week, so everyone put up their $15 for this week. Next week we'll make it $5. Serious about the $5 or $10.

Lyehopper

05-17-2006, 05:09 PM

Websman

05-17-2006, 05:48 PM

Maybe if there was some sort of prize more people would participate...Doug(IIC)

Something like....maybe...a jar of Goji???

Rob

05-17-2006, 11:37 PM

Thanks for bearin' with me whilst I'm busier than a one-armed wallpaper-hanger with a bad case of hives.

http://img161.imageshack.us/img161/5013/potw051720068zn.gif (http://imageshack.us)
:) :) :)

Monday (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=51723) | Tuesday (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=51843)

IIC

05-17-2006, 11:41 PM

Let's all throw in $5 or $10 a week and winner takes all at the close on Friday
Either we all open PayPal accounts or we send the money to the winner from each of us every week. That might make it alittle more interesting. Oh yeah, and starting this week, so everyone put up their $15 for this week. Next week we'll make it $5. Serious about the $5 or $10.

At least it would make it a little more interesting. Paypal is OK...but they sure charge a hefty commish on the money that I receive(about 5-6%)...IIC

Karel

05-18-2006, 02:02 AM

... The split is payable on May 31 to holders of record on May 19, the company said in a news release. (Reporting by Neha Singh in Bangalore)" ...There is newer news:
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/060517/20060517005671.html?.v=1

If yesterday was the ex-d date, I am entitled to the extra shares. The quote: "holders on May 19" is a bit confusing, but I intend to be a holder of CELL on May 19, both in the POTW and in real money, if only to diminish my own confusion!

BTW, a dividend or a split are basically the same: either you get more shares for the same capital, or the same shares for less capital, and money for the difference. Dividends should be accounted for in the POTW by a dividend adjusted buy price on the ex-dividend date, I think. Has this ever happened before?

Regards,

Karel

Rob

05-18-2006, 08:09 AM

Karel, as you can see, I did adjust your purcahse price down by 20%. Having had to read the story in a bit of a rush, I didn't quite understand what they were doing. Their throwing the word "dividend" into the mix threw me a curve. When I later read, "The stock split will be accomplished through a 20% stock dividend, providing shareholders with one additional share of common stock for every five shares they hold," and that the float would be increased accordingly, I realized this would be the correct way to handle it.

On the question of figuring dividends into the daily/weekly POTW scores, personally I'm disinclined to do that, in favor of keeping it as simple and as easy to understand as possible. If you pick a stock that costs 30 bucks when you buy it, and you sell it for 33 bucks, you made 10%. Clean, simple, uncluttered. And if you think about it, how many people consider the dividend on a stock they plan to sell in a week or less? I'm not saying it doesn't happen, just that it's quite uncommon.

mimo_100

05-18-2006, 09:55 AM

Rob

05-18-2006, 10:32 AM

Thanks, Tim. Yes, I realize now it is the term "stock dividend" vs. just plain "dividend" that makes the difference.

dmk112

05-18-2006, 12:30 PM

I'll cover the ELOS... thanks Rob

Rob

05-18-2006, 05:14 PM

skiracer

05-18-2006, 05:25 PM

As of today it's not looking quite as ugly as last week, but we ain't out of the woods yet.

http://img429.imageshack.us/img429/5194/potw051820068nl.gif (http://imageshack.us)
:) :) :)

Monday (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=51723) | Tuesday (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=51843) | Wednesday (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=52042)

Now that exit on MED isn't looking as bad as I thought right after I did it. Funny that out of all the players that are on the plus side only two are long positions. All the others are short positions. I'm looking for something but nothing I see right now interests me that much.

Gary611

05-18-2006, 06:45 PM

BUCK FUSH?

Are you under the aflunce of inkahol? Or an illegal alien? Or, just one of those who blame EVERYTHING on our Republican President?

Get over it!

billyjoe

05-18-2006, 06:49 PM

Sell EGY, then, ANDE short for redemption
billyjoe

spikefader

05-18-2006, 07:12 PM

..I'm looking for something but nothing I see right now interests me that much.
What do you think about VLTS (http://chartingmesothelioma.blogspot.com/2006/05/re-here-postion-was-obviously-stopped.html)these days dude?

spikefader

05-18-2006, 07:16 PM

BUCK FUSH?

Are you under the aflunce of inkahol? Or an illegal alien? Or, just one of those who blame EVERYTHING on our Republican President?

Get over it!http://img506.imageshack.us/img506/8134/curlythumb1kk.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Gary611

05-18-2006, 07:29 PM

Burnt Toast & a Rotten egg, "I gotta tapeworm & it's good enough for 'em!!"

Gary611

05-19-2006, 09:55 AM

Rob, sell GHL & buy RWC long, if someone already has RWC, put me in cash.
Thanks

IIC

05-19-2006, 10:19 AM

Sell FTEK...buy WITS...IIC

Rob

05-19-2006, 05:08 PM

Skiracer!!!! 26.1%!!!!
Karel!!! 15.72%!!!
DMK!! 8.23%!!
BoSox! 6.55%!
Spikefader! Websman! Alice! Gary! Douggie!
So much to say, so little time. Congrats!

http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/5746/potw051920065pp.gif (http://imageshack.us)
:) :) :)

Monday (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=51723) | Tuesday (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=51843) | Wednesday (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=52042) | Thursday (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=52106)

Week 1 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=35533) | Week 2 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=36922) | Week 3 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=38102) | Week 4 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=39064) | Week 5 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=39993) | Week 6 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=41095) | Week 7 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=41818) | Week 8 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=42478) | Week 9 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=43559) | Week 10 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=44360)
Week 11 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=45264) | Week 12 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=45982) | Week 13 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=46754) | Week 14 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=47384) | Week 15 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=47882) | Week 16 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=48505) | Week 17 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=49376) | Week 18 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=50244) | Week 19 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=51466)

jiesen

05-19-2006, 05:21 PM

Ski, nice job! You are HUGE!!! Props to the big K-man, too! :)

spikefader

05-19-2006, 05:28 PM

Skiracer!!!! 26.1%!!!!
Karel!!! 15.72%!!!
DMK!! 8.23%!!
Congrats to all! Ski is HUGE.

Runner

05-19-2006, 05:32 PM

Rob, cover NUS and move to cash please..

Rob I covered for a very small profit. Note date time stamp.

billyjoe

05-19-2006, 05:51 PM

How do you guys do it ? I've got 16 consecutive losers.
billyjoe

Websman

05-19-2006, 05:54 PM

How do you guys do it ? I've got 16 consecutive losers.
billyjoe

Try this Billyjoe... Start doing the opposite of what you think you should do and you'll win.

billyjoe

05-19-2006, 05:57 PM

Webs,
I'll do it. Remember it worked for George Costanza when he approached women with the line "I'm unemployed and I live with my parents"

billyjoe

skiracer

05-19-2006, 06:00 PM

Congrats to all! Ski is HUGE.

Thanks guys. It feels good to win once in awhile. MED looks like it wants to hold the $16 range or more. I missed that neckline break this afternoon. It was a nice entry point. And congrats to everyone else. It was a decent week for us overall.

Rob

05-19-2006, 07:31 PM

Rob I covered for a very small profit. Note date time stamp.So you did. Sorry, Runner ol' bean. I have made the correction. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

05-19-2006, 07:32 PM

HO RA SKI great pick

Rob

05-19-2006, 07:42 PM

Oh, and by the way, for next week, I'm taking IMCL long!
It's about time for the ASCO run. I shouldn't be too surprised that IMCL was down in the neighborhood of 4% this week, as it does usually seem to get whacked a bit on options expiry. But I believe these next few weeks have the potential to be bery, bery good for ImClone, because I think they've got some good test results to report the 1st week in June, and the abstracts have now hit the oncological community.

skiracer

05-19-2006, 07:50 PM

Rob

05-19-2006, 07:57 PM

Ski, I tried to unmarry from it 2 weeks ago by picking BEAS, and when I did, I lost 2.34% that week, while IMCL gained 6.59%. I will stay married to a stock as long as I'm convinced it's undervalued.

Rob

05-19-2006, 08:01 PM

I should have played BEAS THIS week. It was up 12.08%!

jiesen

05-19-2006, 08:03 PM

I should have played BEAS THIS week. It was up 12.08%!

And I should have taken the NBIX short I was contemplating Monday afternoon...

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=NBIX&t=5d

doh! 55% in one day.

spikefader

05-19-2006, 08:48 PM

Webs,
I'll do it. Remember it worked for George Costanza when he approached women with the line "I'm unemployed and I live with my parents"

billyjoeLOL. hehehe

New-born baby

05-19-2006, 09:57 PM

Rob,
I think you're getting married to that stock.

Ski,
They are already married and just celebrated their 25th anniversary . . . . :D

skiracer

05-19-2006, 10:10 PM

Ski,
They are already married and just celebrated their 25th anniversary . . . . :D

I think it's love.

New-born baby

05-19-2006, 10:16 PM

I think it's love.

Mr. Ski,
You are very perceptive :D. But I can also tell that you don't think very much of IMCL. I went to the love calculator and put your name in, and here's the results:
http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/439/chart14te.gif (http://imageshack.us)

New-born baby

05-19-2006, 10:26 PM

Ski,
On the other hand, Robert has a marriage made in heaven. See?
http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/6158/chart10lf.gif (http://imageshack.us)

IIC

05-19-2006, 10:28 PM

How do you guys do it ? I've got 16 consecutive losers.
billyjoe

Reminds me of my 81 consecutive -7% losers when I followed CANSLIM...LOL

IIC

05-19-2006, 10:30 PM

Thanks guys. It feels good to win once in awhile. MED looks like it wants to hold the $16 range or more. I missed that neckline break this afternoon. It was a nice entry point. And congrats to everyone else. It was a decent week for us overall.

Nice pick Ski...I made another 30 cents on MED today...Crazy stock isn't it?

IIC

05-19-2006, 10:36 PM

NBB...Love that site

http://www.lovecalculator.com/

Only problem is I put in IIC and ALBA (Jessica) and it only came out 10%...But heck...

That's better than -10%...LOL

New-born baby

05-19-2006, 11:24 PM

NBB...Love that site

http://www.lovecalculator.com/

Only problem is I put in IIC and ALBA (Jessica) and it only came out 10%...But heck...

That's better than -10%...LOL

Put in your wife's name and get a 100% score :D

IIC

05-19-2006, 11:34 PM

Put in your wife's name and get a 100% score :D

OK...I did...54%

Now let me put in a couple of other girls I know...Be back in a min...

Back...Geez, they all came out lower...Guess nobody is right for me...Doug

jiesen

05-19-2006, 11:46 PM

http://www.lovecalculator.com/love.php?name1=Doug&name2=New-born+Baby

Doug,

Apparently, "New-born Baby" would be your perfect match... at 75%!

IIC

05-20-2006, 12:24 AM

http://www.lovecalculator.com/love.php?name1=Doug&name2=New-born+Baby

Doug,

Apparently, "New-born Baby" would be your perfect match... at 75%!

Yeah...Maybe we could Double Date w/ you and Lye at 95%

http://www.lovecalculator.com/love.php?name1=jiesen&name2=lyehopper

jiesen

05-20-2006, 12:33 AM

yowza! Lye, I never knew!

Bean Stocks

05-20-2006, 12:46 AM

MDTL... long.... !!!!!??????!!!?????

skiracer

05-20-2006, 07:36 AM

Nice pick Ski...I made another 30 cents on MED today...Crazy stock isn't it?

I was tracking it yesterday and when it broke through $15 and went to $14.70 range I thought that it was cheap and was waiting for it to break that neckline on the inverted SHS when I had a field meeting and left the trailer for a bit. When I came back it was up over $15.75 an I missed it completely. I was talking about it on my thread about it maybe breaking that neckline an it did. I still think there is a lot of gas left in it. Could go to $17/18 range easily. This thing has been on the rise from $3/4 range an there are alot of people who got in cheap an are holding big gains right now all the way up the line. If they start taking those gains it could consolidate quite a bit. I'm keeping it on my watchlist.

Rob

05-20-2006, 11:33 AM

MDTL... long.... !!!!!??????!!!?????Bean Stocks! Ol' bean! Haven't seen you on this thread in a while! Good to see you back, Jack!

Bean Stocks

05-20-2006, 03:53 PM

horrid hours. It only gets worse over the next couple of months.

dmk112

05-20-2006, 07:48 PM

AOB - long please.

Peter Hansen

05-20-2006, 09:34 PM

ROB TIE LONG ......an old favorite of mine

Gary611

05-21-2006, 08:49 AM

Good morning to all in the game. Please put me long in BRCM.
Thanks,
Gary

Runner

05-21-2006, 08:59 AM

Rob, CASH please......

IIC

05-21-2006, 09:44 AM

Mr. Rob...Please start me in cash...IIC

skiracer

05-21-2006, 10:09 AM

Rob,
Put me in ECOL - long please. I love this stock at these levels an am looking for an entry if it starts to spike up Monday. I think we are going to get some kind of a bounce on Monday and whether or not it holds is another question but if it does bounce ECOL will go along for the ride. Still like the stock to go to $30 but only if the markets will cooperate.
Spike, awhile back you said to me to stick it out with the POTW and that a good week or two would put me right back into the swing of things % wise. You were right. MED perked me right up. Thanks Spike.

billyjoe

05-21-2006, 10:33 AM

Sorry Webs,
I can't do the opposite of what I think. I love HOM long and it doesn't matter what anyone says. If it tanks I give up . HOM HOM HOM HOM HOM HOM. .........
billyjoe

05-21-2006, 10:51 AM

Billy what are you going to give up? Doug whats this Mr. Rob stuff, you looking for special privileges [ha ha ] Rob I would like to go with MRK-LONG, no dart this week they have been so bad I'll try using my Intuition then If that doesn't work I'm giving up the same thing as Billy.

billyjoe

05-21-2006, 11:14 AM

Ray,
I'm giving up running in the Memorial Day Marathon.

billyjoe

Karel

05-21-2006, 01:18 PM

05-21-2006, 01:36 PM

Billy I'll give up walking to the corner store to pick up a six pac. By the way Billy how did your surgery work out hope all Is well

B.J

05-21-2006, 01:50 PM

After a week's vacation, put me in CA$H, please.

MickyMouse

05-21-2006, 03:47 PM

rob,

SWKS long next week. Thx.

Mickey

spikefader

05-21-2006, 03:51 PM

Cash for me.

I'll likely be attempting a sensible VLTS entry long....or a Burnt Toast short :D Good luck all.

IIC

05-21-2006, 04:04 PM

Sorry Webs,
I can't do the opposite of what I think. I love HOM long and it doesn't matter what anyone says. If it tanks I give up . HOM HOM HOM HOM HOM HOM. .........
billyjoe

You didn't hear the news???...The HOM CFO ran off with his secretary to Aruba yesterday...LOL

Just Kidding ;)

IIC

05-21-2006, 04:05 PM

IIC

05-21-2006, 04:09 PM

Congratulations, ski!

CELL long for me, please. Perhaps next time it is good for a first place!

My Mechanical Fund, QHOF, had another bad week. The POTW+ was a bit better, and the POTW didn't lose too much against SPY. Points:

POTW: 10
MF: 8
POTW+: 6

More info in the thread on my Mechanical Fund!

Regards,

Karel

Well Karel...CELL broke into the IIC 100 this week at # 9...that oughtta be good for a 3 cent move on Monday...Combine that w/ CELL breaking into the IBD 100 at # 42...You'll be rich by the end of the week...IIC

BoSox Jon

05-21-2006, 04:11 PM

How about.........PARL long!!!

05-21-2006, 04:20 PM

That was great Doug ha,ha,ha. Also did not know Rob was so old. lol

jiesen

05-21-2006, 05:30 PM

I'll take $$CASH$$ for this week, thanks!

gerihearne

05-21-2006, 06:15 PM

for Geri.
Thanks

The Photon

05-21-2006, 09:48 PM

WIRE long thanks -

skiracer

05-21-2006, 09:50 PM

WIRE long thanks -

Nice pick. If we get the bounce that I think we will get this week WIRE will be one of the leaders. I'm looking for an entry if we get that bounce. Good luck.

New-born baby

05-21-2006, 09:59 PM

Hey, it ought to be legal. I want WIRE short, please. Yeah, I know that Photon is taking it long. So I want it short. Pretty please.

Lyehopper

05-21-2006, 10:41 PM

Rockin'Rob! I'll take GEHL (long)....

yowza! Lye, I never knew!
Sorry "J" my heart is taken dude....

http://img473.imageshack.us/img473/9775/lyegehl4vz.png (http://imageshack.us)

peanuts

05-22-2006, 01:29 AM

it may only be a BB gun, but I'm sticking to it:

DWCH long

Thanks

mimo_100

05-22-2006, 07:36 AM

i'll start the week in CA$H

Tim

Shadow

05-22-2006, 07:52 AM

Start me in Ca$h this week. Thanks

alice4321us

05-22-2006, 09:39 AM

Start me in cash please.

IIC

05-22-2006, 09:41 AM

Mr. Scorekeeper...Put me in ICOC long...thx...IIC

jiesen

05-22-2006, 10:36 AM

AMLN long for me, please!

diogenes

05-22-2006, 10:43 AM

Cash to start off.

Rob

05-22-2006, 11:16 AM

The Q will take CNXS long.

Gatorman

05-22-2006, 11:24 AM

Cash to start

sowersnc

05-22-2006, 12:20 PM

I didn't see anyone with peix this week. I'll take it short. If someone had it and I missed then cash.

spikefader

05-22-2006, 12:38 PM

KNTA short please.

Rob

05-22-2006, 12:55 PM

KNTA short please.Okay, Spike, as soon as someone buys some I'll know what price you shorted at. :) No shares have traded since 11:44:59!

Edit: Okay ... 1.31 it is.

spikefader

05-22-2006, 01:25 PM

Okay, Spike, as soon as someone buys some I'll know what price you shorted at. :) No shares have traded since 11:44:59!

Edit: Okay ... 1.31 it is.heh, I'm not surprised no one wants to buy it! It's Toast!; bagholders just don't know it yet jejeje But volume-wise, it has its moments :D

Thanks Rob!

http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/5516/kntavol9mn.gif

Rob

05-22-2006, 04:56 PM

Way to go, Billy Joe!!! Has the curse been lifted? Let's hope so. So far, HOM was a MOST awesome pick, dude!!!

Coming in 2nd & 3rd places, fairly close to one another, and both with short plays, are Sowers!! and Spikefader!! Mammy's little baby likes short-in', short-in', Mammy's little baby likes short-in' stocks! :) Great plays, you's mugs. Huge gains for one day!

And how 'bout a round of applause for Doug-E-Fresh, the Flaming Brain, King Karel, The Stock-picker Formerly Known As the Dart-thrower, and the mighty Q?

http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/5849/potw052220062rk.gif (http://imageshack.us)
:) :) :)

tintin

05-22-2006, 08:43 PM

Dear Rob

My pick for P.O.T.Week is GENE, long. They have quite a back story about their international patents, which have been upheld in every court case.

Luck to all.

Tintin

diogenes

05-22-2006, 09:37 PM

Long AP, if you will.

diogenes

05-22-2006, 09:38 PM

Dear Rob

My pick for P.O.T.Week is GENE, long. They have quite a back story about their international patents, which have been upheld in every court case.

Luck to all.

Tintin

Tintin edit your post and select the little green arrow bubble under the "post icon."
So, the score keeper can see you have made a pick. ;)

Websman

05-22-2006, 09:48 PM

http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/icons/icon2.gif Oops.... I guess I get a 5% penalty for not posting a pick.

Rob

05-22-2006, 10:15 PM

Tintin, glad to have you join the fun, but I'm afraid you'll have to sit the current week out, because all picks (or choosing a cash position) must be posted prior to the close of trading on the first trading day of the week—in other words, no later than 3:59 p.m. on Monday. If you'd like to know more about the rules, click the "Rules" link at the bottom of my message.

And yes Websman, I regret to inform you that your carelessness will cost you 5%. But the way the market's been lately, who knows but that you might actually make out better that way? It's gettin' rather dicey out there.

Rob

05-22-2006, 10:18 PM

Incidentally, the stock market will be closed next Monday, the 29th, for the observance of Memorial Day, so all picks next week will have to be posted by Tuesday, before the market closes.

billyjoe

05-23-2006, 10:53 AM

Sell HOM
billyjoe

Rob

05-23-2006, 01:14 PM

So far, it looks like you timed that sell perfectly, BillyJoe, within a nickel of the high of the day. Huge!

billyjoe

05-23-2006, 01:31 PM

Rob,
Was watching the DOW and HOM starting a slow decline and feared the worst. Is there anything in the POTW rulebook prohibiting me from repurchasing HOM later this week?

billyjoe

Rob

05-23-2006, 01:47 PM

Is there anything in the POTW rulebook prohibiting me from repurchasing HOM later this week?Nope. But it would count as your second position for the week.

Websman

05-23-2006, 04:06 PM

Incidentally, the stock market will be closed next Monday, the 29th, for the observance of Memorial Day, so all picks next week will have to be posted by Tuesday, before the market closes.

I like that new picture....mmmmhmmm.

http://www.kdkprankcalls.com/hostedpranks/mystic_mitch/Mystic%20Mitch%20-%20Slingblade%20calls%20Denny%27s.mp3

spikefader

05-23-2006, 04:25 PM

Billyjoe. My hat is off to you dude. Nicely played :D Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. You were way overdue.

lol @ Rob's new avatar.

Websman

05-23-2006, 04:29 PM

You rock Billyjoe!

Rob

05-23-2006, 05:58 PM

BillyJoe, like I said before, that was HUUUUGELY great timing on your part, dude! Selling just 5 cents off the high, it don't get much better 'n that! And with 15.49% above the entry in just a couple days, way to play 'em, my man!

Ol' Douggie's showing a bit of hugeness himself this week, with a gain of 7.28% on his play of ICOC long! That's a touchdown with an extra point! And Douggie won't short a stock. Against his religion, he says. Hey I can respect that. I'll short once in a while, but not very often.

And look who came out of nowhere, jumping 20 places into third! It's his hugeness, Pete Huge! He was 2.78% in the red at the end of Monday's trading, but all of a sudden he's up 6.48%! It just goes to show, you can't count someone else's chickens before they're hatched either! Good one, Pete!

Not far behind, burnin' his way into the 4th slot, is the Flamin' Brain with the long side of WIRE this week, although NB-baby's still hopin' the insulation is going to come off of that one, since he's on the "short" side. Pay attention to that color coding on the wire if you don't want to get "short" circuited folks! Congrats on a good play, Photon!

Spike's in 5th with his short play on KNTA! Nice goin', Spike!

The only other player on the upside so far is the Stock-picker Formerly Known as the Dart-thrower, but the week is still relatively young, so there's still hope for the rest of us laggards.

http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/4773/potw052320068fb.gif (http://imageshack.us)
:) :) :)

Monday (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=52488)

billyjoe

05-23-2006, 07:43 PM

Billy Rob ,
I knew that picture looked familiar. You've lost some weight . Isn't your mama feeding you right ?
billyjoe

skiracer

05-23-2006, 08:15 PM

Billyjoe,

HOM turns out to be a great play for you. Doesn't top of the board feel good. Hope it holds for you all the way this week. Best is than you own it from around $5/6 range.

billyjoe

05-23-2006, 09:48 PM

Ski ,
Sold 1/2 my position today for a 119% gain. What's surprising is I held it at a big loss after they issued those extra 3 million shares or whatever it was shortly after my purchase.

billyjoe

Rob

05-24-2006, 01:12 PM

Sold 1/2 my position today for a 119% gain.Good deal. Now the stock could go to zero in a heartbeat and you'd still have won. Nice. Mmmm-Hmmm.

skiracer

05-24-2006, 02:12 PM

Rob,
Sell that S.O.B. ECOL for me please. Leave me in cash. Thanks.

Rob

05-24-2006, 04:48 PM

The Comeback Kid, a.k.a. BillyJoe, has become more unreachable this week merely by resting on his laurels. Next week, Billy, perhaps you can send your laurels out to the dry cleaners to get the wrinkles removed while you rest on your hardy's.

There's a TIE in 2nd place. While losing a bit o' ground gain-wise, Pete's still hangin' on to 2nd place with TIE.

I see IIC's ICOC isn't icy. (Say that really fast ten times.) But it has cooled just a bit, but not so much that he isn't still pullin' into 3rd with a pretty healthy 2.58%.

BoSox is keeping his head above water with Lyehopper's favorite trading vehicle, Diogenes' AP has returned 0.9%, and the Flamin' Brain is playing see-saw with Newborn, each on different sides of WIRE. Although Flamin' is up on it now, earlier today, Newborn was the on the positive side. I guess it's alternating current running through that WIRE this week.

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Monday (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=52488) | Tuesday (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=52607)

diogenes

05-24-2006, 05:23 PM

Hmmm…I thought I entered AP long yesterday?

B.J

05-24-2006, 08:01 PM

Billy Joe, you rule! Hope you own HOM. I have for a while. It's the only stock being good to me in this crappy market :D

BoSox Jon

05-25-2006, 12:00 AM

Rob,

I'm going to go ahead and dump PARL. Put me down as SHORT IFO.

Thanks Much,

Jon

JohnHenry

05-25-2006, 12:38 AM

Hello May I play in POTW? When is the next entry?

jiesen

05-25-2006, 01:04 AM

You can make your pick this weekend anytime before the close of the market on Monday. If you pick before the open on Monday, you get the opening price, otherwise you get the price at the minute you pick it. (Er, normally it'd be Monday, but the market's closed Monday, so I guess that means you have until Tuesday.)

I'd recommend also that you read up on the rules of the POTW before making your pick... just might save you from making some of the rookie mistakes (like picking an OTCBB or pinksheet stock).

Rules (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=37639)

Rob

05-25-2006, 05:30 AM

Hmmm…I thought I entered AP long yesterday?Diogenes, indeed you did, indeed you did. Sorry I forgot to plug you in. But it's fixed now. Nice little gain, BTW.

mimo_100

05-25-2006, 08:53 AM

I'll go long on JSDA at the open, Rob.

Thanks

B.J

05-25-2006, 09:35 AM

GV long. Set me up, Rob!

B.J

05-25-2006, 01:01 PM

GV long. Set me up, Rob!
Not to reply to myself, but, crap! I expected some kind of bounce. May get it yet, but not looking overly likely.

peanuts

05-25-2006, 01:10 PM

Not to reply to myself, but, crap! I expected some kind of bounce. May get it yet, but not looking overly likely.

it will bounce at 1.41

peanuts

05-25-2006, 01:26 PM

switching out of DWCH and going long ERS... hope to get it at 20.75

B.J

05-25-2006, 04:11 PM

it will bounce at 1.41
Yes, Peanuts. It did bounce, but I was looking for it to move off the 50 DMA (which is 1.56). Hope it has a big day tomorrow. I won't beat Billy Joe anyway :D

Rob

05-25-2006, 05:04 PM

BillyJoe! I know you pulled up the drawbridge, but be careful! Your moat just got narrower today!

Outstanding gain today (7.17%) on Titanium Metals (TIE) for Pete H.! Way to hang, Pete!

Speakin' of HUGE daily gains, Jiesen's Amylin Pharmaceuticals (AMLN) picked up 6.96% today! Nice one, bud!

The rest of the story is plain to see. There are a couple other big winners so far this week.

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sisterwin2

05-25-2006, 06:16 PM

Looks like the shorts lost today....... GLORY to the LONGS

billyjoe

05-25-2006, 06:49 PM

Rob,
I was preparing my victory speech and Pete comes out of nowhere. Maybe I'll have to pick a big winner for Friday.

billyjoe

peanuts

05-25-2006, 07:12 PM

Yes, Peanuts. It did bounce, but I was looking for it to move off the 50 DMA (which is 1.56). Hope it has a big day tomorrow. I won't beat Billy Joe anyway :D

You know what's crazy... I didn't even notice at the time that I posted this message that GV had already hit that level (1.41). That was my theoretical target from looking at the chart.

You are in a strong short term position right now. Eventually, I think it will go to 1.22 before blasting off again. But hey, you'll get at least 20% if you bought at $1.41... at least 20%... more is definitely possible.

I like ERS tomorrow. It was strong all day. Traders are certainly watching level II and trading against teh small guys. Someone HUGE needs to step up to the plate :) .

jiesen

05-25-2006, 08:22 PM

woohoo! I'm back in the green today! btw, anyone notice my POTY pick today? it may just be a fluke but Yahoo! reports about a +40% AH. Not a fluke is the short interest -80%.

Nice touch, there, with the Enron pics, Rob!

Bean Stocks

05-26-2006, 04:24 AM

I'd like some a them french fried potaters.... Hey, great referrence! Sling Blade is an all- time favorite. I used to work with someone that was the spitting image of Carl, from Alabama and very bright. In the retarded lead character genre, Sling Blade is right up there with Being There. I never liked Forrest Gump at all.

billyjoe

05-26-2006, 07:43 AM

Bean,
Did you like "Radio" ?

billyjoe

Peter Hansen

05-26-2006, 08:54 AM

B.J

05-26-2006, 09:50 AM

Added some of Billy Joe's winner HOM at 11.32 this morning.

jiesen

05-26-2006, 11:23 AM

Rob, please sell my AMLN now. :)

Jack Haddad

05-26-2006, 12:40 PM

Rob, please sell my AMLN now. :)

Support at 39.50 still stands. However, the long term outlook is weak... Are you looking for a trade or a buy and hold? The company's declining earnings, revenues, and gorss margins make it uninviting. If youre going to buy, hedge your shares.

jiesen

05-26-2006, 01:02 PM

Support at 39.50 still stands. However, the long term outlook is weak... Are you looking for a trade or a buy and hold? The company's declining earnings, revenues, and gorss margins make it uninviting. If youre going to buy, hedge your shares.

Jack, you're missing something here. I'd be happy to discuss it with you in detail, but suggest taking it to the AMLN thread I've set up, so we can keep the information together for future reference.

billyjoe

05-26-2006, 03:29 PM

Pete is .99% behind with 33 minutes remaining and he's gaining. What am I going to do? Doug (IIC) I need a stock quick that will gain 2% before 4:00P.M. est. HELP!!

billyjoe

spikefader

05-26-2006, 03:36 PM

Pete is .99% behind with 33 minutes remaining and he's gaining. What am I going to do? Doug (IIC) I need a stock quick that will gain 2% before 4:00P.M. est. HELP!!

billyjoelol I don't blame ya either! In weighing up your pick, have a look at ELN. Good luck dude! I'm rootin' fer ya.

spikefader

05-26-2006, 03:48 PM

Here's the play risking 1% for ELN.
http://spikefader.blogspot.com/2006/05/eln-c-entry.html
And note that it just broke the major major trendline from all-time highs. ELN is clearly impulsive with gaps up top :D

Rob

05-26-2006, 05:36 PM

It's official. BillyJoe is the Comeback Kid!!! Great week, BillyJoe!!! Excellent play!!!

Pete Huge!! For a while there today I thought you and Titanium were going to catch the Comeback Kid!! Nevertheless, superb finish!! Freakin' awesome!!

Jiesen! Wow! More than a TDWEP and a FG!! Amazing that you can rack up such a huge total, yet still only nab the bronze! Congrats on a fine week anyhow, dude!

Eight others this week ended on the up-side, so congrats to all o' you's.

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Rob

05-26-2006, 05:42 PM

My pick for next week is .....

What else?

IMCL Long !!!

I don't care what anybody says.

IIC

05-26-2006, 05:45 PM

Pete is .99% behind with 33 minutes remaining and he's gaining. What am I going to do? Doug (IIC) I need a stock quick that will gain 2% before 4:00P.M. est. HELP!!

billyjoe

Sorry...I wasn't here...But I bot/sold COGO in the last 1/2 hr...that could have gotten you 2% +...However, I only made 1.6% because I was on the phone...Doug(IIC)

IIC

05-26-2006, 06:04 PM

Well...The curse is broken...wtg Billy http://bestsmileys.com/signs8/3.gif

peanuts

05-26-2006, 06:57 PM

switching out of DWCH and going long ERS... hope to get it at 20.75

I did this on Thursday. Today, DWCH went up strong, and ERS left brown streaks all over the place... not fair!

05-26-2006, 07:32 PM

Give me a Hurray BILLY
Thata way Billy just shows you can't keep a good man down I'm going to celebrate your win witive me a yh a few extra cold ones and watch the SABERS win

billyjoe

05-26-2006, 07:54 PM

Ray,
I think a few more cold ones is the answer to success. There's nothing scarier than limping to the finish line and seeing Pete gaining on you at warp speed. Had he made his move by noon I'd have been forced to buy something.
billyjoe

peanuts

05-26-2006, 09:17 PM

let's see how bad I am at this contest.

I forget, what does the winner get? What happens to the loser?

I think that the loser should get as much attention as the winner... what does everyone else think?

Nice job, Billy, on the past week.

Bosoxjohn, what can I say... WOW! Good thing the real Bosox don't suck as bad as... well, you know. :) Sincerely, I hope it wasn't part of your real portfolio.

billyjoe

05-26-2006, 09:23 PM

Rob,
Before anyone else gets it. ELN long

billyjoe

skiracer

05-26-2006, 09:24 PM

Great win Billyjoe. Congrats. Glad that you own it which is way better than winning the POTW.

IIC

05-26-2006, 10:00 PM

I did this on Thursday. Today, DWCH went up strong, and ERS left brown streaks all over the place... not fair!

Peanuts...Did you ever notice that ERS never made the IIC 100?

peanuts

05-26-2006, 11:26 PM

Peanuts...Did you ever notice that ERS never made the IIC 100?
I did notice that, and that whole time I was thinking to myself, "geez, Doug seems like he knows what he's doing, but he sure has missed the boat on ERS"

Now I see that there is no gennie in your genius. Good call... for now. Let me know when it gets into the IIC 100.

:^)

Lyehopper

05-27-2006, 12:04 AM

spikefader

05-27-2006, 12:26 AM

Now that really was sweet billyjoe! :D Congrats to a fine pick. Ray is right; ya can't keep a good man down!
Pete and Jiesen; agree with Lye. Same goes for Rob, thank you. The effort adds shine to the thread.

B.J

05-27-2006, 01:07 AM

WTG BillyJoe!!!! You were HUUUUGE!!!! this week DUDE!!!!

Pete!!!! You're HUUUUGE too my man! And you are also the current overall points leader!

Huge 3rd place finish for you too "J".... Impressive!.....

Photon, BJ, DEF and Dio.... Nice play for you fellas too....

Rockin'Rob great job with the scorekeeping as always! Without your efforts this contest just would not be the same! YOU ARE Freakin' HUUUUGE!!!!

$$MM$$ Members!!!! have a great (and safe) weekend/holiday!!!!
Thanks for the mention, Lye, but, compared to Billy Joe, I'm rather puny - jeje.

Agree with all that you say. Billy Joe is really huge, and Peter and Jiesen are somewhat huge. And thanks to Rob. This has really evolved into a fun contest, with all the rule changes allowing trading.

Bean Stocks

05-27-2006, 04:24 AM

MDTL long. May the force be with me.

skiracer

05-27-2006, 09:08 AM

Rob,
I'm a bull to start off this week. Put me in WIRE - long to start off the week. I'll also be stalking it for an entry Tuesday a.m.

IIC

05-27-2006, 09:43 AM

I did notice that, and that whole time I was thinking to myself, "geez, Doug seems like he knows what he's doing, but he sure has missed the boat on ERS"

Now I see that there is no gennie in your genius. Good call... for now. Let me know when it gets into the IIC 100.

:^)

I wouldn't look for ERS to be in the IIC 100 any time in the near future. The only reason it never made it before was due to lack of eps projections...That is one of my criteria...Now, the latest quarter eps was under the min...Doug(IIC)

Gatorman

05-27-2006, 10:22 AM

I'll take WWE long.

Rob

05-27-2006, 01:03 PM

POTW 2006 Rules & Regulations

(1) To participate in the contest, enter your stock pick (long or short) or enter a cash position, between the close of trading on the last day of the trading week and no later than 3:59 p.m. Eastern on the first day of the next trading week. If you fail to state either "long" or "short" (or "buy" or "sell") on your pick, then your pick will default to a long position.

(2) If you wish to start in cash, meaning $$$ and not Meta Financial Group, whose symbol is CASH, you must so indicate by use of the dollar sign ($). Examples: $, $$$, Ca$h, etc. The idea is to eliminate any ambiguity. Failure to include the dollar sign in opening a "cash" position will result in your opening a position in Meta Financial Group.

(3) You may change a previously posted pick any time before the market opens on the first day of the trading week.

(4) Over the counter, bulletin board & pink sheet stocks are not allowed.

(5) Any stock sold for a short position must have shares available to be actually sold short. Please use the Interactive Brokers site (http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/trading/SearchShortableStocks.php?cntry=usa&tag=United%20States&ib_entity=llc&ln=) to make that determination. If you attempt to short a stock that is listed on IB as unavailable for shorting, it will count as one of your two plays for the week. If you just closed a position to attempt to open such an invalid short position, then you will have to wait until the following week to make your next play.

(6) Try to play stocks with good volume. Example: 50k+ shares per day average would be nice, 100k+ would be better. This is not a disqualifying rule, but a suggestion.

(7) No limit orders are allowed.

(8) If you enter a pick before the market opens, you will get the opening price. If you enter a pick during the trading day, your opening price will be determined by the time stamp on your post. Your price will be the opening price of the minute in which your post is made. Important: do not edit your post in which you make your stock pick! If you do, then the prices at the time of the post and of the edit will be compared, and you will get the higher of the two in the case of a long position, or the lower of the two in the case of a short position. (The opposite of these holds true for a post in which you close a position.)

(9) You may close your play any time you like and enter a second pick, or you may simply stay in cash until you are ready to take your second position. You may decide to stay in cash the entire week and not play a stock long or short; that's fine too. (A cash position does not count as one of your two positions for the week.)

(10) Each player's percentage is being tracked in a "points style" race. You may win the points race and never place first in the competition. The goal is to pick nice, solid gainers that will move upward the week you play them. Volatile, risky picks may damage your score.

(11) Failure to enter a stock pick or a cash position prior to 4:00 p.m. Eastern on the first day of the trading week will result in a 5% penalty for the week.

(12) All picks must be entered after the market closes on the last day of the trading week (usually Friday) and prior to the market close on the first day of the next trading week (usually Monday—see rule #1 above). If a player anticipates being unable to post during that 72-hour window, he or she may make this known and make a pick for the following week(s) prior to the close of the current week's trading. However, in doing so the player understands and agrees that this pick is "carved in stone," and under no circumstances whatsoever may it be changed. Important: this allowance is intended as a matter of necessity, and not as a matter of convenience! Please do not abuse this allowance. If you're too disinterested to post your pick during the 72-hour window, then please come back when your interest level rises to the challenge.

(13) Only one player may play a given stock position at one time. The only way two players can play the same stock simultaneously is if one plays it long and the other plays it short. (See rule #5 above.)

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Hints & Tips:
The danger of playing thinly-traded stocks (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=69173)

IIC

05-27-2006, 01:36 PM

Disclaimer: This list is intended to serve as a guide to see what positions have already been spoken for. Though a sincere effort goes into regularly updating this list, keeping it accurate and current, there are no guarantees that it is 100% accurate. Therefore, caution is recommended in selecting your picks, as no two players may play the same stock simutaneously (unless they are on opposite sides of the trade, i.e. long and short).

Mr. Rob...I need a rule clarification. What if LYE picked BRK-A long...Would I be permitted to pick BRK-B long at the same time??? Seems like they move pretty much in tandem %-wise.

Thx...Doug

P.S. Can we pick warrants?

http://img357.imageshack.us/img357/3945/brka4gk.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

B.J

05-27-2006, 02:06 PM

$$ca$hola$$

Rob

05-27-2006, 02:45 PM

What if LYE picked BRK-A long...Would I be permitted to pick BRK-B long at the same time???I don't see why not.

P.S. Can we pick warrants?Nahhhh, to much like leaps, and this contest isn't geared for playing options and the like.

Trying to keep things as uncomplicated as possible.

Rob

05-27-2006, 02:46 PM

$$ca$hola$$B.J., I'm sure the sunny state of CA would like to shout a big "Hola" back at you!

B.J

05-27-2006, 03:17 PM

Rob,
I'm a bull to start off this week. Put me in WIRE - long to start off the week. I'll also be stalking it for an entry Tuesday a.m.
Thanks Ski! I've been holding it for a while, and I know that it's also a Poorman, and former $$MM$$ pick. Your trade gives me a triple confirmation that it's good to be in.

Rob, LOL! That's right. I need to take up a second language. So much for me being fancy putting a $ in the word "cashola" :D

IIC

05-27-2006, 03:29 PM

Thanks Ski! I've been holding it for a while, and I know that it's also a Poorman, and former $$MM$$ pick. Your trade gives me a triple confirmation that it's good to be in.

Rob, LOL! That's right. I need to take up a second language. So much for me being fancy putting a $ in the word "cashola" :D

I thought it was a Federal offense now to post anything in a language other than English??? http://bestsmileys.com/jail/1.gif

jiesen

05-27-2006, 09:29 PM

New-born baby

05-27-2006, 10:06 PM

Just short me PARL for the week, pretty please.
http://bestsmileys.com/jail/1.gif
http://bestsmileys.com/banned/1.gif

05-28-2006, 08:54 AM

How do you make your picks? As everyone knows how I do It, I throw darts and this Is how I do that During the week I look at various papers when I take my bride shopping [To cheep to buy them.]Then watch CNBC watch Cramer read the message boards etc. etc. Then I choose 20 names put them on a board and throw the dart Now how do you decide on your pick?By the way Doug Is starting to run away with this contest 9 winners out of 10. So maybe this will help me, Please Mr. Rob may I have JDSU this week please, thank you Mr. Rob.Hope we all have a good week and the market was not playing games with us last week.By the way I'm banking on you Doug and buying your pick this week I think your the real thing.

IIC

05-28-2006, 09:53 AM

Well Ray...you will have to wait for now...Mr. Rob...Please start me in the usual: cash

Karel

05-28-2006, 09:58 AM

05-28-2006, 10:26 AM

Doug, sounds good to me

Peter Hansen

05-28-2006, 10:54 AM

Karel Thanx looks as if the Old Rabbit's Foot is paying off LOL!

Peter Hansen

05-28-2006, 10:58 AM

Rob ISV has nice 45 Degree angle chart How it will do for the week is anyone's guess........but put me in for ISV LONG!

MickyMouse

05-28-2006, 11:30 AM

Rob, EMKR long please.

Mickey

skiracer

05-28-2006, 11:42 AM

Billyjoe, congratulations! Pete and Jiesen, good job!

I'll stick to CELL as with all the jumping up and down, it still hasn't jumped from my screen.

The POTW+, with special K factor, scored a resounding victory (+1.1%) over my Mechanical Fund (-0.2%), and the POTW plain (-0.3%). The points scored total 8 : 9 : 10, respectively. That is rather neck to neck. The percentage totals are in my Mechanical Fund thread.

There is a new Top10 for the POTW+, thank you Jiesen: Pete H., DMK, Dakat, Jim S., IIC, Photon, Ski, Spike, Jiesen, Gator. New kids on the block are Dakat, Ski and Gator. They replace Lye, Micky and Sowers.

Regards,

Karel

And the competition starts to heat up. I certainly feel better now that I'm back where I belong. I'm taking aim on a few spots higher so watch your back guys because here comes Seabiscut. I can feel the air thickening and the competition saying I want to be in that top 10 grouping. Ok so let's bring it on guys. POTW, VTP and the Goji forever. SsSsSsSsSs.....!!!!

The Photon

05-28-2006, 12:01 PM

Rob I will go with JSDA long for next week, I would also like to congratulate Ski for making a great pick! the flaming brain will be pulling for Wire to really make a move. until then everybody go to starbuxks and buy a soda-

http://www.marketwatch.com/tools/quotes/intchart.asp?symb=jsda&sid=205828&freq=1&time=3mo&siteid=mktw

-have a good weekend-

jiesen

05-28-2006, 01:47 PM

start me in $$CASH$$ this week, please!

jiesen

05-28-2006, 02:07 PM

Mr. Rob...I need a rule clarification. What if LYE picked BRK-A long...Would I be permitted to pick BRK-B long at the same time??? Seems like they move pretty much in tandem %-wise.

Thx...Doug

P.S. Can we pick warrants?

http://img357.imageshack.us/img357/3945/brka4gk.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Doug, that's a great point you brought up- but I would have to say that BRKA and BRKB are actually different stocks. Same company, yes, and on your scale, they are nearly identical. But consider the POTW scale of just a week:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?t=5d&s=BRK-B&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=brka

There is enough difference there to make it interesting. And there is in fact a fundamental difference in the shares, in that A's have a 200x advantage over the B's in voting power, much more than the 30x they're worth earnings-wise compared to the B's. If this voting advantage (if Buffett dies, or in some other way relinquishes his controlling stake in the company) ever gets assigned any market value, the A's could very well outperform the B's over a short period (say, a week).

But for the other question, no, I don't think warrants should count, since this is a stock contest, not options, warrants, commodities (hey, do you think I could get my house listed on the NYSE?), or other investment vehicle contest... just my opinion, though.

jiesen

05-28-2006, 03:16 PM

Congrats Billyjoe on your fantastic victory, and congrats to Pete H, for another solid performance, further cementing your overall HUGENESS. Both of you beat up my AMLN with your double TDWEPs!

On to the results:

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/9186/weeks9215xx.png

Weeks 5-17 (and 3-15) (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?t=655&page=562&pp=10)
Weeks 7-19 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?t=655&page=593)

Dakat and Jim, won't you guys please come back to the POTW? You are both HUGE!!! It'd be a shame to see two of the top four fade away into the sunset... Plus, Karel needs you for his POTW+ portfolio.

And Pete, I'm going to have to start buying your picks, dude. 74% gain in a quarter is enough to make anyone HUGE beyond belief.

Mad props also to DMK, Doug, Photon, Ski and Spike, who all outpicked me. I accidentally ranked today's results by %Gain instead of %Gain/#Weeks (Special K) but the only difference is Doug got put ahead of Ski and Photon. In light of Doug's perfect POTW attendance, however, I'm letting this one stand.

scifos

05-28-2006, 03:41 PM

I'll take

IMNY long

Bean Stocks

05-28-2006, 05:41 PM

Actually,

Drop the long. I'm going with cash.

IIC

05-28-2006, 07:00 PM

Dakat and Jim, won't you guys please come back to the POTW? You are both HUGE!!! It'd be a shame to see two of the top four fade away into the sunset... Plus, Karel needs you for his POTW+ portfolio.

And Pete, I'm going to have to start buying your picks, dude. 74% gain in a quarter is enough to make anyone HUGE beyond belief.

Mad props also to DMK, Doug, Photon, Ski and Spike, who all outpicked me. I accidentally ranked today's results by %Gain instead of %Gain/#Weeks (Special K) but the only difference is Doug got put ahead of Ski and Photon. In light of Doug's perfect POTW attendance, however, I'm letting this one stand.

Well...Thank you J...I still have no idea how you figure it...I must confess that I never really read your explanation...Just let me know at the end of the year if won or not...Doug(IIC)

Lyehopper

05-28-2006, 07:04 PM

Rockin'Rob I'll start out in ca$h....

IIC

05-28-2006, 07:18 PM

Changed my mind...Had a 3 hr session w/ a local trading buddy today and now I have decided to take a SHOT at an
IIC Top 10 Under $10 Fave...SWB long at the open on Tuesday... http://bestsmileys.com/shooting1/25.gif

http://img164.imageshack.us/img164/4866/swb1fb.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Websman

05-28-2006, 08:51 PM

http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/icons/icon2.gif

I'll take $$$CASH$$$ for now... I may make a pick by the time the market opens on Tuesday.

Bean Stocks

05-29-2006, 12:21 AM

I'll be taking cash until July 3. Thanks.

Rob

05-29-2006, 01:41 AM

I'll be taking cash until July 3. Thanks.Jack, you are permitted to do that, but I must admonish you that under the carved-in-stone rule you will not be able to change this position under any circumstances. If, for example, you know before the news is out that a company with a $100 million market cap is going to be awarded a contract worth billions, your hands will be tied. If oil suddenly drops to $40 a barrel, the fed says "no more rate increases," Osama bin Laden is captured, Kim Jong Il is overthrown, Fidel Castro dies, and the premarket Dow futures jump to +200 all in the same day, you will be unable to enter a pick. I will be cold, hard-nosed, and heartless in holding you to this rule, assuming I am still attending to the scorekeeping duties at the time.

Secondly, when you say "until July 3," (which is a Monday) I interpret that to include the week of July 3rd, so you will be unable to enter your next pick until the week starting Monday, July 10.

I'll go ahead and assume this to be the case. If you would like to make any change to this, you must do so prior to the close of the first trading day of the week, which this week is Tuesday. 4:00 pm Tuesday will be too late.

Rob

05-29-2006, 01:42 AM

http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/1714/new5yb.gif (http://imageshack.us) This might be a good time to explain a new feature I'm going to use while keeping the score. Maybe some of you have already seen it. It's one particualr post on this thread (#6160) called "Positions for the Week (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showpost.php?p=53049)." My intention is to continuously update that one post with the positions currently held, and to use that same post week after week, for as long as my temporary stint at keeping the score lasts. For convenience I have included a link to that post in my "signature" that appears at the bottom of my posts; however, you might want to save a link to it in your "favorites" folder, or some other place where you can conveniently access it.

05-29-2006, 09:42 AM

Doug what gives you told me your starting In cash and Mr. Rob has you In SWB?

IIC

05-29-2006, 09:49 AM

Doug what gives you told me your starting In cash and Mr. Rob has you In SWB?

Ray...go back a few posts...I changed my mind...Doug(IIC)

05-29-2006, 10:04 AM

Gotcha Doug thought my bride was the only one to change her mind

diogenes

05-29-2006, 01:56 PM

I would like to start off with ca$h.

05-29-2006, 02:53 PM

Hey guys how about some answers to my post #6169

IIC

05-29-2006, 04:59 PM

Hey guys how about some answers to my post #6169

I have so many ways to pick stox...What is the Best Way???...I recommend looking for the strongest stocks in the Strongest groups...Forget IBD Group ratings though...Except for the daily groups their ratings go back too far...I like to look at the strongest groups in the last week or two.

Another fave is looking for stocks that are w/i 5% of a new high...Look for a vol. move up as it approaches the n/h.

But both of those are short term strategies.

Longer term...I ike current EPS and projections...Then I look for the chart pattern...IIC

Rob

05-29-2006, 08:21 PM

Ray, I'm a lousy short-term stock picker, because I place the highest importance on fundamental valuation. If I have reason to believe a stock is selling at a multiple considerably below what its fundamentals suggest it should, then I like it. The problem with that, as famous economist John Maynard Keynes put it, is that "markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."

I try to examine and understand technical indicators and will sometimes buy or sell a stock on that basis also. That's one of the reasons I like Ernie's momentum model. But mainly I like buying stock in companies whose sales and net earnings are picking up, but whose stock price for one reason or another hasn't yet sufficiently rewarded that activity.

Websman

05-29-2006, 09:33 PM

Rob, I'll take JOE short

billyjoe

05-29-2006, 10:27 PM

Hey everybody,
Huge beer party at Webs place tomorrow.

billyjoe

peanuts

05-29-2006, 10:40 PM

Hey everybody,
Huge beer party at Webs place tomorrow.

billyjoe

Billyjoe,

I'll pick you up on my way to Destin from Pittsburgh. I'll be coming across 70, then hit 71 in Columbus. I know a bunch of hot chicks in Alabama that we can pick up on our way down to the beach just as we get off of 65. Wild, crazy women live in southeast Alabama... you'll love `em

:)

Lyehopper

05-29-2006, 10:50 PM

And the competition starts to heat up. I certainly feel better now that I'm back where I belong. I'm taking aim on a few spots higher so watch your back guys because here comes Seabiscut. I can feel the air thickening and the competition saying I want to be in that top 10 grouping. Ok so let's bring it on guys. POTW, VTP and the Goji forever. SsSsSsSsSs.....!!!!
You mean Skibiscuit....SsSsSsSsSs!!!!

Shadow

05-30-2006, 05:41 AM

Start me in cash.....thanks.

Rob

05-30-2006, 06:10 AM

The formidable Q believes the short term bottom is in on Banco Bradesco, and hence will go long BBD for the week.

Runner

05-30-2006, 07:17 AM

Rob, starting in cash..

mimo_100

05-30-2006, 07:37 AM

I'll go long JSDA at the open.

Thanks Rob.

Rob

05-30-2006, 07:51 AM

I'll go long JSDA at the open.Mimo, a quick check of the weekly positions (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showpost.php?p=53049) reveals that the Flaming Brain (i.e. The Photon) has already selected JSDA long for this week.

Hmm, if you're both picking it, does that mean I should consider buying it?

BoSox Jon

05-30-2006, 08:26 AM

Put me in DVW Long to start the week.

Thanks Much,

Jon

skiracer

05-30-2006, 08:56 AM

Rob,
Had a change of mindset. Cancel WIRE and put me in cash to start please. Thanks. We might see a big plunge today. I'll wait it out to see which way the wind is going to blow.

jiesen

05-30-2006, 09:38 AM

put me in AMLN long, please.

billyjoe

05-30-2006, 10:04 AM

[QUOTE=peanuts]Billyjoe,

I'll pick you up on my way to Destin from Pittsburgh. I'll be coming across 70, then hit 71 in Columbus. I know a bunch of hot chicks in Alabama that we can pick up on our way down to the beach just as we get off of 65. Wild, crazy women live in southeast Alabama... you'll love `em

:)[/QUOT

peanuts,
I'll have to get my wife's permission first.

billyjoe

Rob

05-30-2006, 10:19 AM

Doug, good call on SWB, dude! It's off to a smokin' start. Your ICOC from last week is killin' too--of course that gap up in the morning would have cut into the percentage for POTW purposes.

IIC

05-30-2006, 10:25 AM

Doug, good call on SWB, dude! It's off to a smokin' start. Your ICOC from last week is killin' too--of course that gap up in the morning would have cut into the percentage for POTW purposes.

Problem is that I backed up the truck on ICOC at an avg of 6.01...target 7

Rob

05-30-2006, 10:29 AM

put me in AMLN long, please.Jiesen, that's about as shocking as my picking IMCL!

Incidentally, two other early flyers this morning are Scifos' IMNY and BillyJoe's ELN.

Lyehopper

05-30-2006, 10:48 AM

I'll take STLD (short)

spikefader

05-30-2006, 11:09 AM

Short GEG please.

gerihearne

05-30-2006, 11:29 AM

no surprise ...
cordially,
geri

Lyehopper

05-30-2006, 11:41 AM

Just short me PARL for the week, pretty please.
http://bestsmileys.com/jail/1.gif
http://bestsmileys.com/banned/1.gif
Paris just called!!!! Says she's gonna sick her dog on you this week.... I questioned the dogs stature.... She assured me that even though her dog is small he could easily "whoop a short New Born Baby."... SsSsSsSsSs!

http://img102.imageshack.us/img102/5451/parisdog1fl.png (http://imageshack.us)

Runner

05-30-2006, 01:48 PM

Rob short ECOL

Lyehopper

05-30-2006, 02:21 PM

Rob short ECOL
As badly as I hate to see ECOL retrace, I do tend to agree with your play here Runner.

alice4321us

05-30-2006, 02:58 PM

MArket is down so start with a short.

Gary611

05-30-2006, 03:39 PM

IFO long please!!

Rob

05-30-2006, 03:41 PM

Yeah, you're in time, Coily. You made it by twenty minutes. I was startin' to get worried about you though.

skiracer

05-30-2006, 03:57 PM

Rob short ECOL

Nice play runner. I was actually looking for it on the long side intraday but this is definitely the way the market was going today.

Runner

05-30-2006, 03:58 PM

lye cover ecol

Lyehopper

05-30-2006, 04:04 PM

lye cover ecol
Nice Daytrade Runner!

Runner

05-30-2006, 04:31 PM

Thanks Lye, I got spooked near the close looking over the 5 min chart. Oh well sometimes we change up our plans.

Websman

05-30-2006, 04:32 PM

Looks like JOE was a good short...jejeje

IIC

05-30-2006, 04:47 PM

lye cover ecol

Gutsy call there Runner...nice job...Doug(IIC)

Rob

05-30-2006, 04:48 PM

Scifos and Doug are the golden boys as of today.

BoSox, BillyJoe, and Lyehopper are in the FG club with Webs, Runner, NB-baby and Spike not far behind.

100% of the shorts wound up on the plus side today, vs. only 27% of the longs. And that paints a fairly accurate picture of the market today.

Dow down 184.26
Nas down 46.63
S&P down 20.28

http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/1660/potw053020069ea.gif (http://imageshack.us)

skiracer

05-30-2006, 05:01 PM

Rob,
Had a change of mindset. Cancel WIRE and put me in cash to start please. Thanks. We might see a big plunge today. I'll wait it out to see which way the wind is going to blow.

Rob,
I think you missed this post before the open this morning.

Lyehopper

05-30-2006, 05:04 PM

Nice pick Sci....

DEF "done went and got serious" on us fellas.... Some nice consistant plays here lately "Doug-E-Fresh"....

Rob

05-30-2006, 05:04 PM

Rob,
I think you missed this post before the open this morning.Yes I did. Actually I updated the positions page and forgot to update the spreadsheet. I shall make the needed correction (although I'm not sure how quickly I'll be able to get to it just now--bear with me.)

skiracer

05-30-2006, 05:05 PM

Yes I did. Actually I updated the positions page and forgot to update the spreadsheet. I shall make the needed correction (although I'm not sure how quickly I'll be able to get to it just now--bear with me.)

No problemo.

scifos

05-30-2006, 05:37 PM

Rob,
please close my IMNY trade.

I might look for a second trade sometime this week.

Rob

05-30-2006, 05:45 PM

Rob,
please close my IMNY trade.OK. It will close at tomorrow's opening price.

JohnHenry

05-30-2006, 09:35 PM

Hi Can I purchase stocks from ETFs for POTW?

Rob

05-31-2006, 07:01 AM

Hi Can I purchase stocks from ETFs for POTW?Yes. If it's got a ticker symbol and trades on the NYSE or the Nasdaq or the ASX. You'll need to wait till next week though, because the cut-off for this week was yesterday at 4:00 p.m.

Rob

05-31-2006, 09:08 AM

The other day Mimo picked JSDA long for the week. I informed him that Photon had already taken it, but evidently Mimo didn't check back until this morning. He sent me a PM expressing some degree of dissatisfaction that he will now be hit with the 5% no-show penalty. (It is interesting that had he been allowed to pick JSDA, his score for the week would now sit at exactly -5.00%.)

I'm a reasonble man. I know that situations such as this can happen. So I think a fair and equitable solution would be to enter Mimo in a cash position with one pick left for the week. [..... he said, banging the gavel down]

IIC

05-31-2006, 09:56 AM

out SWB...go to cash...IIC

mimo_100

05-31-2006, 10:06 AM

Rob

05-31-2006, 10:09 AM

out SWB...go to cash...IICDoug, unless it takes off again, it appears that you timed that exit to perfection! Kudos.

Rob

05-31-2006, 10:12 AM

I owe you one.Nahhh, you don't owe me nuttin'. Just pick a winner.

mimo_100

05-31-2006, 11:02 AM

OK Rob lets see what PCZ can do by Friday.

Long PCZ please.

Tim

skiracer

05-31-2006, 02:19 PM

Rob,
Put me in HOM - long please.

peanuts

05-31-2006, 03:59 PM

quick, switch gigm for tivo

billyjoe

05-31-2006, 04:15 PM

Rob

05-31-2006, 04:56 PM

Coily is moiderin' us with Infosonic Corp. (IFO (http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ifo)), surpassing Douggie, who played Dirty Harry's favorite company, Smith & Wesson (SWB (http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=swb)) and somehow managed to sell at precisely the optimal minute this morning! Great timing, Mr. Fresh.

BoSox cast his lot this week with a penny stock with negative earnings, Covad Communications Group (DVW (http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=dvw)), and pulls into 3rd place with a pretty astounding 8.9%!

Congrats to all 10 players who wound up on the positive side today!

I'm happy to report that among the active players this week, there is an aggregate positive score of +0.19%! Always good to see!

Dow up 73.88
Nas up 14.14
S&P up 10.25

http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/7022/potw053120065iu.gif (http://imageshack.us)

Tuesday (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=53376)

billyjoe

05-31-2006, 06:37 PM

Rob,
My trading partner, billysue, who is the brains of this outfit, says to get more aggressive, sh#@ or get off the pot . Although I may live to regret this, it probably will result in ruination or glory, but it's just a silly contest so sell ELN, go long LDSH. Don't ask me where I found this stock , a little bird told me.

billyjoe

skiracer

05-31-2006, 09:32 PM

ski,
I think you're right about HOM. What's not to like ? The future looks rosy, some traders took their nice profits, nothing to stop this one from going up. Why can't it be the next HANS ?

billyjoe

I hope I'm right about HOM over the course of the trade but I was off base this afternoon that's for sure. Not sure if it will become another HANS but they have alot going on down in Louisiania with the rebuilding and now with setting up thousands of new mobile homes for the displaced. Tomorrow is another day. This stock is a prime example of how I feel about trading. This stock was up to $14 within the last week or so and now it's down around $10To those who own it from $10/11 or lower wouldn't it have been better to sell off all of it or half of it to take some of those profits around $14 or so and to re-enter at this point after taking the gains. This happens all the time. I just can't see giving 4 points back while watching it consolidate or any position for that matter. I feel certain it will recoup but it sure would have been nice to take any gains off the table at $14 and to apply those gains to any re-entry around $10/10.50.

IIC

05-31-2006, 10:58 PM

I was wondering what sell price you would give me Rob...I thought it was 7.58...But it works both ways...No Prob...IIC

Rob

06-01-2006, 12:24 AM

. . . but it's just a silly contest so sell ELN, go long LDSH. Don't ask me where I found this stock , a little bird told me.I remember LDSH. Shadow used to play it.

Rob

06-01-2006, 12:28 AM

I was wondering what sell price you would give me Rob...I thought it was 7.58...But it works both ways...No Prob...IICThe price one gets when he or she buys or sells is the opening price of the minute when the post is made. If there is no trade for that minute, it goes to the next reported trade.

IIC

06-01-2006, 12:54 AM

The price one gets when he or she buys or sells is the opening price of the minute when the post is made. If there is no trade for that minute, it goes to the next reported trade.

Well...I think I remember you saying that before...Doesn't matter in my case...But I think you should use the closing price for the minute(which would not have helped me I don't think)...But lets just say you get some shark like me who watches news and one minute charts sometimes...Heck...I could theoretically make a killing on big news in 61-120 seconds...I think you should change it to the closing price for the minute unless it is at the open...Just my 3 cents...Doug

Rob

06-01-2006, 08:25 AM

Heck...I could theoretically make a killing on big news in 61-120 seconds...If taking the opening price on a given minute is an advantage or a disadvantage, then it is an advantage/disadvantage everyone shares equally, so the playing field is level. If someone can take the situation and make it work to their advantage, then more power to 'em.

IIC

06-01-2006, 09:18 AM

Looks like I got rid of SWB a day early...got an upgrade

Rob

06-01-2006, 10:33 AM

My trading partner, billysue, who is the brains of this outfit, says to get more aggressive . . .I think it's pretty cool that BillySue shows an interest in the contest. Why doesn't she create an account here and throw her hat in the ring?

Note to Karel: Since this is my idea, if BillySue opens an acct., do I get a recruitment credit?

Karel

06-01-2006, 10:39 AM

Note to Karel: Since this is my idea, if BillySue opens an acct., do I get a recruitment credit?
If she mentions you as referrer when she subscribes, certainly. The number of referrals is shown in the user profile. A high number entitles you to a warm, fuzzy feeling.

Regards,

Karel

Lyehopper

06-01-2006, 10:44 AM

Rob.... Cover STLD.... Short AKS!

Rob

06-01-2006, 10:46 AM

If she mentions you as referrer when she subscribes, certainly. The number of referrals is shown in the user profile. A high number entitles you to a warm, fuzzy feeling.Last time I checked I had 4, though it had been 3 until shortly before that. I don't know who that 4th one was, but I thank them. I've recently sung the praises of this forum to a couple of select people from the Yahoo boards--people who seem to have pretty keen market insights--but to my knowledge they haven't yet jumped in.

IIC

06-01-2006, 10:47 AM

Looks like I got rid of SWB a day early...got an upgrade

Guess not....IIC

Runner

06-01-2006, 03:23 PM

Rob, short SU...

Rob

06-01-2006, 03:49 PM

The daily results will be posted later than usual tonight. I'm going to be preoccupied and uanble to get to it in as timely a fashion as I normally do.

Rob

06-01-2006, 09:21 PM

While it's true that the oily boid gets the woim, Coily, who was anything but oily this week, got the woim BIG time! He's sittin' there, way yonder ahead of the rest of the pack! With a 27.06% gain on IFO this week, he's just sittin' there grinnin', knowin' how hard it's going to be to catch him! Here's a picture of him, with a couple of his cohorts:
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/5761/stoogesincharge1wb.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Then there's BoSox Jon. If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times, BoSox, don't mess with those penny stocks! But would you listen? NooOOOooo! You had to run out there and make a fool outta me by playin' one (DVW) that's given you a HUGE 12.04% return so far! Well you just keep playin' with those penny stocks, and one day (as my old man used to tell me) your chickens will come home to roost!
http://img456.imageshack.us/img456/5007/uspol200405186ap.gif (http://imageshack.us)

Douggie got worried earlier today that he'd sold his Dirty Harry Callahan stock (SWB) too soon, but lookie here! The intraday high today was still a nickel below his sell price! You see, Doug? Even when you think you're wrong, the only thing you're wrong about is thinking you were wrong! Doug is still clinging to 3rd with a very cool 9.74%! As Dirty Harry might say, "A man's got to know his limitations."
http://img61.imageshack.us/img61/3274/dirtyharry27959599pw.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Ya feel lucky, punk? Well, do ya?

Again, happy to report that the gang moved in the right direction today. The cumulative score among the active players this week so far is 1.93%!

Dow up 91.97 (0.82%)
Nas up 40.99 (1.88%)
S&P up 15.62 (1.23%)

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Tuesday (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=53376) | Wednesday (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=53540)

IIC

06-02-2006, 09:31 AM

ENCY Long ...IIC

IIC

06-02-2006, 09:47 AM

ENCY Long ...IIC

Guess my little trick didn't work...I wouldn't have actually done that in real life...the post was supposed to show up at 6:30...but it didn't...nothing to do but let it ride now

IIC

06-02-2006, 04:09 PM

Last time I try to find a rule loophole...But at least I made 7 cents a sh on it in real life...IIC

Websman

06-02-2006, 04:24 PM

Watch JOE keep dropping...Hahaha! This stock is headed back to the 20's.

JOE is all about real estate here in Florida...and the real estate market is all but dead.

Rob

06-02-2006, 04:41 PM

My pick for next week: IMCL long

Rob

06-02-2006, 05:30 PM

Gary cleans up with a breathtaking 40.47% playing IFO! Not quite enough to top DMK's 46.04% six weeks ago, but a mind-blowing total nonetheless! Congratulations on a HUGE win, Gary!

BoSox Jon takes the silver medal with a 15.18% gain on DVW, a pretty amazing total in itself, that many other weeks would have been good enough for the gold!

Quietly sliding into third is Scifos, who played IMNY, sold two days ago and closed up shop! Hey! 6.94% is a very strong performance!

Good week, everyone! The active players finished with a 1.65% gain on the week—first time in four weeks we finished to the good. Let's make next week even better!

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billyjoe

06-02-2006, 06:26 PM

Webs,
Whenever anyone mentions JOE , I either think "Where you goin' with that gun in your hand" or the movie "Joe" with Peter Boyle.

billyjoe

Gatorman

06-02-2006, 07:38 PM

Congratulations Gary on your victory. A very convincing showing.
We all have our work cut out for us if we have to be in the 40's to win this thing!

jiesen

06-02-2006, 07:51 PM

holy cow, Gary! niiiiiiiiiice job. you are HUGE!!!

spikefader

06-02-2006, 08:07 PM

Wow Gary. You're HUUUUUUGE :) Nice Job.

Congrats to BoSox and Scifos too!

Gary611

06-02-2006, 08:14 PM

holy cow, Gary! niiiiiiiiiice job. you are HUGE!!!

Thanks, fellsz! Youse guyz really make my hair coil with dem complimentz, NYUK,NYUK!!

Truth be told, I was out of town for the long Memorial Day weekend & when I unpacked on monday, I realized I had to make a pick. I picked up my trusty IBD that was there with all my weekend mail, & made a lucky guess. (IBD listed IFO as 3rd in it's weekly top 100.
Now, that lucky guess was made after I used some Brite-o that we stooges once hawked as street salesmen. Actually, it spilled on the newspaper & the only part that was legible was where it said IFO!
So there, my secret is out!
Brite-o?

billyjoe

06-02-2006, 08:16 PM

Gary,
You can't get much more huge than 40%+ Do it again next week and you'll be legendary.
billyjoe

IIC

06-02-2006, 08:18 PM

Way to go Gary...You too Bo Sox.

I'm surprised Rob didn't award me the Biggest Screwup Trade of the Week...Doug(IIC)

Gary611

06-02-2006, 08:22 PM

Gary,
You can't get much more huge than 40%+ Do it again next week and you'll be legendary.
billyjoe
Well, if you read my method, you'll know it won't happen again, 'cause I spilled da bottle, NYUK, NYUK!!

Don't mind me, I'm under the afflunce of inkahol!!

Lyehopper

06-02-2006, 09:47 PM

Wow! Gary.... What a HUUUUGE play this week dude! WTG!!!

Congrats to BoSox.... Sci.... "J" and Websman too!!!! you fellas were HUUUUGE this week!

Honorable mention to NBB's PARL short. Great call dude!

Thanks for the score keeping as always Rob! Super additional effort to keep things interesting!

Rob

06-02-2006, 10:23 PM

Guess my little trick didn't work...I wouldn't have actually done that in real life...the post was supposed to show up at 6:30...but it didn't...nothing to do but let it ride nowDoug, I don't understand what you mean by your "little trick didn't work," just because your ENCY pick showed up at 6:31 vs. 6:30 PDT. What good would it have done had it appeared a minute earlier?

IIC

06-02-2006, 10:54 PM

Doug, I don't understand what you mean by your "little trick didn't work," just because your ENCY pick showed up at 6:31 vs. 6:30 PDT. What good would it have done had it appeared a minute earlier?

I woulda got it at 6.03 open...sold at 6.20(from memory)...But if it had kept going I coulda held.

To be honest I clicked Submit at 9:30:45 according to eSignal...But this isn't the Fastest Forum Site around....So I got the 9:31.00 price.

I'm going back to real pix from now on...Ended up damaging my YTD performance.

Rob

06-03-2006, 06:04 AM

So that's it. You waited until the opening bell, spotted a stock that started taking off right away, and tried to snatch it at the opening price before the first minute transpired. Mmm hmm.

Had your trade been entered at 6:30 PDT, your total avg. would be higher by 0.12% and your Q2 avg. by 0.30%.

Had you not played a 2nd pick at all but stuck with your 9.74% gain, your total avg. would be higher by 0.28% and your Q2 avg. by 0.69%.

Here's the real kicker. Had you stuck with SWB through to the end of the week, your total avg. would be higher by 0.40% and your Q2 avg. by 0.98%, placing you at the top of the list sorted by Q2 avg., the spot now occupied by Gary. Gary's 40.47% IFO play this week shot him up 12 places on that list from last week. And that was only because he spilled Brite-o on his copy of IBD.

Edit: In fact, now that I look at it again, sticking with the 9.74% gain on SWB would also have been enough for you to edge into the top slot.

spikefader

06-03-2006, 10:45 AM

PPHM long please. Looking for continuation of that monthly 3rd impulse up. Good luck all.

billyjoe

06-03-2006, 10:58 AM

peanuts

06-03-2006, 11:09 AM

I'll take GV long, to start the week.

I'm really bad at this game

skiracer

06-03-2006, 11:28 AM

Rob,
I really hope I'm wrong on this one, but the stocklemon report that Doug alerted us to and the shady past of the CEO and his cronies can only mean bad things ......HOM short . A few million more shares and this one is toast.

billyjoe

p.s. spike, where is your green arrow? you don't want to get into trouble

Billyjoe,
I thought that you owned the stock. Do you still own it? That article by Stocklemon is just one way on the two way street of opinions. I wouldn't be one to overreact to hastily to whatever their take on the stock is. This type of stuff goes on everyday with lots of issues an insider ownership and selling. There is alot of rebuilding that is going on in Louisiana and will continue to go on down there. Someone is going to do that work and HOM is right in the thick of it. Stocklemon puts out an article like that on their website and expect people to accept it verbatim. What's to say they aren't as far off base as the other side is with their earnings reporting and guidance of late. I'm not saying the article is completely wrong but I wouldn't be acting to hastily because of it.

IIC

06-03-2006, 11:57 AM

I was just offering the report for info...I didn't say it was completely accurate...Maybe it is and maybe it isn't???...IIC

billyjoe

06-03-2006, 12:06 PM

Ski,
I do own it long. That's why I hope I'm wrong, but remember when they fooled around with a few million new shares in January and it tanked? The officers are shady characters and they aren't about to change their ways. Their manipulation has already made them millions. It could all collapse and they're set for life. AOB comes to mind. Accounting irregularities are a big red flag and are right around the corner. I believe stocklemon is a legitimate site and HOM is a questionable company. Hope to get out Monday if possible. Again , I may well be wrong.

billyjoe

diogenes

06-03-2006, 12:07 PM

Going to go with Cash.

JohnHenry

06-03-2006, 02:16 PM

Hi
I would like Boardwalk Pipeline (BWP ) at market open on Monday, thanks.

Rob

06-03-2006, 02:19 PM

Quasi-Ernie is going to play BBD long again. Besides the fact that the Q thinks it's oversold, he saw where Spikefider said he's bullish on it ... or full of bull on it ... or something along those lines ... ANYWAY, that's his pick, and here, reproduced in all its technically analytical glory, is Spike's chart:

http://img387.imageshack.us/img387/9761/bbdjune31ep.gif (http://imageshack.us)http://img272.imageshack.us/img272/6752/argq504frametrans2vg.gif (http://imageshack.us)

Rob

06-03-2006, 02:20 PM

Hi
I would like Boardwalk Pipeline (BWP ) at market open on Monday, thanks.You got it, Sticky. Welcome to the far-outest contest on the Web.

jiesen

06-03-2006, 03:48 PM

put me in $$CASH$$ to start, please!

B.J

06-03-2006, 03:49 PM

$CASH$ please

MickyMouse

06-03-2006, 05:46 PM

MOVI long. thx

BoSox Jon

06-04-2006, 05:20 AM

Judging by my past pattern of success I think I'm due for a 20 percent loss this week. Let's see how badly I blow this weeks pick. TZOO Long!

Thanks Rob,

Jon

mimo_100

06-04-2006, 07:42 AM

Start me in CA$H, Rob.

Thank you.

Tim

Karel

06-04-2006, 10:34 AM

CELL http://bestsmileys.com/toliot/10.gif

Our new star is: AEM! I hope to see some positive scores again, but what Gary showed this week was outrageous! Congratulations!

The Mechanical fund outstripped both POTW's this week, and the POTW+ was last. (There were three non-players.) The point score is:

POTW: 11
MF: 11
POTW+: 8

No shattering differences, but look at the percentages (in my Mechanical fund thread).

Regards,

Karel

IIC

06-04-2006, 11:05 AM

Start me in cash...may change my mind later though...IIC

spikefader

06-04-2006, 12:14 PM

The Mechanical fund outstripped both POTW's this week, and the POTW+ was last. (There were three non-players.) The point score is:

POTW: 11
MF: 11
POTW+: 8

No shattering differences, but look at the percentages (in my Mechanical fund thread).

Regards,

Karel
Ya know Karel.......those percentages are terrible for POTW aren't they?

The problem seems clear enough; not cutting the losers short. Until that starts happening POTW is destined for an eternal negative equity curve (actually I'm assuming it's negative so please correct me if I'm wrong).

Speaking of equity curves, does anyone have the POTW average winner, average loser, and win rate?

Peter Hansen

06-04-2006, 05:52 PM

Rob ZILG Long for me Thanx!

skiracer

06-04-2006, 06:59 PM

Rob,
HOM - long please. Billyjoe, I hope for both of our sakes that you lose big time this week. Nothing personal ya know.

IIC

06-04-2006, 07:13 PM

Rob,
HOM - long please. Billyjoe, I hope for both of our sakes that you lose big time this week. Nothing personal ya know.

Whaddya think?...Big hurricane this week or sumpthin'???

Runner

06-04-2006, 07:22 PM

Rob, DXPE long...

gerihearne

06-04-2006, 07:25 PM

cordially,
geri

skiracer

06-04-2006, 08:03 PM

Whaddya think?...Big hurricane this week or sumpthin'???

We're in the season now. But that would be bad karma to wish more hurricane devastation on those people in the Gulf region. I'd like to just ride along on what's been done and getting them fixed up decently.

Websman

06-04-2006, 08:30 PM

This week, I'm going against the odds. The Vulcans are taking a gamble...

Rob I want to take..... (drum roll please)..........................

ISON long

IIC

06-04-2006, 10:09 PM

We're in the season now. But that would be bad karma to wish more hurricane devastation on those people in the Gulf region. I'd like to just ride along on what's been done and getting them fixed up decently.

Just a word of caution...HOM's receivables will continue to grow...Doug

Gatorman

06-04-2006, 10:31 PM

I'll start out in cash.

Rob

06-05-2006, 07:08 AM

This week, I'm going against the odds. The Vulcans are taking a gamble...

Rob I want to take..... (drum roll please)..........................

ISON longWebs, a gamble is right! Whoah! That chart (http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=ISON&p=W&yr=3&mn=0&dy=0&id=p15696402988) looks like a Spikefader burnt toast chart! What is there in the VTP that shows anything positive here?

spikefader

06-05-2006, 07:35 AM

Webs, a gamble is right! Whoah! That chart (http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=ISON&p=W&yr=3&mn=0&dy=0&id=p15696402988) looks like a Spikefader burnt toast chart! What is there in the VTP that shows anything positive here?
lol you got that right Rob. Obviously Webs is going for the double bottom bounce......but sheesh....I think it's Toast alright. What an ugly chart lol It reminds me of ZICA. I think they're both going to zero.

Gary611

06-05-2006, 08:15 AM

Burnt toast & a rotten egg. I gotta tape worm & it's good enough for him!!NYUK, NYUK!!

Rob, MED long, please, I gotta lose some of this baby fat!!

06-05-2006, 08:33 AM

Back to the darts hit CVS so thats It Mr. Rob

IIC

06-05-2006, 09:33 AM

Just a word of caution...HOM's receivables will continue to grow...Doug

From Briefing this morn:

9:01 ET Home Solutions responds to inquiries regarding acct receivables, guidance, stock sales (HOM) 9.71 :Co responds to investor inquiries concerning its Accounts Receivable and other matters. In executing its disaster relief work from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, which the co classifies as recovery services, many of the receivables are paid over longer time periods due to govt agencies and insurance cos reimbursing claims for work performed. As a result, receivables have increased in absolute dollars and in DSO's, although at a more favorable rate than the restoration and recovery industry overall. The co expects the DSO's to decrease throughout the year as its business shifts to build-back work during Q2 and throughout the balance of the year. During Q2, the co has already collected insurance-backed receivables, valued at $1.5 mln that were over 150 days old. Over the past two years, the co has experienced bad debt expense related to receivables of less than 1% of revenue. The co's $10 mln credit facility remains unused. The co also says it remains confident that it will meet or exceed its recently updated outlook. Co says that "Since the conclusion of the Mayoral election, work has increased in New Orleans." Finally, the co notes that recent sales of stock by the C.E.O. were the first such sales by the executives since the co's inception. The sales were conducted for diversification and estate planning purposes. In connection with the sales, Mr. Fradella exercised options to acquire an additional 1.6 mln shares at a cost of $2.8 mln, significantly increasing the number of shares he directly owns.

IIC

06-05-2006, 09:59 AM

IFO long...IIC

Rob

06-05-2006, 10:02 AM

So far this morning, MickyMouse's MOVI pick is by far and away the breakaway star. Super sleuthing job, Micky! Looks to be busting out of a 4-month cup w/ handle.

Rob

06-05-2006, 11:36 AM

Runner, DXPE is doing great so far. Unfortunately, that 7.3% gap up at the open is going to hurt your score this week.

Lyehopper

06-05-2006, 12:13 PM

Catch that knife for me Rockin'Rob.lol

GEHL.... long

scifos

06-05-2006, 12:31 PM

pmtr long

thanks

Lyehopper

06-05-2006, 01:46 PM

Please sell freakin' GEHL rob..... sheesh!

NBB may be right.... $18-19 target?.... I'm out.....

Edit: It was stupid trading this thing long today anyway. A clear SHS with neckline break showing on the five day chart.... GEHL is toast for a while imo.

Runner

06-05-2006, 02:51 PM

Runner, DXPE is doing great so far. Unfortunately, that 7.3% gap up at the open is going to hurt your score this week.

Yep that sucks, but looking on 15 min chart as long as that 38% fib holds I'll stay in it for now. If it drops much from here I'll close it out and once again admit bad call on entry. It is amazing how the market crashes several days with –100 points and everyone gets all bullish when it pops a few points..hhhaaa

The Stock Girl

06-05-2006, 03:56 PM

...........sell CAJ please

Rob

06-05-2006, 05:06 PM

As I said earlier, MickyMouse is the early leader ... and by quite a bit! Good one, Micky! Now you can buy that missing E from your name.

Scifos jumped in around lunchtime and picked up a pretty huge winner too, in PMTR! Awsome, Sci-dude!

BillyJoe's inkling about HOM worked out today! Of course that 5.26% gap up at the open helped out quite nicely!

The only other entry on the positive side today is one of our two new contestants, The Stock Girl, who jumped in 4 minutes under the wire and picked up 0.22% on a short sale.

The other new contestant today is StkyTreat, whom I think I will call "Sticky."

Dow 11,048.72, down 199.15 (1.77%)
Nasdaq 2,169.62, down 49.78 (2.24%)
S&P 500 1,265.29, down 22.93 (1.78%)

http://img331.imageshack.us/img331/2127/potw060520063ra.gif (http://imageshack.us)

IIC

06-05-2006, 05:43 PM

Being the honest guy that I am...I'd like to point out to Mr. Rob that I had posted IFO long at 6:59am PDT.

Now...that brings up a question...the opening price as indicated at AMEX.com is 34.50...When I posted it was somewhere in the mid 29's...But was it?

I did not buy it in real life...but all over the net I was reading about people who could not buy/sell because it did not actually open till 7:10am PDT on the Amex...it was only trading on alternate exchanges which many could not trade on...So what really was the opening price?...Anyway...just give me whatever it was at 6:59am PDT...but I do wonder about the above...thx...IIC

jiesen

06-05-2006, 06:18 PM

looks like $$CASH$$ was king today!

Websman

06-05-2006, 08:51 PM

Rob I want to...

Sell ISON

Buy ACSEF

New-born baby

06-05-2006, 09:28 PM

ROB:
Please short the Stinking Dog Down. Oh, I mean, please short PARL for me. Thank you.

Want to see why?
http://img105.imageshack.us/img105/9824/chart13bs.gif (http://imageshack.us)

Rob

06-05-2006, 10:45 PM

Being the honest guy that I am...I'd like to point out to Mr. Rob that I had posted IFO long at 6:59am PDT.Thank you, Mr. Breakout. It seems like I can't get through a week anymore without one o' those screw ups. Anyway, the score's been fixed.

Rob

06-05-2006, 10:48 PM

looks like $$CASH$$ was king today!No, Jiesen. MickyMouse was king today!

Rob

06-05-2006, 10:59 PM

ROB: Please short the Stinking Dog Down. Oh, I mean, please short PARL for me. Thank you.New-born, have I missed something? I didn't have you as having entered the contest this week. I just did a quick scan back over the messages posted since Friday, 4:00 p.m. and didn't find anything.

IIC

06-05-2006, 11:00 PM

Thank you, Mr. Breakout. It seems like I can't get through a week anymore without one o' those screw ups. Anyway, the score's been fixed.

Well Mr. Rob...I figure it is better to be an Honest Loser than a Lyin' Winner...It all works out in the end anyway...Mr. B

jiesen

06-06-2006, 12:45 AM

No, Jiesen. MickyMouse was king today!

It's true, Micky is the HUGEST of the huge right now. However, of those who are in the top half today, the majority have made it there by holding onto their $$CASH$$.

I don't blame them. Today was a tough day to stomach entering the market short or long. Especially with the Fed taking yet another opportunity to rub in the fact that they'll just keep on raising the rates until it's evident that our economy is in a tailspin.

Rob

06-06-2006, 07:00 AM

Well Mr. Rob...I figure it is better to be an Honest Loser than a Lyin' Winner.You are so right. I wish more people in the world would adopt that philosophy.

However, of those who are in the top half today, the majority have made it there by holding onto their $$CASH$$.Yeah, I know.

Especially with the Fed taking yet another opportunity to rub in the fact that they'll just keep on raising the rates until it's evident that our economy is in a tailspin.I know that's a tough pill to swallow, but I can't say that I completely disagree. If you check out the CPI numbers (http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet?data_tool=latest_numbers&series_id=CUUR0000SA0&output_view=pct_1mth) back to '96, you'll see that the rate of inflation in April was never higher, with the exception of September last year. Even the dreaded March 2000 had a lower inflation rate.

New-born baby

06-06-2006, 07:09 AM

New-born, have I missed something? I didn't have you as having entered the contest this week. I just did a quick scan back over the messages posted since Friday, 4:00 p.m. and didn't find anything.

Rob,
That's okay. I've been so busy that I haven't done anything with POTW or anything else for several weeks. Just forget it :D It's all good. But for fun you can watch PARL fall if you want.

As for fighting inflation by raising interest rates, I think we need to consider how inflation got here in the first place. The Congress, which holds the purse strings for our govt and not one dollar can be spent without their approval, has spent money that the govt does not have. Thus, inflation. Raising interest rates makes every American (illegal immigrants excluded) pay for what Congress has spent. They would rather do that than cut spending for their friends' pet projects.

Lyehopper

06-06-2006, 08:59 AM

Rob,
That's okay. I've been so busy that I haven't done anything with POTW or anything else for several weeks. Just forget it :D It's all good. But for fun you can watch PARL fall if you want.
You are still HUGE NBB.... A little late but HUGE nonetheless.

Thanks for putting up the chart on PARL.

Rob

06-06-2006, 09:03 AM

New-born, as far as I know, inflation is not a result of deficit spending. The rate of inflation was high in the first quarter of 2000, even though there were budget surpluses every quarter from Q1 1998 through Q2 2001. Inflation is tied to the amount of money in circulation, and that is regulated by the nation's central banking system we know as the good ol' Federal Reserve. When there are too many dollars floating around, they need to drain the pool a little, and raising the rate of interest they charge banks is one way to do it.

If you want to check out gov't receipts and expenditures, the Bureau of Economic Accounts has a Web site with some cool interactive tables (http://www.bea.gov/bea/dn/nipaweb/TableView.asp?SelectedTable=85&FirstYear=2004&LastYear=2006&Freq=Qtr).

billyjoe

06-06-2006, 10:03 AM

Rob,
Cover HOM

billyjoe

jiesen

06-06-2006, 10:23 AM

AMLN long for me, please!

IIC

06-06-2006, 10:36 AM

HOM trashed again...True or not...I don't think this is helping the stock:

http://www.stocklemon.com/06_06_06.html

Rob

06-06-2006, 10:43 AM

I'm going to take a calculated risk here, since My IMCL management boys did not deliver a good conference call on ASCO results last night ... (good science, good results, poor management)

Sell IMCL ..... Short HOM

IIC

06-06-2006, 11:25 AM

The Stock Girl

06-06-2006, 11:28 AM

Rob

06-06-2006, 11:31 AM

Hey Rob...it looks like the only thing that's gonna stop you is if it is haltedWell there certainly doesn't seem to be a lot of buyers moving in. I don't like shorting, I'm only using it as a survival mechanism in this contest. I feel really bad for the people who are losing their shirts on this stock, unless they're complicit in any alleged fraud that's going on. In that case, I say roast 'em.

Rob

06-06-2006, 11:37 AM

mmmmmmmmm, your skillful play gives me goose bumps! Rob, you are beyond HUGE!Well thanks for the compliment, SG, but if I were as huge as all that, I probably would've had the guts to make that play in real life, which I didn't.

p.s. "SG," hmm ... I have a guitar called an SG, made by Gibson. I bought it in 1981 from the Guitar Center in Hollywood, CA. I guess that's about the most interesting thing you've heard all day.

IIC

06-06-2006, 11:38 AM

Well there certainly doesn't seem to be a lot of buyers moving in. I don't like shorting, I'm only using it as a survival mechanism in this contest. I feel really bad for the people who are losing their shirts on this stock, unless they're complicit in any alleged fraud that's going on. In that case, I say roast 'em.

I tried to warn everybody...It doesn't matter whether the allegations at StockLemon are true or not...Rumors can wreak havoc on a stock...IIC

billyjoe

06-06-2006, 11:40 AM

HOM is a perfect example of why people lose faith in the market. Whatever is going on it's obvious the average stockholder and the company executives are playing by a different set of rules. FA or TA isn't going to save you from these guys. Who can sit watching the ticker all day so they won't get caught in a 23% reversal in 2 hours. Like I said earlier , the CEO and his cronies have already got their millions so if they lose a few hundred thousand as the company goes down the toilet, they'll just resurface with another scam , probably some sort of pyramid sceme in a couple years . Remember what the President's brother did (the one they don't talk about) a few years ago with the Silverado Savings & Loan ? Cost the taxpayers 1.6 billion. He came out smelling like a rose. Until recently was still getting secret service protection. Makes a fortune as a consultant .All's fair in business especially if you've got the right connections.

billyjoe

Rob

06-06-2006, 11:46 AM

I am going to Cover HOM at this point. Take the money and run. Anybody else care to short it?

The Stock Girl

06-06-2006, 12:16 PM

I am going to Cover HOM at this point. Take the money and run. Anybody else care to short it?
OK, cover CAJ...........Short HOM

My dd says it's TOAST!

Lyehopper

06-06-2006, 01:05 PM

OK, cover CAJ...........Short HOM
A little quick on the trigger there Stock Girl.... How do ya like playin' with the "Big Boys" so far?.... Now, ain'tcha glad I gave you those old trousers of mine?....SsSsSsSssssss....

Runner

06-06-2006, 02:26 PM

Rob, sell DXPE and short ECOL...

Runner

06-06-2006, 02:51 PM

Set up on ECOL is off 60 min chart on a 80 band slip. This trade will be wrong if price gets above 27.60

IIC

06-06-2006, 03:14 PM

OK, cover CAJ...........Short HOM

My dd says it's TOAST!

I think everyone on the Net who shorted HOM should send me 20 bux...I hope all my posting all over the Net is not responsible for this mess...LOL

billyjoe

06-06-2006, 04:43 PM

Thanks Doug,
Your research allowed me to get out before the sh#* hit the fan. I wouldn't have seen that article in time . IIC is one of the big reasons this is a successful forum.

billyjoe

Rob

06-06-2006, 04:54 PM

Micky does it again! Even though yours truly held the lead for a good portion of the day, that darned MOVI rallied at the end and bumped me off the top. Oh well, that's how it goes. Congrats Micky!

2 & 3, well we won't talk about them. Their positions are closed. (But try to catch 'em! I dare ya!)

Scifos gained a little more ground percentage-wise today, with his PMTR pick closing with a total gain of 7.76%! Great play, Scifos, especially considering today was supposed to be doomsday or something.

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billyjoe

06-06-2006, 10:16 PM

Rob,
You buy something and I'll buy something or vice versa ?

billyjoe

Rob

06-06-2006, 10:21 PM

Rob,
You buy something and I'll buy something or vice versa ?

billyjoe
BillyJoe,

I've already spent all my ammunition this week. But you've got another buy and sell left should you decide to use it.

Websman

06-06-2006, 10:28 PM

I would short WIRE if I had another pick left...but I don't. jejeje

Lyehopper

06-06-2006, 10:39 PM

IIC is one of the big reasons this is a successful forum.
I'll drink to that....hic!

IIC

06-07-2006, 12:28 AM

Thanks Doug,
Your research allowed me to get out before the sh#* hit the fan. I wouldn't have seen that article in time . IIC is one of the big reasons this is a successful forum.

billyjoe

Thanks Billy...But actually I know quite a bit more about HOM than that SL article...You should really thank Doctor Jack...If he hadn't been high on HOM I wouldn't have even bothered to post those articles...I wasn't trying to show him up...he seems sharp...but I didn't want anyone to get burned...just in case.

I owened HOM before and made some dough a few months back...But as it climbed and the more I read...I just didn't trust it...so I never bot it back again...Doug(IIC)

billyjoe

06-07-2006, 07:38 AM

Rob,
The pressure is on to pass you and get at least 16.46%. I'll put my hope in GISX long.

billyjoe

Rob

06-07-2006, 07:49 AM

The pressure is on to pass you and get at least 16.46%. I'll put my hope in GISX long.Oh shoot. I was hoping you'd just glide into the finish with the status quo. :p

Maybe this will scare you ...

http://img45.imageshack.us/img45/5049/bear3be.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

billyjoe

06-07-2006, 07:52 AM

Thanks Billy...But actually I know quite a bit more about HOM than that SL article...You should really thank Doctor Jack...If he hadn't been high on HOM I wouldn't have even bothered to post those articles...I wasn't trying to show him up...he seems sharp...but I didn't want anyone to get burned...just in case.

I owened HOM before and made some dough a few months back...But as it climbed and the more I read...I just didn't trust it...so I never bot it back again...Doug(IIC)

Doug,
Here's some more info. Louis Navellier has HOM as his #1 stock for June. Also ARH which may have been created within the last week and reportedly has big orders for HOM claims to be building modular units to send to New Orleans to ease the housing crises. I owned CHB which is the largest manufacturer of these units in the U.S. They whipped out 2000 of these units several months ago for New Orleans and lost money on the deal. Their shares are in the dumper yet upstart ARH is going to make $$$ on theirs ? I don't think so.
billyjoe

IIC

06-07-2006, 09:18 AM

HOM's rebuttal : http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/060606/20060606005834.html?.v=1

Now for the kicker...Sanders Morris Harris upgrades HOM to a Strong Buy tgt 15.50.

This is nuts

IIC

06-07-2006, 09:42 AM

This IFO really sux

Lyehopper

06-07-2006, 10:25 AM

Doug,
Here's some more info. Louis Navellier has HOM as his #1 stock for June. Also ARH which may have been created within the last week and reportedly has big orders for HOM claims to be building modular units to send to New Orleans to ease the housing crises. I owned CHB which is the largest manufacturer of these units in the U.S. They whipped out 2000 of these units several months ago for New Orleans and lost money on the deal. Their shares are in the dumper yet upstart ARH is going to make $$$ on theirs ? I don't think so.
billyjoe
BillyJoe, Great point!

It's one thing to procure sales or "contracts"..... Quite another to make profit on those sales.

Another point, a little OT.... This stocklemon.com site?..... They make the 'disclaimer" that they may be actually trading the stocks that they report on.... Wonder how many $Millions they pocketed yesterday as they shorted HOM into the dirt?.... Some Slick Dudes!....VERY Slick!.... Why didn't we think of this concept?lol

http://img342.imageshack.us/img342/8760/stocklemon4rb.png (http://imageshack.us)

Rob

06-07-2006, 10:38 AM

Lyehopper

06-07-2006, 10:46 AM

Yeah, they're obviously very literate also, as in "the principles of Stocklemon.com might hold a position in . . . " Ha! I give them a C in English for using principle where principal belongs.
LOL!!!! Goes to show ya..... Don't have to be highly or even marginally educated to make money.... Just need a solid "plan".... jejejejeje

Lyehopper

06-07-2006, 11:09 AM

Short AKS please Rockin'Rob....

Rob

06-07-2006, 11:31 AM

Speaking of English ...

Short AKS? Speaking so as to be understood by those in Rio Linda, California, may I aks: are you sure that's a good move?

Lyehopper

06-07-2006, 12:56 PM

Speaking of English ...

Short AKS? Speaking so as to be understood by those in Rio Linda, California, may I aks: are you sure that's a good move?
You aks a hard qrestion Rob.... I'm pretty sure it is over the longer haul. Now.... Was it a great move for a contest that ends Friday?.... Not so sure, but we'll see I guess.

Runner

06-07-2006, 01:02 PM

Rob cover the ECOL please. Wrong call on this short...

Lyehopper

06-07-2006, 01:39 PM

Rob cover the ECOL please. Wrong call on this short...
You think you made a bad short play Runner?.... Look at poor ol Stock Gal.... She might set a POTW record this week!

Runner

06-07-2006, 01:43 PM

Lye, it won't be the first time and or the last. ECOL is one strong puppy!! I did not buy it in real life. I just thought it was going to drop.. Crazy market as of late..

mimo_100

06-07-2006, 02:06 PM

Buy FLO

Thanks Rob.

Tim

Rob

06-07-2006, 02:44 PM

Rob,
The pressure is on to pass you and get at least 16.46%. I'll put my hope in GISX long.

billyjoeBillyJoe, your “magic number” on GISX would be 43.18.

Rob

06-07-2006, 04:58 PM

Well, Micky's MOVI took a little intermission today, but his name still get top billing on the the ol' marquee.

Of course I can do nothing but sit and watch, and make disparaging remarks about the Mayans. That's always fun.

BillyJoe McAllister jumped of the Tallahatchee Bridge. Oh, wait, wrong BillyJoe. Our BillyJoe decided he'd have a run at the silver (or even the gold?) and went with GISX. He's down a little, but the countin' ain't over yet.

Scifos still has a healthy gain of > 4%. One of our new recruits, Sticky, is hangin' tough with BWP, and ornery ol' Lyehopper came bouncin' back with a short play on AKS.

http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/3738/potw060720064ya.gif (http://imageshack.us)
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billyjoe

06-07-2006, 05:00 PM

Rob,
Very sporting of you , but now I'd feel guilty if I were to beat you. It probably won't matter with Micky's record of making huge picks such as BWNG in the POTY and his earlier blockbusters.

billyjoe

IIC

06-07-2006, 06:36 PM

Not doing well myself this week w/ that cr*p stock IFO...But strange how the bottom 2 have the same stock each way...I don't remember that ever happening.

IIC

skiracer

06-07-2006, 07:32 PM

Not doing well myself this week w/ that cr*p stock IFO...But strange how the bottom 2 have the same stock each way...I don't remember that ever happening.

IIC

Btw, I exited my position in HOM at $10.75. I was so disgusted with the turn of events between the news releases from Stocklemon and HOM's rebuttals that I just said **** it and let it go in the contest. You would have to be pretty naive to believe that something criminal isn't going on with that whole set of circumstances. It wouldn't surprise me if a Pepsi bottle or something falls out of the sky and hits one of those guys in the head. Bad karma brings that kind of stuff on to bastards like these guys.

billyjoe

06-07-2006, 07:52 PM

ski,
I'm glad you got out at 10.75. Thank God I sold 1/2 @ 14.05 , 1/2 @9.95 of the original position, then a 1/2 position at a .08 loss minutes before the axe fell.

billyjoe

IIC

06-07-2006, 07:54 PM

Btw, I exited my position in HOM at $10.75. I was so disgusted with the turn of events between the news releases from Stocklemon and HOM's rebuttals that I just said **** it and let it go in the contest. You would have to be pretty naive to believe that something criminal isn't going on with that whole set of circumstances. It wouldn't surprise me if a Pepsi bottle or something falls out of the sky and hits one of those guys in the head. Bad karma brings that kind of stuff on to bastards like these guys.

I'm just waiting for it to get halted...Hard to decipher fact from fiction right now on it...but something is terribly wrong here...IIC

billyjoe

06-07-2006, 08:03 PM

Read stocklemons latest, it looks real bad for HOM. Don't shoot the messenger even if the message sucks. Why shouldn't stocklemon be able to short based on their research ? They are just a little different in telling the world the bad news, actually a brilliant idea. They are right as often as Mr.Market in reverse.
billyjoe

Websman

06-07-2006, 08:07 PM

... I just said **** it and let it go....
...Bad karma brings that kind of stuff on to bastards like these guys....

Now that's the Ski that I know and love!...LOL

IIC

06-07-2006, 08:30 PM

Maybe we should start a Stocklemon thread???

I nominate Billy to be in charge of it.

The latest on HOM:

http://www.stocklemon.com/06_07_06.html

...Doug(IIC)

Rob

06-07-2006, 10:47 PM

LOL! Doug, I just followed the Stocklemon link you provided, and after reading their rebuttal, guess what I found at the bottom of the page ...

[/URL]
[URL=http://imageshack.us]http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/2025/sl7lc.gif (http://imageshack.us)

Do you think it's coincidental that they discovered and fixed their grammatical error on the same day that I happened to mention it? Or are they reading this thread?

Come out! Come out! Wherever you are! ;)

Lyehopper

06-07-2006, 11:04 PM

IIC

06-07-2006, 11:08 PM

LOL! Doug, I just followed the Stocklemon link you provided, and after reading their rebuttal, guess what I found at the bottom of the page ...

http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/2025/sl7lc.gif (http://imageshack.us)

Do you think it's coincidental that they discovered and fixed their grammatical error on the same day that I happened to mention it? Or are they reading this thread?

Come out! Come out! Wherever you are! ;)

Well Rob...Between Mr. M and some of the rest here...I'm fairly certain that there is quite a following...Mostly by lurkers like that a**hole Yahoo Slurp Spider Guy...;) ...So maybe you are right???

But I'll tell ya...I was ready to jump all over your sour buds over at SL for grammatical errors...But I went there and I see that you are lousy at snapping photos...Of their Disclaimer...

Here it is...But I will fault them for adding an "s" at the end of time...Musta gone to a State school:

http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/7615/stocklermon3xe.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Lyehopper

06-07-2006, 11:10 PM

Maybe we should start a Stocklemon thread???

I nominate Billy to be in charge of it.

The latest on HOM:

http://www.stocklemon.com/06_07_06.html

...Doug(IIC)

We could combine it with the Crammer watch thread.... I second the BillyJoe nomination!

Rob

06-07-2006, 11:20 PM

Lye, hmm, yeah I see that they still have it the other way on their main disclaimer page.

Doug, sorry about the quality on that capture. The first one I posted was something like 729 px in width, so I had to do a quick shrink job on it, and as a result it got a little disfigured.

IIC

06-07-2006, 11:44 PM

IIC

06-07-2006, 11:44 PM

We could combine it with the Crammer watch thread.... I second the BillyJoe nomination!

It is "CRAMER"

Lyehopper

06-07-2006, 11:49 PM

It is "CRAMER"
..........SORRY!

IIC

06-07-2006, 11:56 PM

..........SORRY!

And well you should be http://bestsmileys.com/zapped/2.gif

Rob

06-08-2006, 07:48 AM

Hey, Doug, here's a smiley I bet you don't have in your smiley stash ... http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/7310/cramersmiley4hc.gif (http://imageshack.us)

billyjoe

06-08-2006, 11:25 AM

Doug/Lye,
Yes, I could do a Stocklemon/Cram(m)er thread , paraphrasing some of Cramer's rants and Stocklemon's lemons.

billyjoe

Lyehopper

06-08-2006, 11:33 AM

Doug/Lye,
Yes, I could do a Stocklemon/Cram(m)er thread , paraphrasing some of Cramer's rants and Stocklemon's lemons.

billyjoe
That would be cool BillyJoe.... I don't get to watch Crammmmmmer very often and I would be interested in seeing how the stocks he mentions react the day after....

billyjoe

06-08-2006, 11:38 AM

Lye,
At least you can get some entertainment value from Cram . Probably wouldn't have daily news from Stocklemon. A few months ago there was a site that tracked every stock Cram mentioned. booyahboy.com apparently has been shut down.
billyjoe

I found it ! booyahboyaudit.com since 7/28/05 , 412 winners , 416 losers , 3.71% gain. He's got a 100% loser in MXO , recommended 2/14/06 , that is not easy to do.

mimo_100

06-08-2006, 01:59 PM

rob,

Sell FLO

Tim

billyjoe

06-08-2006, 03:19 PM

Rob,
I concede. OOO..... that smarts !

--------- billyjoe

Rob

06-08-2006, 04:45 PM

It was nip & tuck toward the end, and I'm not sure who's nip and who's tuck, but MickyMouse managed to nab the cheese once again.

Numbers 2, 3 & 4 are all the same dudes, but what's new is Jiesen and Ray replaced Sticky and Lye on the plus side.

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New-born baby

06-08-2006, 07:33 PM

Rob,
Would I be winning this thing if you had let me short PARL?

I thought so.

billyjoe

06-08-2006, 08:13 PM

Rob,
Micky's MOVI must be one helluva stock.

---------billyjoe

Rob

06-08-2006, 10:31 PM

Rob,
Would I be winning this thing if you had let me short PARL?

I thought so.As a matter of fact, yes, you would have been on top with a score of 18.19%. I should like to point out, however, that I did not prevent you from shorting PARL. The POTW ship sails each week at the close of the first trading day, so all entries must be posted no later than 3:59 p.m. on that day.

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New-born baby

06-08-2006, 10:50 PM

No sweat, Rob. The lack of prize money from POTW is not going to mean that I'll miss any meals. :D

spikefader

06-09-2006, 01:16 AM

Rob,
Would I be winning this thing if you had let me short PARL?

I thought so.I knew that thing was living on borrowed time :D

jiesen

06-09-2006, 01:43 AM

I knew that thing was living on borrowed time :D

as fleeting as the fame of a dumb blonde who's fifteen minutes have long expired...

Rob

06-09-2006, 06:14 AM

as fleeting as the fame of a dumb blonde who's fifteen minutes have long expired...Are you sure about that, Jiesen? Or are you perhaps overestimating the intellect and good taste of a large slice of the American demographic pie? http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/7310/cramersmiley4hc.gif (http://imageshack.com)

http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/7037/ph4fp.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Lyehopper

06-09-2006, 09:32 AM

as fleeting as the fame of a dumb blonde who's fifteen minutes have long expired...
Goes to show ya that sometimes it ain't just "about the earnings".... Look closely at management's credibility too. If red flags are raised.... Don't ignore them!.... The finest stock evaluating software in the world can't tell you that a company's management is up to no good.... But it is interesting that the chart gave us a clue about where PARL was headed!

Rob

06-09-2006, 05:26 PM

Well, I did it, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you ... thank you very much. You can have your finest meats and cheeses delivered to my penthouse.

MickyMouse's MOVI experienced a bit of profit-taking there at the tail end of the week and allowed to me to "squeak" ahead. But make no mistake, 16.05% is a HUGE score for any week, let alone a bloody one such as this has been!

BillyJoe checks in at number three with a mighty fine 11.25%! Excellent, Billy, excellent!

And believe it or not, that's it for the plus side this week!

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Lyehopper

06-09-2006, 05:32 PM

HUUUUGE!!!! Play this week Rob, Mickey and BillyJoe!....

Hey Rob and BillyJoe, ain't it kinda funny that the bottom two players this week also played HOM....jejeje

Rob

06-09-2006, 05:36 PM

HUUUUGE!!!! Play this week Rob, Mickey and BillyJoe!....

Hey Rob and BillyJoe, ain't it kinda funny that the bottom two players this week also played HOM....jejejeThat stock was a HOMley suckah this week!

New-born baby

06-09-2006, 05:54 PM

Now i've got it all figured out! Rob would not let me short PARL so he could win this week! How do you like that?

Congrats to you on your win, Robert :D

billyjoe

06-09-2006, 06:40 PM

Rob and Micky,
You guys are huge ,but HOM is small.

----------billyjoe

Lyehopper

06-09-2006, 06:41 PM

Now i've got it all figured out! Rob would not let me short PARL so he could win this week! How do you like that?

Congrats to you on your win, Robert :D
NBB you were HUUUUGE this week too dude.... Even though you were LATE!!!!.... Hey you've got nearly 70 hours to get your pick posted for next week!.... DON'T FORGET!!!!

spikefader

06-09-2006, 06:42 PM

Congrats Rob. You deserve the win. Good jobs Mickey and on-a-roll-Billyjoe!

...only 4 active players didn't lose money this week huh? I think I got lucky :D

Rob

06-09-2006, 07:12 PM

Hey you've got nearly 70 hours to get your pick posted for next week!.... DON'T FORGET!!!! ... speaking of which ... I'm going with IMCL long next week! I bet none of y'all were expecting that, were ye? http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/7310/cramersmiley4hc.gif (http://imageshack.us)

Lyehopper

06-09-2006, 07:16 PM

I want PARL long next week!!!! jejeje

lemonjello

06-09-2006, 07:59 PM

Like the table of results, but it could be gooder if there was a line for the S&P or Naz performance along with the contestants for people curious about that sort of thing.

Well, I did it, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you ... thank you very much. You can have your finest meats and cheeses delivered to my penthouse.

MickyMouse's MOVI experienced a bit of profit-taking there at the tail end of the week and allowed to me to "squeak" ahead. But make no mistake, 16.05% is a HUGE score for any week, let alone a bloody one such as this has been!

BillyJoe checks in at number three with a mighty fine 11.25%! Excellent, Billy, excellent!

And believe it or not, that's it for the plus side this week!

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billyjoe

06-09-2006, 08:28 PM

Rob,
I know times are rough , but you're letting yourself go a bit too much. I can recommend an inexpensive barber, dentist, generic soap. Just e-mail me.
---------billyjoe

Lyehopper

06-09-2006, 08:35 PM

Rob,
I know times are rough , but you're letting yourself go a bit too much. I can recommend an inexpensive barber, dentist, generic soap. Just e-mail me.
---------billyjoe
LOL!!!! I like that one Rob.... Sure you ain't from "RoachTown" over near Moneta?....jejejejejeeeee

Rob

06-09-2006, 08:47 PM

Thank you, Billy, but I'm doin' just fine. If you drink enough of the Goji, you find that you just don't care anymore.

Lye, I could use another couple of jugs of the Goji. My teeth are startin' to hurt.

By the way, in case you didn't notice (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=54787) ...

JohnHenry

06-09-2006, 09:42 PM

Rob
Congratulation on the HUGE win!!! HUUUGE Cheeese for the winner.

Hey I notice all the positive gain stocks were under 10 bux. Mmmm I have to do more research.

Nice come back.

spikefader

06-09-2006, 09:59 PM

I want PARL long next week!!!! jejeje
LOL, ya gotta love the how brave you are dude! jejeje
Just did an article with PARL mentioned (http://tinyurl.com/ks76y). It took the crown as best performing (short side) this week in Parabolic Stock Picks. I think it's toast and headed to $6.00 dude! lol Did you know there is a gap for PARL at $9.99 from Sept '04? Yup, it's a fact. A stinkin' 1 penny gap. But it's a gap. And it's acting VERY bearishly. You'd be better off shorting it jejeje

Lyehopper

06-09-2006, 09:59 PM

Rob
Congratulation on the HUGE win!!! HUUUGE Cheeese for the winner.

Hey I notice all the positive gain stocks were under 10 bux. Mmmm I have to do more research.

Nice come back.
You'll note that Rob and BillyJoe were short selling their sub $10 stocks Sticky.... You'll also notice that the two biggest losers also traded sub $10 stocks.... Don't think the price of the stock had much to do with things this week.... Sorry, It just ain't that easy dude.

Lyehopper

06-09-2006, 10:02 PM

LOL, ya gotta love the how brave you are dude! jejeje
Just did an article with PARL mentioned (http://tinyurl.com/ks76y). It took the crown as best performing (short side) this week in Parabolic Stock Picks. I think it's toast and headed to $6.00 dude! lol Did you know there is a gap for PARL at $9.99 from Sept '04? Yup, it's a fact. A stinkin' 1 penny gap. But it's a gap. And it's acting VERY bearishly. You'd be better off shorting it jejeje
Yeah I know dude.... Maybe I'll sober up before the market opens Monday morning.... :p SsSsSsSsssss!

IIC

06-09-2006, 10:15 PM

Nice Job Rob!!!

I just sorta gave up on the contest w/ IFO...But I shoulda thought about the LT avgs...Oh well, I didn't buy it.

BTW...I want ROB's, Lemon's and Lye's old avatars back...Your new ones make me wanna puke...Doug(IIC)
http://bestsmileys.com/puking/1.gif

jiesen

06-09-2006, 10:31 PM

Way to go Rob! You are HUGE!!! but what's with that avatar?

Nice job, Micky and BillyJoe, too!

New-born baby

06-09-2006, 11:07 PM

Short PARL for me, will ya, Rob? thanks!

Runner

06-09-2006, 11:16 PM

NB, you sure you want to short PARL here?

Runner

06-09-2006, 11:18 PM

I’ll take IBD short please…lol

JohnHenry

06-10-2006, 04:02 AM

Rob, long please, thanks.

New-born baby

06-10-2006, 06:32 AM

NB, you sure you want to short PARL here?

Runner,
I am going to be out of my office for much of the week, so I am just stabbing in the dark. Sure, PARL will bounce sometime--probably Monday morning. I am hoping it will look much more like MFLX's chart one she fell down the shaft.

MFLX's fall vs. PARL's current action
http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/4128/chart10ew.gif (http://imageshack.us)

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/3011/chart22ee.gif (http://imageshack.us)

MickyMouse

06-10-2006, 02:19 PM

Ok, start me with cash next week please. Thanks.

Mickey

jiesen

06-10-2006, 02:54 PM

$$CASH$$ for me, too, please! Don't want to get stuck like NBB when I make my pick on Tuesday again. ;)

IIC

06-10-2006, 03:28 PM

I’ll take IBD short please…lol

That's a good one http://bestsmileys.com/cartoon/10.gif

Rob

06-10-2006, 03:57 PM

What a difference a month makes!

I was just going through my laptop computer, deleting some files still laying around that I don't need, and I found a month-old POTW spreadsheet. Just for grins I thought I'd run it and see where these picks stand today, and here are the results:

http://img77.imageshack.us/img77/5782/aa9mm.gif (http://imageshack.us)

Of course, this is a weekly contest, so checking the standings a month later has no real meaning except to satisfy the question: "What if I bought this and held it for a month?"

jiesen

06-10-2006, 04:10 PM

Here are the K-data (based on previous 13 weeks of POTW) results for weeks 11-23. It's ranked by "special K", or Cumulative Gain (%) / Weeks played.

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/1935/weeks11236vo.png

Weeks 5-17 (and 3-15) (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?t=655&page=562&pp=10)
Weeks 7-19 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?t=655&page=593)
Weeks 9-21 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=53126&highlight=special#post53126)

jiesen

06-10-2006, 04:27 PM

What a difference a month makes!
(http://imageshack.us)
Of course, this is a weekly contest, so checking the standings a month later has no real meaning except to satisfy the question: "What if I bought this and held it for a month?"
I guess the real answer to that question is that this month was not the time to be holding mo-mo stocks (or any other stocks for that matter, save a select few, like my A/C distributor BRR).

Speaking of which, the leaders on our cumulative results leaderboard are the ones who have wisely been ducking out of the contest these past few weeks.

Jim, Dakat, and DMK, where are you? We need your brilliance back in the POTW! Pete and I will find the top very lonely without you guys... Fall below 6 weeks and I'll be yanking you off the list, so please DON'T.

Websman

06-10-2006, 06:49 PM

I see my name is at the top of the list with a 30.97% gain. The VTP is superior for longer term trades.

billyjoe

06-10-2006, 08:21 PM

Rob,
I knew Webs would get the big "vulcan head" if he saw that.

----------billyjoe

Peter Hansen

06-11-2006, 10:37 AM

Rob ......Daddy needs a new pair of shoes......PPHM Long for me ....I like living on the edge !

IIC

06-11-2006, 10:48 AM

Start me out in cash Mr. Rob...IIC

Gatorman

06-11-2006, 12:24 PM

Will try BRLI long.

The Photon

06-11-2006, 12:26 PM

I will be in cash, at the start, -thanks.... lets hope for a good week...-

06-11-2006, 01:29 PM

This Is It MIRK-long Thanks Mr. Rob

spikefader

06-11-2006, 01:42 PM

Rob ......Daddy needs a new pair of shoes......PPHM Long for me ....I like living on the edge !Hiya Peter! Great pick dude; I think it's gonna take off this week.
Charts (http://spikefader.blogspot.com/2006/06/pphm-set-to-fly.html)

scifos

06-11-2006, 05:00 PM

IMNY long

thanks Rob.

jiesen

06-11-2006, 05:30 PM

Hiya Peter! Great pick dude; I think it's gonna take off this week.
Charts (http://spikefader.blogspot.com/2006/06/pphm-set-to-fly.html)
http://www.nasdaq.com/services/riskMetrics.stm?&lnk=I

This is some serious rocket fuel he's playing with.

Sorry, I guess the link doesn't carry the tickers through, but try for fun putting in these symbols:
pfe,pphm,imcl,ljpc,amln,vicl,mrk

peanuts

06-11-2006, 05:48 PM

I want to go long NAVR. Thanks.

ps: stop smoking crack... it'll ruin your smile :D

peanuts

Websman

06-11-2006, 08:47 PM

I'll take...

...SFCC short...

gerihearne

06-11-2006, 10:53 PM

cash

cordially,
geri

Rob

06-11-2006, 11:34 PM

This Is It MIRK-long Thanks Mr. RobRay, I'm getting MIRK is not a valid ticker symbol (http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=mirk). I'm wondering if you meant MRK?

billyjoe

06-11-2006, 11:37 PM

BoSox Jon

06-12-2006, 12:10 AM

Short ESCL sounds about right.

Thanks Much Rob!

Jon

spikefader

06-12-2006, 05:47 AM

I'll take...
...SFCC short...Now there's a good looking short! Good luck dude.

spikefader

06-12-2006, 05:49 AM

Short ELOS please. Good luck everyone.

Karel

06-12-2006, 06:45 AM

Terribly busy! Still long AEM.

Regards,

Karel

Runner

06-12-2006, 08:18 AM

Rob, cash please...

The Photon

06-12-2006, 08:20 AM

Rob: ETP long - thanks -

mimo_100

06-12-2006, 08:41 AM

I'll start in CA$H, Rob.

Thank you.

Tim

Rob

06-12-2006, 09:00 AM

peanuts

06-12-2006, 09:05 AM

This is the third week now since I've started using the Current Positions (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showpost.php?p=53049) feature for the POTW. I'm curious as to how many, if any, of you find it useful. Do you use it?

Rob, I like it... and your picture

btw: I think I gave you dollar before... what did you buy?

06-12-2006, 09:26 AM

OOPS SORRY Mr. Rob that should be MIKR

jiesen

06-12-2006, 09:30 AM

AMLN long for me, please!

billyjoe

06-12-2006, 09:34 AM

Rob,
GISX long

---billyjoe

Rob

06-12-2006, 09:36 AM

Rob, I like it... and your picture

btw: I think I gave you dollar before... what did you buy?I'll give you one guess.

http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/4151/nighttraininhand2yy.gif (http://imageshack.us)http://img75.imageshack.us/img75/9585/redchug7oj.gif (http://imageshack.us)

IIC

06-12-2006, 10:34 AM

chnr long IIC

Rob

06-12-2006, 10:52 AM

BBD Long is what the Q will play this week.

Rob

06-12-2006, 11:01 AM

Is your name on this list?:

Alice, An2n33, BJ, Bjdj, Dakat, Diogenes, DMK, Gary, Grebnet, Jim Smith, Ninner, NY4Ever, ParkTwain, Sekto, Shadow, Sisterwin, Skiracer, SledDawg, Sowers, Stock Girl, TFred

If so, you are strongly urged to enter your POTW position prior to 4:00 p.m. today! That means no later than 3:59 p.m. today! Don't lose 5%! If you don't have a pick, enter $.

billyjoe

06-12-2006, 11:50 AM

Rob,
Maybe you can clarify this for me. If I recall correctly, somewhere way back in the bowels of the POTW rulebook, was a rarely used option , I think #27d stating : " in the case of a contestant failing to enter position by the deadline , said contestant can assign his/her 5% penalty to a contestant with a stated position regardless of the performance of the position, hence, active contestant is insured of a loss on the week of 5% and nothing greater". This trading of losses or future losses has been perfected in the corporate world by such greats as Enron , amongst others. What say you , Rob ?

------------------------

"If your dreams aren't illegal, they should be considered legal until acted upon by a governmental body".......unknown

Rob

06-12-2006, 11:54 AM

What say you , Rob ?What say I? I say: should we start calling you "Slick Billy"?

Gary611

06-12-2006, 11:55 AM

alice4321us

06-12-2006, 01:35 PM

NIHD short this week.

billyjoe

06-12-2006, 01:37 PM

Rob,
Gotta keep tryin'. I guess your answer means no.
-------billyjoe

jiesen

06-12-2006, 01:47 PM

Once again, I kick myself for not buying a ticket on Pete's rocket ride... how do you do it, Pete?

go PPHM! to da moooooooon!

Runner

06-12-2006, 02:17 PM

Rob, HUM short please.

Runner

06-12-2006, 03:52 PM

Rob, HUM short please.
Rob cover HUM done with it..

Rob

06-12-2006, 04:57 PM

The H in Pete H. is standing for "HUGE" once again today! Pete's comin' off of a couple of rough weeks when the H was more for "hurtin'." Let's try to keep the shiny side up Pete! Careful with them penny stocks! They can turn a prince into a pauper in no time flat. (Of course, the reverse can happen as well.) Props, Pete!

It is logical that Websman will appear in 2nd place once in a while; it just seems that lately those once-es are occurring in greater whiles. Nevertheless, Webs pulled it off today, as his short call on SFCC turned out to be a mighty fine call! Way to go, Webs!

Not inconsistent with the market as of late, the 3rd place spot in our competition this week is another short play. Spikefader looked at the ELOS chart and decided it ain't a-goin' nowhere soon, so he shorted that puppy and came out smellin' pretty good on it. Spiffy, Spike! (Incidentally, I just checked ELOS's competitor, CLZR, that Doug likes to play now and then, and it got hit even a little harder than ELOS today.)

BoSox also kicked a field goal with ESCL! Bring it on, BoSox!

The dark clouds continue to hang over the markets today ...

Dow 10,792.58 down 99.34
Nasdaq 2,091.32 down 43.74
S&P 500 1,236.40 down 15.90
NYSE Volume 2,189,124,000
Nasdaq Volume 1,927,464,000

http://img475.imageshack.us/img475/4803/potw061220067xo.gif (http://imageshack.us)
:) http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/7310/cramersmiley4hc.gif (http://imageshack.us) :)

Websman

06-12-2006, 05:06 PM

It is logical that Websman will appear in 2nd place once in a while; it just seems that lately those once-es are occurring in greater whiles. Nevertheless, Webs pulled it off today, as his short call on SFCC turned out to be a mighty fine call! Way to go, Webs!

My real portfolio does much better. Vulcans are not day traders...

IIC

06-12-2006, 07:22 PM

Let's see...CHNR up over 5% today...and w/ my Super Duper timing I lose over 9% on it...Fortunately...I didn't buy it in real life...Actually, I have not bot much of anything recently.

When I'm day trading long I prefer a flat market...my second preference would be an up market...But it is a waste of time for me to try to fight a hard downtrend...So I will just wait it out unless I happen to be at the right place at the right time...Doug(IIC)

Runner

06-12-2006, 07:39 PM

IIC

06-12-2006, 07:49 PM

Doug, scalp them short since this has been the direction of the trend..

I'm pretty much out of practice on picking stocks that I think will go down...If I was F/T I would do it...but with the limited time I have it is hard enough just to try and concentrate on a few different long setups I like.

I'll just wait in the wings for now...thx...Doug(IIC)

Peter Hansen

06-12-2006, 07:51 PM

Once again, I kick myself for not buying a ticket on Pete's rocket ride... how do you do it, Pete?

go PPHM! to da moooooooon!

J narrowed my search to 3 stocks PPHM, RBY and OPTV.....Chose PPHM because of its higher volume......used free method from a guy by the name of mark crisp......the site is best located using google.....put in "Mark Crisp" in quotes .when that comes up ......click search within these results........and place in "1-2-Tracking Signal" the address should appear and you can download gratis the 24 pg quick read manual It is beautiful in its simplicity!

The Stock Girl

06-12-2006, 08:03 PM

J narrowed my search to 3 stocks PPHM, RBY and OPTV.....Chose PPHM because of its higher volume......used free method from a guy by the name of mark crisp......the site is best located using google.....put in "Mark Crisp" in quotes .when that comes up ......click search within these results........and place in "1-2-Tracking Signal" the address should appear and you can download gratis the 24 pg quick read manual It is beautiful in its simplicity!
Peter Hanson! Mmmmmm! Something about your name makes me shiver.

jiesen

06-12-2006, 09:23 PM

Thanks, Pete! This "123 system" is about as simple as it gets. I'll definitely be adding this to my bag of tricks!

lemonjello

06-12-2006, 09:45 PM

Good thing you corrected "hanson's" "mistake". I'm beginning to wonder how many actual humans post here. Should I divide the total number of monikers by 2,3,...?

BTW, the search instructions did not work with your "correction" either.

Thanks, Pete! This "123 system" is about as simple as it gets. I'll definitely be adding this to my bag of tricks!

jiesen

06-12-2006, 10:01 PM

Jiesen,
Those riskgrades are weird. They rate 100-700 as normal risk , but it's nearly impossible to find a stock they don't grade within that range. Can anyone name me a sector that gained last week ? If so , I'll make a POTW choice from it.
--------billyjoe

You're right, it's tough to find one over 700. CTDC is the highest I've found so far, with 600, but I'm only up to the C's on my screen for low market cap, high absolute beta stocks. This does look about as risky as it gets on any major exchange:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=CTDC&t=5y

I'm sure there would be some 700+ stocks, if the thing took .OB or .PK stocks. There probably just isn't enough information available about those for this thing to come up with a score, though.

There are definitely stocks under 100, however. PFE is an 82. MRK is 97.

As for sectors, the bond sector had a pretty good week. If your portfolio is more than 30% cash and bonds, like mine is now, it gives some balance to the ass-kicking the equity sector is taking. Too bad you can't make a POTW pick in bonds. $$CASH$$ is always a popular choice, though.

New-born baby

06-12-2006, 10:40 PM

J narrowed my search to 3 stocks PPHM, RBY and OPTV.....Chose PPHM because of its higher volume......used free method from a guy by the name of mark crisp......the site is best located using google.....put in "Mark Crisp" in quotes .when that comes up ......click search within these results........and place in "1-2-Tracking Signal" the address should appear and you can download gratis the 24 pg quick read manual It is beautiful in its simplicity!

Pete,
I am not too bright. How do I 'search within these results?' I don't see a thumbnail or any thing like that on my Google search page. Can you help a dummy?

Rob

06-13-2006, 05:27 AM

How do I 'search within these results?' I don't see a thumbnail or any thing like that on my Google search page. Can you help a dummy?New-born, after the first search, scroll to the bottom of the results page and look at the links directly under the text box.

Peter Hansen

06-13-2006, 07:35 AM

New-born, after the first search, scroll to the bottom of the results page and look at the links directly under the text box.

Rob
I knew with those big choppers you were able to "Spit Out" the info for New Born about the Google "Search within these results" LOL. Yes you do remind me of one of my old girlfriends .....she did have big teeth ......but she always managed to have a place in her face for me ........JUST JOKING !

mimo_100

06-13-2006, 07:36 AM

Pete,
I am not too bright. How do I 'search within these results?' I don't see a thumbnail or any thing like that on my Google search page. Can you help a dummy?

If anyone is having trouble finding this document, here is what I did.

Enter this for the original search (note double quotes):

"Mark Crisp" Tracking Signal

The PDF document “1-2-3 Introduction” should appear at the top.

Tim

Peter Hansen

06-13-2006, 07:40 AM

Peter Hanson! Mmmmmm! Something about your name makes me shiver.

Stock Girl
My name make you shiver....nah not me ....but my 25 yr old Hedge Fund Trader son .....could probably ....light some fires to warm you up........LOL Have a great day !

Peter Hansen

06-13-2006, 07:49 AM

If anyone is having trouble finding this document, here is what I did.

Enter this for the original search (note double quotes):

"Mark Crisp" Tracking Signal

The PDF document “1-2-3 Introduction” should appear at the top.

Tim

Mimo thanx for the clarification ....it does simplify what I said. Mimo if you try it, or anyone else for that matter .....let me know what you think. I do use www.stockcharts.com for the charts I use weekly and daily charts and use the 7 bars landscape setting for a larger view! These settings can easily be adjusted right below the graph !

mimo_100

06-13-2006, 07:50 AM

Thanks Peter Hansen for the link to the Mark Crisp document.

I like simplicity.

Tim

Rob

06-13-2006, 08:06 AM

I knew with those big choppers you were able to "Spit Out" the info for New Born about the Google "Search within these results" LOL. Yes you do remind me of one of my old girlfriends .....she did have big teeth ......but she always managed to have a place in her face for me ........JUST JOKING !Pete, I once dated a girl with buck teeth so bad she could eat an apple through a picket fence. I used to tell her, "Kiss me, darlin', my tonsils itch."

Also, thanks for the hints on that 1-2-3 tracking system by Mark Crisp. After reading that 24-pg. document, I'm inclined to believe there may be something to that. At the very least it gives me one more reason to like IMCL. Check this out:

http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/7629/ip0jh.png (http://imageshack.us)

Note: this is a weekly chart. And as Crisp says, "Generally, the more bars that are involved in the 1-2-3 buy or sell pattern, THE BIGGER the move." (Emphasis his.)

Lyehopper

06-13-2006, 11:06 AM

Sell PARL.... buy CEDC....

peanuts

06-13-2006, 11:42 AM

sell NAVR, go long on BWEB :o

The Photon

06-13-2006, 02:46 PM

sell ETP buy QSII - thanks -

IIC

06-13-2006, 02:56 PM

CHNR down over 13%...Looks like I'm goin' for the record :confused:

Rob

06-13-2006, 03:01 PM

Doug, I thought you said that your strategy was to buy stocks that are going to go up.

Rob

06-13-2006, 04:51 PM

Wow! BoSox's short on Escala Corp. (ESCL) jumped out front big time today! Escala runs an auction house, but there seems to be a recent shortage of bidders!

Alice Cooper sings "Welcome to NII's breakdown," as his short on NII Holdings (NIHD) yields him a healthy enough score to allow him to slither into 2nd place!

Spikefader, who is distant kin to Darth Vader, (Fader is the Anglicized version of the spelling) admonishes us all: "Don't underestimate the power of the broken chart," as his short on Syneron (ELOS) pulled him like the Death Star's tractor beam into third place.

Another whack day with heavy volume in Securityland:

Dow 10,706.14 -86.44
Nasdaq 2,072.47 -18.85
S&P 500 1,223.68 -12.72
NYSE Volume 3,145,675,000!
Nasdaq Volume 2,494,527,000!

http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/3609/potw061220067gh.gif (http://imageshack.us)
:) http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/7310/cramersmiley4hc.gif (http://imageshack.us) :)
Monday (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=55033)