http://www.uglychart.com/2007/11/13/fcstone-group-inc-fcsx-3/ Beauty is in the eye of the shareholder Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:14:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.uglychart.com/2007/11/13/fcstone-group-inc-fcsx-3/#comment-35757 uglychart.com: a blog about stocks » Blog Archive » FCSX Continues to Continue Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:35:04 +0000 http://www.uglychart.com/2007/11/13/fcstone-group-inc-fcsx-3/#comment-35757 [...] Now this is a position trade. I have swing-traded (swung-trade?) some FCSX on the way up, but I still own the original shares that I purchased in November at $35.36. That’s about a 50% gain so far and I am confident that I can double my money on this one. People have been asking me how I find these stocks. I find them from custom tools I have made - most of which are available on this website. For example, FCSX has made it on the all-time high list many times. It is also on the top 100 alpha stocks page. Check out this list of some of the tools (and other miscellaneous odd pages) on the site - a lot of these stock lists are available for download in csv format. I got a lot of hits to the sector charts page last month because it was linked to from stumbled upon: At first glance, this may not look like much. However, what this tool allows you to do is very quickly spot a sector of the market that may have potential for growth. Then you can just click that chart to drill down to the industry level, or even continue to the individual equity level. Nice! [...] [...] Now this is a position trade. I have swing-traded (swung-trade?) some FCSX on the way up, but I still own the original shares that I purchased in November at $35.36. That’s about a 50% gain so far and I am confident that I can double my money on this one. People have been asking me how I find these stocks. I find them from custom tools I have made - most of which are available on this website. For example, FCSX has made it on the all-time high list many times. It is also on the top 100 alpha stocks page. Check out this list of some of the tools (and other miscellaneous odd pages) on the site - a lot of these stock lists are available for download in csv format. I got a lot of hits to the sector charts page last month because it was linked to from stumbled upon: At first glance, this may not look like much. However, what this tool allows you to do is very quickly spot a sector of the market that may have potential for growth. Then you can just click that chart to drill down to the industry level, or even continue to the individual equity level. Nice! [...]

]]> http://www.uglychart.com/2007/11/13/fcstone-group-inc-fcsx-3/#comment-35578 uglychart.com: a blog about stocks » Blog Archive » Mercadolibre, Inc. (MELI) does it again Thu, 27 Dec 2007 07:16:36 +0000 http://www.uglychart.com/2007/11/13/fcstone-group-inc-fcsx-3/#comment-35578 [...] Wow. MELI up another 20%+ today. I’m home in Ohio this week and haven’t been doing much work or paying attention to the market that much. But before I left, I was going over the stocks on my watchlist and I noticed that I really wanted to get some more MELI. I wanted to load up - it just looked very nice. So I logged into my account on Monday morning and bought a small position. I knew I would regret it if I didn’t. Before, with a hot stock like this, I often sold it after a great move - only to watch it move A LOT higher after trading right around where I sold it for a few days. When MELI wouldn’t drop much lower than where I sold it, I decided to get some - and boy did it pay off. Damn. I was pretty happy when I logged in today and saw it was up 8 points and then when I logged on again after the close and managed to sell half just under $73 (I bought it under $61 on Monday). MELI looks like a sure bet to $100 and beyond. This month has been awesome. I made more from trading than I did from my job. I can’t believe it. It’s one of my best months in terms of dollar returns even over the almost 2 years that I traded full-time. My account is up 30%. The crazy thing is that I am not even betting that big. I’m not using much margin - my positions have been very small and my risk per trade has been very low. And I’m spending a lot less time trading and studying the market. I used to spend hours each day trading in and out of stocks. Now I am spending at most one hour in the evening looking over stocks. The amount of stress and pressure I have with trading has dropped from an overwhelming amount to zero. Mostly, though, this month has proved to me that I can be successful trading this way. I only traded 6 stocks this month and my trading commissions totaled under $30. When I was day trading, my monthly trading commissions were over a thousand dollars. My biggest winner was MELI - second was FCSX. My only losing trade was with CRM. I’m still holding small positions in FCSX, GEOY, and MELI. [...] [...] Wow. MELI up another 20%+ today. I’m home in Ohio this week and haven’t been doing much work or paying attention to the market that much. But before I left, I was going over the stocks on my watchlist and I noticed that I really wanted to get some more MELI. I wanted to load up - it just looked very nice. So I logged into my account on Monday morning and bought a small position. I knew I would regret it if I didn’t. Before, with a hot stock like this, I often sold it after a great move - only to watch it move A LOT higher after trading right around where I sold it for a few days. When MELI wouldn’t drop much lower than where I sold it, I decided to get some - and boy did it pay off. Damn. I was pretty happy when I logged in today and saw it was up 8 points and then when I logged on again after the close and managed to sell half just under $73 (I bought it under $61 on Monday). MELI looks like a sure bet to $100 and beyond. This month has been awesome. I made more from trading than I did from my job. I can’t believe it. It’s one of my best months in terms of dollar returns even over the almost 2 years that I traded full-time. My account is up 30%. The crazy thing is that I am not even betting that big. I’m not using much margin - my positions have been very small and my risk per trade has been very low. And I’m spending a lot less time trading and studying the market. I used to spend hours each day trading in and out of stocks. Now I am spending at most one hour in the evening looking over stocks. The amount of stress and pressure I have with trading has dropped from an overwhelming amount to zero. Mostly, though, this month has proved to me that I can be successful trading this way. I only traded 6 stocks this month and my trading commissions totaled under $30. When I was day trading, my monthly trading commissions were over a thousand dollars. My biggest winner was MELI - second was FCSX. My only losing trade was with CRM. I’m still holding small positions in FCSX, GEOY, and MELI. [...]

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