Archive for December, 2007

65 stocks closed at all-time lows

Monday, December 31st, 2007

“It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower.” - William O’Neil

Symbol Price Volume Avg. Volume % Vol. Increase
JBLU 5.9 3886796 6637010 %-41.43
LCC 14.71 2687814 3136060 %-14.29
SPSN 3.93 1825577 2284500 %-20.08
XRT 33.56 1587500 3313410 %-52.08
YSI 9.16 1373050 871440 %57.56

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44 stocks closed at all-time highs

Monday, December 31st, 2007

“It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower.” - William O’Neil

Symbol Price Volume Avg. Volume % Vol. Increase High Alpha
DE 93.12 3388360 5214280 %-35.01
ATVI 29.7 3171213 5532650 %-42.68
SRR 20.49 2857400 591966 %382.69
CTCM 30.2 877723 508943 %72.45
FINB 32 778308 68327 %1039.09

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Monday, December 31st, 2007

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Sunday, December 30th, 2007

65 stocks closed at all-time lows

Friday, December 28th, 2007

“It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower.” - William O’Neil

Symbol Price Volume Avg. Volume % Vol. Increase
JBLU 6 3631332 6621220 %-45.15
AOD 16.65 1816516 646196 %181.10
AGIX 0.3612 1330391 878100 %51.50
SPSN 3.99 1257319 2378610 %-47.14
LCC 14.71 1214969 3142770 %-61.34

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67 stocks closed at all-time highs

Friday, December 28th, 2007

“It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower.” - William O’Neil

Symbol Price Volume Avg. Volume % Vol. Increase High Alpha
AAPL 199.83 24731354 38145700 %-35.16 *
CVX 94.86 7879174 9726610 %-18.99
ADM 47.09 6018283 6057600 %-0.64
GLD 83 5133798 7836670 %-34.49
MOS 95.84 3577500 3662550 %-2.32 *

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Friday, December 28th, 2007

61 stocks closed at all-time lows

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

“It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower.” - William O’Neil

Symbol Price Volume Avg. Volume % Vol. Increase
DFC 0.0399 3310554 932875 %254.87
AGIX 0.38 1141674 856988 %33.21
ETWCW 0.0221 885814 60403 %1366.50
SYNM 0.8 877078 409002 %114.44
NGEN 0.3499 771106 398294 %93.60

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131 stocks closed at all-time highs

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

“It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower.” - William O’Neil

Symbol Price Volume Avg. Volume % Vol. Increase High Alpha
CSUN 17.88 21062444 2267640 %828.82
ESLR 18.84 14247719 5331520 %167.23 *
XLE 80.55 13995249 21494400 %-34.88
SOLF 35.96 10613652 2314370 %358.59
ADM 46.04 6754432 6018960 %12.21

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Mercadolibre, Inc. (MELI) does it again

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

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.
MELI
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.