Insights, Strategies, Successes, and Failures in Trading the Market

Notes for 12/18/08

• Shark Bait - TTEK SPWRA ITRI CMC BP AUY CMC CR DE FCX MRVL NAT SWC CPRT BGC SLW
• Road Kill - ATHR BP GLD
• Post-market - ENER CPST JOYG
• Pre-market - ENER ESLR SLW BP MBI ENOC ENS BAC POT
• Added to watch lists - ATHR APC POT MOS JNJ CBI JEC ACM

• Triggers: emc 20.0-20.1, amd 13.45-13.50, slw 11.90-11.95, novl 7.55-7.60 -- LorenAlbert - 05 Sep 2007
• Tuesday, Septemeber 5, 2007: AMD, ZOLT, CCJ, EMC, SLW -- LorenAlbert - 31 Aug 2007
• For Monday Aug 27 Buy List: CCJ, EMC, SLW, ZOLT -- LorenAlbert - 25 Aug 2007
• Buying long on a down day should wait to at least 1100 hours. -- LorenAlbert - 20 Jul 2007
• Marketing phrase: Check the tide before you set sail. -- LorenAlbert - 11 Jun 2007
• Diversification: All right within a sector if beta is diversified. -- LorenAlbert - 05 Jun 2007
• Buy list: CCJ GLBL CAT DE CSX -- LorenAlbert - 04 Jun 2007
• Weekend Research: CSX GSF CMI CAT IBM SLW HL NUE OMG SPWR TEX STM TLAB WFR -- LorenAlbert - 19 May 2007
• Research the "Green Goat" and other railroad news. CSX UNP BNI ARII TRN . -- LorenAlbert - 15 May 2007
• Tues: omg novl glbl -- LorenAlbert - 15 May 2007
• Look for: Coal, Banks, Chip, -- LorenAlbert - 12 May 2007
• Weekend: xom rog ge aa bmo tol hlys amd fpl ba bw roll cenx -- LorenAlbert - 12 May 2007
• oks bid aph bke ldg -- LorenAlbert - 11 May 2007
• eaton cmi tex ati bdk hon jci asd slb -- LorenAlbert - 11 May 2007
• When speculating, invest high on the food chain, then gamble on the algae. If you like biodiesel, start out with Deer. If you like mining, start out with Caterpillar. If you like solar, start out with British Petroleum. -- LorenAlbert - 08 May 2007
• Monday: CMI de eslr fpl gg kgc lly novl omg spwr stm wfr zolt cva nico bhp flir -- LorenAlbert - 07 May 2007
• Weekend analysis: CAB cat de chk cmi driv ek eds fslr kbr nbr wy elon spn rht stm omg zolt jec gsf rig -- LorenAlbert - 04 May 2007
• For Friday: ZOLT FPL CAT SLW KGC -- LorenAlbert - 03 May 2007
• First, you must build a foundation that does not crumble. You need a cadre of unshakable stocks. For example, how did your foundation hold up during 911? Take a look at DE. Here is a putative block to grace your foundation. -- LorenAlbert - 02 May 2007
• rig rs gbx trn adm slb bjs gsf nov -- LorenAlbert - 27 Apr 2007
• Create "Post-Mortem" diaries for each sale. -- LorenAlbert - 26 Apr 2007
• Add tracking tables for individual stocks - Schedule D data -- LorenAlbert - 25 Apr 2007
• Add daily cash gain column to ROI tool -- LorenAlbert - 25 Apr 2007
• Remove PEIX from ametda -- LorenAlbert - 25 Apr 2007
• Alliant Techsystems (nyse: ATK - news - people ), EMC (nyse: EMC - news - people ), SLM (nyse: SLM - news - people ) and Textron (nyse: TXT - news - people ). NYSE: COP) and Tyson Foods (NYSE: TSN) -- LorenAlbert - 24 Apr 2007
• Replace NOVL with ZOLT -- LorenAlbert - 24 Apr 2007
• Find an emotional stock. Take a minor position. Buy stop to catch the news. -- LorenAlbert - 24 Apr 2007
• Stop Loss Formula for after Second Lot Purchase: SL1 = L1 + (L2 - L1)/2 with the requirement that the second lot purchase price places SL1 outside of whip range - either below support level or below a determined percentage of L2. This strategy sets a break even point after purchasing the second lot. You can't lose from here. -- LorenAlbert - 23 Apr 2007
• Removed from amtd watch: amkr bldp cien fcel ivn gss lvlt meoh ngas slglf sunw utsi jcom -- LorenAlbert - 19 Apr 2007
• Don't buy an additional lot until the profitability on the earlier lots allow for a reasonable stop loss that locks a profit. Avoid churning due to "insignificant" whipping. -- LorenAlbert - 13 Apr 2007
• Investors, I think it is fair to say, are generally obsessed with diversification. Thus, they buy upwards of 50 stocks all of which may be highly correlated. This type of investor ought to consider a few sector mutual funds and forget about the market until tax time. They might better spend time with their families. -- LorenAlbert - 05 Apr 2007
• Several triggers may fire in a broadly based rally. In this case, your account may become fully margined. Tighten the stop losses and revert to having at least 1/3 of the cash value on the sidelines. Do not close positions too early. Nevertheless, staying fully margined beyond 3 days is perhaps overly greedy. -- LorenAlbert - 05 Apr 2007
• It is often said that the annual gains in the market occur on just a few key days. Thus, you need to be "in play" on those days to make/recover money. Reach a compromise between positions held, money on the sidelines, and trigger sensitivity. Have 1/3 or more of you cash value on the sidelines. Set relatively high-threshold triggers to commit this cash only if the market goes into a bullish rip. -- LorenAlbert - 05 Apr 2007

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