Twenty Thirteen Two Baggers

[mrmarket]

Ernie,

MTLK is under the minimum price of $1.50. Pick another one before noon today (Sunday), otherwise I will put you in a special version of the contest, LOL!

I will be busy at a conference from 8 - 3 today. I will organize the final picks and then post them , hopefully soon after I get home. Good luck to everyone.

Details details.

[mrmarket]

Interesting you picked SIRI. I have that in my car. Really enjoy it. Cheap, methinks, at $17 a month. Never thought about the stock. P/E of 6!

If your commute is more than 30 minutes, then satellite radio is fun. I love channel 91 during college football season...and of course Channel 20 is E Street Radio.

(btw...You can get a better deal than $17/month if you threaten to leave them and sign up for longer)

[mimo_100]

Hi,

I did not see my stocks listed. Can you please check?

Stocks

OK, stocks, you are in - I used an earlier spreadsheet after a long day. Thanks for checking and letting me know.

[stocks54]

Hi,

I did not see my stocks listed. Can you please check?

Stocks

[Louetta]

OK - Here are the official stocks and their prices as of noon Sunday EST.

Interesting you picked SIRI. I have that in my car. Really enjoy it. Cheap, methinks, at $17 a month. Never thought about the stock. P/E of 6!

[mimo_100]

OK - Here are the official stocks and their prices as of noon Sunday EST.

 					
	 		 	     begin price	
1	AEZS		  Phoenix7	2.74	
2	DDD		  Phoenix7	60.35	
3	ATRS		   Louetta	4.25	
4	CORT		   Louetta	1.97	
5	VRNG		     River	3.44	
6	AMRN		     River	8.62	
7	ELLI		     billy	25.72	
8	SHLD	SHORT	     billy	40.95	
9	ONVO		noshadyldy	3.25	
10	GRPN		noshadyldy	5.35	
11	NCT		Lucavia123	9.76	
12	STSA		Lucavia123	20.74	
13	VG		      mimo	2.42	
14	SIRI		      mimo	3.16	
15	HOV		  mrmarket	6.40
16	ZIOP		  stocks54	4.49
17	P		  stocks54	11.02
	
	ATEC*		   Louetta	1.72	
 	MTLK**		  mrmarket	0.99	
					
					
	*Conditional pick - I kept it around just for fun				
	**Rule Violation - I kept it around just for fun

[mimo_100]

Mimo, I'm surprised more didn't pick a stock to short. There are a lot more rotten companies out there than good ones.

-------------billy

You are correct - it is easier to find a bad company than a good one!

[billyjoe]

Mimo, I'm surprised more didn't pick a stock to short. There are a lot more rotten companies out there than good ones.

-------------billy

[mimo_100]

Ernie,

MTLK is under the minimum price of $1.50. Pick another one before noon today (Sunday), otherwise I will put you in a special version of the contest, LOL!

I will be busy at a conference from 8 - 3 today. I will organize the final picks and then post them , hopefully soon after I get home. Good luck to everyone.

[stocks54]

My picks are:

ZIOP
P

[mimo_100]

I was searching for some math information and I ran into Peter Ponzo – also known as “gummy”. He provides a huge amount of free excel spreadsheets doing all kinds of calculations. Plus pages of lectures on mathematics. I found a nice spreadsheet (see below, towards the end) to download closing prices from Yahoo for up to 30 stocks.

He was “… born and raised in Toronto, attended the universities of Toronto and Illinois, spent an inordinate number of years as a math professor at the University of Waterloo.”

He writes in a question and answer format, as if he were talking to a person – thus the odd way of explaining things.

Here are his comments on his work (between the dollar signs).


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In 1993 I retired, after some thirty years of teaching math at the University of Waterloo. I was fifty-nine at the time and would have received a drastically reduced pension, so I transferred thirty years of pension contributions to a self-directed LIF. That meant I had to learn something about investing. I found most things fascinating ... but confusing. When I thought I finally understood the idea behind some financial concept I'd write a tutorial in the hope that others, equally confused, might find something of interest. The tutorials are not meant for professional investors or financial analysts or capital planners or ... whatever.

They're meant for the average do-it-yourself investor who finds much of the literature confusing (including the stuff that's on the Internet).

The tutorials are usually in the form of a teacher (that's me) and a student (who asks the darndest questions ^$%#@!).

>The student speaks like this line of text, and says the kind of things that my students might have said.

Many of the tutorials have a bunch of math bumpf (I was a math prof, after all) but there should be sufficiently many graphs and charts to illustrate the idea (I hope) - even if you hate math - tho' the math is rarely more than High School level (and, sometimes, introductory Calculus).

Although I hope there are no errors - at least no glaring errors - you'll have recognized that I'm not an investment guru.

That's about it. I hope you'll find something of interest. So long as I'm able I'll keep larnin' and writin' and ...

>Time to sign off.”

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Main Website

http://www.financialwebring.org/gummy-stuff/

A Gummy Table of Contents

http://www.financialwebring.org/gummy-stuff/INVESTING-0.htm

A list of everything – scroll down to the lower case “downloads”.

http://www.financialwebring.org/gummy-stuff/Excel/

The download-multi-stock-DOW doesn’t work - the symbol for the DOW is wrong I believe –didn’t have time to research it. If you change the benchmark symbol to something other than the DOW, it works I believe. However, the download-multi-stock does work and I use it for this two bagger contest.

[mimo_100]

I will pick HOV and MTLK

Ernie,

MTLK is under the minimum price of $1.50.

Pick another one before noon tomorrow.

[billyjoe]

Mimo, I'm holding gains in 9 swing trades right now. A big up day or 2 and I cash out.

-----------------billy

[mimo_100]

Interesting tho. CORT, that I mentioned on 1/1 as being at 1.41, closed at 1.94 today, about a 35% gain. Somebody's buying risk or something like that.

Are we returning to another irrational bubble? There are stocks gaining 30, 40, 50% in a few days, only to be beaten down - MDBX is one. There is no reason for this except wild speculation.

$VIX at 13.49 is under both the 50 and 200 moving average and approaching a historical bottom at 9.5-10.0. This cannot continue.

[mimo_100]

I flipped a coin again and this time it came up SIRI. Remove BIOL.