Spike's Scientific Stock Analysis

[alice4321us]

Humility, Patience, ?Tolerence

You are a newbie and should respectfully act like one until you earn the respect of the locals. Maybe then you earned the right to be critical of the seniors. I came here and paid my dues, and am VERY PROUD to 'know' the senior members here, the regular posters, the occasional posters, the rare posters and offer every respect to any newbie who comes here.

Humilty is a sign of respect
Try to be Tolerant as a tree.
Patience is the key to success.

Humility + Tolerance + Patience = Success at $$MM$$

I can't better say this but Spike has helped every newbie here and answered stupidiest of my own questions. He has earned the respect of everyone. It hurts to see a war of words in this board as everyone's goal on this board is to make $$$

New-Born is right, "forgive and forget"

[Runner]

In my mind the following is expressed on what I see, and feel. I found the following from the net and just wanted to put it out here.

Pride has traditionally been considered chief of the sins. Maybe because, as Gregory the Great said, it’s the source of all the others. Alexander Pope, centuries later, agreed:
Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring
judgment, and misguide the mind,
What the weak head with strongest bias rules,
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

I’ve noticed that my failings, no matter how benign, loom largest when I’m sure I’ve got it right, and you’ve got it wrong. When I was growing up my dad and I enjoyed vehement argument for the sake of proving each other wrong. I’d use every trick of reasoning I could to best him and was always proud when he told me I’d make a good lawyer. When I grew up, I realized I didn’t like myself in these situations. Having to win required too great a price in self-respect, relationship and inner peace--and gave me a headache. Now, I know that seeing others as adversaries was really a reflection of my inner being. As the Talmud says: “We do not see the world as it is. We see the world as we are.”

Paul’s letter to the Corinthians, often quoted at weddings, says that Love is not “puffed up.” I never used to quite get that concept but now it seems perfect. “Puffed up,” full of ourselves, is exactly what pride is and love is not. Love seeks the best interest of the relationship and the beloved. Pride is, at its root, an intense self-preoccupation. As a psychologist has put it:

Any neurotic is living a life which in some respects is extreme in its self-centeredness…most neuroses, are, from the point of view of religion, mixed with the sin of pride.
Not easy to hear. We like to say, sometimes jokingly, that we all have neuroses. Maybe we even think that by admitting it we’re being humble. It’s unnerving to consider that our neuroses show us self-centered or even prideful. But maybe there’s more than a hint of pride in our very claim upon them!

The antidote for pride? Not the groveling of Uriah Heep in his phony “umbleness” and not the false humility by which we refuse to share our gifts with the world. But real humility. The word humility really just reminds us where we come from--from humus, the earth, which gives us our name, human. I think we are beginning, after an era of inflated estimates of human ability, to understand that while we have great capacities, we are also limited and much lies beyond our control. Appropriate humility says we can and do sin, and may we be forgiven.

Envy is Pride’s closest relative because envy, like pride, watches out first for Number One. Envy is wanting what we think someone else has more abundantly than we have: love, intelligence, talent, or things. This is to distinguish from jealousy, which is fear of losing what we do have. Jealousy is when your beloved flirts or is flirted with. Envy is when someone else is more successful at flirting than you are!
Pride, says Solomon Schimmel, comes from a false sense of superiority, while despondency comes from a false sense of inferiority, but both create envy. How often the mighty are shaken by the talent of a colleague, a more beautiful face, a sharper mind. I knew someone who seemed overly proud of her work, but always had demeaning information to pass along about successful colleagues. It’s even easier to see how, if we start by feeling inadequate, we’re intimidated by, and may envy, someone who seems smarter, more attractive, more together.

True envy isn’t contented with wanting the neighbor’s car. It isn’t even contented to steal the car. It wants to smash that car. Cain didn’t figure out how to get the favor of God like his brother Abel. He killed him. The envious wreak havoc in the lives of others, often without the victim knowing about it until the evil is done.

But envy destroys the envious as well. We become what we feel. “…envy works by paralysis and consumption--the envious do indeed become Envy,” says A.S. Byatt. The picture of the envious monk pulling the blossoms off Brother Lawrence’s melon plants is comic, but terrible, too. Consumed by envy, he consumes the life of Brother Lawrence’s melons, wreaking destruction outside and inside himself. Your obsession with someone of whom you’re envious gives that person a lot more space in your head than he or she would ever want.

[spikefader]

Spike,
I was unaware that GM had a gap down to $7.14 from 1974. WOW. My charting subscription doesn't go that far back Pretty ugly chart.

Hey NB, don't forget about prophet.net's free java based charting http://www.prophet.net/analyze/javacharts.jsp?symbol=gm and they go back as far as the stock does. The DOW goes waaaaaaay back!

[spikefader]

Re the recent disharmony in the place, thanks fer the comments. I for one really look forward to nicer interactions. I hope he takes some heed of what's been said by me and others. This has never been a battleground in here and I pray it never gets that way again. This forum is so much about 'getting along', and respecting the things that others offer even if we don't agree with it. It's a place of contribution, and appreciation, and helping others.

I pray he starts posting some nice stuff that encourages instead of criticizes. The door to this thread has always been, and will always be, open for him to do this.

[New-born baby]

Doh!

Hey NB, don't forget about prophet.net's free java based charting

Thank you Spike! DOH! I have never looked at it before. I only have used Stockcharts.com. As always, keep it coming, Spike! Feed us lambs out here

EDIT:
I just checked it out, and WOW! You mean I've been paying money for Stockcharts when I could have had Prophet for Free?? Double DOH!

[mimo_100]

Spike,



Regarding Prophet.net and your post number 6293.



You posted the PKD chart in post 6287, showing the PSAR turning bearish, thus you sold PKD. I posted ( post 6289 ) the Stockcharts chart showing the PSAR still bullish. I also checked a couple of other services and they also agree with Stockcharts.


It appears to me that the PSAR calculation on prophet.net is incorrect. Or else everyone else is wrong.

Stockcharts still shows the PKD PSAR as bullish prior to the opening today, January 23.

Tim

[spikefader]

YM swing short 10721. 30 pt stop.

[spikefader]

Spike,
Regarding Prophet.net and your post number 6293.
You posted the PKD chart in post 6287, showing the PSAR turning bearish, thus you sold PKD. I posted ( post 6289 ) the Stockcharts chart showing the PSAR still bullish. I also checked a couple of other services and they also agree with Stockcharts.
It appears to me that the PSAR calculation on prophet.net is incorrect. Or else everyone else is wrong.
Stockcharts still shows the PKD PSAR as bullish prior to the opening today, January 23.
Tim

Tim, I note that stockcharts does show the change when you limit the time to only 1 month of data. But obviously the parameters or the calculator rounding varies between providers which may explain it.

[spikefader]

Thank you Spike! ... I just checked it out, and WOW!

yw dude.
Wow is right - it's a pretty impressive charting program.
Stockcharts is neat too; I really like their java based click n drag channels and stuff.
But for checkin' historical prices prophet is excellent. If you haven't noticed yet, you can use your mouse to select a given period of time the past to zoom in or manually put the prices in. I like the mouse stuff. It's excellent for long-term trend lines thats for sure.

[tokyojoeskid]

Nvda

Spike Nvda has been goin straight up, can it go further?

Thanks,

Tjk

[spikefader]

Spike Nvda has been goin straight up, can it go further?
Thanks,
Tjk

Some weekly thoughts:

[spikefader]

Stopped on the YM earlier. Scalp long from 10728.

[spikefader]

Stopped on the YM earlier. Scalp long from 10728.

Out -4, not the long I'm lookin' fer.

[tokyojoeskid]

play

Thanks Spike! One more for ya and Ill quit bothering you. PLAY, a lot of short interest as of dec 12 about 27%. I think fundamentally this company has it. Where do you think would be a wise entry?

Thanks

\TJk

[spikefader]

No bother tokyo.

I'd be waiting for the double top to get taken out first I think.

It's clearly activing wavy though (on the daily); pretty decent count from 18.66. It's had 1 c long in early Dec and a 12345ab since then; the 'c' building now (daily)....but there's the heavy resistance that would disuade me.

If it takes out the weekly double top off this 'c' long area then that should occur during wave 1, which means a valid buy point would be the 2 correction. If you miss the 2 completion area, wait for a b or c corrective.