Portfolio of the Week

[scifos]

I've been holding ZOLT for quite awhile (since I picked it for POTW in feb @ 16.31) and am up almost 100% on it and it could be looking for more, up strong lately on volume.

Look at it run in after hours! The earnings report was HUGE!

[scifos]

SGG making a nice after hours move too, probably due to ZOLT (same industry) posting huge earnings.

[Rob]

Zolt

Hey, Scifos! Congrats on ZOLT, dude! HUUUGE!!!!! Aren't they the ones who make that cola with "all the sugar and twice the caffeine"? No, wait ..... that's Jolt! ... heh heh ... Different company. Anyways, congrats, dude!

[B.J]

Thanks Rob. Still actually holding IVAC. Had an excellent earnings release, but remained range bound. But, for this contest's purposes, I saw it fail to break the triangle and figured, that's as good as it gets this week

[Rob]

Week 19 (6), day 3

Diogenes' Allegheny Technologies Inc. (ATI), which happens to be not only a member of the S&P 500 but of the S&P 100, also happens to be a member this week of the POTW top 1. Super pick on what appears to be a fairly rotten week, Diogenes!!! Would you care to enlighten the rest of us on just what made you believe this specialty metals producer was going to prosper so handsomely this week?


Number two on the list this 3rd day of the week is Huge Pete HUGE!!! Ol' Pete has decided to show us all how it's done, this time playing Northern Orion Resources, Inc. (NTO) of Vancouver, B.C. Don't let that Kanuck address fool you though. These home boys make their bread down south ... WAYYYYY down south in Argentina!! That's where they mine gold and copper! Now where do you suppose companies like WIRE get all of that copper anyway? They have to get it from companies like NTO who actually dig that stuff out o' the ground! Didn't you pay attention to those grainy 16mm films they showed you in grade school? The ones with the scratchy sound tracks that would always be a fraction of a second out of sync with the picture unless they got the size of the loop just right? Come on, man! The thing that seems weird to me is: doesn't silver naturally occur in nature along side copper deposits? Are these dudes hiding something?


Number 3 so far this week is BJ!! No, not BillyJoe, just BJ! As some of you who were paying attention may have noticed, BJ cashed out of his position in Intevac Inc. (IVAC) yesterday, 14 minutes prior to the closing bell, with a mighty respectable 3.93% gain! Turns out that was quite an excellent move there, BJ, ol' buddy, as can be seen from this 5-day chart:

Way to go, BJ, dude! Ride 'em on up and let those other turkeys ride 'em back down! Wish I knew how to do that!

Monday | Tuesday

[Rob]

Hmmm

Gee, I wonder how I would do if I were to buy HSR, KOPN, AIRM, CELL, MFLX, and GEMS, the bottom 6, tomorrow ....

[diogenes]

[size=3][font=Arial]Diogenes' Allegheny Technologies Inc. (ATI), which happens to be not only a member of the S&P 500 but of the S&P 100, also happens to be a member this week of the POTW top 1. Super pick on what appears to be a fairly rotten week, Diogenes!!! Would you care to enlighten the rest of us on just what made you believe this specialty metals producer was going to prosper so handsomely this week?

Sure:
First, I have to mention that my first pick was HANS, but since it was reporting earnings I meddled with the method and did not pick it. Then I had BID down, but I picked that over ATI for other reasons- at first.

So, what is the method right?

Essentially I am using a mechanical investing strategy that looks for stocks that have an exponential trajectory for their price (i.e. increasing line). After looking for outstanding fundamentals.

Initially I wanted to model this by a stochastic differential equation ( looking at change in prices in this case) ,
like a differential equation (same idea) but instead of working with, say, real numbers, allows one to work with “randomness,” but I got lucky as several members at Motley Fool had already “been there-done that.” So, they deserve all the credit, esp. BarryDTO and Loren Cobb (http://www.aetheling.com/MI/index.html).

I scanned the Time 1 and 2 stocks from Value Line to get some stocks to rank by the above range and usually scan the 5 MrMarket picks as well.
NEU has been very good with this method.

I hope that everyone turns green in the end!

[IIC]

[QUOTE=diogenes]

So, what is the method right?

Essentially I am using a mechanical investing strategy that looks for stocks that have an exponential trajectory for their price.

Initially I wanted to model this by a stochastic differential equation,
like a differential equation but instead of working with, say, real numbers, allows one to work with “randomness,”
[QUOTE]

Geez...Sounds complicated...I just look for stocks that are RANDOMLY gonna go up...Doug

[diogenes]

[QUOTE=IIC][QUOTE=diogenes]

So, what is the method right?

Essentially I am using a mechanical investing strategy that looks for stocks that have an exponential trajectory for their price.

Initially I wanted to model this by a stochastic differential equation,
like a differential equation but instead of working with, say, real numbers, allows one to work with “randomness,”

Geez...Sounds complicated...I just look for stocks that are RANDOMLY gonna go up...Doug

Hmmm... perhaps something like a real valued function that allows for randomness, would be a tad better?

I think you could also look at it like a simple regression line...

or a maybe I should just go with random posting? :P

Edit- Of course ATI will now tank.

[Lyehopper]

Riding the dead cat....

Check out ELOS today, dude. Man, when will that thing bottom?

ELOS was up 5% today Rob.... I'll bet MFLX daytraded long tomorrow with the right entry will net ya 10%.... I think I'll play it.jejeje

[IIC]

[QUOTE=diogenes][QUOTE=IIC]

So, what is the method right?

Essentially I am using a mechanical investing strategy that looks for stocks that have an exponential trajectory for their price.

Initially I wanted to model this by a stochastic differential equation,
like a differential equation but instead of working with, say, real numbers, allows one to work with “randomness,”

Hmmm... perhaps something like a real valued function that allows for randomness, would be a tad better?

I think you could also look at it like a simple regression line...

or a maybe I should just go with random posting? :P

Edit- Of course ATI will now tank.

Geez...You sure make things complicated

[Lyehopper]

Sure:
First, I have to mention that my first pick was HANS, but since it was reporting earnings I meddled with the method and did not pick it. Then I had BID down, but I picked that over ATI for other reasons- at first.

So, what is the method right?

Essentially I am using a mechanical investing strategy that looks for stocks that have an exponential trajectory for their price (i.e. increasing line). After looking for outstanding fundamentals.

Initially I wanted to model this by a stochastic differential equation ( looking at change in prices in this case) ,
like a differential equation (same idea) but instead of working with, say, real numbers, allows one to work with “randomness,” but I got lucky as several members at Motley Fool had already “been there-done that.” So, they deserve all the credit, esp. BarryDTO and Loren Cobb (http://www.aetheling.com/MI/index.html).

I scanned the Time 1 and 2 stocks from Value Line to get some stocks to rank by the above range and usually scan the 5 MrMarket picks as well.
NEU has been very good with this method.

I hope that everyone turns green in the end!

Sound very similar the the VTP....

[IIC]

Sound very similar the the VTP....

I'd like to know what takes so long to throw up a website:

http://www.vulcantraders.com/

From my experience it takes about 5 mins...This domain has been registered to some mysterious Vulcan since January 21st...???

[Lyehopper]

I'd like to know what takes so long to throw up a website:

http://www.vulcantraders.com/

From my experience it takes about 5 mins...This domain has been registered to some mysterious Vulcan since January 21st...???

The VTP is very mysterious and extremely complex....

[Rob]

Just Checking

And you're absolutely certain that VTP doesn't stand for "very thick puckey," right? JK