***Official*** 2007 Stock Market Thread

[Azurik]

Originally posted by: Azurik

Originally posted by: LS20

Originally posted by: Azurik

Who got in this with me? It's $2.41!

Ok, I'll stop posting updates on this stock besides the monthly updates on my OP

followed you at 2.20.. pretty nice

HL is hot hot hot!

Nice entry point:thumbsup:

Looks like it is forming a plateau now before the next leg up. I'll let you know when the fundy's get off and when you should get off the bandwagon.

In the meantime, I have another whacky buy and hold. RRPH. I'm entering a position tomorrow morning.

Got in this morning at $2.66.

Just broke $3.00

 

[Azurik]

Unreal, even on tempted consolidation days, the indexes manage to find something to catapult themselves into the green.

 

[imported_Lothar]

Originally posted by: Azurik
As for these whacky buys, I base them on unusual volume base build up. That is, when a stock that is usually stagnant gets a huge volume increase for a few days and then settles for a bit. That base volume looks like it never got sold, it just sits there. It begs the question as to why that build up is taking place without selling involved. Investigate, stay alert and hop on the train of success.

They are not overly long-term buy and holds. Once the data says the stock will taper back to the original pre-base build up price, I will sell.

I guess you can call it a very unorthodox way of making money, but it works, and compliments well into my retirement portfolio.

There are going to be times when you are wrong on the call, but the losses are minimal because you can spot trends.

And who can complain about a sizable gain in a matter of months?

Interesting analysis.
Looking at the "On Balance Volume" chart, I think I see what you're talking about.
http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/ch...=4&C8=2007&C9=0&symbol=RRPH&nocookie=1

I wonder what triggered the rapid RRPH sell off that plunged the stock down the past 3 days?
I haven't seen any meaningful in the news that could have caused it.

 

[Rogodin2]

Quick money isn't real money.

My IA has been dealing since the 30s-he travelled to Iran this year. I'm buying gold and saving it in the ESAB!

The Euro is worth twice the dollar and once the 'oil standard' is dropped completely your 401ks will be worth less than a tennor.

Invest in the ether though-it only makes you look foolish.

Rogo

 

[Azurik]

Originally posted by: Lothar

Originally posted by: Azurik
As for these whacky buys, I base them on unusual volume base build up. That is, when a stock that is usually stagnant gets a huge volume increase for a few days and then settles for a bit. That base volume looks like it never got sold, it just sits there. It begs the question as to why that build up is taking place without selling involved. Investigate, stay alert and hop on the train of success.

They are not overly long-term buy and holds. Once the data says the stock will taper back to the original pre-base build up price, I will sell.

I guess you can call it a very unorthodox way of making money, but it works, and compliments well into my retirement portfolio.

There are going to be times when you are wrong on the call, but the losses are minimal because you can spot trends.

And who can complain about a sizable gain in a matter of months?

Interesting analysis.
Looking at the "On Balance Volume" chart, I think I see what you're talking about.
http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/ch...=4&C8=2007&C9=0&symbol=RRPH&nocookie=1

I wonder what triggered the rapid RRPH sell off that plunged the stock down the past 3 days?
I haven't seen any meaningful in the news that could have caused it.

I didn't sell at the top. It was $3.09 the day before and I had considered selling it to lock in a 18%+ gain in a month's time. I got a stock volume alert the next morning and was able to get out at $2.90 - still a considerable gain. It looks like RRPH's base is broken, and I don't see any meaningful run like we had before as of right now.

I'm still in BDYT, waiting for it to make a move one time or another. Like RRPH, there's been a big build-up a couple of months ago and the stock has gone up since, but nothing too noteworthy in comparison to the share hogging that was done earlier this year.

 

[iversonyin]

Originally posted by: Rogodin2
Quick money isn't real money.

My IA has been dealing since the 30s-he travelled to Iran this year. I'm buying gold and saving it in the ESAB!

The Euro is worth twice the dollar and once the 'oil standard' is dropped completely your 401ks will be worth less than a tennor.

Invest in the ether though-it only makes you look foolish.

Rogo

Money is money.
You go shop for grocery at your Walmart or wherever you shop, are they going to question you: hey sir, where do you get the money from?

Azurik,

What happen to that 7% drop in non-retirement portfolio?

 

[imported_Lothar]

Originally posted by: iversonyin
What happen to that 7% drop in non-retirement portfolio?

That's one hell of a hit.

Did he mean to type 20.5% instead of 10.5%?
Typing error would be my guess.

March 31st to April 30th...
S&P 500 up by 4%, Nasdaq up by 4.25%, Dow Jones up by 5.5%.

I don't see how someone can end up with -7% for that month.

 

[Ricochet]

This morning stock news.

DNDN dropped -10.64 pts! That's over 60% of its value!! :shocked:

Somebody has to be either making uber amount of money or losing quite a bit.

 

[ponyo]

Originally posted by: Azurik

Originally posted by: Lothar

Originally posted by: Azurik
As for these whacky buys, I base them on unusual volume base build up. That is, when a stock that is usually stagnant gets a huge volume increase for a few days and then settles for a bit. That base volume looks like it never got sold, it just sits there. It begs the question as to why that build up is taking place without selling involved. Investigate, stay alert and hop on the train of success.

They are not overly long-term buy and holds. Once the data says the stock will taper back to the original pre-base build up price, I will sell.

I guess you can call it a very unorthodox way of making money, but it works, and compliments well into my retirement portfolio.

There are going to be times when you are wrong on the call, but the losses are minimal because you can spot trends.

And who can complain about a sizable gain in a matter of months?

Interesting analysis.
Looking at the "On Balance Volume" chart, I think I see what you're talking about.
http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/ch...=4&C8=2007&C9=0&symbol=RRPH&nocookie=1

I wonder what triggered the rapid RRPH sell off that plunged the stock down the past 3 days?
I haven't seen any meaningful in the news that could have caused it.

I didn't sell at the top. It was $3.09 the day before and I had considered selling it to lock in a 18%+ gain in a month's time. I got a stock volume alert the next morning and was able to get out at $2.90 - still a considerable gain. It looks like RRPH's base is broken, and I don't see any meaningful run like we had before as of right now.

I'm still in BDYT, waiting for it to make a move one time or another. Like RRPH, there's been a big build-up a couple of months ago and the stock has gone up since, but nothing too noteworthy in comparison to the share hogging that was done earlier this year.

Let's see the sale confirmation at $2.90.

 

[Azurik]

Originally posted by: Naustica

Originally posted by: Azurik

Originally posted by: Lothar

Originally posted by: Azurik
As for these whacky buys, I base them on unusual volume base build up. That is, when a stock that is usually stagnant gets a huge volume increase for a few days and then settles for a bit. That base volume looks like it never got sold, it just sits there. It begs the question as to why that build up is taking place without selling involved. Investigate, stay alert and hop on the train of success.

They are not overly long-term buy and holds. Once the data says the stock will taper back to the original pre-base build up price, I will sell.

I guess you can call it a very unorthodox way of making money, but it works, and compliments well into my retirement portfolio.

There are going to be times when you are wrong on the call, but the losses are minimal because you can spot trends.

And who can complain about a sizable gain in a matter of months?

Interesting analysis.
Looking at the "On Balance Volume" chart, I think I see what you're talking about.
http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/ch...=4&C8=2007&C9=0&symbol=RRPH&nocookie=1

I wonder what triggered the rapid RRPH sell off that plunged the stock down the past 3 days?
I haven't seen any meaningful in the news that could have caused it.

I didn't sell at the top. It was $3.09 the day before and I had considered selling it to lock in a 18%+ gain in a month's time. I got a stock volume alert the next morning and was able to get out at $2.90 - still a considerable gain. It looks like RRPH's base is broken, and I don't see any meaningful run like we had before as of right now.

I'm still in BDYT, waiting for it to make a move one time or another. Like RRPH, there's been a big build-up a couple of months ago and the stock has gone up since, but nothing too noteworthy in comparison to the share hogging that was done earlier this year.

Let's see the sale confirmation at $2.90.

It was a double order since it didn't fill all at once and averaged at $2.90 - are you calling shens on me?

 

[ponyo]

It was a double order since it didn't fill all at once and averaged at $2.90 - are you calling shens on me?

yes

 

[imported_Lothar]

iversonyin and I don't care about you proving whether you actually sold RRPH or not.
We're more interested in why one of your portfolios did horribly worse than market last month.

Market had a 4-5% gain last month.
You had a 7% loss.
What happened?

 

[Azurik]

Originally posted by: Lothar

Originally posted by: iversonyin
What happen to that 7% drop in non-retirement portfolio?

That's one hell of a hit.

Did he mean to type 20.5% instead of 10.5%?
Typing error would be my guess.

March 31st to April 30th...
S&P 500 up by 4%, Nasdaq up by 4.25%, Dow Jones up by 5.5%.

I don't see how someone can end up with -7% for that month.

I meant 19.5%, that was a typo. Sorry about not responding for so long, didn't check the thread until I realized that May actuals can be filled in on the OP.

 

[Azurik]

BTW, I only compare and contrast my retirement portfolio against the market as the non-retirement has a lot of unorthodox plays.

It's a nice feeling to know your portfolio is outperforming the major indexes when the market is going up, and dropping to a lesser degree than them when the market is heading down.

For whatever it is worth, I'm also scared of what China's stock market will do next. It has had an INCREDIBLE run over the last few years. I wanted to buy a piece this past December, but got really worried on the stratospheric rise it has had. In hindsight, if I did put that money down then, I would have been up by over 50% already. But, that's all hindsight. I couldn't bring myself to put any money on bubble markets. That thing needs a correction.

 

[imported_Lothar]

Originally posted by: Azurik
BTW, I only compare and contrast my retirement portfolio against the market as the non-retirement has a lot of unorthodox plays.

It's a nice feeling to know your portfolio is outperforming the major indexes when the market is going up, and dropping to a lesser degree than them when the market is heading down.

For whatever it is worth, I'm also scared of what China's stock market will do next. It has had an INCREDIBLE run over the last few years. I wanted to buy a piece this past December, but got really worried on the stratospheric rise it has had. In hindsight, if I did put that money down then, I would have been up by over 50% already. But, that's all hindsight. I couldn't bring myself to put any money on bubble markets. That thing needs a correction.

The SSE composite Index gained 100% in just 5 months.
I agree with your Chinese market analysis.
There's going to be a lot Chinese gamblers living on the street homeless when the bubble bursts since many people there are dumping their entire life savings to stocks.

 

[Azurik]

Originally posted by: LS20

Originally posted by: Azurik

Who got in this with me? It's $2.41!

Ok, I'll stop posting updates on this stock besides the monthly updates on my OP

followed you at 2.20.. pretty nice

HL is hot hot hot!

Are you still in, LS20? Hope you didn't sell on this thing... it went dormant for a bit, but volume is picking up heavily now.

 

[LS20]

Originally posted by: Azurik
Are you still in, LS20? Hope you didn't sell on this thing... it went dormant for a bit, but volume is picking up heavily now.

i was looking for this thread.

early this week i picked up RRPH on a whim at night, and the next morning it shot up 19% and i dumped it! :thumbsup:
and the next day it climbed to 40%!

you got good hunches man :thumbsup:

 

[Steve]

From PAB: "And tell ATOT I said hi after coining some money on Allegheny Tech and Foster Wheeler."

 

[Azurik]

June #'s in.

 

[IEC]

Hmm, while this thread isn't updated too frequently it has some interesting picks indeed.

I've got $1100 in the market right now, half long-term, half short to mid-term. Some of my positions:

Stock picks:
TIE
WAG
HSOA

OTC BB speculation:
CNCN
OPBL
DPDW

Mutual funds:
PRLAX
TREMX

 

[ponyo]

Originally posted by: Spartan Niner
Hmm, while this thread isn't updated too frequently it has some interesting picks indeed.

I've got $1100 in the market right now, half long-term, half short to mid-term. Some of my positions:

Stock picks:
TIE
WAG
HSOA

OTC BB speculation:
CNCN
OPBL
DPDW

Mutual funds:
PRLAX
TREMX

Way too spread out for $1100. You should have one stock given the dollar amount. Two at most but that's really pushing it. If you're looking to diversify, stick the entire amount in a market index mutual fund.

 

[imported_Lothar]

Originally posted by: Spartan Niner
Hmm, while this thread isn't updated too frequently it has some interesting picks indeed.

I've got $1100 in the market right now, half long-term, half short to mid-term. Some of my positions:

Stock picks:
TIE
WAG
HSOA

OTC BB speculation:
CNCN
OPBL
DPDW

Mutual funds:
PRLAX
TREMX

Keep PRLAX and one other stock/index fund of your choosing.
PRLAX and TREMX are ok to keep since they don't overlap regions.

For only $1,100 you're too spread out and won't gain more than a few chicken change.

 

[imported_Lothar]

For those who want to know...
UNP, INTC, MR, FCX, BHP, GILD, NOV, VLO, KMTUY, NTDOY, PRLAX, VEURX.
Those are my picks. All long.

I'm staying out of financials and anything to do with the subprime mortgage market or housing for the time being.

 

[imported_Lothar]

RRPH is now down to $0.84/share...

 

[Azurik]

Originally posted by: Azurik
<blockquote>quote:
Originally posted by: Lothar
<blockquote>quote:
Originally posted by: Azurik
As for these whacky buys, I base them on unusual volume base build up. That is, when a stock that is usually stagnant gets a huge volume increase for a few days and then settles for a bit. That base volume looks like it never got sold, it just sits there. It begs the question as to why that build up is taking place without selling involved. Investigate, stay alert and hop on the train of success.

They are not overly long-term buy and holds. Once the data says the stock will taper back to the original pre-base build up price, I will sell.

I guess you can call it a very unorthodox way of making money, but it works, and compliments well into my retirement portfolio.

There are going to be times when you are wrong on the call, but the losses are minimal because you can spot trends.

And who can complain about a sizable gain in a matter of months?</blockquote>

Interesting analysis.
Looking at the "On Balance Volume" chart, I think I see what you're talking about.
http://moneycentral.msn.com/in...symbol=RRPH&nocookie=1

I wonder what triggered the rapid RRPH sell off that plunged the stock down the past 3 days?
I haven't seen any meaningful in the news that could have caused it.</blockquote>

I didn't sell at the top. It was $3.09 the day before and I had considered selling it to lock in a 18%+ gain in a month's time. I got a stock volume alert the next morning and was able to get out at $2.90 - still a considerable gain. It looks like RRPH's base is broken, and I don't see any meaningful run like we had before as of right now.

I'm still in BDYT, waiting for it to make a move one time or another. Like RRPH, there's been a big build-up a couple of months ago and the stock has gone up since, but nothing too noteworthy in comparison to the share hogging that was done earlier this year.

I've been out of RRPH since this post, Lothar. The momo buy on that is over, I predicted at that time that I didn't see anymore meaningful build up of price at that time. I'm still in BDYT. It's about $2.44/$2.45.