Stock Pick of the Week: W. E. 24 Feb. 2012

[rovo]

Rules:
1. Selection must be made prior to the opening bell on the first trading day of the week.
2. Selection may be changed up to the opening bell.
3. Starting price is the opening price on first trading day of week.
4. Ending price is closing price on last trading day of week.
5. No options or complex trading vehicles. Only stocks and ETFs.

To enter the game:
List your stock's symbol, Long or Short, Company name, what the company does and why you like the selection.


Congratulations to last week's winner "clarkrl2".

[ModE98]

Will go with EXLP (long) this week. Believe it is a good value play at current price in the $23.50 range. Nice dividend payout to boot (8.3%). Did not show much get up and go week of 2/13-17, and hopefully will begin to show a little pep in this week. An oil/natural gas services play. No doubt, will keep me off the bottom this week.

Exterran Partners, L.P. is a global provider of products and services to the oil and gas industry. The Company provides natural gas contract operations services to customers throughout the United States. Its contract operations services include designing, sourcing, owning, installing, operating, servicing, repairing and maintaining equipment to provide natural gas compression to its customers. The Company also monitors its customers' compression services requirements over time and, as necessary, modify the level of services and related equipment. Exterran General Partner, L.P., its general partner, is an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of Exterran Holdings, Inc. (Exterran Holdings). In August 2010, the Company acquired from Exterran Holdings contract operations customer service agreements with 43 customers and a fleet of approximately 580 compressor units used to provide compression services under those agreements, consisting of approximately 255,000 horsepower

[beenherebefore]

Please mark me down for YHOO long.

Thanks,

[burger]

I'll take UNTD long.

[uncle23]

.....

LEI........long

[blackliver]

HLX long.

[bimetalaupt]

BGZ LONG...(again) GREECE IS BACK IN THE NEWS AND GERMANY WANTS THEM OUT OF THE ECU BECAUSE IT SEES THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL IS THE 5 O'CLOCK RUNNING LATE..

BimetalAuPt

[tyfighter3]

nog long.

[clarkrl2]

Long GME (GameStop Corp. - Computer Peripherals)

I had a hard time finding finding a long for this week. GameStop just paid its first quarterly dividend and the daily MACD (12, 26, 9) is showing two days of improvement however it is still a negative divergence. The slow 14,3 stochastics show it is oversold and the %K just moved above the %D. There is a lot of negative sentiment in this stock because there is fear it will go out of business eventually losing it's customers to online shopping.

[kadee79]

WPRT, long....Westport Innovations....makes natural gas engines.

Sure wish I'd know about this one a couple of years ago...up over 200% in that time.

[Deleted]

CME - (L)

[Value Buy]

Radio Shack, short it this week
RSH short

[architecto25]

ROYL (Royale Energy Inc.) (Long)
closed Friday at $5.58
52 wk. high/low ..... $7.90/$1.73
Independent oil, natural gas producer. Founded 1986.
Headquartered in San Diego, CA.
Wells in CA.,Utah,Tex.,Okla.,& LA.
P&F chart: Double top breakout on 17 Feb.2012

I just found this strange horse ambling down the road;
must have broken out of a pasture. So I decided to race
him. It wasn't in Kentucky race horse country., either.

[rovo]

Here are the selections and opening prices for this week's game.

Player

L or S

Symbol

$ Open

$ Close

% Close

[/b][/tr]
[tr][td] clarkrl2 [/td][td] L [/td][td] GME [/td][td] $23.33 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] -100.00% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] kadee66 [/td][td] L [/td][td] WPRT [/td][td] $47.00 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] -100.00% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] tyfighter3 [/td][td] L [/td][td] NOG [/td][td] $24.37 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] -100.00% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] beenherebefore [/td][td] L [/td][td] YHOO [/td][td] $15.04 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] -100.00% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] Value Buy [/td][td] S [/td][td] RSH [/td][td] $7.64 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] 100.00% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] BenchMark [/td][td] L [/td][td] QQQ [/td][td] $63.51 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] -100.00% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] D.I. [/td][td] L [/td][td] CME [/td][td] $293.67 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] -100.00% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] architecto25 [/td][td] L [/td][td] ROYL [/td][td] $5.56 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] -100.00% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] blackliver [/td][td] L [/td][td] HLX [/td][td] $19.29 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] -100.00% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] uncle.23 [/td][td] L [/td][td] LEI [/td][td] $2.68 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] -100.00% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] Bimetalaupt [/td][td] L [/td][td] BGZ [/td][td] $22.34 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] -100.00% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] Burger [/td][td] L [/td][td] UNTD [/td][td] $5.63 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] -100.00% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] ModE [/td][td] L [/td][td] EXLP [/td][td] $23.50 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] -100.00% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] 0.00% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] 0.00% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] 0.00% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] 0.00% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] 0.00% [/td][/tr][/table]

[rovo]

Value Buy takes the lead after day one of a short week. Many were hurt by the gap up at the open.

Player

L or S

Symbol

$ Open

$ Close

% Close

[/b][/tr]
[tr][td] Value Buy [/td][td] S [/td][td] RSH [/td][td] $7.64 [/td][td] $7.26 [/td][td] 4.97% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] Burger [/td][td] L [/td][td] UNTD [/td][td] $5.63 [/td][td] $5.72 [/td][td] 1.60% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] ModE [/td][td] L [/td][td] EXLP [/td][td] $23.50 [/td][td] $23.83 [/td][td] 1.40% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] Bimetalaupt [/td][td] L [/td][td] BGZ [/td][td] $22.34 [/td][td] $22.45 [/td][td] 0.49% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] BenchMark [/td][td] L [/td][td] QQQ [/td][td] $63.51 [/td][td] $63.61 [/td][td] 0.16% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] blackliver [/td][td] L [/td][td] HLX [/td][td] $19.29 [/td][td] $19.28 [/td][td] -0.05% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] clarkrl2 [/td][td] L [/td][td] GME [/td][td] $23.33 [/td][td] $23.30 [/td][td] -0.13% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] uncle.23 [/td][td] L [/td][td] LEI [/td][td] $2.68 [/td][td] $2.67 [/td][td] -0.37% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] tyfighter3 [/td][td] L [/td][td] NOG [/td][td] $24.37 [/td][td] $24.14 [/td][td] -0.94% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] D.I. [/td][td] L [/td][td] CME [/td][td] $293.67 [/td][td] $290.08 [/td][td] -1.22% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] beenherebefore [/td][td] L [/td][td] YHOO [/td][td] $15.04 [/td][td] $14.75 [/td][td] -1.90% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] architecto25 [/td][td] L [/td][td] ROYL [/td][td] $5.56 [/td][td] $5.43 [/td][td] -2.34% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] kadee66 [/td][td] L [/td][td] WPRT [/td][td] $47.00 [/td][td] $45.66 [/td][td] -2.85% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] 0.00% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] 0.00% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] 0.00% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] 0.00% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] 0.00% [/td][/tr][/table]

[ModE98]

Lordy, now what is going on.... beat the Benchmark. So far, so good.

Kadee .... apply the whip. Get your horse movin'!!!!

[ModE98]

Ooopa, EXLP slipped a bit on a banana peel some spectator tossed on the track. Oh well, tomorrow is another day.

After close addendum: Goody, just a minor slip in the ranks, what a pleasant surprise. Sure thought it was going to be worse, but guess everyone had a problem maintaining speed today. Whew!

[rovo]

Value Buy holds the lead by several lengths but Bimetal has hit stride and is closing the gap.

Player

L or S

Symbol

$ Open

$ Close

% Close

[/b][/tr]
[tr][td] Value Buy [/td][td] S [/td][td] RSH [/td][td] $7.64 [/td][td] $7.14 [/td][td] 6.54% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] Bimetalaupt [/td][td] L [/td][td] BGZ [/td][td] $22.34 [/td][td] $22.71 [/td][td] 1.66% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] ModE [/td][td] L [/td][td] EXLP [/td][td] $23.50 [/td][td] $23.69 [/td][td] 0.81% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] uncle.23 [/td][td] L [/td][td] LEI [/td][td] $2.68 [/td][td] $2.70 [/td][td] 0.75% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] tyfighter3 [/td][td] L [/td][td] NOG [/td][td] $24.37 [/td][td] $24.42 [/td][td] 0.21% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] Burger [/td][td] L [/td][td] UNTD [/td][td] $5.63 [/td][td] $5.62 [/td][td] -0.18% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] BenchMark [/td][td] L [/td][td] QQQ [/td][td] $63.51 [/td][td] $63.32 [/td][td] -0.30% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] clarkrl2 [/td][td] L [/td][td] GME [/td][td] $23.33 [/td][td] $22.97 [/td][td] -1.54% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] blackliver [/td][td] L [/td][td] HLX [/td][td] $19.29 [/td][td] $18.96 [/td][td] -1.71% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] D.I. [/td][td] L [/td][td] CME [/td][td] $293.67 [/td][td] $288.15 [/td][td] -1.88% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] architecto25 [/td][td] L [/td][td] ROYL [/td][td] $5.56 [/td][td] $5.37 [/td][td] -3.42% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] beenherebefore [/td][td] L [/td][td] YHOO [/td][td] $15.04 [/td][td] $14.50 [/td][td] -3.56% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] kadee66 [/td][td] L [/td][td] WPRT [/td][td] $47.00 [/td][td] $43.94 [/td][td] -6.51% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] 0.00% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] 0.00% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] 0.00% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] 0.00% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] 0.00% [/td][/tr][/table]

[beenherebefore]

Uh oh....... I'm in trouble again....

[ModE98]

Hmmmm......kadee seems to have a larger problem.

[kadee79]

I sure do! I think my horse sat down!
This is what I get for picking one that gained 200+% in 2 yrs...now it is ready to decline! And doing a good job of it!

[Bluerobin]

<<< passes magic oats to Mod's horse>>>

[ModE98]

Ah, magic oats. Appreciate the gesture 'Ole Blue, and hope they work today and tomorrow. We shall see.

[rovo]

Value Buy still holds the lead but now ModE is challenging. BiMetal seems to have started the sprint too early and is now mid-pack.

Player

L or S

Symbol

$ Open

$ Close

% Close

[/b][/tr]
[tr][td] Value Buy [/td][td] S [/td][td] RSH [/td][td] $7.64 [/td][td] $7.24 [/td][td] 5.24% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] ModE [/td][td] L [/td][td] EXLP [/td][td] $23.50 [/td][td] $24.44 [/td][td] 4.00% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] tyfighter3 [/td][td] L [/td][td] NOG [/td][td] $24.37 [/td][td] $24.81 [/td][td] 1.81% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] BenchMark [/td][td] L [/td][td] QQQ [/td][td] $63.51 [/td][td] $63.74 [/td][td] 0.36% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] Bimetalaupt [/td][td] L [/td][td] BGZ [/td][td] $22.34 [/td][td] $22.35 [/td][td] 0.04% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] clarkrl2 [/td][td] L [/td][td] GME [/td][td] $23.33 [/td][td] $23.29 [/td][td] -0.17% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] D.I. [/td][td] L [/td][td] CME [/td][td] $293.67 [/td][td] $291.79 [/td][td] -0.64% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] uncle.23 [/td][td] L [/td][td] LEI [/td][td] $2.68 [/td][td] $2.66 [/td][td] -0.75% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] beenherebefore [/td][td] L [/td][td] YHOO [/td][td] $15.04 [/td][td] $14.78 [/td][td] -1.70% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] blackliver [/td][td] L [/td][td] HLX [/td][td] $19.29 [/td][td] $18.91 [/td][td] -1.97% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] architecto25 [/td][td] L [/td][td] ROYL [/td][td] $5.56 [/td][td] $5.32 [/td][td] -4.32% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] Burger [/td][td] L [/td][td] UNTD [/td][td] $5.63 [/td][td] $5.21 [/td][td] -7.46% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] kadee66 [/td][td] L [/td][td] WPRT [/td][td] $47.00 [/td][td] $42.43 [/td][td] -9.72% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] 0.00% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] 0.00% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] 0.00% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] 0.00% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] 0.00% [/td][/tr][/table]

[ModE98]

With my luck, not counting on a Friday dash to the finish. May have spent a lot of energy to after eating the magic oats from 'Ole Blue this morning.

Value Buy's short looks good.

[kadee79]

Looks like I'm holding my spot pretty good!
Don't think I will be choosing this one again and I won't be doing any investing in it either!

[architecto25]

UNCLE23, ole LEI really performed for you today; My horse, ROYL, slowed because he didn't know which side he wanted to pass on... I regret that I'm not holding any LEI at the moment. We'll just wait to see what Rovo puts on the leaderboard. Good 4 day week. ..........

[rovo]

uncle.23 comes out of nowhere to take the win. architecto25 also comes from way back to finish second while Value Buy finishes third.

Player

L or S

Symbol

$ Open

$ Close

% Close

[/b][/tr]
[tr][td] uncle.23 [/td][td] L [/td][td] LEI [/td][td] $2.68 [/td][td] $3.03 [/td][td] 13.06% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] architecto25 [/td][td] L [/td][td] ROYL [/td][td] $5.56 [/td][td] $6.05 [/td][td] 8.81% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] Value Buy [/td][td] S [/td][td] RSH [/td][td] $7.64 [/td][td] $7.18 [/td][td] 6.02% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] ModE [/td][td] L [/td][td] EXLP [/td][td] $23.50 [/td][td] $24.79 [/td][td] 5.49% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] tyfighter3 [/td][td] L [/td][td] NOG [/td][td] $24.37 [/td][td] $25.59 [/td][td] 5.01% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] BenchMark [/td][td] L [/td][td] QQQ [/td][td] $63.51 [/td][td] $63.96 [/td][td] 0.71% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] blackliver [/td][td] L [/td][td] HLX [/td][td] $19.29 [/td][td] $19.27 [/td][td] -0.10% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] D.I. [/td][td] L [/td][td] CME [/td][td] $293.67 [/td][td] $292.39 [/td][td] -0.44% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] Bimetalaupt [/td][td] L [/td][td] BGZ [/td][td] $22.34 [/td][td] $22.22 [/td][td] -0.54% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] beenherebefore [/td][td] L [/td][td] YHOO [/td][td] $15.04 [/td][td] $14.89 [/td][td] -0.96% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] clarkrl2 [/td][td] L [/td][td] GME [/td][td] $23.33 [/td][td] $22.73 [/td][td] -2.57% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] Burger [/td][td] L [/td][td] UNTD [/td][td] $5.63 [/td][td] $5.30 [/td][td] -5.86% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] kadee66 [/td][td] L [/td][td] WPRT [/td][td] $47.00 [/td][td] $43.94 [/td][td] -6.51% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] 0.00% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] 0.00% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] 0.00% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] 0.00% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] 0.00% [/td][/tr][/table]

[kadee79]

Congrats Uncle! Good ride!

Mine did make an effort, just not enough of one.

[ModE98]

That was some "action" for Uncle and Archi .... big moves today.... congratulations and roses go to Uncle for the win.