Stock Pick of the Week: W. E. 7 Sept. 2012

[clarkrl2]

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 "architecto25".

Moderators please pin the thread

[kadee79]

Gonna stick with the same horse...see if I can finish last this coming week!

NUGT, long

[ModE98]

What else? Will just send out CGA (long) again this week. The old nag will wake up and run again one of these days (at least there is always hope).

[2kids10horses]

Sticking with TQQQ again.

He left the track last Thursday looking for his jockey named Buranke. Hopefully he had his fun in Jackson Hole grazing with all the dude ranch horses, and will be ready to run this week.

[blackliver]

HUN long

[Deleted]

GEF - (L)

[tyfighter3]

One more week for WHX, short.

[Ombud]

Suggesting VLO:

• Friday close: 31.26
  
• 1y Target Est: 36.27
  
• 52wk Range: 16.40 - 31.48
  
• Avg Vol (3m): 9,240,860
  
• Market Cap: 17.24B
  
• P/E (ttm): 10.61
  
• PEG: 1.53
  
• EPS (ttm): 2.95
  
• Div & Yield: 0.70 (2.20%)

Bought 8/15 @ 28.53 but it still should have room to run. Also buying PBP Tuesday .... just looking at where to set limit price

[uncle23]

DDD......long

[ModE98]

Tuesday prediction: Stupid horse, fasr out of the gate, then has to pull back. Not a good thing. It's sure to happen. And, it happens far too often.

[architecto25]

BRP (Brookfield Residential Properties) (Long) (on NYSE)

Closed Friday at 14.17
Pleased with his performance last week, so I saddled him up again for this 4 day race.
This uptrend started the last week in July. Moving Avg.lines have been consistant; the
on bal. vol. nice uptrend, too. But he also told me he could care less about the collar
of roses again.... rather have a friendly filly to visit with after the race.... LOL

[clarkrl2]

Long IMKTA (Ingles Markets Inc. - Grocery Stores)

The price has flattened lately. I think it will break out one way or the other. My bet is to the upside.

[Bluerobin]

BGS, long. B&G foods, my favorite pickle packers. They have been on fire for the last year, and I still haven't bought them.

[Value Buy]

I am torn between Kroger and LULULEMON this week.
Iwill go with LULU this week and go long.

[ModE98]

<Fires the Trainer> ... he trotted out a pig to the gate. Bad day ahead, Duh.

UPDATRE: The pig must have wings.... caught up with the "open" so the question "Can pigs fly?" may turn out to be true. Hope it turns out to be the equivilent of wings of an eagle. Fly, pig, fly!

Now I have a problem. Should I rehire the Trainer? Maybe he doped up the pig with 5 hour Super Energy which may be declared illegal and get the pig disqualified. Decisions, decisions, decisions...

[clarkrl2]

Welcome to new player Ombud. tyfighter3 breaks well from the gate again this week and is being pursued by Mod E, ValueBuy, and bluerobin.

Player

L or S

Symbol

$ Open

$ Close

% Close

[/b][/tr]
[tr][td] tyfighter3 [/td][td] S [/td][td] WHX [/td][td] $8.35 [/td][td] $8.09 [/td][td] 3.11% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] Mod E [/td][td] L [/td][td] CGA [/td][td] $3.670 [/td][td] $3.750 [/td][td] 2.18% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] Value Buy [/td][td] L [/td][td] LULU [/td][td] $65.60 [/td][td] $66.88 [/td][td] 1.95% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] Bluerobin [/td][td] L [/td][td] BGS [/td][td] $29.38 [/td][td] $29.86 [/td][td] 1.63% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] 2kids10horses [/td][td] L [/td][td] TQQQ [/td][td] $59.01 [/td][td] $59.12 [/td][td] 0.19% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] BenchMark [/td][td] L [/td][td] QQQ [/td][td] $68.03 [/td][td] $68.09 [/td][td] 0.09% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] architecto25 [/td][td] L [/td][td] BRP [/td][td] $14.26 [/td][td] $14.26 [/td][td] 0.00% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] clarkrl2 [/td][td] L [/td][td] IMKTA [/td][td] $16.00 [/td][td] $15.97 [/td][td] -0.19% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] uncle.23 [/td][td] L [/td][td] DDD [/td][td] $43.840 [/td][td] $43.660 [/td][td] -0.41% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] D. I. [/td][td] L [/td][td] GEF [/td][td] $44.57 [/td][td] $44.33 [/td][td] -0.54% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] Ombud [/td][td] L [/td][td] VLO [/td][td] $31.30 [/td][td] $31.02 [/td][td] -0.89% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] kadee66 [/td][td] L [/td][td] NUGT [/td][td] $12.99 [/td][td] $12.76 [/td][td] -1.77% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] blackliver [/td][td] L [/td][td] HUN [/td][td] $14.31 [/td][td] $14.01 [/td][td] -2.10% [/td][/tr]
[/table]

[Bluerobin]

No fair! Flying pigs are NOT allowed.

[ModE98]

'Ole Blue ... Could hardly believe it. He started out at the gate like he wanted to go back the the sty and wallow in the mud. Must be a "morph" of some sort to suddenly sprout some wings. Do not believe he may soar very high as he is probably afraid of heights.

May morph back into a horse by tomorrow. Perhaps piggy is just a pipe dream and I will wake up.

You know, real old people like me have a tendency to "drift off".

[Bluerobin]

Mod, you are NOT supposed to eat the magic oats, just your horse!

[ModE98]

'Ole Blue ,,,, drat, you should have warned me before. Thoughr I had Quarker "Magic" Oats for breakfast. Oh, now I see the horse, just needed a nap. <returns oats to the horse's stall>

[clarkrl2]

Mod E leads day 2 with bluerobin and ValueBuy neck and neck for second.

Player

L or S

Symbol

$ Open

$ Close

% Close

[/b][/tr]
[tr][td] Mod E [/td][td] L [/td][td] CGA [/td][td] $3.67 [/td][td] $3.76 [/td][td] 2.45% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] Bluerobin [/td][td] L [/td][td] BGS [/td][td] $29.380 [/td][td] $29.890 [/td][td] 1.74% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] Value Buy [/td][td] L [/td][td] LULU [/td][td] $65.60 [/td][td] $66.72 [/td][td] 1.71% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] tyfighter3 [/td][td] S [/td][td] WHX [/td][td] $8.35 [/td][td] $8.25 [/td][td] 1.20% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] architecto25 [/td][td] L [/td][td] BRP [/td][td] $14.26 [/td][td] $14.38 [/td][td] 0.84% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] BenchMark [/td][td] L [/td][td] QQQ [/td][td] $68.03 [/td][td] $68.02 [/td][td] -0.01% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] Ombud [/td][td] L [/td][td] VLO [/td][td] $31.30 [/td][td] $31.22 [/td][td] -0.26% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] 2kids10horses [/td][td] L [/td][td] TQQQ [/td][td] $59.01 [/td][td] $58.85 [/td][td] -0.27% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] clarkrl2 [/td][td] L [/td][td] IMKTA [/td][td] $16.000 [/td][td] $15.940 [/td][td] -0.38% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] D. I. [/td][td] L [/td][td] GEF [/td][td] $44.57 [/td][td] $44.40 [/td][td] -0.38% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] kadee66 [/td][td] L [/td][td] NUGT [/td][td] $12.99 [/td][td] $12.85 [/td][td] -1.08% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] uncle.23 [/td][td] L [/td][td] DDD [/td][td] $43.84 [/td][td] $43.00 [/td][td] -1.92% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] blackliver [/td][td] L [/td][td] HUN [/td][td] $14.31 [/td][td] $13.87 [/td][td] -3.07% [/td][/tr]
[/table]

[ModE98]

Oh,oh..... the longs are charging today, CGA may get trampled in the stampede. In fact, things look ominus as when earnings are released sometime between the 7th and 12th of this month, estimated earning may be down over 30 cents year to year. Management had better have a very good excuse, which may not fly.

[Ombud]

I'd like to light a fire under mine [maybe not the best as it is oil] ~~ definitely lagging the market. Despite all 10 sectors up 1%+, Dow +1.87% Nasdaq +2.17% , VLO is only +0.72% today. (Even my OPTR is +4.98% but I d/n enter that one in the race)

[Value Buy]

The markets were on fire today!

[clarkrl2]

2kids10horses used a triple turbo charger to surge to the lead. kadee66 is a close second followed by ValueBuy in third.

Player

L or S

Symbol

$ Open

$ Close

% Close

[/b][/tr]
[tr][td] 2kids10horses [/td][td] L [/td][td] TQQQ [/td][td] $59.01 [/td][td] $62.74 [/td][td] 6.32% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] kadee66 [/td][td] L [/td][td] NUGT [/td][td] $12.990 [/td][td] $13.780 [/td][td] 6.08% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] Value Buy [/td][td] L [/td][td] LULU [/td][td] $65.60 [/td][td] $68.60 [/td][td] 4.57% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] BenchMark [/td][td] L [/td][td] QQQ [/td][td] $68.03 [/td][td] $69.53 [/td][td] 2.20% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] D. I. [/td][td] L [/td][td] GEF [/td][td] $44.57 [/td][td] $45.48 [/td][td] 2.04% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] architecto25 [/td][td] L [/td][td] BRP [/td][td] $14.26 [/td][td] $14.54 [/td][td] 1.96% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] Bluerobin [/td][td] L [/td][td] BGS [/td][td] $29.38 [/td][td] $29.87 [/td][td] 1.67% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] Mod E [/td][td] L [/td][td] CGA [/td][td] $3.67 [/td][td] $3.71 [/td][td] 1.09% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] Ombud [/td][td] L [/td][td] VLO [/td][td] $31.300 [/td][td] $31.420 [/td][td] 0.38% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] tyfighter3 [/td][td] S [/td][td] WHX [/td][td] $8.35 [/td][td] $8.33 [/td][td] 0.24% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] clarkrl2 [/td][td] L [/td][td] IMKTA [/td][td] $16.00 [/td][td] $16.00 [/td][td] 0.00% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] blackliver [/td][td] L [/td][td] HUN [/td][td] $14.31 [/td][td] $14.27 [/td][td] -0.28% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] uncle.23 [/td][td] L [/td][td] DDD [/td][td] $43.84 [/td][td] $42.72 [/td][td] -2.55% [/td][/tr]
[/table]

[2kids10horses]

triple turbo chargers work really well when they're pointing in the right direction! ;D

Isn't that right, kadee?

[kadee79]

Sept 6, 2012 18:50:32 GMT -5 2kids10horses said:

triple turbo chargers work really well when they're pointing in the right direction! ;D

Isn't that right, kadee?

I haven't paid attention today. Been arguing on some political boards...not those here but others.
Something MUST have happened!
It may be time for me to sell all that old jewelry I don't wear any more??? I'll have to check the other gold prices first.

[Bluerobin]

My oats! My oats!!! All my magic oats are gone!!! There are several likely suspects.

[ModE98]

'Ole Blue, Think I saw kadee sneaking around the barn Wednesday night. Must have filched some of your special feed. Passed me yesterday like a rocket..... whoosh!

[Ombud]

Sept 6, 2012 22:13:40 GMT -5 kadee79 said:

It may be time for me to sell all that old jewelry I don't wear any more??? I'll have to check the other gold prices first.

Used to be in the jewelry business so I have some bad news for you re: selling gold. The price you see on the stock market is not the price you'll get for the jewelry. First of all, the gold is only 14 kt or 18kt, 24 kt in pure gold. So factor that in. Second, most of the cost of the piece initially is labor / profit. And that doesn't count when they are going to melt it down. Finally, they do not pay full value when they are going to melt it down. Better off to try to take it to a reseller or just keep it in the drawer. Someone in the family might eventually want it for sentimental value