Trading Ideas or Investments for Shorter Time Frame

[clarkrl2]

Sold HCI (HCI Group) @ $43.06 for an 18.5% profit excluding commissions, fees, and dividends. Held for about 4.5 months.

Bought WRLD (World Acceptance) @ $97.

[clarkrl2]

Sold CTRN (Citi Trends Inc.) @ $15.70 for a loss of about 6.6% not including commissions. That puts my cash position around 28%. I'll try to find some more buys next week.

Edit: This trade lasted 5 weeks.

[clarkrl2]

Bought PHH (PHH Corp.) @$25.81 from the earnings beat MRQ with recent upward estimate revisions screen.

[clarkrl2]

Sold PVTB @ $28 for a 15.6% gain.

I am still looking for buys from the earnings beat MRQ with recent upward estimate revisions screen.

This closes the trade from post #25. (about 4 months)

[clarkrl2]

Sold KEY @ 12.91 for a gain of 3.3% in about 4 months.

This will put my cash position at about 36%.

This closes the trade from post #25.

[clarkrl2]

Bought BHE (Benchmark Electronics Inc.) @ $23.69 from the earnings beat MRQ with recent upward estimate revisions screen.

[clarkrl2]

Bought TOWR (Tower Intl. Inc.) @ $25.60 from the earnings beat MRQ with recent upward estimate revisions screen. This puts my cash position at about 21.2%.

[clarkrl2]

Bought Bank of Montreal (BMO) at $65.87 from the earnings beat MRQ with recent upward estimate revisions screen.

[clarkrl2]

sold WRLD @ $75.99 for a loss of 21.7% since 1/31/14. I'll be busy over the next few days so I will try to find a replacement next week.

There was an investigation of WRLD announced last week.

[clarkrl2]

Sold BHE (Benchmark Electronics Inc.) for a loss of -4% in a little over a month. I am now about 25% cash. I have some open buy orders but I may be getting to greedy on my bid prices.

[clarkrl2]

Bought FIBK (First Interstate Bancsystem) @$28.53.

[clarkrl2]

Bought AHL (Aspen Insurance Holdings) @ $39.63 from the earnings beat MRQ with recent upward estimate revisions screen. They will report earnings Apr. 23. The last three quarters they had positive surprises.

[clarkrl2]

Sold RF (Regional Financial Corp.) @$10.33 for a loss of -1.1%.

[clarkrl2]

Bought AMSG (Amsurg Corp.) @$46.80 from the earnings beat MRQ with recent upward revisions screen.

[clarkrl2]

Sold PHH (PHH Corp) @$24.34 for a loss of 5.7%. My current cash after this trade is about 19%.

[clarkrl2]

Bought NNI @$41.95. This transaction actually took place on Monday Apr. 28. I had put in a GTC order last week. This was from the earnings beat MRQ with recent upward estimate revisions screen.

I intend to sell FIBK and will post an update as soon as I can.

[clarkrl2]

Sold FIBK @$24.54 for a loss of 14.0% in a little less than a month. They had beat on earnings but the stock price just kept falling.


Bought CNC (Centene Corp.) @$66 from the earnings beat MRQ with recent upward estimate revisions screen.

[clarkrl2]

Sold AMSG (AmSurg Corp) @$42.10 for a loss of 10%.

Bought WTW (Weight Watchers International) @$22.92 from the earnings beat MRQ with recent upward revisions screen.

[clarkrl2]

Sold NNI (Nelnet Inc.) @$38.61 for a loss of -8%. I didn't find anything to replace it with today.

[Ombud]

Bought ZEN in my brokerage account (that's my explore not core account). An IPO. 1st venture into software. Goes against my current (5 yr) philosophy. No dividend. No track record. Was barely in comfort zone at 11.06 (screen for 10+, low PEG, dividend, always have exit point in mind) Need to figure exit point

[clarkrl2]

Sold DEG (Delhaize Group) @$18.06 for a split adjusted gain of 11.8% in three and a half months.

Bought ARRS (Arris Group Inc.) @$29.52 from the earnings beat MRQ with recent upward estimate revisions screen.

[clarkrl2]

Bought OUTR (Outerwall Inc.) @$70.99/share from the earnings beat MRQ with recent upward estimate revisions screen.

[clarkrl2]

Sold PMC @$27.15 for a profit of 84.1% in 7 months.

Bought BLT (Blount Intl Inc.) @$12.18 from the earnings beat MRQ with recent upward estimate revisions screen.

[tyfighter3]

10:15 am BLT 12.18
11:30 am BLT 12.27
winner

My take on short term is if your not buying a stock for the long term you want to trade it in the shortest time frame you can and make sure it's a winner. I don't look past a trade lasting over a hour and a half short term. JMO

[tyfighter3]

You want to make sure there is enough volume in the stock as to make sure your sell or buy goes in at that time.

[clarkrl2]

Bought STRA (Strayer Education) @$54.75 from the earnings beat MRQ with recent upward estimate revisions screen.

[clarkrl2]

Sold OUTR @$64.13 for a loss of 9.7%.

Bought PRU (Prudential Financial) @$88.29 from the earning beat MRQ with recent upward revisions screen.

For the 20 closed trades tracked on this thread the average profit was 5.575% and the average holding period was 71.55 days.

[clarkrl2]

Sold AHL (Aspen Insurance Holdings) @$45.55 for a gain of for a gain of 14.9% in less than three months. There is an unsolicited buyout offer by Endurance who want to buy Aspen for $49.50 per share using cash and stock. The two companies are currently engaged in name calling.

[2kids10horses]

Clarkrl2,

As you know, I've been long TQQQ for a long time. I trade the TQQQ/SQQQ pair. I'm in one or the other. Never both at once!

TQQQ has doubled over the past year.

It's a tripled leveraged ETF, so it is very volatile.  Looking at a Yahoo chart comparing QQQ with TQQQ, for the past year, QQQ appears to be up about 30%.  TQQQ over 120%. But not for the faint of heart.

[bimetalaupt]

Jul 3, 2014 13:48:38 GMT -5 2kids10horses said:

Clarkrl2,

As you know, I've been long TQQQ for a long time. I trade the TQQQ/SQQQ pair. I'm in one or the other. Never both at once!

TQQQ has doubled over the past year.

It's a tripled leveraged ETF, so it is very volatile.  Looking at a Yahoo chart comparing QQQ with TQQQ, for the past year, QQQ appears to be up about 30%.  TQQQ over 120%. But not for the faint of heart.

2K,
We got QQQ tag at 93.470508515847 by MMXV.  Sounds like the train has left the station.  Time to sell some CALLS?

JUST A THOUGHT,
BiMetalAuPt