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Post by clarkrl2 on Dec 19, 2014 17:39:13 GMT -5
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.
6. Opening prices will be those found at Yahoo Finance. Any disputed opening price will be resolved using the price listed at Yahoo Finance historical quotes
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 "Value Buy".
Moderators please pin the thread.
The markets will close early for the Christmas holiday on Wednesday Dec. 24 and reopen Friday morning.  Merry Christmas!!! 
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Post by ModE98 on Dec 19, 2014 17:56:41 GMT -5
Merry Christmas, clarkrl, with a big thanks for hosting the weekly atock pick race. If this week is a nything like last, it's going to be a rough ride for all entries. By any luck the Santa rally will take off to make things easier. Good luck, all!     And a Merry one for all, and happy, properous New Year. May 2015 bring new highs!
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Post by uncle23 on Dec 19, 2014 19:14:28 GMT -5
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MTSN.......long
Mattson Technology, Inc. designs, manufactures, markets, and supports semiconductor wafer processing equipment used in the fabrication of integrated circuits worldwide. The company offers dry strip, rapid thermal processing, and etch equipment to the semiconductor industry. Its dry strip products include the SUPREMA strip system that incorporates its Faraday Shielded inductively coupled plasma (ICP) radio frequency source and platform used in the production at 28 nm and 20nm technology nodes. The company's rapid thermal processing products include the Helios and Helios XP systems for conventional annealing applications; and the Millios system for millisecond anneal applications. Its etch products comprise the paradigmE and Alpine systems that feature a proprietary faraday-shielded ICP plasma source combined with etch bias control to provide process on-wafer performance. The company sells its products directly, as well as through distribution agreements to memory and foundry/logic device manufacturers. Mattson Technology, Inc. was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Fremont, California.
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Post by uncle23 on Dec 19, 2014 19:28:34 GMT -5
Congtatulations to Value Buy..  kadee66.. ModE91.. M E R R Y C H R I S T M A S |
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Post by ModE98 on Dec 19, 2014 20:50:05 GMT -5
COH (Long). Coach, Inc. Way down on the year, maybe a Santa rally?
Coach, Inc. (Coach) is a marketer of accessories and gifts for women and men. The Company offers a range of modern, fashionable handbags and accessories. Its product offerings include women’s and men’s bags, accessories, footwear, wearables, jewelry, travel bags, sunwear, watches and fragrance. The Company operates in two segments: North America, which includes sales to North American consumers through Company-operated stores, including the Internet, and sales to wholesale customers and distributors and International, which includes sales to consumers through Company-operated stores in Japan and mainland China, including the Internet, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia and Korea and sales to wholesale customers and distributors in 25 countries.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2014 22:21:37 GMT -5
AAPL - (L)
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Post by clarkrl2 on Dec 20, 2014 17:29:57 GMT -5
Long ISLE (Isle of Capri Casinos Inc. - Hotels, Restaurants and Leisure)
From the earning beat MRQ with recent upward estimate revisions screen. Same pick as last week. |
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Post by tyfighter3 on Dec 20, 2014 17:47:38 GMT -5
WLL long
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Post by Ombud on Dec 21, 2014 20:54:21 GMT -5
McKesson long -- it was one of them that crossed my limit price last week & I hope it still has legs
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Post by kadee79 on Dec 21, 2014 21:11:23 GMT -5
I closed my eyes and stuck my finger on the screen............
SODA, long
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! AND A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO CLARK FOR TAKING CARE OF US EACH WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!   |
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Post by architecto25 on Dec 21, 2014 22:43:20 GMT -5
EMKR (Long) Emcore Corp.
I'm going to continue with last week's pick. It appears to be finally uptrending again from
some recent chart action. It closed Friday at $5.33.
.... On this short week .. Merry Christmas to everyone.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2014 8:34:56 GMT -5
CTIX.... Long, since it is still December I am hoping it will continue to be momentous after a pullback last week I am going to be MIA for awhile.... going to be busy for the next several weeks. Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year to all! |
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Post by Value Buy on Dec 22, 2014 9:27:15 GMT -5
I am seriously thinking to let RAD run again this week. Also considering WAG, which does report this week although most analysts are out of town.....but, Wag has already announced they are moving to the Nasdaq after their merger is complete in the new year, so it might bust a new move to anew high. Or, I might go with CVX, Chevron this week, but do not know where oil is headed.
Decided to go with CVX, based solely on expecting the DOW and S&P 500 to set new records this week and my thinking is Chevron continues to climb back from recent lows. Chevron, CVX, long. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2014 9:50:07 GMT -5
a mediocre PR from CTIX this morning... probably called it wrong. BUMMER  |
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Post by Value Buy on Dec 22, 2014 14:51:17 GMT -5
a mediocre PR from CTIX this morning... probably called it wrong. BUMMER That's ok. I should have stayed with RAD this week
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Post by clarkrl2 on Dec 22, 2014 17:14:37 GMT -5
uncle23 takes the early lead in this week's holiday shortened contest. kadee66 has a nose out in front of clarkrl2 for second. Four of ten are beating the benchmark. This week I will likely be later than usual posting the results on some days. | Player | L or S | Symbol | $ Open | $ Close | % Close | | uncle.23 | L | MTSN | $3.54 | $3.68 | 3.95% | | kadee66 | L | SODA | $20.52 | $20.96 | 2.14% | | clarkrl2 | L | ISLE | $7.81 | $7.97 | 2.05% | | D. I. | L | AAPL | $112.25 | $112.94 | 0.61% | | BenchMark | L | QQQ | $104.16 | $104.58 | 0.40% | | architecto25 | L | EMKR | $5.30 | $5.31 | 0.19% | | Ombud | L | MCK | $211.47 | $211.60 | 0.06% | | tyfighter3 | L | WLL | $34.02 | $34.04 | 0.06% | | Mod E | L | COH | $36.99 | $37.00 | 0.03% | | Value Buy | L | CVX | $112.50 | $112.03 | -0.42% | | m2w | L | CTIX | $4.41 | $4.18 | -5.22% |
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Post by Ombud on Dec 22, 2014 23:52:04 GMT -5
It's that time of year. .. have a good one!
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Post by ModE98 on Dec 23, 2014 13:30:24 GMT -5
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Post by Ombud on Dec 23, 2014 15:01:45 GMT -5
I feel lucky that I'm only down 1.09% the rest of health care is stinking up the Dow today
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Post by ModE98 on Dec 23, 2014 15:55:12 GMT -5
Ombud, no worries! Things are just "rotating" as usual; you will do fine in the fullness of time.  |
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Post by Ombud on Dec 23, 2014 16:08:56 GMT -5
Yeah. MCKESSON is fairly diversified hence only down 1.11% at close. Still not adding to it or any other positions this week 18,024.17 |
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Post by clarkrl2 on Dec 23, 2014 16:45:33 GMT -5
tyfighter3 catapults to the lead by a head at the halfway mark. clarkrl2 is second and kadee66 third. Eight of ten are beating the benchmark. | Player | L or S | Symbol | $ Open | $ Close | % Close | | tyfighter3 | L | WLL | $34.02 | $35.53 | 4.44% | | clarkrl2 | L | ISLE | $7.81 | $8.14 | 4.23% | | kadee66 | L | SODA | $20.52 | $21.20 | 3.31% | | Value Buy | L | CVX | $112.50 | $113.95 | 1.29% | | Mod E | L | COH | $36.99 | $37.20 | 0.57% | | architecto25 | L | EMKR | $5.30 | $5.33 | 0.57% | | uncle.23 | L | MTSN | $3.54 | $3.56 | 0.56% | | D. I. | L | AAPL | $112.25 | $112.54 | 0.26% | | BenchMark | L | QQQ | $104.16 | $104.21 | 0.05% | | Ombud | L | MCK | $211.47 | $209.21 | -1.07% | | m2w | L | CTIX | $4.41 | $4.15 | -6.01% |
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Post by ModE98 on Dec 23, 2014 22:09:09 GMT -5
In the short day tomorrow, who knows how the market may behave, most of the major floor traders will be gone for the week.
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Post by Value Buy on Dec 23, 2014 22:12:07 GMT -5
In the short day tomorrow, who knows how the market may behave, most of the major floor traders will be gone for the week. Probably, very little. Friday will be the same. Would not be surprised if the standings on Friday's close, stay just about the way they are tonight.
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Post by clarkrl2 on Dec 24, 2014 17:02:48 GMT -5
clarkrl2 takes over the lead with the contest going into intermission until Friday morning. kadee66 is second and Value Buy has a head in front of tyfighter3 for third. Those four are the only players beating the benchmark. | Player | L or S | Symbol | $ Open | $ Close | % Close | | clarkrl2 | L | ISLE | $7.81 | $8.16 | 4.48% | | kadee66 | L | SODA | $20.52 | $21.15 | 3.07% | | Value Buy | L | CVX | $112.50 | $113.47 | 0.86% | | tyfighter3 | L | WLL | $34.02 | $34.25 | 0.68% | | BenchMark | L | QQQ | $104.16 | $104.30 | 0.13% | | architecto25 | L | EMKR | $5.30 | $5.30 | 0.00% | | Mod E | L | COH | $36.99 | $36.97 | -0.05% | | D. I. | L | AAPL | $112.25 | $112.01 | -0.21% | | uncle.23 | L | MTSN | $3.54 | $3.53 | -0.28% | | Ombud | L | MCK | $211.47 | $209.79 | -0.79% | | m2w | L | CTIX | $4.41 | $4.29 | -2.72% |
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Post by clarkrl2 on Dec 26, 2014 13:17:43 GMT -5
I have some family obligations this afternoon that could keep me occupied until late. For those who like to pick early I will go ahead and start the thread for next week.
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Post by kadee79 on Dec 26, 2014 21:11:12 GMT -5
Enjoy your time with family Clark! |
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Post by Value Buy on Dec 26, 2014 23:45:44 GMT -5
Despite a positive market today, it looks like most of us backed up slightly today. I did not check everyone's stock, so if someone busted a move in the final turn, we might see an upset |
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Post by clarkrl2 on Dec 27, 2014 2:24:27 GMT -5
clarkrl2 held on for the win in this week's contest. kadee66 is second and architecto25 third. Four of ten beat the benchmark. | Player | L or S | Symbol | $ Open | $ Close | % Close | | clarkrl2 | L | ISLE | $7.81 | $8.07 | 3.33% | | kadee66 | L | SODA | $20.52 | $20.99 | 2.29% | | architecto25 | L | EMKR | $5.30 | $5.40 | 1.89% | | D. I. | L | AAPL | $112.25 | $113.99 | 1.55% | | BenchMark | L | QQQ | $104.16 | $105.04 | 0.84% | | Value Buy | L | CVX | $112.50 | $113.25 | 0.67% | | Mod E | L | COH | $36.99 | $37.12 | 0.35% | | tyfighter3 | L | WLL | $34.02 | $33.99 | -0.09% | | Ombud | L | MCK | $211.47 | $210.15 | -0.62% | | m2w | L | CTIX | $4.41 | $4.23 | -4.08% | | uncle.23 | L | MTSN | $3.54 | $3.35 | -5.37% |
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Post by clarkrl2 on Dec 27, 2014 2:36:43 GMT -5
| Name | Games | Win | Place | Show | >Bench | Return | | bimetalaupt | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2.78 | | Value Buy | 45 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 22 | 1.92 | | damnotagain | 17 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 1.73 | | m2w | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1.15 | | D. I. | 47 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 27 | 0.46 | | Mod E | 52 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 28 | 0.43 | | 2kids10horses | 10 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0.33 | | BenchMark | 52 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0.30 | | Ombud | 45 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 22 | -0.24 | | clarkrl2 | 52 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 24 | -0.28 | | kadee66 | 45 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 21 | -0.35 | | architecto25 | 52 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 22 | -0.68 | | tyfighter3 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | -1.31 | | uncle.23 | 52 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 17 | -1.42 | | alliesmom | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | -6.82 |
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