Stock Pick of the Week: W. E. 11 Sept. 2015

[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.
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.

Labor Day market holiday Monday Sept. 7.

[kadee79]

Gonna try again....OPK, long!

[Deleted]

ACI - (S)

[ModE98]

Go with MPW (Long).  Medical Properties Trust.
seekingalpha.com/article/3490076-medical-properties-trust-65-percent-capital-appreciation-potential-with-a-7_75-percent-yield

[clarkrl2]

Long TECD (Tech Data Corp. - Electric Equipment)

From the earnings beat MRQ with recent upward estimate revisions screen.

[uncle23]

...


...ONVO.............long

[architecto25]

     EFOI    (long)    Energy Focus Inc.

This stock closed Friday at $25.77.

I picked this one for the 21 Aug. contest. It opened that Monday

at $18.80. My horse came in 7th of 8. Hopefully, he'll do better

on this short week.

Company makes LED lighting products; located in Solon, Ohio

[ModE98]

Achitecto, this market is so volatile it's more like "at shot in the dark" on picks.  If one picks long, it may go in to a swoon, or up if one goes short.  But fun to try and outguess events.
If we do not fall into a 30-40% type correction, this may go on for some time, (sort of a "rolling correction") where we just go up and down within a one to four thousand Dow point range of 14000-18000.  May be some very good picking at the lower end.  Just my bit of guesswork.

[architecto25]

Mod, thanks for your comments ..... and I'm sure that all the young folks that post on this board (that's everyone except

you and I .....) surely know by now that old age is the major criteria for making excellent stock buying choices..... LOL

.....I meant to put that in bold letters ....  LOL, that is.

 

[ModE98]

Kadee, added a round lot of OPK today.  (Nibbling in the mid-10 area while price seems cheap.) 
www.finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=OPK

[ModE98]

Looks like a good day for longs (at least at 2 p.m. EDT.).  May the good times continue to roll!

[Ombud]

Plan on bring back next week unless my grey matter is still consumed by an ongoing concern.

Meanwhile conditional buy-write on AAPL with DEC 15 strike date.
AAPL 100 sh buy @ 110
Sell 12/18/15 C sell @ 6.46
Net 10474 + 9.73 commission = 10483.73
Hard to jump in but forward PE 11.98!

[ModE98]

Be nice to have you back, Ombud.
As for the option stuff, I always leave that to D.I., the guru; but, hope you have good luck! 

[clarkrl2]

Disinfranchised Investor already has more than a double digit gain on a short week to take the opening day lead. uncle23 is second and clarkrl2 third. Four of six are beating the benchmark.

Player	L or S	Symbol	$ Open	$ Close	% Close
D. I.	S	ACI	$5.62	$3.98	29.18%
uncle.23	L	ONVO	$2.62	$2.78	6.11%
clarkrl2	L	TECD	$65.31	$67.61	3.52%
architecto25	L	EFOI	$26.30	$26.65	1.33%
BenchMark	L	QQQ	$104.13	$105.04	0.87%
Mod E	L	MPW	$11.04	$11.08	0.36%
kadee66	L	OPK	$10.94	$10.84	-0.91%

[ModE98]

Argh!  Another one of "those days".... down!

[clarkrl2]

Disinfranchised Investor is showing the way at the halfway mark. architecto25 rallied to second and uncle23 is third. Four of six are beating the benchmark.

Player	L or S	Symbol	$ Open	$ Close	% Close
D. I.	S	ACI	$5.62	$4.36	22.42%
architecto25	L	EFOI	$26.30	$27.84	5.86%
uncle.23	L	ONVO	$2.62	$2.73	4.20%
clarkrl2	L	TECD	$65.31	$67.53	3.40%
BenchMark	L	QQQ	$104.13	$103.86	-0.26%
Mod E	L	MPW	$11.04	$10.95	-0.82%
kadee66	L	OPK	$10.94	$10.31	-5.76%

[kadee79]

I may have a lock on the bottom for the week. Should have gone with my instincts and gone short!

[ModE98]

kadee, your stock doing better today, so I am coming down to take your place.  At least, will come close.  Still a day to go.

[clarkrl2]

Disinfranchised Investor holds a big lead going into the final day. clarkrl2 is second and uncle23 third. Those are the only players beating the benchmark.

Player	L or S	Symbol	$ Open	$ Close	% Close
D. I.	S	ACI	$5.62	$4.01	28.65%
clarkrl2	L	TECD	$65.31	$67.99	4.10%
uncle.23	L	ONVO	$2.62	$2.70	3.05%
BenchMark	L	QQQ	$104.13	$104.99	0.83%
Mod E	L	MPW	$11.04	$10.85	-1.72%
kadee66	L	OPK	$10.94	$10.55	-3.56%
architecto25	L	EFOI	$26.30	$23.00	-12.55%

[ModE98]

kadee, just had to pick up a few round lots of OPK @ 9.85 this morning.  Hope it helps make the price go up for you.  At least I believe "the price is right" in this area.  (Fingers crossed).

[ModE98]

At least a positive close today. 
But, taking a beating on my TPI holdings until they can get the export contracts going to turn things around.  That's the big risk.  Maybe next year....there's always hope.  Miracles do happen occasionally.

[clarkrl2]

Disinfranchised Investor wins this weeks contest going away. clarkrl2 is second and uncle23 third. Those are the only players beating the benchmark.

Player	L or S	Symbol	$ Open	$ Close	% Close
D. I.	S	ACI	$5.62	$3.93	30.07%
clarkrl2	L	TECD	$65.31	$68.20	4.43%
uncle.23	L	ONVO	$2.62	$2.72	3.82%
BenchMark	L	QQQ	$104.13	$105.57	1.38%
Mod E	L	MPW	$11.04	$11.01	-0.27%
kadee66	L	OPK	$10.94	$10.09	-7.77%
architecto25	L	EFOI	$26.30	$16.43	-37.53%

[clarkrl2]

2015 results

Name	Games	Win	Place	Show	>Bench	Return
tyfighter3	13	2	2	2	8	1.23
kadee66	36	8	3	7	20	0.49
clarkrl2	37	4	4	7	18	0.44
Ombud	24	1	4	2	13	0.32
BenchMark	37	2	3	7	0	0.21
Mod E	37	4	9	5	21	-0.09
Value Buy	28	6	1	3	13	-0.37
architecto25	35	7	3	0	13	-2.95
uncle.23	37	2	6	4	12	-3.10
damnotagain	3	0	0	0	1	-4.30
D. I.	18	1	2	0	8	-11.23

lifetime results

Name	Games	Win	Place	Show	>Bench	Return
bimetalaupt	4	1	0	0	1	2.78
m2w	8	2	1	0	3	1.15
Value Buy	73	17	4	7	35	1.04
damnotagain	20	2	3	3	10	0.83
2kids10horses	10	0	2	1	4	0.33
BenchMark	89	2	8	10	0	0.26
Mod E	89	8	13	15	49	0.21
kadee66	81	14	12	9	41	0.02
clarkrl2	89	9	12	12	42	0.02
Ombud	69	5	6	12	35	-0.04
tyfighter3	35	3	2	3	14	-0.37
architecto25	87	16	6	5	35	-1.60
uncle.23	89	8	12	6	29	-2.12
D. I.	65	2	8	6	35	-2.78
alliesmom	2	0	0	0	1	-6.82

[ModE98]

Congratutlations to D.I., Clarkrl2 and uncle.23 for this week's Win, Place & Show.

Next week should bring the long awaited Fed announcement.  Will they or won't they raise interest rate? 

[architecto25]

I'll try to walk a horse to Monday's starting gates; but I'll be climbing up all weekend to come out
of the basement ..... many floors below street level; and I've noticed all the other horses are
just flat ignoring me ........ LOL..... 

[Deleted]

I think I might just fall over from shock; I actually won for once (Ok twice, but it has been a looong time)

[kadee79]

Congrats DI, Clark & Uncle!