Stock Pick of the Week: W. E. 12 Apr. 2019

[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 other trading vehicles. Only stocks and ETFs are allowed.

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 "Benchmark".


Moderators please pin the thread.

[ModE98]

AMD (Short). 

www.finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=AMD

[uncle23]

TSLA....    long

[clarkrl2]

Long VLO (Valero Energy - Refining)

This was from one of my favorite value screens. The chart still looks OK. schrts.co/dzrcGXCt 

[kadee79]

TRPX, long


Therapix Biosciences Ltd, formerly Nasvax Ltd, is an Israel-based company active in the pharmaceutical sector. The Company develops improved vaccines and immunotherapeutics. Its products include Anti-CD3 oral immunotherapy, directed toward the treatment of inflammatory and autoimmune diseases; Group-common Pneumococcal Vaccine, based on surface proteins that are highly conserved among pneumococcal strains, hence able to stimulate protective immune responses against pneumococcal strains in general; Alzheimer’s Disease Immunotherapy develops immunotherapeutic products for Alzheimer’s disease; and Adjuvant-Delivery platform, VaxiSome, serves both as a potent adjuvant for stimulating enhanced immune responses via the Th1 and Th2 pathways as well as an efficient delivery system. This liposomal adjuvant delivery system also may be applied to augment the bioactivity of other established adjuvants and cytokines.

[architecto25]

       BOOM      (long)      DMC Global Inc.

This stock closed Friday at $62.00 per share.

52 wk. high/low         $62.06/$25.50

Revenue: 326.43 M.     Located in Boulder, CO.; 

Founded: 1965;     665 employees

[Value Buy]

VKTX, Viking Therapeutics
The chart since the first of the year has been a slow upward progress. I think it will continue up this week.

[ModE98]

And the race is on......uncle is out of the gate "with jets on" for his TSLA!    For now, so far, so good!   oh oh,Slowed a bit after 10 min. 

architecto starting nicely in second place with BOOM.

[Value Buy]

kadee, do not look now, but NBEV IS UP 17%
What a difference a day can make........

[architecto25]

I'd like once again to say THANKS  once more to Clark for

his efforts on continuing with this contest.

Everyone have a good week....!!!!!

[Value Buy]

I just noticed I never actually declared to go long in my original post. I just said I expected it to continue to go up. I was long on the pick......

[ModE98]

What a morning!  TSLA out fast, then stumbled.  Now in the noon hour, Arhitecto's BOOM is the only contestant in the green.  Very volatile day so far.

[clarkrl2]

architecto25 is out of the gate first in this week's contest. ModE95 is second and the benchmark third. 

Player	L or S	Symbol	$ Open	$ Close	% Close
architecto25	L	BOOM	$63.39	$63.99	0.95%
Mod E	S	AMD	$28.69	$28.53	0.56%
BenchMark	L	QQQ	$184.37	$185.13	0.41%
kadee74	L	TRPX	$3.35	$3.36	0.30%
Value Buy	L	VKTX	$10.61	$10.59	-0.19%
clarkrl2	L	VLO	$86.89	$86.20	-0.79%
uncle.23	L	TSLA	$277.69	$273.20	-1.62%

 

[clarkrl2]

ModE95 takes the lead on day two. kadee74 is second and architecto25 third.

Player	L or S	Symbol	$ Open	$ Close	% Close
Mod E	S	AMD	$28.69	$27.24	5.05%
kadee74	L	TRPX	$3.35	$3.50	4.48%
architecto25	L	BOOM	$63.39	$63.76	0.58%
BenchMark	L	QQQ	$184.37	$184.48	0.06%
uncle.23	L	TSLA	$277.69	$272.31	-1.94%
clarkrl2	L	VLO	$86.89	$85.11	-2.05%
Value Buy	L	VKTX	$10.61	$10.11	-4.71%

 

[kadee79]

VB, NBEV is up/down....where will it land at the end of the week?

PS...I want it WAAY up so I can sell mine! 

[clarkrl2]

ModE95 continues to lead as the race moves past halfway. architecto25 is a close second and clarkrl2 third. kadee74 is also beating the benchmark.

Player	L or S	Symbol	$ Open	$ Close	% Close
Mod E	S	AMD	$28.69	$27.83	3.00%
architecto25	L	BOOM	$63.39	$65.15	2.78%
clarkrl2	L	VLO	$86.89	$88.43	1.77%
kadee74	L	TRPX	$3.35	$3.37	0.60%
BenchMark	L	QQQ	$184.37	$185.47	0.60%
uncle.23	L	TSLA	$277.69	$276.06	-0.59%
Value Buy	L	VKTX	$10.61	$10.13	-4.52%

 

[clarkrl2]

architecto25 takes over the lead with one day to go. ModE95 is second and clarkrl2 third.

Player	L or S	Symbol	$ Open	$ Close	% Close
architecto25	L	BOOM	$63.39	$66.71	5.24%
Mod E	S	AMD	$28.69	$27.79	3.14%
clarkrl2	L	VLO	$86.89	$89.04	2.47%
BenchMark	L	QQQ	$184.37	$185.03	0.36%
kadee74	L	TRPX	$3.35	$3.34	-0.30%
uncle.23	L	TSLA	$277.69	$268.42	-3.34%
Value Buy	L	VKTX	$10.61	$9.97	-6.03%

 

[clarkrl2]

ModE95 retook the lead on the final day to take this week's championship. architecto25 is second and clarkrl2 third.

Player	L or S	Symbol	$ Open	$ Close	% Close
Mod E	S	AMD	$28.69	$27.85	2.93%
architecto25	L	BOOM	$63.39	$65.00	2.54%
clarkrl2	L	VLO	$86.89	$88.41	1.75%
BenchMark	L	QQQ	$184.37	$185.43	0.57%
kadee74	L	TRPX	$3.35	$3.30	-1.49%
uncle.23	L	TSLA	$277.69	$267.70	-3.60%
Value Buy	L	VKTX	$10.61	$9.35	-11.88%

 

[clarkrl2]

2019	results
Name	Return	Games	Win	Place	Show	>Bench	points	ppg
Mod E	3.05	15	4	6	0	10	34	2.27
Value Buy	1.43	15	4	2	1	8	25	1.67
BenchMark	1.28	15	2	1	2	0	10	1.17
tyfighter3	0.97	8	1	0	1	3	7	0.88
uncle.23	0.52	15	2	2	5	8	23	1.53
clarkrl2	-1.30	15	1	1	2	3	10	0.67
architecto25	-1.54	15	1	3	2	6	17	1.13
kadee74	-5.93	14	0	0	1	0	1	0.07

Lifetime	results
Name	Return	Games	Win	Place	Show	>Bench	points	ppg
bimetalaupt	2.78	4	1	0	0	1	4	1.00
m2w	1.15	8	2	1	0	3	11	1.38
Value Buy	0.85	159	30	14	16	75	209	1.31
damnotagain	0.83	20	2	3	3	10	25	1.25
Mod E	0.44	273	39	46	34	138	381	1.40
kadee74	0.43	262	46	37	24	115	351	1.34
2kids10horses	0.33	10	0	2	1	4	9	0.90
clarkrl2	0.32	276	37	37	44	137	366	1.33
BenchMark	0.25	276	7	30	58	0	277	1.00
Ombud	0.19	108	8	11	17	53	116	1.07
architecto25	-0.58	274	52	30	23	120	359	1.31
tyfighter3	-0.60	108	11	4	17	40	98	0.91
Bluerobin	-0.66	6	2	0	0	3	9	1.50
uncle.23	-1.44	276	35	50	26	114	345	1.25
D. I.	-1.84	102	4	11	11	51	96	0.94
alliesmom	-6.82	2	0	0	0	1	1	0.50
djADVOCATE	-12.50	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.00

[ModE98]

CONGRATS to architecto for taking Placw, and clarkrl for Show this week

This was a strange closing day

[Value Buy]

Man, three weeks in a row way at the bottom!
I could have thrown a dart at the WSJ stock listings the last three weeks and come out better than I did

Dusting off the dart set for next week's pick!

[kadee79]

Congrats Mod, Arch & Clark!