Stock Pick of the Week: W. E. 24 Jan. 2020

[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 "uncle23".

Moderators, please pin the thread.

Monday will be MLK Day so the markets will be closed. 

[ModE98]

QBAK (LONG)
www.finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=QBAK

[uncle23]

IBM....    Long

[kadee79]

INFY, long...


Infosys Limited is engaged in consulting, technology, outsourcing and next-generation services. The Company, along with its subsidiaries, provides business information technology services comprising application development and maintenance, independent validation, infrastructure management, engineering services comprising product engineering and life cycle solutions and business process management; consulting and systems integration services comprising consulting, enterprise solutions, systems integration and advanced technologies; products, business platforms and solutions to accelerate intellectual property-led innovation, including Finacle, its banking solution, and offerings in the areas of Analytics, Cloud and Digital Transformation. Its segments are Financial Services and Insurance (FSI), Manufacturing and Hi-tech (MFG & Hi-TECH), Energy & utilities, Communication and Services (ECS), Retail, Consumer packaged goods and Logistics (RCL), and Life Sciences and Healthcare (LSH).

[clarkrl2]

Short QQQ (Nasdaq 100 etf and our benchmark)

This is overbought on the weekly bars chart. It could stay that way a long time before a correction but I have nothing in my portfolio that looks interesting in a four day week. I'll just damn the torpedoes and lick my wounds on Friday. 

[kadee79]

What happened to Arch?

[ModE98]

KADEE..... Arch has until 9 am Tuesday to get in his pick.  Hope he will be on time.

[kadee79]

Jan 20, 2020 15:35:42 GMT -5 ModE98 said:

KADEE..... Arch has until 9 am Tuesday to get in his pick.  Hope he will be on time.

Thanks Mod....I keep forgetting today is a holiday.

[architecto25]

6:45pm (Tex. time) (Mon.) HOLIDAY [ 20 Jan. 2020 ]

Hopefully I'll post something tonight. Last week, I made a very little

mistake in my post …. shouldn't have.... I would have done much better.

I forgot to say "short" instead of "long" ………. LOL.

[architecto25]

            ACGL          long       Arch Capital Group Ltd.

This stock closed Friday at $45.17

Property & Casualty Insurance. Founded 1995

Hdq. in Hamilton, Bermuda. 3,642 employees

[clarkrl2]

uncle23 is out of the gate first again this week. kadee75 is second and the benchmark third.

Player	L or S	Symbol	$ Open	$ Close	% Close
uncle.23	L	IBM	$137.81	$139.17	0.99%
kadee75	L	INFY	$10.77	$10.85	0.74%
BenchMark	L	QQQ	$222.73	$223.28	0.25%
clarkrl2	S	QQQ	$222.73	$223.28	-0.25%
Mod E	L	QBAK	$5.95	$5.63	-5.38%
architecto25	L	ARCH	$66.13	$62.45	-5.56%

[uncle23]

Arch....you made the same little mistake again...

[architecto25]

Well, what I'm going to do with this post..... is ask Clark to recheck his file notes.

The symbol of the stock I selected is ACGL …. not ARCH.

ARCH is the symbol for Arch Coal Co.

The stock I picked had an opening of 45.19; and a close of 45.15.

Once Clark re-checks his file …..the board won't show that I'm down 5.56%'

more like I'm down only [ -0.09%

[clarkrl2]

CORRECTED STANDINGS

Sorry about that.

Player	L or S	Symbol	$ Open	$ Close	% Close
uncle.23	L	IBM	$137.81	$139.17	0.99%
kadee75	L	INFY	$10.77	$10.85	0.74%
BenchMark	L	QQQ	$222.73	$223.28	0.25%
architecto25	L	ACGL	$45.19	$45.15	-0.09%
clarkrl2	S	QQQ	$222.73	$223.28	-0.25%
Mod E	L	QBAK	$5.95	$5.63	-5.38%

[clarkrl2]

uncle23 leads with two days to go. kadee75 is second and architecto25 third.

Player	L or S	Symbol	$ Open	$ Close	% Close
uncle.23	L	IBM	$137.81	$143.89	4.41%
kadee75	L	INFY	$10.77	$11.04	2.51%
architecto25	L	ACGL	$45.19	$45.48	0.64%
BenchMark	L	QQQ	$222.73	$223.87	0.51%
clarkrl2	S	QQQ	$222.73	$223.87	-0.51%
Mod E	L	QBAK	$5.95	$5.66	-4.87%

 

[clarkrl2]

uncle23 has the lead going into the final day. kadee75 is second and the benchmark third.

Player	L or S	Symbol	$ Open	$ Close	% Close
uncle.23	L	IBM	$137.81	$142.87	3.67%
kadee75	L	INFY	$10.77	$11.06	2.69%
BenchMark	L	QQQ	$222.73	$224.59	0.84%
architecto25	L	ACGL	$45.19	$45.24	0.11%
clarkrl2	S	QQQ	$222.73	$223.87	-0.51%
Mod E	L	QBAK	$5.95	$5.65	-5.04%

 

[architecto25]

Just a minor point & I just got on here.

There's 2 lines with QQQ, why wouldn't the closing numbers

be the same.... ?

[clarkrl2]

CORRECTION
I thought I had double checked but I guess I did not. Thank you.

Player L or S Symbol $ Open $ Close % Close uncle.23 L IBM $137.81 $142.87 3.67% kadee75 L INFY $10.77 $11.06 2.69% BenchMark L QQQ $222.73 $224.59 0.84% architecto25 L ACGL $45.19 $45.24 0.11% clarkrl2 S QQQ $222.73 $224.59 -0.84% Mod E L QBAK $5.95 $5.65 -5.04%

 

[architecto25]

Clark, I have a lot of stuff going on in my present life besides this

wonderful fun contest you manage; and you do it very well.

My "old man" personality just makes me comment on a small error.

Only Friday's numbers really matter. Right ……… LOL

[clarkrl2]

architecto25 you are correct its mainly the final numbers. We had a little after work social today so hopefully I will be get those numbers correct. We'll see if two scotches and a beer chaser helps my mathematical acuity. 

[clarkrl2]

kadee75 takes the lead on the final day to win this week's blanket of roses. uncle23 was a game second and clarkrl2 edged the benchmark for third. 

Player	L or S	Symbol	$ Open	$ Close	% Close
kadee75	L	INFY	$10.77	$11.03	2.41%
uncle.23	L	IBM	$137.81	$140.56	2.00%
clarkrl2	S	QQQ	$222.73	$222.70	0.01%
BenchMark	L	QQQ	$222.73	$222.70	-0.01%
architecto25	L	ACGL	$45.19	$44.99	-0.44%
Mod E	L	QBAK	$5.95	$5.78	-2.86%

 

[clarkrl2]

2020	results
Name	Return	Games	Win	Place	Show	>Bench	points	ppg
uncle.23	2.76	4	2	2	0	2	12	3.00
BenchMark	1.24	4	1	1	0	0	5	1.25
Mod E	-1.23	4	0	0	1	0	1	0.25
clarkrl2	-2.71	4	0	0	2	2	4	1.00
kadee75	-2.93	4	1	0	1	1	5	1.25
architecto25	-3.50	4	0	1	0	1	3	0.75

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
damnotagain	0.83	20	2	3	3	10	25	1.25
Value Buy	0.52	195	39	15	19	90	256	1.31
Mod E	0.51	314	44	55	42	163	447	1.42
2kids10horses	0.33	10	0	2	1	4	9	0.90
BenchMark	0.29	317	8	36	68	0	322.5	1.02
kadee75	0.26	302	54	42	26	133	405	1.34
Ombud	0.26	111	9	11	18	56	123	1.11
clarkrl2	0.13	317	38	42	50	151	399	1.26
architecto25	-0.48	314	62	33	29	138	419	1.33
tyfighter3	-0.53	108	11	4	17	40	98	0.91
Bluerobin	-0.66	6	2	0	0	3	9	1.50
uncle.23	-1.25	317	40	63	30	133	409	1.29
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

[kadee79]

Congrats Uncle & Clark!

[ModE98]

Just got on here, WOW kadee finally got one   Maybe the start of a wining streak?
Conrats to kadee, uncle and Clark for Win, Place & Show!