Stock Pick of the Week: W. E. 29 Apr. 2022

[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 "Value Buy"

[ModE98]

WOOF (long)   again.

[uncle23]

WMT...long again

[kadee79]

BLNK, long

Charging stations!  

[djAdvocate]

switching to commodities.  just can't seem to get equities right this year.  
UNG long

[clarkrl2]

Long BWFG (Bankwell Financial Group - Regional Bank)
I bought some a couple of years ago as a long-term investment. The chart with weekly bars looks better than the one with daily bars. weekly bars

[Value Buy]

Was toying with either Microsoft or GOOGL this week. Both report this week, but both stocks have been slipping a little lately due to tech selloff and until now unvulnerable. I think if either report lukewarm numbers they get toasted this week. If they beat considerably they are golden. Do not have a clue which way they go,
so....
Tech should continue to get hit this week. Nvidia, even being the great company they are looks ripe to continue downward this week. I do not think they will turn around until they hit a one yr low stock price. I do not think they hit it this week, but will continue approaching it.
NVDA, short it.

[clarkrl2]

djAdvocate has the early lead. kadee77 is keeping pace in second and ModE98 also has a good start for third.

Player	L or S	Symbol	$ Open	$ Close	% Close
djADVOCATE	L	UNG	$22.7300	$24.2200	6.56%
kadee77	L	BLNK	$20.6600	$21.9800	6.39%
Mod E	L	WOOF	$21.2600	$22.1000	3.95%
BenchMark	L	QQQ	$323.7300	$329.5800	1.81%
clarkrl2	L	BWFG	$33.7900	$33.9300	0.41%
uncle.23	L	WMT	$156.3700	$156.9400	0.36%
Value Buy	S	NVDA	$192.0200	$199.0200	-3.65%

 

[clarkrl2]

djAdvocate still leads as the race approaches halfway. Value Buy had the big gain of the day to move into second and kadee77 is third.

Player	L or S	Symbol	$ Open	$ Close	% Close
djADVOCATE	L	UNG	$22.7300	$23.8200	4.80%
Value Buy	S	NVDA	$192.0200	$187.8800	2.16%
kadee77	L	BLNK	$20.6600	$20.8200	0.77%
uncle.23	L	WMT	$156.3700	$155.3000	-0.68%
Mod E	L	WOOF	$21.2600	$21.0600	-0.94%
clarkrl2	L	BWFG	$33.7900	$33.1200	-1.98%
BenchMark	L	QQQ	$323.7300	$317.1400	-2.04%

 

[djAdvocate]

someone bought $10M of that ETF at $25 today, at 1425 EST.  huge trade.  probably institutional.

[clarkrl2]

djAdvocate moves to a double-digit gain with just two days to go. Value Buy is second and clarkrl2 third. 

Player	L or S	Symbol	$ Open	$ Close	% Close
djADVOCATE	L	UNG	$22.7300	$25.1900	10.82%
Value Buy	S	NVDA	$192.0200	$184.1500	4.10%
clarkrl2	L	BWFG	$33.7900	$33.4100	-1.12%
uncle.23	L	WMT	$156.3700	$154.2500	-1.36%
kadee77	L	BLNK	$20.6600	$20.3600	-1.45%
BenchMark	L	QQQ	$323.7300	$316.7600	-2.15%
Mod E	L	WOOF	$21.2600	$20.5400	-3.39%

 

[djAdvocate]

clarkrl2:

i have been wondering TWO things for a while:

1) is QQQ short a legitimate play in this game?
2) should i feel free to invite other board members to this game?

[ModE98]

dj-YES

[clarkrl2]

djAdvocate you can short QQQ and we welcome anyone who wishes to join the game.

[clarkrl2]

djAdvocate leads with one day to go. The benchmark rallied to second and uncle23 is third.

Player	L or S	Symbol	$ Open	$ Close	% Close
djADVOCATE	L	UNG	$22.7300	$23.8500	4.93%
BenchMark	L	QQQ	$323.7300	$328.0100	1.32%
uncle.23	L	WMT	$156.3700	$156.2100	-0.10%
clarkrl2	L	BWFG	$33.7900	$33.5000	-0.86%
Mod E	L	WOOF	$21.2600	$20.6800	-2.73%
Value Buy	S	NVDA	$192.0200	$197.8200	-3.02%
kadee77	L	BLNK	$20.6600	$19.6200	-5.03%

 

[djAdvocate]

AMZN posted a loss after hours.  it was -10% at last quote.
i think the NASD/QQQ is going to get crushed tomorrow.

[djAdvocate]

AMZN is -11%, but this opening is surprisingly strong.  NASD -0.7%

[Value Buy]

This is the most dysfuntional stock and bond market I can ever remember. huge swings up and down this week. I am believing with the FED so late to raising interest rates, they will eventually lead the country into a recession late this fall because of indequately paying attention to inflation, and raising the interest rates do not beat inflation in the short term. When the recession is apparent look for the government to flood more money out to the public to stop the recession, which will feed the inflation rate. 

  

[clarkrl2]

djAdvocate is this week's champion with nearly a double-digit gain. Value Buy is second and clarkrl2 third. uncle23 also beat the benchmark.

Player	L or S	Symbol	$ Open	$ Close	% Close
djADVOCATE	L	UNG	$22.7300	$25.0000	9.99%
Value Buy	S	NVDA	$192.0200	$185.4700	3.41%
clarkrl2	L	BWFG	$33.7900	$34.0000	0.62%
uncle.23	L	WMT	$156.3700	$152.9900	-2.16%
BenchMark	L	QQQ	$323.7300	$313.2500	-3.24%
kadee77	L	BLNK	$20.6600	$19.1000	-7.55%
Mod E	L	WOOF	$21.2600	$19.2600	-9.41%

 

[clarkrl2]

2022	results
Name	Return	Games	Win	Place	Show	>Bench	points	ppg
Value Buy	2.91	15	3	5	2	10	31	2.07
kadee77	0.42	16	5	2	0	8	27	1.69
clarkrl2	0.18	17	1	5	2	11	26	1.53
djADVOCATE	-0.58	17	3	1	2	7	20	1.18
Mod E	-0.84	14	1	3	1	8	18	1.29
BenchMark	-0.85	17	0	0	8	0	8	0.47
uncle.23	-6.77	17	4	1	2	9	25	1.47

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	0.65	213	42	20	22	100	288	1.35
djADVOCATE	0.59	73	9	8	9	26	78	1.07
Mod E	0.36	423	58	72	63	211	592	1.40
BenchMark	0.34	435	20	52	97	0	478.5	1.10
2kids10horses	0.33	10	0	2	1	4	9	0.90
kadee77	0.28	419	79	60	36	183	576	1.37
Ombud	0.26	111	9	11	18	56	123	1.11
clarkrl2	0.06	435	51	63	70	208	557	1.28
architecto25	-0.30	400	82	46	39	176	553	1.38
tyfighter3	-0.53	108	11	4	17	40	98	0.91
Bluerobin	-0.66	6	2	0	0	3	9	1.50
uncle.23	-1.08	434	62	83	44	188	584	1.35
D. I.	-1.84	102	4	11	11	51	96	0.94
alliesmom	-6.82	2	0	0	0	1	1	0.50

[djAdvocate]

congrats to VB and clark!
that was a particularly brutal Friday.
you two did well to have a gainful week.

[ModE98]

CONGR ATS dj, VB, and C,ark

[Value Buy]

Brutal week.
DJ, great horse this week.
Congratulations to DJ and Clarkrl2
Our personal portfolio was blown up this week, especially in the 401-k portion, but the six stocks we also have were all negative this week. Usually one or two of them wind up positive, but not this week.

[djAdvocate]

i have almost given up on equities.  but unfortunately, a lot of my commodities stocks FOLLOW EQUITIES AROUND LIKE LOST PUPPIES.  so, other than shorting, which i SUCK at, i don't know what to do.