Stock Pick of the Week: W. E. 5 Aug. 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 "uncle23".

[clarkrl2]

For uncle23


ps



please enter LAC for week Aug 5 and week Aug12



thanks.. (vacationing in Sardinia Italy) 

[djAdvocate]

i like oil this week, but i just don't get a super strong feeling about it.

i will ride the COW, again.  

[clarkrl2]

Long RDN (Radian Group - Insurance)
I still like the chart with weekly bars. weekly bars 

[kadee79]

SQ, short....I'm going short cause nothing long has been doing well for me....just being a woman with a woman's reasoning!  LOL!  Sooo, now watch it go up out of the ball park!...my kind of luck.


Block, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, creates tools that enables sellers to accept card payments and provides reporting and analytics, and next-day settlement. It provides hardware products, including Magstripe reader, which enables swiped transactions of magnetic stripe cards; Contactless and chip reader that accepts Europay, MasterCard, and Visa (EMV) chip cards and Near Field Communication payments; Square Stand, which enables an iPad to be used as a payment terminal or full point of sale solution; Square Register that combines its hardware, point-of-sale software, and payments technology; Square Terminal, a payments device and receipt printer to replace traditional keypad terminals, which accepts tap, dip, and swipe payments. The company also offers various software products, including Square Point of Sale; Square Appointments; Square for Retail; Square for Restaurants; Square Online and Square Online Checkout; Square Invoices; Square Virtual Terminal; Square Team Management; Square Contracts; Square Loyalty, Marketing, and Gift Cards; and Square Dashboard. In addition, it offers a developer platform, which includes application programming interfaces and software development kits. Further, the company provides Cash App, which enables to send, spend, and store money; and Weebly that offers customers website hosting and domain name registration solutions. It serves in the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, Ireland, France, Spain, and the United Kingdom. The company was formerly known as Square, Inc. and changed its name to Block, Inc. in December 2021. Block, Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is based in San Francisco, California.

[djAdvocate]

it is hard to tell what is up right now, but i am not at all convinced that this bear market is over.  and until i am, i like your strategy, kd.

[Value Buy]

Well after last week's debacle (I own CVX and did not pick it like the idiot I am) I will follow up with another oil name. 
Ranger Oil, ticker, ROCC.
They report this week and I expect they too should post a good number.
ROCC, long.

Congratulations to last week's winners!

(Now watch oil go way down this week.......... )

[djAdvocate]

i think that is a good bet, VB, if you are an equities person.  

[clarkrl2]

clarkrl2 takes the early lead. djAdvocate and the benchmark are vying for second. It was like everyone was trying to tiptoe into a cold pool except for kadee77 who opted for the hot tub which see deemed to be way too hot. 

Player	L or S	Symbol	$ Open	$ Close	% Close
clarkrl2	L	RDN	$22.1600	$22.3500	0.86%
djADVOCATE	L	COW	$38.7200	$38.9200	0.52%
BenchMark	L	QQQ	$313.6500	$315.2700	0.52%
Value Buy	L	ROCC	$37.1000	$37.2300	0.35%
uncle.23	L	LAC	$25.4500	$25.0200	-1.69%
kadee77	S	SQ	$75.4800	$77.8100	-3.09%

 

[djAdvocate]

by vying, you mean we are within 30 MILLIONTHS of a percent!  LOL!

[clarkrl2]

clarkrl2 leads a contentious field with the top five all within two lengths. Value Buy is second and uncle23 third.

Player	L or S	Symbol	$ Open	$ Close	% Close
clarkrl2	L	RDN	$22.1600	$22.5400	1.71%
Value Buy	L	ROCC	$37.1000	$37.6400	1.46%
uncle.23	L	LAC	$25.4500	$25.7100	1.02%
BenchMark	L	QQQ	$313.6500	$314.3300	0.22%
djADVOCATE	L	COW	$38.7200	$38.6200	-0.26%
kadee77	S	SQ	$75.4800	$79.0900	-4.78%

 

[Value Buy]

ROCC REPORTED AFTER THE CLOSE YESTERDAY.
Projected earnings  $2.64 per share
Actual earnings $5.59 per share, increase of $2.95 over projection equalling 112% over the projection.......
Result? Drops like a rock because oil futures are dropping as I feared.......
currently down over 6%.
I get it. Even Chevron which jumped last week on great earnings is way down this week.......
My only hope for this week is oil futures go way up next two days........
Even if oil goes south to $80 a barrel these companies are printing money.

Just when I think I understand this shitty market I get knee capped.........
    

[djAdvocate]

i told you.  selling on good news.
i .....fucking.....hate......it.


it is why i pick stocks with low institutional investment.
it avoids the herd un-thinking.

[clarkrl2]

The pesky benchmark makes an appearance at the top of the leader board. uncle23 is second and clarkrl2 third.

Player	L or S	Symbol	$ Open	$ Close	% Close
BenchMark	L	QQQ	$313.6500	$322.8900	2.95%
uncle.23	L	LAC	$25.4500	$25.8400	1.53%
clarkrl2	L	RDN	$22.1600	$22.3500	0.86%
djADVOCATE	L	COW	$38.7200	$38.9900	0.70%
Value Buy	L	ROCC	$37.1000	$35.5300	-4.23%
kadee77	S	SQ	$75.4800	$88.0700	-16.68%

 

[djAdvocate]

kd- i am really kicking myself for telling you to short.
blame me if you like.  

[kadee79]

Aug 3, 2022 16:45:51 GMT -5 djAdvocate said:

kd- i am really kicking myself for telling you to short.
blame me if you like.  

It was my decision...just think where I'd be if I'd gone long!   Now if some of my other stocks would do as well, I'd be selling some soon....talking about IRL.

[djAdvocate]

looks like COW is FINALLY going to close over $39.
very......slow.....investment.

edit: i am hoping for $39.5 this week.  i am not riding this turtle again next week.  i don't think i can win with this unless the market tanks, and nobody goes short.

[clarkrl2]

The benchmark, which is harder to bring down than the Bismarck, holds on to the lead going into the final day. uncle23 is second and djAdvocate third.

Player	L or S	Symbol	$ Open	$ Close	% Close
BenchMark	L	QQQ	$313.6500	$324.4000	3.43%
uncle.23	L	LAC	$25.4500	$25.9200	1.85%
djADVOCATE	L	COW	$38.7200	$39.1300	1.06%
clarkrl2	L	RDN	$22.1600	$22.3100	0.68%
Value Buy	L	ROCC	$37.1000	$33.3000	-10.24%
kadee77	S	SQ	$75.4800	$89.7000	-18.84%

 

[clarkrl2]

uncle23 makes a big move on the final day to take this week's championship. The benchmark hangs on for second and djAdvocate is third. 
I would say there is a lot of uncertainty in the market, but I just can't be sure. 

Player	L or S	Symbol	$ Open	$ Close	% Close
uncle.23	L	LAC	$25.4500	$27.3700	7.54%
BenchMark	L	QQQ	$313.6500	$321.7500	2.58%
djADVOCATE	L	COW	$38.7200	$39.4100	1.78%
clarkrl2	L	RDN	$22.1600	$22.3800	0.99%
Value Buy	L	ROCC	$37.1000	$34.3000	-7.55%
kadee77	S	SQ	$75.4800	$87.7300	-16.23%

 

[clarkrl2]

2022	results
Name	Return	Games	Win	Place	Show	>Bench	points	ppg
Value Buy	1.34	27	6	6	2	14	46	1.70
djADVOCATE	1.17	30	6	4	5	14	45	1.50
kadee77	0.33	30	6	6	1	14	45	1.50
BenchMark	-0.22	31	1	4	10	0	21	0.68
clarkrl2	-0.68	31	2	5	5	14	35	1.13
Mod E	-1.50	20	1	4	2	11	24	1.20
Ombud	-1.77	7	3	1	0	4	15	2.14
uncle.23	-3.23	31	6	1	6	18	44	1.42

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
djADVOCATE	1.02	86	12	11	12	33	103	1.20
damnotagain	0.83	20	2	3	3	10	25	1.25
Value Buy	0.58	225	45	21	22	104	303	1.35
BenchMark	0.35	449	21	56	99	0	498.5	1.11
2kids10horses	0.33	10	0	2	1	4	9	0.90
Mod E	0.31	429	58	73	64	214	598	1.39
kadee77	0.28	433	80	64	37	189	594	1.37
Ombud	0.24	118	12	12	18	60	138	1.17
clarkrl2	0.00	449	52	63	73	211	566	1.26
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	-1.01	448	64	83	48	197	603	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]

i kick ass at coming in third!  
congrats to the man from UNCLE.
i am done riding this turtle.  time to send COW out to pasture.

clark- i am riding GRU next week, if for some reason i forget.  Long.

[clarkrl2]

djAdvocate got it. If you want to change let me know but i will post this on the new thread where I can find it with ease.

[kadee79]

Clark, is this an oxymoron?  


"I would say there is a lot of uncertainty in the market, but I just can't be sure."

Congrats to Uncle & DJ!  

Will the jobs report help the market next week?  We are back to pre-covid numbers!

[clarkrl2]

Aug 5, 2022 22:22:14 GMT -5 kadee79 said:

Clark, is this an oxymoron?  


"I would say there is a lot of uncertainty in the market, but I just can't be sure."

Congrats to Uncle & DJ!  

Will the jobs report help the market next week?  We are back to pre-covid numbers!

kadee77 many times I try to interject some humor in the update commentary. That was indeed intentional oxymoron. 

[Value Buy]

Congratulations to uncle!
Darn benchmark......