The Independence Day Data Dump

[Rob]

I then ranked these and ININ ranked the highest.

I think Mel Tillis likes it too.

[Gatorman]

Pick

Am going with a stock I have played several times over the past month in my personal portfolio. I also used it twice as my POTW pick. BRLI is my choice.

[peanuts]

Independent Pick

Mr. Market,

You should pick either CHAP or NSS

I like the industry. Notice that steel has the biggest presence in your dump

Your final pick will be interesting

[diogenes]

For the “lazy” amongst us, i.e., me, is there any chance that the larger scans could be uploaded as .xls files?
Maybe they are and I just overlooked it?

[mimo_100]

For the “lazy” amongst us, i.e., me, is there any chance that the larger scans could be uploaded as .xls files?
Maybe they are and I just overlooked it?

Dio,

I just rope off the selection, then edit | “paste special” into excel. Choose text,
then the text import wizard will be available. The default delimiter is spaces, so just
keep clicking next until the finish button appears, then click finish.

The selection will populate the entire row. To put them in columns, just select the row, then edit | copy, then highlight a cell to copy to, then edit | “paste special”, then choose transpose. The entries will be running down in the column you selected.

Tim

[diogenes]

Thanks!
That is great.

[Rob]

Top 5 & Bottom 5

As of about a half hour ago the dump's top 5 gainers today are: PRXI, MIKR, LBIX, TLG and HWCC.
The bottom 5 are: FORM, PWEI, AXR, KNOT and EGY.

[Rob]

How're the Dump Stock's Doing?

In case anyone would like to know, here's a list of how the stocks from the Independence Day data dump are doing since the open on July 5. Those highlighted in yellow are Ernie's top 5 plus those single picks from the various forum participants:

[New-born baby]

Nice

Robert,
Very nice work! But you know what came to my mind? MM's top picks averaged in the red, just like POTW.

[jiesen]

Robert,
Very nice work! But you know what came to my mind? MM's top picks averaged in the red, just like POTW.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=%5EIXIC&t=5d

NBB, don't you mean: "...just like POTW, and the market in general over that time period." Let's take another look in 4-6 weeks and see if the top 5 beats the market or not, shall we?

[New-born baby]

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=%5EIXIC&t=5d

NBB, don't you mean: "...just like POTW, and the market in general over that time period." Let's take another look in 4-6 weeks and see if the top 5 beats the market or not, shall we?

Yes, I do mean "just like POTW and the markets in general over the last week." You are correcto!

What I am trying to say is that even good stocks suffered over this time period, and I am trying to point out how difficult it is to win POTW. We've been discussing on this forum that POTW hasn't produced an overall average profit. Rob's post points out that MM's top 200 stocks didn't produce an overall average winning percentage in a week, either. That doesn't mean MM is a bad stock picker; it means that just picking the top 200 stocks doesn't mean you are going to average a winning percentage in a week's time. POTW is not an easy thing to win, or even produce a winner, each week.

[DSteckler]

Ernst! Someone's selling off your stock this morning.

[New-born baby]

Ernst! Someone's selling off your stock this morning.

Dave,
Did you happen to notice that AXR is declining on huge volume? In the first 45 minutes of trading it exceeding average daily volume.

[DSteckler]

Sure did, NB. I wonder if someone put out a sell recommendation on another chat board?

[New-born baby]

Sure did, NB. I wonder if someone put out a sell recommendation on another chat board?

lol lol lol lol