Jon's Trading Points Blog Achives
January 2008
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New Swing Trade Plays Jan 31st
The market continued its wild ways today with another 300+ round trip performance. With that, big money was placing their bets, giving Trademechanics
4 new swing trade stocks to play. Come in and see where the institutional money is going;
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Grand Slam Jan 30th
In case your drive to work doesn't go by the Hollywood Hills, I thought you might want to know Tennis great Pete Sampras has put his home up for sale.
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No Set Ups for Wednesday Jan 30th
When swing trading, one depends on normal non-event driven trading to make profits. Tomorrow we have an event that will have an affect on on all stocks. Since
we are aware of the event ahead of time, the best course of action is no action. We were not able to get long TNE nor DCP today. We are removing DCP from consideration at this time.
Keep an eye on shares of AVT, HXM, and HLF. They are in the batters box waiting to be traded. Just need to cross the 200 mva line.--Jon
Swing Trade Set Ups for Tuesday Jan 29th
No new stocks added to our Inversion Conversion list today, but HLF, HXM are waiting in the wings. With that said, lets look at our swing trades for tomorrow;
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2008 Playbook Expectations Jan 28th
Since last summer, Trademechanics have been made aware of the end of the bull cycle and why. Now its time to frame the 2008 trade for everyone so we are all on the same page;
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Let the Swing Trades Begin Jan 26th
The hardest thing for new folks to learn is the do nothing trade. There are times in the markets one needs to be very active, other times one needs to take a vacation. After a 20% decline, I would says vacation is over, its time to get to work. Here are the rules;
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Riding the Coal Train Jan 26th
Well looks like 2008 has finally kicked in for Trademechanics, with our 1st 15% profit in shares of Fording FDG. Monday we will sell down the shares booking our first trade for 2008. Here is what to look for;
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3 Billion Salary in 1 Year Jan 23rd
Ever wonder what it would be like to get paid 1 million dollars in salary for 1 year? Bet you never pondered getting paid a salary of 3 Billion dollars in 1 year. Not possible you say? Ever heard of John Paulson?
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Time to Check the Timing Jan 20th
Trademechanics know there are 2 types of stock market profit gains, easy profits and hard profits. In short, this simply means if we time our purchases early enough before the up cycle, after most the selling is done,
big easy percentage gains can be obtained. As one trades late in the up cycle, the gains are harder to come by and the risk to the downside becomes magnified.
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How Low can the S&P GO? Jan 16th
Getting a 20 to 25% decline would be very abnormal for this period when considering the long term cycles but it cannot be ruled out. Again it depends up the pattern of trending the next week.
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Understanding the Navios Trade Jan 14th
With an iron ore port closing outside Rio de Janeiro and increasing uncertainty around upcoming iron ore negotiations, the demand for dry bulk ships, as well as charter rates, have fallen.
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Inversions Conversions HLF In Focus Jan 13th
Inversions Conversion is our list of stocks that seem to have flushed out all the weak hands, and are now on track to move higher.
Herbal Life is global company specializing in nutritional supplements basically to promote weight loss.
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Trademechanic Holding DBA in Focus Jan 12th
A few months back we purchased shares of DBA, an ETF that tracks the trading in soybeans, wheat, corn, and sugar;
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Institutional Moves Jan 9th
I like to keep track of companies whose stocks seem to be targeted by passive or active Institutional or
Hedge Fund buys. This is not something that fits into our normal system of trade, but its interesting to
see where big dollar players are actively trying to make something happen.
Some of them succeed and others do not. Each week, I will provide this information
for you as it comes to me. Here is this weeks stocks;
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Christmas 2008 Gift Ideas Jan 8th
As I sit and watch this market take stocks down to multiples below book value, I can't help but get
excited at the thought of our potential earned profits by end of 2008. Today we doubled down on our
position in shares of E-Trade ETFC at $2.40.
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Playbook Week of Jan 7th
Before I begin, a few house cleaning items. We sold out of our remaing shares of QID. We added to our
position in shares of NM and USD on Friday Jan 4th. This makes the 3rd time we have bought into NM between $13-$11.
USD is a ETF that we made $15 a share on the last go around.
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Focus List Stock in Focus FTI Jan 3rd
Headline, “FMC Technologies Shares Surge As Wall Street Praises $980M Angola Contract
NEW YORK (AP) -- Shares of FMC Technologies Inc. surged more than 13 percent Thursday after the oilfield
service provider won a $980 million contract for work off the coast of Angola.” Good for a 7% return!
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Inverted List Stock ALB in Focus Jan 2nd
Albermarle is a diversified chemical company with over 3000 customers in 100 countries.As you can see by the
chart, it is coming to a make or break point. We believe the shares will move higher, thus re-inverting into a
tradable stock.
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High Risk Stock AOI in Focus Jan 1st
Alliance One International (AOI) sells leaf tobacco around the world. It has been upgraded to a hold from a sell.
The company's earnings grew to 20 cents a share in the second quarter of its fiscal 2008 compared with 10 cents
per share in the same period a year earlier, continuing a pattern of positive EPS growth over the past year.
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