Long Term List for Monday, May 22

NWS: NEWS CORPORATION LIMITED

Outlook: Long Industry: Entertainment - Divrsfied
(tags: 52weekH UV)

ELN: ELAN CORPORATION PLC

Outlook: Long Industry: Drug Delivery
(tags: 52weekH UV)

LTD: LIMITED BRANDS INC

Outlook: Long Industry: Apparel Stores
(tags: 52weekH UV)

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Windows Media Player 11

After being leaked over p2p Windows Media Player 11 Beta is now available for download from Microsoft. I’ve just installed it and it’s looking really sharp. For the first time that I can remember a Microsoft product looks better than the Apple equivalent - iTunes. It’s running a little slow on my old laptop (P4M […]

Crowds and Power

I’ve been spending a quiet Sunday at home enjoying a bottle of wine, pasta and a nice book I picked up in Singapore in February but only just got to reading. It’s called Crowds and Power by Elias Canetti, a Literature Noble prize winner for 1981. It’s an excellent analysis of social behaviour and groups. […]

Friday

Didn’t trade on Friday. Had a long session after work and was too tired to focus properly on what I was doing so I just skipped it. Looks like the ‘bargain’ hunters came out and drove most things up.

SHLD

The markets opened nicely in the green and I had 2 candidates for long SHLD and BEAS. I went with SHLD which did nicely for a while, till the markets started tanking in the afternoon. I closed it end of day as usual, this time with just a small profit of 0.6R.

Trading vs. Over-trading

I found this post and email quite true.
It’s funny, but part of the problem I’ve had is wrapping my head around the idea that not every day is a good day to trade, which leads me to believe that realistically, I might only have 2 or 3 days a week that are optimal trading days. […]

Heavy selling

There’s obviously some serious selling out there. Unfortunately I only had two unusual suspects LTXX and VTSS. I wasn’t going to go long on LTXX and VTSS had huge risk on the third bar of about 7% plus it wasn’t available to borrow from IB. So no action for me today.

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