"Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes"
Napoleon Hill
I am sure many of you have seen and heard of all kinds of opinions and investing ideas for 2008. So here is one more- a list of Vad's quant selected stocks to buy long and sell short in Q1 2008. Don't consider this a recommendation to buy or sell any stocks but rather a pool of ideas to explore and decide on using your own gray substance.
The interesting thing to me after I did my study this weekend is the number of Oil & Gas servicing stocks that showed up... There are two possible explanations- current growth expectations are too high or these stocks are dirt cheap. I am not going to question the results quite yet and thus I picked some well known names early this week.
Bull ideas- diversified pool:
ORCL, RIG, SYK, NYX, GENZ, FCX, WFR, DO, PCP, NOV, APOL, GRMN, BCR, ESV, HCBK, WAT, ANF, NVDA, DLB, CTCM, APH, NNDS, CLB, HOLX, TDG, TSRA, PDX, ANSS, UEPS, FMR, NDAQ
Don't forget to complement any the above stocks with a good number of additional "Alpha" ideas as this list is a bit skimpy on flashier and riskier names required to deliver consistent 25%+ annual returns. Even though my Marketocracy portfolio created using derivatives of this approach has so far delivered returns double that of the S&P with less risk as measured by Beta...
Bear ideas- promptly cut losses at 10% and reinvest in winners:
ZQK, VICR, SWWC, CTDC, FSS, COT, GVHR, MNC, QUIX, THC, LNG, GY, COHU,ROCK, CYBX, SHFL, CVTX, MCO, WNC, FLE, PLX, XL, RSC, KBH, NCC, CHP, TIV, RZ
Trade safe and cheers,
Vad
P.S. Strange sell off in GEOY today. I picked up a bunch of shares late today in my personal account and think that it might be a welcome entry point for long term investors...
Comments: View Comments | Thursday December 27, 2007
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Archive Comments (1)
Vad,
I build doors with my Imagination all the Time.
The Doors of Perception.
They are WIDE open ALL the TIME.
Doors are a relativistic Concept.
Never allow a Warrior to get between you and the WAY Out.
That could be BAD. Even if the Door is Wide Open.
Vad, where would you put AMD on your List?
The stock has been Pulverized.
It's gone from 40 to 7.50 over two years,
It looks Assymptotic @ 7 or so - bottomed out @ it's new 52-week low.
Dead in the Water.
AMD took ATI Technologies
[ - A Canadian Company - was ATYT.]
away from me then, In a Take-Over MISS-Adventure.
AMD was a' flyin' High "FLYER" with no Direction HOME. They Monetized
their stock Price to BUY ATYT with Notional Funny Money.
It's an old story. NOT SO ?
ATI competes with NVDA. I made good money on ATI- but now I wonder if AMD might
get a POP by Spinning ATI off or IPO'ing it. - UnLocking
[ this IS a Door reference ]
the 'Hiddden' Value of this hidden GEM.
I'd buy ATI in a HeartBeat if the Price was right - maybe compare a ratio like
PEG or ( Heaven ForeFend ) PE to NVDA's numbers.
So VAD - THINK about it !!!
Vad, You're the Number one Top DAWG in the SLO Pound of Mutts & Jeff's.
A SteppenWolf - HellHound on the Trail of a Dog O'War.
How about thinking about Lizards & Reptilian Predators.
The China PLAY needs Dragons not Dragoons
( Goons in Hockey terms )
You could be The Lizard King - who CAN DO AnyThing.
Jus' hackin' onya. No big Woof, Big BAD Wolf. Not SO ?
Don L Ferk
Vad, here's your special song O'da Day
Celebration of the Lizard King - Jim Morrison / the Doors
Lions in the street and roaming
Dogs in heat, rabid, foaming
A beast caged in the heart of a city
The body of his mother
Rotting in the summer ground
He fled the town
He went down South and crossed the border
Left the chaos and disorder
Back there over his shoulder
One morning he awoke in a green hotel
With a strange creature groaning beside him
Sweat oozed from its shiny skin
Is everybody in?
The ceremony is about to begin
Wake up!
You can't remember where it was
Had this dream stopped?
The snake was pale gold
Glazed and shrunken
We were afraid to touch it
The sheets were hot dead prisons
Now, run to the mirror in the bathroom
Look!
I can't live thru each slow century of her moving
I let my cheek slide down
The cool smooth tile
Feel the good cold stinging blood
The smooth hissing snakes of rain . . .
Once I had, a little game
I liked to crawl back into my brain
I think you know the game I mean
I mean the game called 'go insane'
Now you should try this little game
Just close your eyes forget your name
Forget the world forget the people
And we'll erect a different steeple
This little game is fun to do
Just close your eyes no way to lose
And I'm right there I'm going too
Release control we're breaking thru
Way back deep into the brain
Back where there's never any pain
And the rain falls gently on the town
And in the labyrinth of streams
Beneath, the quiet unearthly presence of
Nervous hill dwellers in the gentle hills around
Reptiles abounding
Fossils, caves, cool air heights
Each house repeats a mold
Windows rolled
Beast car locked in against morning
All now sleeping
Rugs silent, mirrors vacant
Dust blind under the beds of lawful couples
Wound in sheets
And daughters, smug
With semen eyes in their nipples
Wait
There's been a slaughter here
(Don't stop to speak or look around
Your gloves and fan are on the ground
We're getting out of town
We're going on the run
And you're the one I want to come
Not to touch the earth
Not to see the sun
Nothing left to do, but
Run, run, run
Let's run
House upon the hill
Moon is lying still
Shadows of the trees
Witnessing the wild breeze
C'mon baby run with me
Let's run
Run with me
Run with me
Run with me
Let's run
The mansion is warm, at the top of the hill
Rich are the rooms and the comforts there
Red are the arms of luxuriant chairs
And you won't know a thing till you get inside
Dead president's corpse in the driver's car
The engine runs on glue and tar
C'mon along, we're not going very far
To the East to meet the Czar
Some outlaws lived by the side of the lake
The minister's daughter's in love with the snake
Who lives in a well by the side of the road
Wake up, girl! We're almost home
Sun, sun, sun
Burn, burn, burn
Soon, soon, soon
Moon, moon, moon
I will get you
Soon!, Soon!, Soon!
Let the carnival bells ring
Let the serpent sing
Let everything
We came down
The rivers and highways
We came down from
Forests and falls
We came down from
Carson and Springfield
We came down from
Phoenix enthralled
And I can tell you
The names of the Kingdom
I can tell you
The things that you know
Listening for a fistful of silence
Climbing valleys into the shade
I am the Lizard King
I can do anything
I can make the earth stop in its tracks
I made the blue cars go away
For seven years I dwelt
In the loose palace of exile
Playing strange games
With the girls of the island
Now I have come again
To the land of the fair, and the strong, and the wise
Brothers and sisters of the pale forest
O Children of Night
Who among you will run with the hunt?
Now Night arrives with her purple legion
Retire now to your tents and to your dreams
Tomorrow we enter the town of my birth
I want to be ready'
Posted by don ferk December 27, 2007 11:39 PM