Guys! Need your opinion. My english is not so good to represent all my thoughts. On my current english language level i cant show all picture that i see. I wanna write about economic processes, philosophy, psyhology of trading/investing, more details on strategies, opinions, etc. One my english reader said that he just leave my page because its hard for him to read my writes on enlish. He said that my grammer, style is poor. When i began writes on english i wanna to attract readers from whole world. I understand that its too hard to make good audience from whole world with this poor english. So when i write on english my foreign readers cant understand me fully and with comfort and russian speaken readers cant understand me fully too. Plus, as i wrote above, i cant write all my thoughts in english. So guys, i wanna to listen your opinions. Its really important for me. Leave opinions in comments please.
Ребята! Мне необходимо ваше мнение! Мой английский не настолько хорош, что бы передать все мои мысли. На моем текущем уровне английского языка, я не могу вам показать всю картину, которою вижу я. Хочу писать об экономических процессах, философии, психологии трейдинга\инвестирования, более детально рассматривать стратегии, мнения и т.п. Один мой англоязычный читатель сказал мне, что он вынужден покидать мою страницу быстро, так как ему тяжело воспринимать мой английский - грамматику, прерывистые предложения.. Когда я начинал писать на английском, хотел привель читателей со всего мира. Но я понимаю что сложно создать хорошую аудиторию англоязычных читателей с моим не высоким уровнем английского языка. Таким образом я нахожусь "и не там, и не там". Англоязычным читателям сложно меня понимать из за некоректного английского, а русскоязычным конечно же тяжело читать английский. Таким образом я не могу выдавать хороший продукт и для тех и для тех. И мне хотелось бы писать о более сложных вещах, написание которых на английском мне очень затруднительно. Ребята, очень хочу услышать ваше мнение! Пожалуйста, оставьте комментарий.! Спасибо!
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Saturday, July 4, 2009
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Random thoughts
Delphi method is popular tool in managment. I think it can be used in macro trading style nice. We can find all info on separate company but its hard to see full picture alone on macro trading. So in hedge fund we can have 4-5 analysts on macro. In general analyst - the man who just collect info and making calculations. In classical terms, analyst is the man who dont give buy/sell recommendations. Practice when analyst give recommendations began with increasing broker's competition. Appeared star analyst, appeared sell side and buy side analysts. It became like a PR for brokers - "Look to as! Our analyst gave so good recommendation! He is superstar!" So we have 4-5 macro analyst and portfolio manager. Every period of time they make conference, where analyst saying buy/sell/neutral thesis. Portfolio manager collect this thesis and then ALONE make investment decision.
ETF on commodities. Next time i think we will not use commodities's company but will use commodities ETFs. For example now we have gold stake. 3 gold mining companies which are represent 10% from our portfolio. ETF - GLD better represent our investment idea. Also we find interesting new tool - ETFs on hedge fund's index. For example - QAI, which represemt multi strategy index.
What can be a catalyst for market downmove?
As we saw dollar weakness last quarter we could see better earnings for export companies - but its already in earnings consensuns forecast i think. But anyway, some suprises we can see. Oracle already reported good earnings. Good signal for us, as we have big stake in technology - 22% from portfolio. And also our companies in technology are selling products abroad. So with support from other strong fundamentals, we would see nice earnings.
We have H&S on S&P which everybody see know. So it could be activated but can be work with some deformations. Maybe down breakout will not be so deep as on classics tech analysis. Consumer numbers in USA after 3 strong month announced bad. Manipulation last 3 times? What will be if other economic data will be bad again? I think economic data have to be trendive. Its strange when we have this random numbers. I am not sure about this, will speak about this when i will become better in macroeconomic.
Its not effective in investing to use classics, all which using other players. Nut this is a start point for creative. No many other ways. I am agree with Charl Poper - new in science - is finding mistakes/upgrading old theories. All progress usually were made by this way.
ETF on commodities. Next time i think we will not use commodities's company but will use commodities ETFs. For example now we have gold stake. 3 gold mining companies which are represent 10% from our portfolio. ETF - GLD better represent our investment idea. Also we find interesting new tool - ETFs on hedge fund's index. For example - QAI, which represemt multi strategy index.
What can be a catalyst for market downmove?
As we saw dollar weakness last quarter we could see better earnings for export companies - but its already in earnings consensuns forecast i think. But anyway, some suprises we can see. Oracle already reported good earnings. Good signal for us, as we have big stake in technology - 22% from portfolio. And also our companies in technology are selling products abroad. So with support from other strong fundamentals, we would see nice earnings.
We have H&S on S&P which everybody see know. So it could be activated but can be work with some deformations. Maybe down breakout will not be so deep as on classics tech analysis. Consumer numbers in USA after 3 strong month announced bad. Manipulation last 3 times? What will be if other economic data will be bad again? I think economic data have to be trendive. Its strange when we have this random numbers. I am not sure about this, will speak about this when i will become better in macroeconomic.
Its not effective in investing to use classics, all which using other players. Nut this is a start point for creative. No many other ways. I am agree with Charl Poper - new in science - is finding mistakes/upgrading old theories. All progress usually were made by this way.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Ready to share all information\strategies
Dear guys!
I am ready to share all information that i know, all thoughts that i have, all strategies that we use.. Do you know how many time hedge fund managers spent on speaking with colleagues? They speak a lot, coz they want to see real market picture, want to find new investing ideas. When you communicate with people, you thought becoming more clear, you find new ideas in you thoughts, you find some in thoughts of other people, so its great! Its hard to find good professionals on financials markets in Ukraine, but i am sure we have some number of strong professionals in Ukraine. Its greate if you write me from other countries. We can share expirience, speak about local markets... Maybe work together.. Dont forget that my native language is russian or ukranian. Add me to your skype.
My skype - dmytrenkoartem
I am ready to share all information that i know, all thoughts that i have, all strategies that we use.. Do you know how many time hedge fund managers spent on speaking with colleagues? They speak a lot, coz they want to see real market picture, want to find new investing ideas. When you communicate with people, you thought becoming more clear, you find new ideas in you thoughts, you find some in thoughts of other people, so its great! Its hard to find good professionals on financials markets in Ukraine, but i am sure we have some number of strong professionals in Ukraine. Its greate if you write me from other countries. We can share expirience, speak about local markets... Maybe work together.. Dont forget that my native language is russian or ukranian. Add me to your skype.
My skype - dmytrenkoartem
Monday, June 29, 2009
Michael Jackson debt and death
Michael Jackson had a debt of nearly 0.5 billions of dollars. How to get this money from man who are cannot dance and sing anymore? Michael used more and more drugs, his health became more and more worse. Creditors fully understood this. What could be waiting for Jackson? Silent death in some years? Did he want to live anymore? But anyway he didnt decide it. Creditors had control under his life. Its not prosecutions, just thoughts. Thoughts how creditors could done their buisness. Way on what we got this all sound very commercial. At first - to make announces of new concerts , to increase attention. Then make some press conferences, etc. Even sell tickets. Tickets are suspiciously fast were sold in internet even for Michael Jackson concerts. Then to kill Michael. This event increasing Jackson's popularity to the sky again. Everything which were connected with Michael's name selling with incredeble speed. And more! Jackson had nearly 200 songs which were not published. In this way, men who doing buisness on Michael can get large more moeny! Large more then 70 millions which Michael could earn on gastrols.
Can hedge fund be managing by 2 people?
Can hedge fund be managing by 2 people? We will find out it. Today's evening i serfed hedge fund's websites. I found that a lot of great hedge fund's are using quantitive strategies the most. A lot of their employes are Ph.D. in mathematics, physics and they are even not competent in finance, economics. They are working with retrieval of data and even dont know from what assets data are. The bright example is Jim Simon's Renaissance fund. We have a strong trend in markets - they becoming more and more mathematical. We can found less and less psyhology their. Program trading prospers. Methods that were used in daytrading are not actual now coz market became hybrid. Now reading ribbon is not actual, prints a random, we cant find how NYSE specialist works. So less psyhology, more numbers. A lot of people will go out from trading in some years coz they cannot competite with programs. In hedge funds we can found so many analysts, mathematics, statisticans. They can work with so much data, to find large more ideas, to test more.. Ofcoz its costs big money to have this quality staff.. So to have this, hedge fund have to big really big sized. But is it possible to beat this groups of the smartest people with 2 people? I trust that we can. Having not so big capital we can concentrate all on few best ideas which can give us even better returns. Trust in God, trust in us :-) . Be with love ! :-)
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Economic reforms - new stakes in portfolio
Now we have so many stakes that i even cant post full screen shot of portfolio :-). In future we will concentrate only on best ideas and we will have less stakes. Just need to keep normal level of diversification. But on other we need to remember that diversification mean from ignorance as Warren Buffet saying :-) .
Before we had an idea to long canadian banks due to its strong fundamentals and financial health. Today we realesed this idea by hedging with short big american banks. We looked to our database and found that STI, JPM, KEY have to be the weakest in near future. Also with shorting this banks we hedged it with our old idea to long CSCO from technology. Large growth of broadbend in Asia will support solid CSCO fundamentals.
Also we now have a hedged stakes in healthcare. Due to Obama healthcare reform plan we shorted health insurance companies and longed pharmaceuticals companies which making generic drugs. So we shorted WCG, UNH and longed JNJ, PFE.
Thanks Victor from Belarus, he will program for us portfolio tool which we need so. It will calculate all numbers we need.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Random thoughts
Our portfolio feeling better last time. Now we have drodown -0,23%. This drodown coz of falling gold prices but we are rather confidence of it. We see good resistance @900$. Our fundamental view on it wasnt changed. We are happy, coz our portfolio strategy we think is working, especially that we made real investment portfolio for 1st time in life. Other our picks filling good.
Last time i have a lot of global thought/professional dreams. At first was inspired by golden boy of 80x - Mikel Milken. He made in whole word sense junk bonds market in America. I read far time ago book about Wall Street in 80x and this really fun, interesting, scarry, sometimes inspired, emotional.. Book author James Stuart, name of book - "Gang of thieves from Wall Street". We can read a story of Mikel Milken, Ivan Boeski and others. 80x - was time of avidity on Wall Street. Do you think something was changed? ))). A dream - to MAKE MARKET in Ukraine. Now RTS conquers bigger and bigger market share of exchange operations in Ukraine. Regulation fund of RTS UKraine is only 12mln UAH. But i think it will hard to get a part of RTS, coz its a lot of market, market policy power, etc. So even with money its a question. It would be really cool to make liquidity in Ukranian market, derevatives, etc.
Other professional interest is on options. Need to work a lot with numbers, graps trading options, i dont like this much but anyway i feel this is good area for making money, huge less efficient than stock market. There are must be huge more "free lunches" here. For russian language readers can give a really nice blog of rus guy - Option trader .
Eric Nayman from UkrSocBank - here his blog made calculations of Herst index with target to find trending on financial markets. With this calculations he refutes Effective Market Hypothesis, EMH. Question of EMH was always worrieng me. Sometimes i think market Efficient/not efficient depending on how we thinking about it. Somelike thought become real :-). I trust that this phenomen we have in life, so why we cant have it even in scientific researches :-) especially on researchs of social proccess. EMH investigation from classical economic theory where buyer and seller are rational. But on banal philosophy we can to refute EMH easy. Why economists acknowledge trends in economy but not acknowledge trend in stock markets? This to process are influence one on other, so if one is trendive , other have to be trendive too? This sounds crazy and very simple? Maybe i just have small skill in economy? Other look have Victor Niedernhoffer. He is statistican and calculated that there is no trends on markets, but he dont trust in EMH. He dont trusts in trends but trust in conformities to law of motion of price.
Other old professional dream is to build dynamic model in which we could see a line of how economy sectors will grow/fall, in what sequences, how they will influence one on other, etc. I found deep scientific works on it. For example - Klein-Goldberg Model, Warton economic model. But to work on this theme need solid economy, econometic background.
We didnt find a good portfolio tool on free. Dont understand why. Is it hard to programm nice portfolio tool, which will calculate coefficints automaticaly?) Bullshit. In future we will program it by ourselves and it will be on our site ))).
Last time i have a lot of global thought/professional dreams. At first was inspired by golden boy of 80x - Mikel Milken. He made in whole word sense junk bonds market in America. I read far time ago book about Wall Street in 80x and this really fun, interesting, scarry, sometimes inspired, emotional.. Book author James Stuart, name of book - "Gang of thieves from Wall Street". We can read a story of Mikel Milken, Ivan Boeski and others. 80x - was time of avidity on Wall Street. Do you think something was changed? ))). A dream - to MAKE MARKET in Ukraine. Now RTS conquers bigger and bigger market share of exchange operations in Ukraine. Regulation fund of RTS UKraine is only 12mln UAH. But i think it will hard to get a part of RTS, coz its a lot of market, market policy power, etc. So even with money its a question. It would be really cool to make liquidity in Ukranian market, derevatives, etc.
Other professional interest is on options. Need to work a lot with numbers, graps trading options, i dont like this much but anyway i feel this is good area for making money, huge less efficient than stock market. There are must be huge more "free lunches" here. For russian language readers can give a really nice blog of rus guy - Option trader .
Eric Nayman from UkrSocBank - here his blog made calculations of Herst index with target to find trending on financial markets. With this calculations he refutes Effective Market Hypothesis, EMH. Question of EMH was always worrieng me. Sometimes i think market Efficient/not efficient depending on how we thinking about it. Somelike thought become real :-). I trust that this phenomen we have in life, so why we cant have it even in scientific researches :-) especially on researchs of social proccess. EMH investigation from classical economic theory where buyer and seller are rational. But on banal philosophy we can to refute EMH easy. Why economists acknowledge trends in economy but not acknowledge trend in stock markets? This to process are influence one on other, so if one is trendive , other have to be trendive too? This sounds crazy and very simple? Maybe i just have small skill in economy? Other look have Victor Niedernhoffer. He is statistican and calculated that there is no trends on markets, but he dont trust in EMH. He dont trusts in trends but trust in conformities to law of motion of price.
Other old professional dream is to build dynamic model in which we could see a line of how economy sectors will grow/fall, in what sequences, how they will influence one on other, etc. I found deep scientific works on it. For example - Klein-Goldberg Model, Warton economic model. But to work on this theme need solid economy, econometic background.
We didnt find a good portfolio tool on free. Dont understand why. Is it hard to programm nice portfolio tool, which will calculate coefficints automaticaly?) Bullshit. In future we will program it by ourselves and it will be on our site ))).
Monday, June 15, 2009
Friday, June 12, 2009
Portfolio. Stakes overview
BCS (current result +9,58%) - we see what we wanted to see. BCS was really attractive and now we have $13.5bn deal to sell its Barclays Global Investors unit to BlackRock.
DW, USG, TECUA - nothing special we had on this stocks, sector.
VOXX - before this stock show its weakness but yesterday we had good report on retail sales. This catalyst pushed stock huge higher, but then we saw pullback. So nothing special now. Just holding short.
MSFT - having some talks about their search engine Bing which they started on 1st of June. Microsoft invested nearly 100mln in this project. Also have talks about their products. They will not sell their own fin program, will make own antivirus program. So with good balance sheet and strong fundametals this stock is on the move now.
IBM - feeling good. They improve their buisness activity now. Looking for oportunities deals. They opened a new center in China to drive the development of high tech railroads, builds networked security system in Chicago, takes social networking to its channel partners, etc.
SOHU - no changes. Exelent fundamentals.
ABFS, CNW, VMED, MHK - no changes.
ABX, NEM, HMY - we see a range this week in gold between 965$ and 945$. We assume gold prices falling in short term period. Our middle and long view is the same.
FWRD - we saw huge up on this due analyst upgraded by KeyBanc Capital Mkts. Bullshit :-) .
SPWRA - up move in oil prices helped this stock to go higher. But now we see nice resistance in oil. We shouldnt expect large up move in oil in short term as we think this growth explaining not by increasing demand on oil as commoditie but just as safe active, inflation hedge, etc.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Portfolio. New stakes.
New stakes
Long. Technology
IBM
SOHU
MSFT
IBM
MSN rank 8
large non-US revenue base
IBM's Q109 results indicate its strong position in emerging markets, which should continue to help drive growth.
Company has focused on driving its bottom line through cost cutting efforts. It re-affirmed EPS guidance for the full year of 2009 and 2010. Although, revenue is not expected to grow by much, expecting margin improvements in 2009.
MSFT
MSN rank 8
Big hedge fund support
Nice classical coefficients
SOHU
MSN rank 9
Sohu - is the second-largest Internet portal and one of the most well-known online brands in China. Sohu's pipeline for its new online games remains strong and is expected to drive meaningful growth in late 2009 and 2010.
The company spun-off part of its gaming division Changyou.com via an ADS offering, which is expected to increase its user base and help gain shares in the MMORPG (massively multi-player online role-playing game) market. We are also encouraged by the company's growing cash balance as well as its debt-free balance sheet.
We believe that the current stock price does not fully reflect the company's intrinsic value. Concerns related to online ad spending, as consumers remain cautious in their spending.
Shorts
Industrial Goods
MHK - textile
SPWRA - general conducator
VOXX - Electronics Wholesale
TECUA - General Building Materials
Also we shorted aditional 700 shared on DW for portfolio long/short balancing.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Portfolio overview
My thanks to SeekingAlpha . Its wonderfull resource!
For today we have fully balanced portfolio on Beta coefficient.
BCS - 3000 shares
P/E ROE% Div Yield% Price to book Value Net profit margin%
4,9 14,63 9,6 0,63 28,97
Can Slim Rating - 82
Key Abu Dhabi investor on Barclays sold his stake yesterday. Analysts began to speak that this is a time for profit taking on financials. We have a risk that we will see self powered down trend on financials on this catalyst. But also we can suppose thats nothing fundamentaly change on this and BCS is still attractive for investors and they could use this possibility to long BCS.
Paulson & Co hedge fund have short stake on Barclays @16.86
BCS havent now institutional support.
If BCS will not find large investor in short time - we will close this position.
Below our gold stakes. About our look on precious metals i wrote before.
NEM
P/E ROE% Div Yield% Price to book Value Net profit margin%
34,17 7,85 0,82 2,73 11,66
Can Slim Rating 74
MSN Rank 9
ABX
P/E ROE% Div Yield% Price to book Value Net profit margin%
52,31 4,11 1,1 2,14 20,31
Can Slim Rating 73
MSN Rank 6
HMY
P/E ROE% Div Yield% Price to book Value Net profit margin%
15,12 6,29 0 1,4 32,35
Can Slim Rating 93
MSN Rank 9
Shorts
Our trucking picks
Trucking shipment data is often a gauge of overall economic health, because truckers haul more than two-thirds of all U.S. manufactured and retail goods.
The American Trucking Association's advance seasonally adjusted truck tonnage index fell 2.2 percent in April, after plunging 4.5 percent in March.
Compared with April 2008, tonnage shrank 13.2 percent, marking the worst year-over-year decrease of the current cycle and the largest drop in thirteen years.
We can expect trucking growth when we will see recovering in real sectors of economy. This is sector which have delay from overall economy. We are looking to USA indicators of buissness cycle. Here we can see that down trend is over. So lets keep eyes on it closely.
CNW
P/E ROE% Div Yield% Price to book Value Net profit margin%
-15,53 1,3 3,34 -15,82
Can Slim Rating 61
MSN Rank 4
ABFS
P/E ROE% Div Yield% Price to book Value Net profit margin%
282,75 0,4 2,2 1,15 -5,34
Can Slim Rating 45
MSN Rank 6
FWRD
P/E ROE% Div Yield% Price to book Value Net profit margin%
20,34 14,88 1,4 2,81 -3,21
Can Slim Rating 20
MSN Rank 4
Media
VMED
P/E ROE% Div Yield% Price to book Value Net profit margin%
-41,57 2,2 0,86 -16,46
Can Slim Rating 59
MSN Rank 3
Industrial goods - Building Materials
DW
USG
Our portfolio wasnt hedged yesterday and overnight. All short positions was opened today in the morning
For today we have fully balanced portfolio on Beta coefficient.
BCS - 3000 shares
P/E ROE% Div Yield% Price to book Value Net profit margin%
4,9 14,63 9,6 0,63 28,97
Can Slim Rating - 82
Key Abu Dhabi investor on Barclays sold his stake yesterday. Analysts began to speak that this is a time for profit taking on financials. We have a risk that we will see self powered down trend on financials on this catalyst. But also we can suppose thats nothing fundamentaly change on this and BCS is still attractive for investors and they could use this possibility to long BCS.
Paulson & Co hedge fund have short stake on Barclays @16.86
BCS havent now institutional support.
If BCS will not find large investor in short time - we will close this position.
Below our gold stakes. About our look on precious metals i wrote before.
NEM
P/E ROE% Div Yield% Price to book Value Net profit margin%
34,17 7,85 0,82 2,73 11,66
Can Slim Rating 74
MSN Rank 9
ABX
P/E ROE% Div Yield% Price to book Value Net profit margin%
52,31 4,11 1,1 2,14 20,31
Can Slim Rating 73
MSN Rank 6
HMY
P/E ROE% Div Yield% Price to book Value Net profit margin%
15,12 6,29 0 1,4 32,35
Can Slim Rating 93
MSN Rank 9
Shorts
Our trucking picks
Trucking shipment data is often a gauge of overall economic health, because truckers haul more than two-thirds of all U.S. manufactured and retail goods.
The American Trucking Association's advance seasonally adjusted truck tonnage index fell 2.2 percent in April, after plunging 4.5 percent in March.
Compared with April 2008, tonnage shrank 13.2 percent, marking the worst year-over-year decrease of the current cycle and the largest drop in thirteen years.
We can expect trucking growth when we will see recovering in real sectors of economy. This is sector which have delay from overall economy. We are looking to USA indicators of buissness cycle. Here we can see that down trend is over. So lets keep eyes on it closely.
CNW
P/E ROE% Div Yield% Price to book Value Net profit margin%
-15,53 1,3 3,34 -15,82
Can Slim Rating 61
MSN Rank 4
ABFS
P/E ROE% Div Yield% Price to book Value Net profit margin%
282,75 0,4 2,2 1,15 -5,34
Can Slim Rating 45
MSN Rank 6
FWRD
P/E ROE% Div Yield% Price to book Value Net profit margin%
20,34 14,88 1,4 2,81 -3,21
Can Slim Rating 20
MSN Rank 4
Media
VMED
P/E ROE% Div Yield% Price to book Value Net profit margin%
-41,57 2,2 0,86 -16,46
Can Slim Rating 59
MSN Rank 3
Industrial goods - Building Materials
DW
USG
Our portfolio wasnt hedged yesterday and overnight. All short positions was opened today in the morning
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
First positions in our portfolio
Today we bought
BCS@18.25
ABX@37.20
HMY@11.8
NEM@48.00
BCS - one of our banks stock which was on the buy list. We use opportunity which market gave us today. BSC fell on 14% today. One of Abu Dhabi investors from royal family went out from this stock on what he entered on October 2008 and made 54%. He explained it that they want to have free money for energy investing.
Three other positions ABX, HMY, NEM are gold stocks. We plan to make good bet on gold, silver, commodities companies as i wrote below.
Monday, June 1, 2009
Industry analyses. Technology
All the trends in technology are still down. It is known that the numbers in the Durable Goods report do bounce around from month to month so it would be foolish to ignore these trends. Lets focus especially closely on the last few months. Here is where things get interesting. Tech indicators saying that low points were hit three to six months ago. The data for Shipments and New Orders have since then have shown a struggle to establish a bottom. We now see a few months of what could be characterized as erratic performance but definitely no new lows.
It is safe to say the tech sector is on the mend. Tech stocks have performed strongly over the last few months in anticipation of a recovery. The data do not yet show a V-shaped recovery but they do seem to show some kind of recovery in its early stages.
XLK is approaching its recent high, it is solidly above its 200-day moving average and its 50-day MA has just crossed above its 200-day MA.
I find interesting that most of technology companies not allocated much cash to equities. With so much cash and minimal or no debt on their balance sheets, these companies have the means to continue investing in internal growth initiatives and acquisitions.
Relative Valuation Chart -This graph shows the Percent to Target Current (Valuation Attractiveness) for a universe relative to the overall market. Values greater than 1 indicate the universe is more undervalued than the market, while values less than 1 indicate the opposite. The red line identifies the historical median value to provide a basis to understand valuation levels relative to historic norms. This example illustrates that the median Technology company is undervalued relative to the market currently and has been trading at a discount to its historic relative valuation, indicating a potentially attractive opportunity.
Technology Firms Continue to Downsize. There could be a number of reasons for the job cuts but it all boils down to “cost reduction”. Recession is always time to look to buisness and reorganize it more efficient. So we can expect that technology companies will become even more healthy.
Conclusion
Technology one of the most attractive industries in US economy now. Most of them have very strong balance sheets and only waiting for some economic growth. Classical coefficient saying that they are much undervalued.
It is safe to say the tech sector is on the mend. Tech stocks have performed strongly over the last few months in anticipation of a recovery. The data do not yet show a V-shaped recovery but they do seem to show some kind of recovery in its early stages.
XLK is approaching its recent high, it is solidly above its 200-day moving average and its 50-day MA has just crossed above its 200-day MA.
I find interesting that most of technology companies not allocated much cash to equities. With so much cash and minimal or no debt on their balance sheets, these companies have the means to continue investing in internal growth initiatives and acquisitions.
Relative Valuation Chart -This graph shows the Percent to Target Current (Valuation Attractiveness) for a universe relative to the overall market. Values greater than 1 indicate the universe is more undervalued than the market, while values less than 1 indicate the opposite. The red line identifies the historical median value to provide a basis to understand valuation levels relative to historic norms. This example illustrates that the median Technology company is undervalued relative to the market currently and has been trading at a discount to its historic relative valuation, indicating a potentially attractive opportunity.
Technology Firms Continue to Downsize. There could be a number of reasons for the job cuts but it all boils down to “cost reduction”. Recession is always time to look to buisness and reorganize it more efficient. So we can expect that technology companies will become even more healthy.
Conclusion
Technology one of the most attractive industries in US economy now. Most of them have very strong balance sheets and only waiting for some economic growth. Classical coefficient saying that they are much undervalued.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Industry analysis. Financials.
Really it is hard to imagine any banks are in trouble with everything the US taxpayer has given up for them....
It is widely agreed that the banks are undercapitalized.
Further confirmation that the various central bank liquidity facilities and capital injections are having the desired effect of unclogging credit markets comes from Goldman Sachs’ Financial Stress Index (FSI). This index includes four factors related to the degree of impairment of financial markets: counterparty risk (US dollar 3-month LIBOR-OIS), liquidity risk (MBS to treasury repo differentials), refunding risk (commercial paper outstanding) and broader risk aversion (percentage of monies held in money-market mutual funds in relation to equity market capitalization).
FDIC's Fund Reserve Ration Plunges to 0.27% of Deposits. Sheila Bair, chairwoman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, released the latest information on “problem” banks on Wednesday. The list now includes 305 institutions, up from 252 at the end of 2008. We have had 36 bank failures this year and if no more than a quarter of the “problem” institutions fail, we will be over 110 bank failures for the year. But i think thats a delay indicator. Bank closures are not a leading indicator of economic health and can continue for some time even after the economy begins to recover. A lot from deposits will be invested. We havent much risk on it now. President Barack Obama on Wednesday afternoon signed into law two major housing bills, one of which would allow the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to temporarily borrow as much as $500 billion from the Treasury Department to protect the deposits of bank customers.
On the financials - we can use GS as an indicator of health. Goldman Sachs (GS) is one of the few companies with increased profit estimates in the marketplace today. Over the past 90 days their current quarter profit estimates have increased from $1.92 a share to $2.44 a share, a 27% increase. Likewise the next quarter estimates and the year profit estimates have also moved higher with the analysts that cover the stock.
Some banks announced that they will be able to begin to repay the government.
We see that bank's CDS become to cost less.
Goverment are all in financials, they will not give one more time possibility to drop.
The Fed, in a report issued Thursday, said commercial banks averaged $38.153 billion in daily borrowing over the week that ended Wednesday. That was down slightly from $38.155 billion in the week ending May 20. Investment firms didn't draw any loans over the past week from the Fed program. In the prior week the firms also took a pass on the emergency loans, something that hadn't happened since early September. Firms drew just $482 million in the week that ended May 13. Good trend.
Conclusion If nothing will be changed - we will see big growth in financials. It will not be exponential, just strong selfpowered trend. We have risks, but more we growing in financials - less risks we have. More financials shares getting up - more confidence crodw will have on it. More confidence crowd will have - less wholes in balance sheets we will see. Governments main target - to keep crowd confidence about finacials growing. So we will see a proccess which very nice described by Soros theory of reflexivity. Banks are good look by classic fundamentals, exept wholes in their balance sheets. But i write above how rather quick this wholes can disappear. The contrarian opinion analyses saying that financials are interesting for long. The most people just saying about stability growth in financials but still dont make big bets on it. So, nice potentional for growth, maybe only speculative now, but speculative growth can be a reason for a next fundamental growth.
It is widely agreed that the banks are undercapitalized.
Further confirmation that the various central bank liquidity facilities and capital injections are having the desired effect of unclogging credit markets comes from Goldman Sachs’ Financial Stress Index (FSI). This index includes four factors related to the degree of impairment of financial markets: counterparty risk (US dollar 3-month LIBOR-OIS), liquidity risk (MBS to treasury repo differentials), refunding risk (commercial paper outstanding) and broader risk aversion (percentage of monies held in money-market mutual funds in relation to equity market capitalization).
FDIC's Fund Reserve Ration Plunges to 0.27% of Deposits. Sheila Bair, chairwoman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, released the latest information on “problem” banks on Wednesday. The list now includes 305 institutions, up from 252 at the end of 2008. We have had 36 bank failures this year and if no more than a quarter of the “problem” institutions fail, we will be over 110 bank failures for the year. But i think thats a delay indicator. Bank closures are not a leading indicator of economic health and can continue for some time even after the economy begins to recover. A lot from deposits will be invested. We havent much risk on it now. President Barack Obama on Wednesday afternoon signed into law two major housing bills, one of which would allow the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to temporarily borrow as much as $500 billion from the Treasury Department to protect the deposits of bank customers.
On the financials - we can use GS as an indicator of health. Goldman Sachs (GS) is one of the few companies with increased profit estimates in the marketplace today. Over the past 90 days their current quarter profit estimates have increased from $1.92 a share to $2.44 a share, a 27% increase. Likewise the next quarter estimates and the year profit estimates have also moved higher with the analysts that cover the stock.
Some banks announced that they will be able to begin to repay the government.
We see that bank's CDS become to cost less.
Goverment are all in financials, they will not give one more time possibility to drop.
The Fed, in a report issued Thursday, said commercial banks averaged $38.153 billion in daily borrowing over the week that ended Wednesday. That was down slightly from $38.155 billion in the week ending May 20. Investment firms didn't draw any loans over the past week from the Fed program. In the prior week the firms also took a pass on the emergency loans, something that hadn't happened since early September. Firms drew just $482 million in the week that ended May 13. Good trend.
Conclusion If nothing will be changed - we will see big growth in financials. It will not be exponential, just strong selfpowered trend. We have risks, but more we growing in financials - less risks we have. More financials shares getting up - more confidence crodw will have on it. More confidence crowd will have - less wholes in balance sheets we will see. Governments main target - to keep crowd confidence about finacials growing. So we will see a proccess which very nice described by Soros theory of reflexivity. Banks are good look by classic fundamentals, exept wholes in their balance sheets. But i write above how rather quick this wholes can disappear. The contrarian opinion analyses saying that financials are interesting for long. The most people just saying about stability growth in financials but still dont make big bets on it. So, nice potentional for growth, maybe only speculative now, but speculative growth can be a reason for a next fundamental growth.
Friday, May 29, 2009
Portfolio strategy
Our target is to build portfolio which will give good returns independent from market conditions. In portfolio we have strenght stocks in long and weak stocks in short side that are balanced (equal). Our ideal target to get this situation. Let’s suppose that we have ideal balance in long and short side of portfolio and market is in zero point. If market changing up on 1 basis point, long side ads 2 basis point and short side ads 1 basis point. So on market move on 1 basis point our overall result is 2-1=1. Next market making move down on 1basis poing. Long side minus 1, short side minus 2. So overall 1-1+2=2. Now we are in profit of 2 basis points. So in every next market’s step in 1 basis point our portfolio growing on 1 basis point.
For balancing long and short side of portfolio we are using Beta coefficient. If we have different Beta we entering a position with more or less quantity for making position equal.
At first we are looking which sectors are the most interesting for long/short. This analyses we do with calculating next data Market cap, P/E, ROE%, DIV Yield%, Price to book value, Net profit margin%, price to free cash flow. We pick most interesting on this and then doing discretionary analyses. We researching expections on this sector, catalysts, risks, events, etc. Then we took stocks from the interesting sectors and doing the same analyses on companies. So we have to be sure that we are picked the strength stocks from strenght sectors and the weakest stocks from the weakest sector. Also we are using technical analyses for sectors charts and stocks to identify important levels. We dont entering in market on all portfolio in one time. We trieng to enter in right time on every stock. So we have some risks, because we have a time when our portfolio is not hedged in all.
Also for picks we are using two ratings.
1st – Stocks Chekup on www.investors.com . Its site of CAN SLIM system developer – Williahm O’Neil. He developed this system many years agos, its very popular, but this system representing not changing financial principles and CAN SLIM will work for many many years more. CAN SLIM system developed for picking stocks with amasing potentional of growth. So we use it for an evaluation of growth potentional. Below we can see basic principles of CAN SLIM:
C & A
Sizing up a stocks earnings growth.
N
The biggest stock winners had new products, new management or new conditions.
New price highs offer new opportunities.
S
One of the most basic economic principles is the law of supply and demand.
L
Steer clear of stocks that are laggards.
I
When it comes to investing, it pays to watch the pros.
M
This section will help you learn to size up the health and direction of the stock market.
2nd – MSN Rank.
It includes fundamental, ownership, valuation, technical analyses. We use it to see strenght or weak stock are. For buy the best picks are with rank between 6 and 9. Its show that company have potentional for improve. Very good if it is confirmed with our rating of potentional growth – CAN SLIM. The same, only reversal, for our short positions.
For balancing long and short side of portfolio we are using Beta coefficient. If we have different Beta we entering a position with more or less quantity for making position equal.
At first we are looking which sectors are the most interesting for long/short. This analyses we do with calculating next data Market cap, P/E, ROE%, DIV Yield%, Price to book value, Net profit margin%, price to free cash flow. We pick most interesting on this and then doing discretionary analyses. We researching expections on this sector, catalysts, risks, events, etc. Then we took stocks from the interesting sectors and doing the same analyses on companies. So we have to be sure that we are picked the strength stocks from strenght sectors and the weakest stocks from the weakest sector. Also we are using technical analyses for sectors charts and stocks to identify important levels. We dont entering in market on all portfolio in one time. We trieng to enter in right time on every stock. So we have some risks, because we have a time when our portfolio is not hedged in all.
Also for picks we are using two ratings.
1st – Stocks Chekup on www.investors.com . Its site of CAN SLIM system developer – Williahm O’Neil. He developed this system many years agos, its very popular, but this system representing not changing financial principles and CAN SLIM will work for many many years more. CAN SLIM system developed for picking stocks with amasing potentional of growth. So we use it for an evaluation of growth potentional. Below we can see basic principles of CAN SLIM:
C & A
Sizing up a stocks earnings growth.
N
The biggest stock winners had new products, new management or new conditions.
New price highs offer new opportunities.
S
One of the most basic economic principles is the law of supply and demand.
L
Steer clear of stocks that are laggards.
I
When it comes to investing, it pays to watch the pros.
M
This section will help you learn to size up the health and direction of the stock market.
2nd – MSN Rank.
It includes fundamental, ownership, valuation, technical analyses. We use it to see strenght or weak stock are. For buy the best picks are with rank between 6 and 9. Its show that company have potentional for improve. Very good if it is confirmed with our rating of potentional growth – CAN SLIM. The same, only reversal, for our short positions.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Some writes about our portfolio creating
We developed strategy for our speculative portfolio. We have some modifications of it. so i think we will have at least 2 portfolios. One of them will be more wide. Maybe i will write about strategy in some time. So know i want to show you small potentional part of our portfolio.
Our potentional part of speculative portfolio short part.
This all picks are from Services sector. This short side of portfolio will be added by stocks from industrial goods sector.
DAL
ABFS
CNW
FWRD
VMED
Maybe you should value this picks and write me if you will do it. Just interesting.
Our potentional part of speculative portfolio short part.
This all picks are from Services sector. This short side of portfolio will be added by stocks from industrial goods sector.
DAL
ABFS
CNW
FWRD
VMED
Maybe you should value this picks and write me if you will do it. Just interesting.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Tuesday's preperation
I think time came, for what I wrote in the middle of March. Crowd follows after the promises of government. But now Fed changed its view to an economic and decline their forecast for this year. They expect lower GDP, higher unemployment. The same did Russian goverment. They expect big whole in a budget for 9%. This rally also was supported by a good earning from US companies, analytics upgradets, but its over already. Big possibility that we will see GM bankrupcy soon, banks will not be able to increase their results. On the technical view all is simple. Now we see double top on the major indexs and i expect that major support region 880 @SPX will be broken today. Now we have very interesting situation with North Korea. In which measureas the conflict of world public with them serious? Maybe they just joking with their misseles? :-) . Maybe we have possibility to by Korean stocks and this all is just a panic? Big hegde fund i think must have nice geopolitic for this situation :-) . Maybe we have arbitrage possibilities to short american soldiery companies and buy korean stocks?
17:00 - CB Consumer Confidence can give some impulse for market.
My stocks to look and trades look via twitter. Link to my page at left side of the blog.
Wish you luck today!
17:00 - CB Consumer Confidence can give some impulse for market.
My stocks to look and trades look via twitter. Link to my page at left side of the blog.
Wish you luck today!
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Weekly philosophy
Life begins when you become indifferent to winnings and losses: you dont afraid loses, profits is not entered you in euphoria. When you will get tired from an avidity and fear, you will attain unity with the entire world. This is the moment of appearance of great traders and investors.
This this a quote from Van K. Tarp book "Trading - your way to financial freedom". This all sound reasonable and inspiring but i think for common man it is not avaible. We need to be prosacred. And the enlightened must fully correspond that, how a buddhism interprets enlightened.
Be with love!
This this a quote from Van K. Tarp book "Trading - your way to financial freedom". This all sound reasonable and inspiring but i think for common man it is not avaible. We need to be prosacred. And the enlightened must fully correspond that, how a buddhism interprets enlightened.
Be with love!
Friday, May 22, 2009
Friday's preperation
As I am writing this words (14-55 Kyiv time) , S&P index climbed more than 1.5%. This growth explained by good accounting from Sears, rumors that GM can have another offers for their Opel and Vauxhall. Today we dont have more events, news , etc , that can be economic drivers. Only Ben Bernanke will have speech @21-00 Kyiv time. Will see hows US market will open. But now we can expect that trend could change only after 21-00. Todays market character could be range as on Monday we have US holiday . So traditionaly we see low volume on day like this.
First lets look for pennystocks
MRM - growth expleined by earnings. Its not the best pattern to play in pennystocks but lets just keep on mind this stock. Pennystock which reported good earning more often just keep its growth. We could by it on strong market plus if we have possibility to pot small stop loss on high breakout. Or on weak market we can look for sidemove to identify key level and short on its breakout.
NMTI - This stock grew, but had bad earning report + analyst upgrade. So no question that it is nice short. Look for 1.9 lvl breakout with good volume to short.
OGXI - we had news about drug of this pharmaceuticals company last week. Its nice short, but we still didnt see sidemove.
NGSX - this stock is some dangerous due its thin but fundamentally its nice pattern for sell. 4.5$ breakout.
Other stocks
Today we saw bad accounting from British Airways. We can expect that airways will weak today. CAL and DAL - maybe the weakest from this sector.
Another pennystock list to look pennystocks
First lets look for pennystocks
MRM - growth expleined by earnings. Its not the best pattern to play in pennystocks but lets just keep on mind this stock. Pennystock which reported good earning more often just keep its growth. We could by it on strong market plus if we have possibility to pot small stop loss on high breakout. Or on weak market we can look for sidemove to identify key level and short on its breakout.
NMTI - This stock grew, but had bad earning report + analyst upgrade. So no question that it is nice short. Look for 1.9 lvl breakout with good volume to short.
OGXI - we had news about drug of this pharmaceuticals company last week. Its nice short, but we still didnt see sidemove.
NGSX - this stock is some dangerous due its thin but fundamentally its nice pattern for sell. 4.5$ breakout.
Other stocks
Today we saw bad accounting from British Airways. We can expect that airways will weak today. CAL and DAL - maybe the weakest from this sector.
Another pennystock list to look pennystocks
Thursday's review
Negative brought down on the market in last days. FED's economic forecast, GreatBritain could lost credit rating, Greenspan's appearance, negative economic data. I could expect that this will continue and finally we will see market correction. I expected that it will began lower, but now i am confidence about that. Market didnt touch 200MA, but removed from this area and formed something like double top. But this all is not so important. More important that negative news wave began on market. And today we heard a rumors that US can be downgraded on credit rating. But i think its possible only on US agree or for US benefit. On the open we saw weak market but with strong financials. XLF closed +0.17%. It wasnt too good at this situation, i saw this, but had trading financials. Shorted HIG, JPM, MS. All deals i closed with a plus but didnt think that this was rather good patterns so i am not want much to show it you. Its not on what we can learn something good. Its plus, but not quality plus. And at all we hadnt seen good risk/reward in today's market. It was time to be disciplined, not to lose money. Tommorrow will be new day with large better opportunities.
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