Friday, September 7, 2012

09/07/2012 premarket: selling BT; buying DVN


Small Portfolio
XLF & IAU
16.21%
Position
Date
Return
Days
BT
1/4/2012
18.09%
247
DECK
6/15/2012
-1.56%
84
CVX
7/5/2012
6.11%
64
RIMM
7/16/2012
-7.31%
53
UEIC
7/30/2012
18.85%
39
QSII
8/6/2012
11.20%
32
SWM
8/23/2012
2.05%
15
FCX
8/27/2012
0.58%
11
DWA
9/4/2012
3.24%
3
CAJ
9/5/2012
-0.74%
2
S&P
Annualized
5.08%
Small Portfolio
Annualized
12.73%
Large Portfolio
Annualized
14.97%

Yet another rotation.  Should slow down after this one:

The model is selling BT, and buying DVN.

As always, a negative divergence tomorrow would cancel the trade.

Also, this is now the second trade in a new sell rule for the model.  Sells were based on technical considerations alone before, and are now based on a combination of technical and fundamental values.

This should prevent incidents where TTM had to decline from +70% to +20% before it was sold, and should also prevent selling CECO the other day, only to watch it recover most of its losses in the next two days.  Models are always something to be fine tuned – but never curve fitted.

Tim

 

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