Answer Gone Fishing Until 2007
December 18, 2006 – It’s that time of the year when holidays are upon us, which translates into toy shortages and unpredictable market behavior in individual stocks. Because so many people take time off from work during the holidays, every holiday season, daily trading volume versus the average three-month daily trading volume for most stocks falls sharply lower. In fact, volume with anything investment-related, even readership of this blog, usually drops sharply this time of the year as people head out to their winter wonderland or tropical island vacation destinations. This means that just as the gift shopper is at the mercy of the seasonal toy store switch-and-bait marketing strategy , the stock shopper is at the mercy of huge institutions stepping in and dictating the price movements of individual stocks. So take a break from your normal buying in blue chip stocks no matter where in the world you live if this is a major holiday season for you right now. Over the next couple of weeks, a great buying opportunity for an asset class or two seems to be setting up right now, but as far as blue chips? Hang up the “Gone Fishing” sign.
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J.S. Kim is the founder and Managing Director of SmartKnowledgeU™, a comprehensive online investment course that uses novel, proprietary advanced wealth planning techniques and the long tail of investing to identify low-risk, high-reward investment opportunities that seek to yield 25% or greater annual returns.
Posted: Monday, December 18th, 2006 @ 8:34 pm
Categories: U.S. Stocks.
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December 19th, 2006 at 2:27 pm
I think it’s pretty predictable to find small blue cap companies. All you have to do is going into Wal-Mart and see what has been sold off the shelves repeatedly. I remember 6 years back when Radica (RADA bought by another company) Games built these fishing handheld games and they were a mega hit. I told my mom to invest in the stock at $8. We both bought a couple hundred shares and sold around $12 2-3 months later. Not bad. Just looks at what kids are playing. I wish Nintendo was a publicly traded company. The Wii is a MAJOR hit this year.
Anyway I scored a 18/20 on the FIQ test whatever that is. I didn’t get some of the economics questions or leveraging. I invest in options. What is a MoneyPing ??? There is no definition on your site I guess it just must be a name.
later dude – fn