Quote for possible earnings calendar (like v-calls)...Here I go reading the e-mails again since 3:00 (slept already).. Now i have come across so many good suggestions If feel like initiating them already. First of all someone mentioned they liked the earnings calendar (beta version) by V-call. vcall.com I looked at it. Its great, super even. But remember this is their niche.. that is all they do, conference calls, calendars earnings reports. If I can get a calendar similar in format and reasonably and not have to pass part of the probably large expense off to the subscriber I'd do it in an instant.
I probably will give it to one or two programmers to see what they would estimate for the job. Then you have the problem of java once again and careful about any copyright infringments. You can print the calendar buy not the 'pop up menus'. We are never still, but constantly looking for the better, improving everything, but staying within a very limited and affordable price range. We won't charge double for features that you could really make do without. You'd be better off saving your money on subscriptions for lobster dinners (how was yours, Linda?)..
If there are any programmers out there who can honestly without actually copying (its copyrighted) that calendar, I'd consider it for Market Gems. Or even a scaled down version. some talented java scripters out there lets hear your estimate..
Another thing.. I will be making the watch lists a bit less 'coded looking'.. just take away the parentheses after the values.. but you should familiarize the values near the indicator criteria. I will look to make it even more user friendly.
Of course the 'plaudits' were great also, thanks for all of them. The few criticisms I will take into consideration and will have a meeting/meetings with some programmers, traders, to see what needs to be done. I was asked to put a few more stocks on the watch list that 'could be longer term holds'.. and I did mention that we did have BHE, TAN, MDT, AFWY, VNWK, COST, DD, and I usually have 1 or 2 that are more 'conservative'.. out of the 10. But I am capitalizing on the 'current market climate' that seems to be smiling on some of the 'better IPO's and nets that are giving very, very good gains, and when this phase passes we could return to more conservative fare.
And my second answer is that is what the earnings plays are for (the longer term hold).. ADBE is a fine example of a stock that will ultimately be in an uptrend probably until next earnings quarter. So if you notice the more volatile the watch list stocks are the more 'fundamentally sound' the earnings plays are. Also you would have to look hard and far to find a better hold than stocks like QCOM, LGTO, BHE, LXK or even EXDS. (I'm sure no one minded MAIL, PSIX on today's list yet or VIAS still strong from July 2nd list, yet FDLNA, COST,SWY from the 7th (conservative stocks) was not as good.
But on the 8th COST popped nearly 4 points. It took LXK 2 days to pop, or VIAN on yesterday's list that was up for two consecutive days.. yet AA a fine company was down.. so its impossible to actually predict when the particular stock will make its move but figure it has taken 1-3 days lately.
So you must put up your alerts accordingly and watch 20-30 stocks instead of of 10. Its really worth it because about 25% of them can give over 10% profit for just tracking their alerts. Of course you can still watch just 10 and probably find 2 good trades and another one from the earnings plays, but you will get more bang for your buck if you widen your stock data base a little. |
