>I have pretty much been echoing O'Neil's main strategy in my posts.
It would be interesting to see how O'Neil's mutual fund was doing, the one run O'Neil and his sidekick, David Ryan. I believe it is called "New USA Fund." Unfortunately, I could only find performance figures through the first quarter of 1997, where the fund had lost 14% for three months, lost 15% for six months and was up 0.7% for one year...this is in the face of a stunning bull market for all of the above three periods. There is a saying something like, "Those who can, do....those who can't, teach." Without current figures on their fund, it's hard to say if it applies here, so I'll reserve judgment............kind of.
As for LGND, if they had steady earnings and approved products, the stock would not be at it's current market cap. LGND's price reflects some market risk, that earnings and products won't come, at least in a timely fashion, which seems to be dwarfed by the potential reward as the company matures. For me, it's a simple bet, with attractive risk:reward parameters. Recent chart patterns (posted here) caused me to double up.
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