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Strategies & Market Trends : Investing for the January Effect 2000 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Q. who wrote (1)	12/19/1999 4:45:00 PM
From: Q.	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 109

Here are results of my first screen for January stocks: I list about 2 dozen stocks, ranked beginning with the lowest relative strength. quote.yahoo.com Most of these sell below book value.

To: Q. who wrote (1)	12/19/1999 11:35:00 PM
From: LauA	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 109

At the risk of appearing to be a Luddite, my screen is much more labor intensive. During the second and third weeks in December I list all the exchange traded stocks making 52 week lows as recorded in the WSJ on a daily basis. I find that visual inspection allows me to discard all but 10 or so a day. I do a quick EDGAR look on each of those. Then I dollar cost average into 4-10 total during the two week period. The sell routine I always find hardest. Once again I do not have a mechanical method for causing a sale. Typically I sell enough to retrieve my capital in January. On occasion I fall in love with one of those picks and get to ride a round trip. From last year, I still have one round-tripper, and one (VANS) that is up 2.5X. This past thursday and friday I got the feeling that the buying window for January Effect stocks had already closed. I hope not. Lau