Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

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

To: Q. who wrote (2)	12/19/1999 4:52:00 PM
From: Q.	Respond to of 109

FWIW, last year's thread on the January Effect was at this URL: Subject 24490

To: Q. who wrote (2)	12/19/1999 5:01:00 PM
From: Q.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 109

Here's the URL for the stock screening tool that I'm using: moneycentral.msn.com

To: Q. who wrote (2)	12/19/1999 7:20:00 PM
From: RockyBalboa	Respond to of 109

N, that is a good idea. I have a few suggestions: Have you noticed different behaviour of stocks which made their lows end of October to those ones which make their yearly lows now? Some of the stocks you mentioned are going down partly on bad news (PLMR, GCLI, IHII etc). Some have stabilised (AWWC, MXWL, PTX) the latter put a sharp spike down near the end of October. Is declining/rising volume a possible sort criteria? C.

To: Q. who wrote (2)	12/19/1999 7:20:00 PM
From: RockyBalboa	Respond to of 109

N, that is a good idea. I have a few suggestions: Have you noticed different behaviour of stocks which made their lows end of October to those ones which make their yearly lows now? Some of the stocks you mentioned are going down partly on bad news (PLMR, GCLI, IHII etc). Some have stabilised (AWWC, MXWL, PTX) the latter put a sharp spike down near the end of October. Is declining/rising volume a possible sort criteria? C.

To: Q. who wrote (2)	12/19/1999 7:45:00 PM
From: RockyBalboa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 109

I read through the 1999 thread and found some of your remarks you made later very interesting, especially: For the stocks, I was surprised that I actually did better with the stocks that were more than $200 M market cap, because two of the tiniest stocks delivered negative returns. I share this idea often - I avoid stocks with a too small market cap, float and average volume, many people I talk tom, speak of buying stock with an avg. volume of 100k or better (but not too high a volume). How about adding -a lower boundary for market cap and lifting the upper boundary to $150-200MM? -a volume criteria? For example > 100k in the last Q/last month.