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Technology Stocks : Applied Materials No-Politics Thread (AMAT) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Return to Sender who wrote (14171)	4/11/2005 8:15:21 PM
From: Big Bucks	Respond to of 25522

RTS- I'm all for riding the cyclical waves, that is my investing/trading style and has been for years. It is hard for a stock with 1.68B shares outstanding to move up when it only trades an average of 34M shares a day. That is only an average 1% (17M) of buy transactions (2% buy/sell) on a daily average basis. About 67% of the outstanding shares are owned by institutional investors which represents roughly 1.12B shares. As far as institutional investors accumulating stocks during times when they are out of favor... that is correct. After enough stocks have been acquired, it is common for the analysts to start hyping the "value" and growth potential aspects by upgrading their stock rating. Usually this is when economic factors look favorable for the sector or stock. I like to see an obvious trend developing to play the upward momentum, but also evaluate the business conditions that affect the sector. Just because a stock is a low price does not mean that it is necessarily a great value... Like you said, timing is everything! finance.lycos.com