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Non-Tech : Kirk's Market Thoughts -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kirk © who wrote (1766)	8/3/2014 4:29:59 PM
From: Jerome	1 Recommendation Recommended By gastrodoc Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26817

Finding stocks with significant upside potential....some folks use stock screens as a starting point...but that can be tedious lead you obscure stocks that trade in low volume. I'm interested in how other thread viewers approach this problem. My starting point is a review of the top hedge fund recent buys...and of their common holdings. MU and CHK and BAC make the cut for common holdings. My most recent review of hedge funds revealed an a strong overweighting to oil and gas drilling companies. No particular company of note. Candidates were CHK, ESV, BP, RIG, and NE. My second starting point is all about mutual funds. I review the top ten holdings of the best performing funds to find common ground. T Rowe Price and Fidelity Sector funds are where I would start. The information may be a bit outdated but overall there are no huge shifts in stock holdings.I also review the top ten holdings for the worst performing funds in the hunt for oversold stocks. My third review comes from the web site Option Monster....almost every day they post some huge option trade, and I make note of the company in that play. Most worthless advice comes from the Motley Fool web site. If the motley fool had a list of the ten best stocks to buy now and the ten best stocks to sell now there would be eight stocks common to both lists. Zack's is also a good starting point.....stocks that carry #1 or a # 2 rating are worth looking at. Seeking Alpha has some decent in depth analysis of stocks and the comments of thread viewers is worth a look. If some one has a better system I'd like to hear about it. (and so would the other thread viewers). We are all looking for the GPS that would point out only winning trades and keep us off the rocks.....but that would be boring and unchallenging.