To: Jenna who wrote (23923 ) 2/1/1999 5:21:00 PM From: Jenna Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 120523
On the agenda: After spending the last few weeks analyzing the January earnings plays I have a better scope on "What's working now" These conclusions will be utilized in tracking our Newsletter picks this month through next earnings season (April/May) We are catching more winners by collaborating in these last few days of January. December was a very good month as well although we didn't collaborate but I think February will be the best month. For non-subscribers, I have some 'alternate' earnings plays that I track like DCTI, ECILF, WAXS, USF, STAF for this week which will be posted on SI for you from time to time. (BOBJY,JAII,BVSN,GCTY last week) For non-subscribers you will be getting the watch list a day later but they can still afford more trading opportunities. So when a play triggers a buy signal a day or two later SI members will be privy to those plays. Others have also posted excellent potential earnings plays so no one will lack for good trading opportunities We will fine tune our strategies even farther in the next few weeks since I see that essentially what I thought would never be practical, is working. We will have intraday updates on stocks that have not reported and during that one month of lull (march) we will probably have a good deal of those earnings plays as watch list plays (that happens each and every quarter) In order to fine tune our strategies will be continuing to produce more articles on specific hands-on approaches to tackling the newsletters picks rather than just than just giving you all book lists and sending to the Traders Press to read like some stock selection sites do. The downside is that we now have over 35,000 hits to our website a day and especially the free areas with the education portion. The bandwidth requirement doubled in just a number of weeks. I am hoping that when I have a trading manual I can delete those posts, charts from the website because the click through has been immense. In lieu of that we might have to restrict that area (The Well-Informed Trader and Gems on SI sites) because of the volume. So far we won't take any steps in that direction. I've already deleted the watch lists from December and November to lesson the load on the server, although we are thinking about the feasibility of having our own server by 2000. I never really planned intraday updates however limited they might be I see they are helpful from the scores of e-mail I'm still getting now as I post this. Primarily I thought of Market Gems as a excellent research tool and filtering tool to narrow down the huge universe of stocks. My plan was that subscribers would enter and exits using their own trading strategies. I see however that with just a modicum of thought and preparation we can have that little extra that makes the thread more exciting both for subscribers and non-subscribers