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mosaic1996

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Friday, September 24, 2004 - 07:19 pm:

Hilarius,

Are my close of business friday trades valid?

If you are changing the rules (which is fine), it seems reasonable that we be given one last chance to rejig portfolios.

Cheers,
Mosaic

rederob

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Friday, September 24, 2004 - 07:34 pm:

nightstalker, if I had BHP shares I would probably be second last, instead of last - tho my bh&p policy to date certainly has reflected capital management pitfalls.
That said, you all may want to reflect on how kind the market has been in the past few months - multiple record profits for the big and small ends of town - with my selections hilarious in hindsight (for now at least) - of course, apologies to hilarius.
My clear orientation is towards commodities (with a few failed speccies tossed in), and their run into September is traditionally low.
Commodity prices have, however, perked up considerably this week and further gains should soon be reflected in the equities.
I do not that while the allords took a loss this week, my "real" portfolio gained a few percent, so there is still hope (in prayer).
Happy trading to all.

hilarius

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Friday, September 24, 2004 - 08:23 pm:

Mosaic and Others

Think of it this way ... the "Hilarius" portfolios are subject to a Trading Halt (until Xmas Eve) when they will be liquidated at Xmas Eve prices (a test of Buy Hold and Pray)

I have bequeathed all rights to operate the Hall of Fame, including adjustments as at today's prices, and all trading changes from here on, to Brother Shawky

I am not sure if he has plans to operate the Hall of Fame from here on ... I only know he has the skill ... I hope he also has the will

With Very Best Wishes to Mosaic and all Participants

Hilarius

I come in peace to share my thoughts and to shine my candle light on possible long term opportunities

shawky

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Saturday, September 25, 2004 - 01:22 am:

Mosaic, trades entered, you have may allocate one more stock whenever you are ready.

Results for this week are posted below. Please note that this is a study of medium/long term picks and our individual styles of trade management. The intent also being to incite discussion on the whys and wherefores of our picks and methods of managing them.

My FOA short did not go well, and I notice that my BPC long has done nothing since opening the position. My time based stop would normally have fired on BPC by now, but I'll give it one more week.

Looking forward to someone creating a topic for Hedging and managing risk in a new thread.

I don't mind either way if the portfolio's are frozen or we continue on as is. The workload to date has not been onerous. I am interested to see how we all go through the election.

At this stage, I won't be creating a new game with hedging or gearing as that is more work than I'm prepared to allocate time to at this stage.
regards
Shawky

nightstalker

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Saturday, September 25, 2004 - 08:52 am:

Shawky - as a suggestion - how about two parallel exercises?

One - freeze all holdings as of now, and just see what the chart does each week - would I be correct in assuming that it would not involve too much work to do that?

Two - continue as before, with active changes as stops are hit and replacements made.

Call the first exercise Passive, and the second one Active, or some such :-)

This would provide a very interesting comparison into just HOW much better we really do by actively managing things, or in fact maybe the opposite....

Just a suggestion - I have no wish to impose extra work on you unless you're happy to do it.

Best wishes, and as always, many thanks for everything you've done so far. Thoroughly enjoyed by everyone taking part :-)

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NightStalker

"The trend is your friend till the bend at the end"

shawky

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Saturday, September 25, 2004 - 10:13 am:

Nightstalker
I don't really care if we freeze them or not, just that I won't be running two portfolio exercises at this point in time. The second "active portfolio" option is probably more productive though slightly more work for me, but not an issue as the trading activity has a long term focus. Trading activity on average to date has been acceptable.

Posting a chart from Excel is actually the most time consuming part as I must do a window capture, crop and resize the image to 651 pixels wide then convert to jpg ready for upload. Entering trades is easy when they are posted in the correct format. It takes longer to load the spreadsheet (and other applications) than to do the EOD update (macro) and chart data sort (macro).

I keep a copy of each weeks spreadsheet, so I could post a comparison of this weeks trading halt data with your active portfolios in say a month or two time.

regards
Shawky

nightstalker

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Saturday, September 25, 2004 - 11:16 am:

Ok mate

Then I agree that continuing the active portfolios would be the more useful exercise, even though it means a little more work for you. Thanks for continuing the exercise.

Your suggestion of perhaps posting a comparison chart in a few months' time is also a good idea, and perhaps at the end of six months, the then-current prices could be updated for the stocks we all held as of last night - or is that too much like the parallel exercise? I was just thinking of the comparison between active and passive management - that is something that I have been learning gradually since I started trading. The more I churn, the less overall I seem to make. But there must be a "sweet spot" between sitting on a bunch of losers and too much churning - it's just that I haven't yet found that sweet spot! :-)

It may also point out the importance of setting stop-losses, as I'm sure there will be some stocks held currently that will turn out to be real downers by the end of another 6 months.

All in all - a really useful exercise we've all been doing here. It's not really a race to see WHO does best. Thanks once again to Bro Hilarius for starting it, and to you for continuing with your excellent work - thanks mate :-)

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NightStalker

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mosaic1996

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Saturday, September 25, 2004 - 04:42 pm:

Hi Shawky,

3/4 time and my beloved lions look like they may get done like a diner.

I believe that I now have 10 stocks in the study. I suspect that you may have missed a buy posted for a buy as at friday week ago
http://www.incrediblecharts.com/userscripts/forums/show.plx?tpc=316907&post=5027 4#POST50274

17th SEP BUY ICN $0.047

The only other trades were as of last friday
close ERG short position and open AYO and BUY which I suspect that you have.
http://www.incrediblecharts.com/userscripts/forums/show.plx?tpc=316907&post=5056 7#POST50567

Cheers,
Mosaic

rederob

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Saturday, September 25, 2004 - 04:49 pm:

Shawky
Do I have time to short the Lions.-
15 minutes to go and 4 goals to kick - looks like Port Power will wave the Premiership flag (and me a maroaans supporter too, mosaic!!!)

shawky

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Saturday, September 25, 2004 - 05:17 pm:

Rederob
Sounds like a short term trade to me so would be against the rules.

Mosaic
It was AYO I missed - must have been a bit under the weather late last night.

Gohard, Hutcho, Lady Luck and Gjees are also running one position short.

regards
Shawky

P.S. Very nice advertisement Mosaic on your post. Did you earn $1 for that?

mosaic1996

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Saturday, September 25, 2004 - 05:28 pm:

Thanks Shawky

Go Lions....

Cheers,
Mosaic

rederob

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Saturday, September 25, 2004 - 06:03 pm:

Mark Williams (cleverly disguised) acknowledging the Premiership victory.

"Four in row" foiled in a last quarter drubbing of very tame Lions.
Newscorp now reconsidering move to US?
Shares in TEN propelled by media frenzy over Grand Final, spawned by more brawls than a whole season of Rugby League!
Scotts Transport considering an IPO?
Hilarius defers Queensland citizenship for another 12 months!
It's all good (if you are a crow eater).
Congrats to Port

hilarius

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Saturday, September 25, 2004 - 06:11 pm:

Too late to postpone citizenship!

I paid for my Queensland number plates this week

Stood in the queue for 40 minutes

No going back!

Hilarius

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hilarius

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Saturday, September 25, 2004 - 06:15 pm:

PS It is now the Shawky Hall of Fame

Time for a new thread?

And a new red

Hilarius

I come in peace to share my thoughts and to shine my candle light on possible long term opportunities

gohard

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