Saturday, September 11, 2010

TEST AUN.V

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I am going to switch to using SCREENR instead of JING. The videos seem better. The chart is AUN.V and will go into my watch list group.

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Wednesday, September 8, 2010

MEGA PENNY PROJECT FUN

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Just a link to a page showing what stacks of pennies are worth. Also has cows, dots and really big numbers. Oy.

http://www.kokogiak.com/megapenny/

Also a mention of a compact word pad that has no bloat. JARTE. From their webpage.

"When word processors replaced typewriters they helped free the creative expressions innate in all of us. But somewhere along the way word processors evolved into enormous machines designed primarily to serve the needs of the corporate world. Office word processors have become huge, cumbersome vessels of software that remind us of ocean liners. The seeming goal of both is to become as large as possible by including every imaginable feature, whether anyone actually needs all those features or not. That's fine for an ocean liner since you are there to relax and marvel at its grandness. However, it is not so fine when the size and complexity of your word processor makes it as cumbersome to operate as an ocean liner in a yacht race."

Very handy and easy to use word pad program.

http://www.jarte.com/

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Tuesday, September 7, 2010

PORTFOLIO VIDEO

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For what it is worth or not worth the following video is of the stocks I currently own. Perhaps you should be over the age of 21 to watch. I am still working on my video production skills which will improve with practice.

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Click on the lower right button for full screen.


Monday, September 6, 2010

INDICATORS VIDEO MYA.V

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This is not a recommendation to buy or sell any of the stocks discussed on this blog. Due diligence is your responsibility. If you need professional investment advice then find a professional.

MYA.V is the stock used in the following video. Although this video is to show the indicators that I use, this stock is going on my watch list. Will have to see if it makes a successful test of the breakout.

This is my first long video entry, I hope you enjoy it.

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Click on the small button in the lower right corner for full screen.


Sunday, September 5, 2010

JING

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Just a note to say that I have worked out using the JING software. Pretty easy. The only problem I have encountered is that it does not work with my Internet Explorer for posting to this blog. I will simply use Firefox instead.

Here is the link to their site: http://www.techsmith.com/jing/

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AUDIO TEST

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This is an audio test of JING software. Click on the small icon in the lower right corner to go full screen.

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Saturday, September 4, 2010

Video Test MAI.TO

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This is not a recommendation to buy or sell MAI.TO, this is not investment advice and MAI.TO is simply used in an example video.

I found a new toy via the Maoxian.com site. The software is called JING and is made by TechSmith. I will provide a link. If I can get it working properly I will get a microphone to provide audio. For now it is a silent movie. On with the show. To make it large screen click on the small button in the lower right.

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The Indicators I Use. MAI.TO chart.

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This is not a recommendation to buy or sell any of the stocks discussed on this blog. Due diligence is your responsibility. If you need professional investment advice then find a professional.

The following chart of MAI.TO has labels on the indicators I use. The chart is crowded but I wanted to finish this in one shot. I am also providing a brief textual explanation of the indicators in an attempt to clarify the picture.

Scale is probably the easiest thing to explain and although it may seem quirky simply scale to 3's. I thank a now gone website and someone named 'Dongoro' for initially pointing the 3's out. 3, 6, 9...believe or disbelieve, it is up to you. But take a look at the number of times something occurs at a price level divisible by 3. In the penny world I simply set the y axis to .03 with the smaller division at .015.

The next indicator is an exponential moving average. EMA18, basic. In combination with this I have worked out a couple of other moving averages. Sorry but I will not tell you how they work although you should be able to figure them out.

Using the relationship of the three moving averages I color coded the price bars. Red for down, blue for neutral and black for up. It is basically a moving average trend indicator. This means that even though a daily price may be up the price bar may be red if that is the how the moving average relationship is. This is used as a confirmation check against the main signal.

I like the Darvas Box and it is fairly easy to see on the chart. The only addition I have made is to add a middle line and two lesser lines at one quarter and three quarters. These last two may be overkill but they were easy enough to create. You can find a lot of information on the Darvas Box by googling it. There are links and a couple of posts about it on my other blog. I know that I am not following the technique of Darvas to the letter and have worked out a variation of my own. I look for the price to have moved below the Darvas Box Low (DBL) and then to have moved back above it. I also look for the traditional break above the Darvas Box Top. Regardless of how you decide to use a Darvas Box I think it provides some useful information for defining areas of interest. One thing to watch for is the Plunge, this occurrence seems to mark the start of a consolidation phase. I will probably provide some more of my observations on the Darvas Box in later posts. In short it seems to be a pretty good way to define support and resistance levels.

With regard to support levels I mark them on the chart using an automatic support level generator. Standardized and saves drawing new lines all the time.

A modification of a Kase indicator is the last one to look at and the most important since it provides the initial buy signals in the scan I use. On the chart I have marked her original indicator which I have modified slightly. KASEV. To this Kase modified indicator I decided to add the 18 day exponential moving average. KASEV MA. This seemed to me to pull the indicator closer to price. Then I went one more step and added the KASEV MA to the Darvas Box Low. The final result is alphabet soup indicator KVMBL

Step one: Modified Kase Indicator. KASEV.
Step two: KASEV combined with an 18DEMA. KASEV MA.
Step three: KASEV MA combined with the Darvas Box Low. KVMBL.

This final indicator is what I use to generate buy signals in my scan. If price moves from below to above the KVMBL then a buy signal is generated.
Once the signal is generated I then check to see if there are confirming signals from the other indicators. I look to see if the moving average trend (shown as colored price bars) is either blue or black. If it is still red then there is a possible non confirmation of the buy signal. I also look to see what is going on with the Darvas Box. There are certain pictures that seem to correspond better with confirming the initial buy signal than others. The easiest one being a price move below and then above the DBL. There are other pictures provided by the Darvas Box but I will leave those to a later post.

For now I will close this post. I hope this helps to clarify the charts I put up and shows the tools that I am using on my adventure. An indicator is simply that, something that indicates what may happen, not what will happen. Further explanations are available on my other blog and I also plan to provide more details here in the near future.

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Thursday, September 2, 2010

CHARTS: COP, AOI, PBX, MYA, SGC.

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This is not a recommendation to buy or sell any of the stocks discussed on this blog. Due diligence is your responsibility. If you need professional investment advice then find a professional.

COP.TO popped up a bit more today. I am not on board since I have money under water in some other stocks. This illustrates the need to take a small loss early so that capital is freed up for future possibilities.

I was a little happy since a couple of stocks that I am holding popped up today. Overall things are still bad, bad, bad. Both AOI.V and PBX.V moved up and above their box tops. Now a question of whether they will hold above the box top.

A couple of other stocks I am starting to follow more closely are MYA.V and SGC.V. They moved above the box top recently and are now looking like a possible test. They are also interesting since the price charts are almost interchangeable.

Charts of the above follow. If I find the time over the weekend I will try and explain the indicators presented on the charts.

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Wednesday, September 1, 2010

COP.TO

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This is not a recommendation to buy or sell any of the stocks discussed on this blog. Due diligence is your responsibility. If you need professional investment advice then find a professional.

The following chart is of COP.TO. It was used as an example in my other blog on Aug 15. Today it moved upward and through the Darvas Box Top. Now it becomes a question of holding above the Box Top. I am not on board with this but curious to see how it plays out. Continue upwards, test the breakout, do nothing etc etc etc. This chart also contains an additional indicator which is an outgrowth of the others I have been playing around with. So far I like the way it looks and will provide details in a later post. Nothing magical, just another indicator. For now just the chart.

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