SSYS 12-17-02 to 10-14-03
March 13, 2008 | 4 Comments
SSYS was one of the early breakouts that went on to produce some very strong gains. Everything about this stock was right on the technical and fundamental. Therefore, when you see the patters below, and you see the strong EPS and sales numbers, it is foolish to not grab yourself a healthy amount. By the time the near ten month run was over, SSYS produced a huge 548% gain from the first purchase. My final purchase at the end of February even produced a still very impressive 386% gain in seven months and two weeks. This was in fact a ‘monster stock.’
NTES 7-30-02/10-29-02 to 10-13-03
February 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment
NTES is being posted much later than SINA and SOHU because I did not load up on NTES like I did SINA and SOHU. Instead I got in NTES way before the other two but from those early small longs, a move below the 50 DMA scared me out of most of the longs. However, a better setup followed and I was able to pyramid into this stock a couple more times, making this a pretty great long despite it not being an extremely large position. From my very first small purchase (too bad I didn’t load up, huh?) to the ultimate top of this run, this stock gained 3,700% in 14 1/2 months. Once again, another huge winner that avoided short-term capital gains. However, this position did not affect the accounts like the real purchases did from those purchases below to the top, these buys gained me 1540%, 815%, and 320% within anywhere between 7 1/2 months to 11 1/2 months. Another great long in another great bull market. The market we are currently in is the exact 180 opposite of the market of 2003. Patience will be rewarded, like it always is.
USNA 11-18/11-19-02 to 11-5-03
February 19, 2008 | 2 Comments
This was one of the original breakouts of the new bull market that started in October 2002 and by being one of the first it was not hard to buy a lot of the stock. However, I did not load up on this particular stock because the BOP went from max green to green which, at the time, I thought might keep this stock from being one of “the best.” Oh how I was so wrong. USNA rallied a beyond-impressive 675% and 610% from my first two purchases to the ultimate top almost a year later. The biggest sell was on 6-16-03 with a 406% and 364% gain realized from the first two large buys. This was a great long and in hindsight I made a big mistake by worrying about the BOP not still being max green. Instead I should have noticed that BOP was rising from a lower green level to a higher green level.
SINA 10-28-02 to 1-26-04
February 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment
SINA was a great long and even though I did not buy a lot on the first buy, the second and third purchases were very large and this leading stock in the leading internet sector during that very bullish market provided some huge returns. From the first purchase to the final top, the total gain was 1642% in one year and three months. However, it was the move on 11/14/02 that convinced me this stock was the real deal as SOHU and NTES were moving with it and the group was #1 on the IBD list proving that at the start of a bull market the best stocks are the stocks that are already in the top of the performance categories. That purchase to the top returned a whopping 1207% and was just one more stock that made the year 2003 the greatest year in my investing life. From the first buy to the first sell (1/24/03) the stock gained 274% and from the big buy on 11/14/02 the stock gained 181%. After pulling back at the start of 2003, the stock setup in a nice base and, just like SOHU and on the exact same day, the stock broke back above the 50 DMA on very strong volume. From that move over the 50 DMA to the ultimate top the stock gained 431%. But before the ultimate top came I was pretty much completely out of the stock after the 9/23/03 session. From that third buy to the 9/23/03 top the stock returned 377% and from 11/14/02 (the big buy) to 9/23/03 the stock gained 1073% (1463% from 10/28/02). However, from the first buy to the ultimate top, the stock gained 1642% in one year and three months and 1463% in one year and three weeks. I was more of a SOHU guy back then and I did go long more SOHU than SINA but my large SOHU buy was the March 2003 purchase which netted me a very large 250% gain. But my 2000% return on SOHU came from a very small buy. At least with SINA, the 1000% return came from a larger initial stake. As you can see by the few GREEN AND HOT stocks I have posted already, 2003 was indeed a great year.
SOHU 10-11-02/3-26-03 to 7-14-03
February 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment
This stock was another huge winner that along with SINA kick-started this new bull market. This stock was another one of the first stocks to breakout and produce big gains. However, the very first buy was not a large buy because as you can see via the chart pattern this extremely HUGE accumulation day came from a choppy and not the most well-formed base. However, as the uptrend went along, just like EVOL and many other stocks we are going to review during this time frame, the stock setup in a beautiful base and then broke out producing a very smooth extra-large return. From my first purchase on 10/11/02 the stock returned an exceptional 2,077% gain in nine months! Do you see how this strategy in bull markets, when using 4 to 1 margin from Interactive Brokers, can make you filthy rich? Sadly, I did not load up there but did so about five months when it set up and broke out from one of my favorite 50 DMA bounce/breakout chart patterns. In a very short time (under four months), this stock produced a very large steady gain of 255%. This is why I love bull markets. They make you filthy rich, using this methodology. 2003 was a great year and for those around then and in 1999 you know that is saying a lot.
RKT 1-23-02 to 4-18-02
February 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment
This was not a huge winner but it was a good gain in a short period of time in a very nice chart setup. There were not a lot of longs during this time and this one will wrap up all of my best longs during this time frame. GNSS was my best but RKT was more typical of what we were to expect from this current market environment. RKT gained 50% in a little under three months.
FDP 1-28-02 to 6-18-02
January 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment
This stock should have been a bigger long than what it was considering how green the chart was. But I was not too excited about some stupid food stock then. So this was not a big position, even though it should have been. Still it was much larger than the longs I am taking now in this market where we simply can’t find stocks that look like this this early in the selloff. In a little under five months, FDP produced a solid 80% gain, compared to the Nasdaq’s near 20% decline. A 100% relative gain to the market.
AIRM 3-5-02 to 5-29-02
January 28, 2008 | 6 Comments
AIRM was not a huge winner but the chart was near-perfect to perfect and that produced an excellent gain in a short amount of time. What I want to point out about this stock is that I had to wait a whole month before the prize was realized. I continued to hold the full amount as the BOP stayed green to max green the entire way. That helped give me confidence that the trade would work out. It was a good thing I held on because I did not add to the stock on 4/16. I am not sure why but I believe it was because of the weaker close. However, I think it could have been a mistake (maybe I went drinking that day; I was still partying hard then). In a short two months and three weeks AIRM was able to produce a 50% gain. Both of my large sells are posted below (my biggest sell came at the top as a climax top was clearly made, after such a long uptrend in a bear market, with the huge surge in volume).
SPAR 1-24-02 to 7-5-02
January 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment
this was not a HUGE purchase but it still had a little bit of size to it and as it moved up stayed very green thus becoming one of my better longs during this time frame. It was not a $3 stock when I first went long. It was around $9 a share making it easier to go long in bulk. By the end of the run a nice 106% gain in six months and two weeks. Not that bad in a market that was falling 25% on the Nasdaq. That is a 130% gain on the overall market. Not bad at all and a reason to never give up on the longs even in a long bear.
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