5 Stocks Losing Top Investor Support

• Report this Comment On January 29, 2009, at 5:21 PM, cubanstockpicker wrote:

  FAZ doesnt fit into the seven day caps buy and hold rules. You have to catch it only when sitting in a lull for a few days with smaller strecthec in volatility. This should be going from 4-5 star to 2-1 star almost every two weeks.

• Report this Comment On February 02, 2009, at 1:38 PM, BenGriffin71 wrote:

  'Eschew obfuscation, espouse elucidation.' is another quote you might have considered for this article, as the writing in this piece is more than superficially ambiguous.

  This piece begins with a quote explaining the logic behind a contrarian view of market sentiment.

  The writing then seemingly does an about-face and suggests caution concerning stocks falling from public approval, in opposition to the initial quote, which would suggest falling sentiment is a sign that a time to buy would be approaching (a pessimistic extreme can only occurs after a decrease in sentiment).

  Some incongruity is common in most writing, but this next little tidbit is sheer genius... genius for being a problem, that is.

  Just when you are trying to figure out which way the author is approaching this subject (and wondering if the author is any more certain), the phrase:

  'an awful stock to avoid' is thrown in, to complete the confusion.

  'An awful stock to avoid'. What could be more clear? Rhetorical questions, who needs them?

  You can bet the author meant, ' a stock for which a choice to avoid would be awful'. and, someone else can bet the author meant, 'a stock that is awful, and should be avoided'. And we will have wager, but not more clarity.

  Personally, I'll bet the author will be happy to provide disambiguation.

  CUBANSTOCKPICKER.. You can get around the 7 day rule... fairly effectively by utilizing the ETF's inverse. For example, if you enter a thumbs down on FAS, and want to exit three days later, just enter a thumbs down on FAZ. Then exit both positions at the same time, 7 days after you initiated the FAZ thumbs down.

  The ETF pairs don't track as exact inverses, so sometimes you will come out a little behind and sometimes a little ahead. For only a few days, the disparity shouldn't be too great.

• Report this Comment On February 03, 2009, at 10:22 AM, Deepfryer wrote:

  That's it? Where's the rest of the article? There was no discussion of the stocks mentioned in the table.

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