www.robotpickedstocks.com

Here are a selction of stocks picked by software for short term trading on 18 September.

The detail about how it works is at : -

http://www.moneyam.com/InvestorsRoom/ShowPostList?fID=1&tID=1008

If you have any comments or suggestions (helpful ones) then please post them here.



ARE, ATK, JVH, LMC, PZC, TEP, TRK, VLX

ARE, LMC, PZC and TEP look to be the best bets for trading.

CHARTS ON WEBSITE

www.robotpickedstocks.com

I notice you've not put JVH as a best bet for trading (I also would have!) and it's up for the second day in the row.

I purchased this when they were first listed a couple of years ago, and at one point showing a huge loss (now a small loss). The dividend return on my orginal investment has increased slightly every year and last year the return was just over 3.5%. I have no idea why they are going up, especially as they have never done well as they did yesterday!

Just set up a watchlist with the Robot choices - I'm impressed!

The robot picked TRK and it is down 10%. In the trading update on the web site I said that I thought TRK would not be up right away (mark time I think I actually said). The trouble is that the software picked it again. I just post the software choices and don't always agree with it. I can't remember why I dismissed JVH now. It may have been to do with the intra day chart for yesterday, it may have dropped towards the end. By the way JVH is now down 1.3%.

The premise behind the choices is that they are for short term trading. I keep an number of the choices going back a while in stockwatch lists and look at them again each day. I have fouind via the software that once a stock rises that I have selected then the optimum period seems to be 3 days to keep the stock before selling. This is not always true of course, but at around 3 days it is better to beware of a suden drop.

I have some newer versions of the software being tested. The other day one version picked 20 stocks and only one was down. Unfortunately I overwrite the version as I was originally looking at the wrong set of results and it looked like it hadn't worked very well. I am trying to work out what the difference was with that version. I should document the versions and their success, but I am testing about 50 a day.

The ones that I slect out of the rest each day are my choices. I tend to pick the ones with the smallest spread, the ones with a good volume of shares traded that day as this adds to the reliability of any movement, the ones with the best intra day chart with little retracement and movement up towards the end. I also look at the overall chart on sharescope recently and over a couple of years and some technical indicators. I look at the volatility of the stock and if it is in an overall uptrend. I then pick the best iof the bunch according to these criteria plus my own knowledge of the stocks. Other people may know the particular stocks better than me though and pick different choices.

SPT was a nice choice for yesterday. I said on the trading update that I wished that I had bought it as it looked very good and there it is again up 11.9% today. I like ARE also of today's picks. I wouldn't be suprised to see it up for a few days. I wish it had a smaller spread though.

Haystack - excellent thread.

little woman:
re: JVH
did you get my analysis i posted on the thread as i could not see it after posting.
i also sent u an email
pls let me know
rgds
zarif

Zarif you need to click on previous (above the first message you see) and you will see the analysis you posted.

except it's not there! Either someone has removed it - or you posted it to another thread. I'll take a look at the 18th August thread for the "Robot" which is near by.

Zarif - it's on the thread - ask a trading question!