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Entries for the ‘Phantom Trades’ Category

Phantom Trades in ITIC and TRXI

Investors Title Company (ITIC) had a gap/lap on heavy (for it! there are lots of days ITIC doesn’t even trade!) volume, and TRX Inc (TRXI) had a gap on heavy volume. Volume signal is a day that is better than the 20-day simple moving average. These are entered as Phantom Trades and both […]

Phantom Trades in FIG and BX

I am tracking “phantom trades” on Blackstone Group (BX) and Fortess Investment Group (FIG) on the watchlist. These are near the back, filed under STK, CTR as contrarian stocks. BX had a gap and FIG had a double-range day with a strong close, both with higher than average volume.

Another Phantom Trade, This One on MBT

I still haven’t posted in detail about this decision, and may not get around to it, life being what it is, but I’m concentrating my portfolio on the simple ideas theme and am forward testing what might work for trend-following on value and GARP stocks on the watchlist without money riding on them. Basically […]

Friday Ramblin Randoms

I’ve got two book reviews to put up, but I keep waiting for the markets to look “boring” for a few days in a row. We’ll see if I get them out this coming week.
One pundit called yesterday a “messy reversal.” Let’s examine yesterday in context. The S&P 500 was […]