list of 20 stubbystocks making new all time highs: $MDSO $VRTS $TRIP $LFG $URI and more

link to finviz.com charts
checked against the ATH list @ barchart
the spreadsheet of todays ATH list:
US_Exchanges_All_Time_Highs – 05_15_2013
stubby stocks making 52wk highs but not all time highs: $AXP $BDC $BMY $CBRL $IBB $JPM $PNC $TM $WAG $XLP
list below is ranked & sorted by IBD composite rating:

Rank no.,Symbol,Company Name,Composite Rating _,EPS Rating,RS Rating,SMR Rating,Acc/Dis Rating,Group Rel Str Rating
1, MDSO,Medidata Solutions Inc,99,90,98,A,A-,A
2, VRTS,Virtus Investment Ptnrs,99,80,99,A,A,A
3, TRIP,TripAdvisor Inc,99,97,92,A,B+,C+
4, LGF,Lions Gate Entertainment,99,80,97,D,A+,A+
5, URI,United Rentals Inc,98,74,89,A,B-,A-
6, CAB,Cabelas Inc,98,96,94,B,B-,B+
7, GILD,Gilead Sciences Inc,98,77,96,A,A-,A+
8, MIDD,Middleby Corp,98,90,85,A,A-,B+
9, ARMH,A R M Holdings Plc Ads,97,96,94,A,C+,B
10, WDR,Waddell & Reed Finl Cl A,96,90,89,A,C,A
11, UHS,Universal Health Svcs B,96,87,93,B,A-,A+
12, ULTI,Ultimate Software Group,96,97,82,A,B,B
13, SAIA,Saia Inc,95,75,98,C,A+,A
14, ICON,Iconix Brand Group Inc,94,86,94,B,A-,C
15, CBRL,Cracker Barrl Old Cnt St,93,82,89,B,B,A+
16, TDG,Transdigm Group Inc,89,82,70,A,C+,A-
17, JJSF,J & J Snack Foods Corp,87,95,82,B,B+,C+
18, FEIC,F E I Co,85,87,81,B,B+,C-
19, KUB,Kubota Corp Adr,83,74,96,C,C-,B-
20, ASML,A S M L Holding N.V. NY,73,51,82,B,B+,B-

top ranked $MDSO daily stock chart

ARMH, ASML, AXP, BDC, bmy, CAB, CBRL, FEIC, GILD, IBB, ICON, JJSF, jpm, KUB, LGF, MDSO, MIDD, PNC, SAIA, TDG, TM, TRIP, UHS, ULTI, URI, VRTS, wag, WDR, xlp

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#1 by Mark on 2013/05/16 - 10:11 am

Michael,
Am excellent job you are doing right now.
Your posts are extremely helpful.
Organizing the ATHs along the IBS’s rating.
This is fantastic.
I guess that I going to depend on your site.
You are saving me a lot of time and hard work.
Thank you!
Mark.

- #2 by stubbybrown on 2013/05/16 - 10:22 am
  
  mark, i’m gratified to be of help. i’m still a work in progress. the blog helps me keep track of my ideas. at some point later this year i’ll start stitching the ideas of these posts together as examples into a coherent method to my madness. thanks for engaging my blog!
  
#3 by Mark on 2013/05/16 - 10:23 am

I think that the Palladin Money is a nice blog (IBD oriented) to follow.

#4 by stubbybrown on 2013/05/16 - 10:27 am

thanks! i just followed it. i do like IBD oriented trading and investing. a lot of my analysis is based on their work. much, much, much to learn. it’s all good!

#5 by stubbybrown on 2013/05/16 - 4:42 pm

sorry … i corrected the URLs to the stock quotes on this post too. was just too late in the day to be making these kind of detailed posts. lolol

#6 by Mark on 2013/05/16 - 7:07 pm

Michael,
I like the way you arrange the stocks according to the IBD’s criteria (numbers).

I have another idea for you about looking at those All Time Highs.
It’s not scientific at all but based on the common sense.

Go to Barcharts.com and put VRTS in the window.
Click and look at the Trading Strategies for the stock.
VRTS gave you $11400 profit per signal from Barcharts.com. and the stock is the star and the winner and no other stock comes close.

Now start putting the today’s ATHs and check that average profit per signal for each of them.
This exercise gives you the different view of today’s ATHs arranged along that dollar amount per signal and how well they are “tradable”, how steady and reliable they are.

So today’s list goes like that;
VRTS, HHC, AEPI, AEGR, EAC, CAR, KMX, FRGI, OCN, CP, WAGE, PBH, ADUS, STAG.
Again VRTS is at the top with $11400, next is HHC with $4700 and so on till the STAG ($200).

I like the daily charts for HHC, AEGR, EAC, FRGI, WAGE ( beautiful, going straight up, young and promising).

Mark

#7 by stubbybrown on 2013/05/16 - 8:01 pm

hi mark, sounds like an interesting exercise & potentially fruitful one. give me a little bit of time and i’ll provide some feedback here or offline. thanks much.

#8 by Mark on 2013/05/17 - 10:38 am

I have tried to get to be a little bit scientific about that all time highs.
I have looked at the percentage return in the last 12 months and the number on the ATHs reached by the stock in the same period of time and came with an idea of getting the “ratio” by dividing the percentage of return by the number on the new highs.

So I got those numbers and you are going to laugh, but I do not know what to do with them. LOL.

Some of them are big and some are small.
I am an architect and a “visual” person and the math is not my strong side (grammar and spelling goes here too). LOL.

Is somebody in this site reading this who knows how to interpret those “ratios” to our advantage?

Mark.

#9 by stubbybrown on 2013/05/17 - 12:32 pm

that’s gonna be a tough one to interpret from a statistical point of view because both the population size as well as the “ratio” is not a good form-factor. there isn’t an optimum ratio number that reflects portfolio gains. i would stick to sharpe’s ratio for a better indicator of which stocks benefit portfolio performance the most.

- #10 by Mark on 2013/05/17 - 1:54 pm
  
  Yes Sir!

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