Re: [CANSLIM] Tom or Ian


From: Ian <ianstm@shaw.ca>
Subject: Re: [CANSLIM] Tom or Ian
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 07:21:20 -0700

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I'll add one more point that I believe is relevant.

Institutional support of sub $10 stocks has changed considerably in t=
he past
18 months. Although not much of a chart reader, I consider myself qui=
te an
adept ticker reader, and I have a pretty good feel for what insitutio=
nal
buying/support looks like. It wasn't long ago that sub $10 stocks wer=
e
strictly the domain of daytraders and retail news-driven investors. I=
n the
past 18 months that has changed - many of the best performing funds a=
re now
stepping in and buying and supporting the cheaper stocks - making the=
m even
more 'CANSLIM', IMHO.

The reason they are good fundmanagers, again just my opinion, is that=
 they
have adapted their style to what is working today.

Ian


PS - I have to be in 100% total disagreement with WON over the split =
thing.
It is a lead weight over many of those stocks that cannot be removed =
until
they start doing reverse splits. Many companies with small/microcap r=
evenues
have 100,000,000+ shares outstanding. It is ludicrous.


- ----- Original Message -----
=46rom: Dimitri Katsaros <dcka@yahoo.com>
To: <canslim@lists.xmission.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 1:51 AM
Subject: Re: [CANSLIM] Tom or Ian


> > In fact, the biggest hurdle I see to a long
> > sustained move up in tech
> > stocks is that they split way too many times in the
> > 1998-2000 mania
>
> Which IBD says is "okay" for tech stocks
>
> > leaving most of them horrendously over-priced on a
> > P/S or P/E basis above $15.
>
> Dunno about P/S, but WON says to ignore PE unless it
> goes up 120% since last pivot, then it is a sell
> signal.
>
> > Remember that when WON did his original research,
> > the median number of shares outstanding was
> > 4,000,000! I would absolutely love to have a large
> > selection of $15+ stocks with solid growth, and less
> > than 10,000,000 shares
> > outstanding.
>
> It seems his stance has changed considerably on this
> matter since the book was written... I did a search on
> the "Ask IBD" knowledgebase:
>
> Question: Some companies have high IBD SmartSelect=AE
> Corporate Ratings and well-formed charts, but low
> market capitalization. Is there a minimum market cap I
> should look for when evaluating stocks?
>
> Answer: A stock's market capitalization should make no
> difference. It's more important to disregard stocks
> priced less than $15 or those that have less than
> 200,000 shares of average daily volume. That should
> help you focus on quality stocks with adequate
> liquidity.
>
> Question: In 'How To Make Money in Stocks' you
> emphasize stocks with fewer than 25 million shares. I
> see little mentioned about this in IBD. Has the number
> changed?
>
> Answer: Generally speaking, the more shares a stock
> trades, the more buying that is needed to lift the
> share price. In recent years, however, large cap
> stocks (with many million shares outstanding) have
> shown more leadership thanks to the growing influence
> of mutual funds, indexing and the growth of leading
> industries. Therefore, a stock with any size
> capitalization is worth considering as long it has the
> characteristics of strength we look for. To properly
> weigh the demand for a stock, you should analyze day
> to day price and volume changes.
>
> The purpose of my question wasn't to tell you that you
> are wrong or anything like that. Rather, I am still
> learning the CANSLIM method and was curious about your
> discounting some of the rules as I am always
> open-minded to what works and what doesn't.
>
> Thank you
> Dimitri Katsaros
>
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