RE: [CANSLIM] Boomer Babies

From: "Duke Miller" <dukemill@tampabay.rr.com>
Subject: RE: [CANSLIM] Boomer Babies
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 16:38:39 -0400
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I own none of the stocks on the list yet.

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Duke,

Nice analysis.  I did download your sheet, and think that you are on to
something.  Seems like of late the hardest think I have had to overcome
is being disciplined about creating and maintaining a watchlist.  That
is part of the reason that I asked my questions about watchlists last
week.  We all have a limited amount of capital, and when you see stocks
that you may be watching breaking out, it is hard to decide which ones
to buy, especially if you would have to sell a laggard to get the
capital.

If I can get some time, maybe I can write some code that would allow you
to automate the process of comparing your list to the SOD summary table.

Keep up the good work.

And if you don't mind me asking, do you own any of the stocks on your
list?


Mike Niemotka , PE
Sr. Principal Engineer
Baxter Healthcare Corporation
Route 120 & Wilson Road
Round Lake, IL 60073
Tel (847) 270-4075
Fax (847) 270-4525
michael_niemotka@baxter.com


 

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The Boomer Babies concept that that I passed on several weeks ago was so
poorly received by this group that I hesitate to bring it up again!  I'm
not hurt, I promise.  I've never been known to run with the crowd, more
often than not taking Frost's road less traveled.

However, dear friends, I have been doing some analysis on the list that
now contains 84 stocks, and  I've discovered and interesting lack of
correlation.  Interesting to me, at any rate.  I'll explain:

The weekend of October 9, I created a Boomer Babies Watch List portfolio
using the closing price on October 8 as the basis for each stock.  As of
yesterday's close, this whole group is up about 4.5%, or over $12,000 if
you'd purchased 100 shares of each.  No great shakes.

I thought it would be interesting to indicate on my spreadsheet the
dates any of the stocks appear on IBD's Screen of the Day.  At risk of
eliciting a "duh", the assumption is the SODs more than likely feature
the better performing stocks to watch.  At least that's what WON often
suggests. Going back to October 3rd's SOD and working forward, I found:

Out of the 84 stocks on the Boomer Babies list, 38 (45%) have made at
least one SOD appearance since 10/3.  (The most is 7 appearances by a
total of five of the stocks.)

Sorting the list based on the number of appearances by each stock
revealed stocks that appeared more than five times increased an average
of 5.5%; those appearing one to four times rose less than half that at
an average of
2.3%.   As for the five that have appeared seven times, they're up a
little
over 8%.

But what of the 56 stocks not appearing on a SOD since October 3?  Holy
assumption, Batman, they're up an average of 9.3%!!  In other words,
none of these stocks appeared in screens ranging from ROE leaders to
Total Composite Ratings.

What does all this prove?

It tells me the Boomer Babies list is producing the kind of prospects
I'm interested in:  Solid companies across a broad range of industries
that stand to profit from the aging and eventual retirement of boomers.
(The "solid" is derived from, I think, the fact that all the candidates
were culled from nine months of New America features.  A plus for IBD,
the
publication.)

However, a) It has prompted me to consider ceasing the downloading every
SOD for future study; b) I intend to follow the progress of each stock
with CANSLIM on my mind, but not obsessively so; c) It has raised a
level in cynicism regarding devotion to analysis of bases, breakouts,
etc.  Those narratives are somewhat befuddling and often contradictory
at best).  Sorry if that seems blasphemous, but that's my
observation(s).  It just seems every time a breakout fails, they can
spot the reason, in hindsight, of course.  Same theme, different day.

Have a great weekend.

Duke

PS: It was my intent to post the results of my survey as described
above, citing the specific stocks.  But, alas, as some of you know, I
received a certified wrist-spanking from IBD's SS troops after posting a
SOD analysis back in July.  Heaven forbid a further possible suspected
violation of IBD's proprietary blah, blah, blah...








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