Trade Ideas: Follow up February 24th

A mixed bag of performance from my newsletter and Trade-Ideas scan. Jim Cramers' show was a repeat episode, so there was no lightning round picks to include in the comparison.

My Newsletter stocks were drawn from my February 24th Free Breakout, and Subscriber picks. The entry price is, as in prior comparisons, the opening price for the day. All of my free picks took a beating, GENR in particular - which hit my suggested stop price on Friday's sell off. This was in contrast to my Subscriber picks, all of which performed well; FNSRs' 44% gain followed its Friday earnings release.

The Trade Ideas had a net down week. The scan performance was saved by the returns from FIX. Its low standard deviation, compared to my newsletter picks, reflects the consistency of its returns (even though this weeks were a net loss).

Overall market returns were helped by the Tech indices. Large caps underperformed on the week.


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