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   Strategies & Market TrendsTed Warren's Investolator


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From: Robert.3/7/2025 1:22:19 PM
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Thought some of you might like the look of LINC. It might have some life left in it.

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From: investolator20003/7/2025 6:41:16 PM
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For the week ending 3/7/2025

Stocks with an "*" indicate that they pay a dividend:

This was not a good week for my stocks, mainly thanks to KGS. I had 7 stocks up and 10 down. I had 1 double-digit gainer and 1 double-digit loser. My portfolio was down 3.38% for the week.

My top 3 positive percentage stocks:

*KGC 136.26% up 9.11%
*KGS 23.70% down 32.38% (Largest % loser)
*JRSH 5.83% up 1.09%

CLIR -1.96% up 10.51% (Largest % gainer)

Note about KGS: My broker informed me that when my CCLP was taken over by KGS, it was considered a sale and then that amount was divided by the number of shares converted. I was using the price of KGS at the time of the takeover, which was almost half what the broker said it was. I wish they had given me that information when it first took place.

My bottom 4 negative percentage stocks:

*BTG -26.04% up 0.83%
*PVL -32.74% up 4.34%
*NTIP -41.08% down 1.08%
*DSX -42.33% down 1.76%

Hope everyone has a great weekend.

I2000

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From: WEagle3/8/2025 5:34:56 PM
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Hello, fellow Investolators.

This past week was another very bad week for my portfolio. I had 4 stocks up, 10 down, and 3 unchanged. There were no double digit gainers. In fact, my biggest gainer was only up by 4%. On the negative side, I had 2 stocks down by double digits and another down just short of double digits. But it was really worse than that. The biggest loser was down by 48% and the next worst was down by nearly 19%.

For the week ending 3/7/2025, here are my five most profitable stocks.

TK +141.93% change for the week +4.00% My biggest winner for the week.
MMLP +94.15% change for the week -5.32%
KGS +83.47% change for the week -48.02% My biggest loser for the week.
MNKD +34.05% change for the week -9.69%
RAIL +19.22% change for the week -18.71%

For the week ending 3/7/2025, here are my five least profitable (losing) stocks.

DVLT -99.938% change for the week -0.015%
DGLY -99.81% change for the week 0.00%
DSS -88.59% change for the week +0.12%
DALN -87.78% change for the week -0.09%
STRR -87.14% change for the week +0.48%

Happy Trades to You.

WEagle

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From: Harvey Specter3/10/2025 12:23:32 PM
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Here's an excerpt from a Washington Post article about Ted Warren - I have a question - was anyone here subscribed to Ted Warren's newsletter when it was around and if so, was his "famous list of 140 stocks" published in the middle of the 1973-1974 bear market or towards the end of it (the market bottomed in December 1974). Either way would be impressive (they went up much more than the indices in either case) but even more so if he published it in the middle of the bear market and the 140 stocks went up over 400% in five years on average from that point.


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To: Harvey Specter who wrote (1655)3/12/2025 10:09:12 AM
From: robert b furman
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Hi Harvey,

We had an investment club in those years (while attending GMI in Flint Michigan. Ted came to visit both myself and Dan Plouffe - we had originated the investment club.

During those years Ted had a monthly investment letter. It was a one to two page letter, in which he listed his "Dogs". We tracked his universe of dogs and discovered that Ted had recapped the advances of the Dogs, but did not subtract the stocks that disappeared (went BK or got delisted). During that time we met Ted and we even got his phone number in Redondo Beach California.

Ted was appreciative of our analysis and allowed us to call during general market sell offs. We usually got a scolding for "watching the market too closely". <smile>

It DID provide a long list of beaten down stocks during the 74 general market sell off. All of the students at GMI back then were GM employees and a daily newsletter was published by a club (which always quoted the horrible stock price performance of GM at the time.

In 1974 I was a Junior and had a class in "Financial BusinessDecisions (which was a case study of past good and bad decisions made by corporations. During that course my professor announced he had taken out a second mortgage on his residence to buy up more depressed GM stock. He declared that by the time of our graduation (1976) he would have his residence completely paid off. By 1975 he had fulfilled his claim early.

During those days, Ted instructed all of his newsletter subscribers to subscribe to M.C. Horsey's monthly stock chart services.Most of Ted's "Dogs" came from that service.

Ted's limited education did not include an accounting knowledge. Sadly some of his dogs were exactly that. They went broke and disappeared.

One of those stocks was Clabir. It had done a nice double and then had a double bottom. During the double up I got very pumped about it. In 1978 I got married and we bought our first new home. Upon selling the condo we had before, we invested the money into Clabir. Clabir had a CEO named Henry Clark. During the time between the double Henry had decided that its first business (which made tank ammunition) was not a good business. He took on debt and bought an ice cream company (that made Isaly ice cream bars still can be found in the frozen ice cream section). Well the tank business lost money and the ice cream bar debt took Clabir down into bankruptcy. My seed money and the condo equity went to zero! It was a huge lesson for me.

I vowed never to buy a stock unless it had a solid balance sheet!

There are cheap stocks that do well out there.

In this day of inflation, you had better have some ebitda to keep you viable.

That rule has resulted in a lot of public coorporations to disappearfrom exchanges.

I've learned to invest in stocks that have limited debt and cash balances.

IF a stock has that, and is in a cyclical business, there is a solid thesis for a possible turnaround.

Those are most oftem the 6 baggers.

I now find more of those stocks to be the high level consolidations.

The dogs that are less than 5 bucks are very susceptible to disappearing. IMO

Not that there are not good stocks out there.

BUT THEY BETTER HAVE NO OR LITTLE DEBT and LOTS OF CASH!

This is my experience with Ted's dogs.

Every time I sell out of a stock, I "Thank Ted" as he was a huge mentor to me.

I, like Ted have owned more shares of a stock than the board of doirectors own.

If I ever get a triple, I sell one third and let the rest run on the market's money - especially if it pays a dividend. That becomes my forever buy and hold annuity.

The central most important lesson that I totally agree with Ted on, is that with many stocks a final shakeout will occur just before a substantial rise. This depressing price action is when many sell out. It is the fear created from that price action that allows the insiders (who more often than not are not board directors - but merely investors with large positions who are doing the price manipulation).

When you see that price action watch RSI. Often when RSI dips low and then price goes even lower, while RSI goes up - then do you buying and pay the ask, as it won't last long at that low ask - it is being bought by the smart money who sold into the market and caused the final shakeout.

There is software out there that deals with harmonic trading and it is incredible. I do not use it but am aware of it. SI has a trader named Qone0 who is incredible at using it.

All of the above is just my opinion and things I've learned the hard way over the 50 years I've traded and knew Ted.

Ted's approach has surely helped me obtain the finer thingte on my copy of his books of our capitalist system. It is an excellent place to start learning and gain experience from all of the trades one makes - some good and some bad. LOL

As an Investolator you should succeed! (that is what Ted wrote on my copy of his book when he visited us at GMI.

As a side note I have 3 hardcopies of his book and 2 softcopies. I loan them to my close friends in the hope it helps them achieve greater wealth.

Hope that helps!

Bob

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To: robert b furman who wrote (1656)3/12/2025 9:11:27 PM
From: Harvey Specter
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Thank you for the reply. I find the long-term base breakouts to be the most reliable and fruitful (more reliable and fruitful than buying on breaks above gradual downtrend lines with a few exceptions). SFM is a prime example of what I look for. Notice it broke out of a six year long base in 2022 then the overall bear market at the time temporarily dragged it down. However, if you held on you would be sitting on a 329% gain today. Below it are a couple of examples from Ted's book.

I use position sizing of 5% per position with no stops and cast a wide net so no dog can wreck my portfolio because I have many other stocks that can make up for the duds. I did the math and hypothetically if you averaged a 200% or more gain on your winners (what Ted says in his book that you should average on long-term base breakouts) and worst case scenario you average a 100% loss on your losers, you'll breakeven if you're right a third of the time. If you're right more than a third of the time you're profitable, and if you're right 50% of the time or more you'll make a lot of money. I focus primarily on long-term base breakouts like the ones in the examples and will only buy breaks above a gradual downtrend line if there's already a long-term base formed and I'm either buying within the long-term base or a breakout out of a long-term triangle base.




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To: Harvey Specter who wrote (1657)3/12/2025 9:48:22 PM
From: robert b furman
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Hi .Harvey,

Welcome to the Ted Warren thread.

I sure wish you would have been here in that final shake out in 2022 (which of course was a general market decline).

If you see a stock that fits Ted's style, Please bring it to our attention.

It would be so appropriate for our group to be knocking home runs on the "Ted Warren" thread in his name and guidance.

Ted's approach was so contra Wall Street, that I doubt we'd find a big addition of followers. sigh

Wall Street has a way of building momentum on only the stocks they have huge positions in. IMO

Surely hope you find time to hang with us on Ted's thread.

There are some very sharp minds here wanting to not only learn, but contribute.

Bob

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To: Harvey Specter who wrote (1657)3/13/2025 6:05:06 PM
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Welcome to the group here. You will find some great people here. Bob (Robert) and WEagle are two of the great ones here, IMHO.

I2000

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From: investolator20003/14/2025 7:03:35 PM
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For the week ending 3/14/2025

Stocks with an "*" indicate that they pay a dividend:

This was not a so-so week for my stocks. Once again, I had 7 stocks up and 10 down. My up stocks covered my down stocks, I was slightly positive for the week. My portfolio was up 0.51% for the week. I had 1 double-digit gainer and 0 double-digit losers.

My top 3 positive percentage stocks:

*KGC 146.43% up 10.17% (Largest % gainer)
*KGS 33.58% up 9.88%
*JRSH 2.17% down 1.88%

*APLY -20.94% down 9.94% (Largest % loser)

My bottom 4 negative percentage stocks:

*XRX -30.88% down 6.80%
*PVL -34.48% down 1.74%
*NTIP -41.52% down 0.44%
*DSX -41.53% up 0.80%

Hope everyone has a great weekend.

I2000

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From: WEagle3/15/2025 2:19:55 PM
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Hello, fellow Investolators.

Finally I had a good week. About time. I had 10 stocks up and 7 down. There were 2 double digit gainers with the best gaining 23%.

For the week ending 3/14/2025, here are my five most profitable stocks.

TK +136.11% change for the week -5.82% My biggest winner for the week.
MMLP +98.94% change for the week +4.79%
KGS +98.11% change for the week +14.64% My biggest loser for the week.
MNKD +39.97% change for the week +5.92%
SND +20.57% change for the week +8.07%

For the week ending 3/14/2025, here are my five least profitable (losing) stocks.

DVLT -99.924% change for the week +0.014%
DGLY -99.80% change for the week 0.01%
DSS -89.07% change for the week -0.48%
STRR -87.54% change for the week -0.40%
DALN -86.10% change for the week +1.69%

My biggest winner for the week was FTK which gained 23..22% to get into the black at +12.77%.

My biggest loser for the week was RAIL which has taken a big fall over the last few weeks. It dropped -7.31% to finish the week with only a 11..90% overall gain.

Happy Trades to You.

WEagle

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