tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20374666.post7163393592953391465..comments2024-03-05T07:50:04.017-05:00Comments on Stockbee: Up stocks and down stocksPradeep Bondehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16750002566366368685noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20374666.post-56670786165494900942007-02-14T08:42:00.000-05:002007-02-14T08:42:00.000-05:00As Pradeep mentioned, one of the first places I go...As Pradeep mentioned, one of the first places I go when wanting to get deatils of a stock is the Yahoo Finance, Key statistics page. Most of a companies financial data is here including float, shares sold short, sales and profit data.<BR/><BR/>http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=VSNTUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06616300153149321590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20374666.post-34708863766986148752007-02-14T08:02:00.000-05:002007-02-14T08:02:00.000-05:00The total number of shares publicly owned and avai...The total number of shares publicly owned and available for trading. The float is calculated by subtracting restricted shares from outstanding shares.<BR/><BR/>Also known as "free float".<BR/>For example, a company may have 10 million outstanding shares, but only seven million are trading on the stock market. Therefore, this company's float would be seven million.<BR/><BR/>Stocks with small floats of less than three million shares tend to be a lot more volatile than others.<BR/>http://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/float.asp<BR/>You will find floats on yahoo finance.<BR/>I get my float data from Telechart. Float can change from time to time based on stock splits, private sells, secondaries etc. Sometime different sites show diferent float amounts.Pradeep Bondehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16750002566366368685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20374666.post-7643655203159225452007-02-13T22:04:00.000-05:002007-02-13T22:04:00.000-05:00sorry newbee question, but how can you tell that t...sorry newbee question, but how can you tell that the float of VSNT is 3.5 million? How do you tell what the float is? I am looking at finance.google.com data for VSNT and can see a daily volume and a market cap, but non of them come close to the 3.5 mil numberKommihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16182353514846548817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20374666.post-61303014459927866652007-02-13T17:06:00.000-05:002007-02-13T17:06:00.000-05:00Only the float is important, if there is catalyst ...Only the float is important, if there is catalyst volume follows. 3.52 million is very low float. The company did a reverse split in 2005 to reduce float.Pradeep Bondehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16750002566366368685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20374666.post-63546828185272372812007-02-13T16:59:00.000-05:002007-02-13T16:59:00.000-05:00The float in VSNT is 3.52M shares and its average ...The float in VSNT is 3.52M shares and its average 3 month vol is 78k shares. The ratio of float vs which other parameter would you look to tell if a stock has low float?<BR/><BR/>ThanksShivahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03665994487365269147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20374666.post-91996986526004843092007-02-13T16:51:00.000-05:002007-02-13T16:51:00.000-05:00CSX intraday range last two days is $3 - thats not...CSX intraday range last two days is $3 - thats not too badUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06740921528028362325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20374666.post-62853328065265417542007-02-13T15:12:00.000-05:002007-02-13T15:12:00.000-05:00It is an earnings plus low float story. See the re...It is an earnings plus low float story. See the recent earnings, it darted off since August earnings and is up over 100% since then. Float is only 3.5 million so it has the right explosive mix. Also James Altucher helped pop it by highlighting holdings of Renaissance Technologies Portfolio. <BR/>http://www.thestreet.com/_dm/newsanalysis/stockpickr/10338396.html<BR/>Renaissance Technologies is a NY-based hedge fund started by Jim Simons in 1982. Its $5 billion Medallion Fund has averaged 35% annual returns, after fees, since 1989, and is considered in the industry to be the most successful hedge fund, yielding returns ten percentage points higher than legendary investors Bruce Kovner, George Soros, or Paul Tudor Jones. Because it is so successful, it charges a 5% management fee and a 44% incentive fee.<BR/><BR/>Simons only hires PhDs and the fund mainly employs computer based models to predict price changes in easily-traded financial instruments. The fund is highly secretive and we are putting in some of their top holdings and some of their more speculative holdings.Pradeep Bondehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16750002566366368685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20374666.post-44195784989218980632007-02-13T14:58:00.000-05:002007-02-13T14:58:00.000-05:00Something must be brewing with VSNT. It's up almos...Something must be brewing with VSNT. It's up almost 12% again today on volumne. Bought some this morning and sold half this afternoon. Will hold th rest to see what happens. A buyout maybe?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06616300153149321590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20374666.post-46261527809330653392007-02-13T11:15:00.000-05:002007-02-13T11:15:00.000-05:00JOYG - rejected @ MA50BOOM - rejected @ MA200JOYG - rejected @ MA50<BR/>BOOM - rejected @ MA200walterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17470446666411384334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20374666.post-68678283237935388532007-02-13T11:13:00.000-05:002007-02-13T11:13:00.000-05:00Good chart but CSX float is 433 milion. Difficult ...Good chart but CSX float is 433 milion. Difficult for it to move very rapidly in short time frames.Pradeep Bondehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16750002566366368685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20374666.post-55421513810868418282007-02-13T11:08:00.000-05:002007-02-13T11:08:00.000-05:00nice chart breakout on CSXnice chart breakout on CSXwalterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17470446666411384334noreply@blogger.com