Top And Bottom Performing Stocks For Week #45

It is Sunday afternoon and that means we get to review the performance of last week’s historical top and bottom stock symbols in the S&P 500. As you may recall these symbols are the result of parsing a database containing over 50 years worth of statistical performance data. The idea is to extract the prospective top ten winners and losers of the coming week purely based on historical statistics. The result is then sorted by liquidity and any symbol that is scheduled to report earnings or pass ex-dividend is being excluded.

How To Trade Along

Although being no guarantor of success, the long and short candidates posted here each week are intended to perform along their respective historical bias. One way of trading along would be to simply create a small one-week portfolio by buying the long candidates and selling the short candidates on Monday morning shortly after the open. There are no official stops or targets and all transactions are reversed Friday afternoon right before the bell.

For anyone who wants to keep track I have created a new WP category that allows you to pull all pertinent posts up to date. Eventually I’ll be putting together a summary spreadsheet once we have accumulated sufficient stats.

Results For Week # 44

Last week we were less fortunate and ended up with small loss of -1.45%. Again, this is a respective change in percent combined, it does not represent a -1.45% loss in total profits. Of course it could be if you would have deployed your entire trading capital equally across last week’s symbols (i.e. 5% each). If it was only 10% then it would be a loss of 0.15%, excluding commissions and other trading cost.

Long Profits: INTC=4.37, CSCO=0.12, KO=-0.22, MRK=-3.74, ORCL=-1.38, BMY=3.8, CLF=-3.49, CSX=-2.34, LSCC=0.68, BSX=-2.25

Long Profits Total: -4.45

Short Profits: PBCT=2.27, HCN=-1.47, AEM=2.88, CVA=3.13, USPH=2.5, SJT=-0.26, PBT=-2.17, KTCC=-4.65, UTL=0.86, SPA=-0.09

Short Profits Total: 3.0

Combined Profits Total: -1.45

Top 10 performing stocks for week #45

GE – General Electric Company

MSFT – Microsoft Corporation

CSCO – Cisco Systems, Inc.

RF – Regions Financial Corporation

HBAN – Huntington Bancshares Incorporated

SCHW – The Charles Schwab Corporation

FITB – Fifth Third Bancorp

BK – The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation

CAT – Caterpillar Inc.

SLM – SLM Corporation

Bottom 10 performing stocks for week #45

EXC – Exelon Corporation

CVX – Chevron Corporation

HCP – HCP, Inc.

OHI – Omega Healthcare Investors, Inc.

KIM – Kimco Realty Corporation

DUK – Duke Energy Corporation

AEP – American Electric Power Company, Inc.

DRE – Duke Realty Corporation

NI – NiSource Inc.

WEC – WEC Energy Group, Inc.