Savvy Trades and Investments

[nelson1234]

RE tax loss selling candidates....it was a bit of a pain in the ass last year to find them....I mean I did have a screen, but just took a lot of time looking at through to find ones that seemed decent. Your short list is a good plade to start. I just dont know if I'll have the time this year to do that kind of search. The unproven reason for picking failed biotechs is that, imho, investors sell off stocks for tax purposes even more when its difficult to calculate a real valuation...when you can rationalize them giong lower, like broken biotechs...when investors see them dropping at year end, they lemming out rather than average down.

So I may try it again, but not sure. I will make a list of Tax Loss candidates soon, but they are just the big losers I have been following for the year. R59 has a great list to start with, although I know he said that on average they have performed well.....still I'd put some of these on a watch list to see if any get kilt this month: https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=136544527&txt2find=losers

Precious metals have taken big hits, particulalry silver....so that may be a sector that has a disproportionate amount of losers in December...plus they are hard to value, so thats good, especially in the juniors, but then you really have to know them a bit, and only know the larger players a little,so thats where I'll be looking.

I will also look at stocks I follow that have done poorly for the year. I dunno, top of the head....look at aes, ams, cnat, cohn, cpss, cubi, dpdw, eltk, ftlf, gv, lee, lub, m, meet, neon, oxbr (it would need a big hit), peri, sckt, snfca, sqbg, shos, tixc, gnc (but there is current news that they cant find refinancing, so gotta watch that), and the broken biotex you mentioned....(I forget if SRRA was one, but that one too.)

best.