The late great Kennedy Gammage of the Richland Report used to always say “buy when the market tells you, sell when the stock tells you.”

He was making allowance for stocks that defied the general market’s move or giving stock pickers something to do to impress their clients. What he did not tell was that most often when the market says sell, so does the stock.

As I’ve written here repeatedly, I keep a nifty-50 list of stocks, which I follow both as an indicator and for their individual abilities to move with the market. Every so often (roughly quarterly) I sort the list and add in new stocks to keep it current and vibrant.

On the last sort, the stock symbol RIOT vaulted to the very top of list virtually from out of nowhere. Here is its profile on Yahoo Finance:

Bioptix, Inc., through its subsidiary, BiOptix Diagnostics, Inc., develops enhanced surface plasmon resonance technology platform for the detection of molecular interactions. The company also focuses on animal healthcare and owns important intellectual property rights related to veterinary products. In addition, it has granted a license relating to single chain reproductive hormone technology for use in no-human mammals, which is under active development by the licensee bovine rFSH. The company was formerly known as Venaxis, Inc. and changed its name to Bioptix, Inc. in November 2016. Bioptix, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is based in Castle Rock, Colorado.

What?

Recently, it seems, Bioptix, Inc. changed its name to Riot Blockchain, Inc. and its stock went insane, rising from $8 to $23 in four trading days. Then quickly dropped back down as far as $13 in three days. Then wandered sideways while the Nasdaq pulled back and my three swing signals – market timing signals based on Price, Breadth and Volatility – remained on sells. When finally, the swing signals began to click in with buy signals (see the chart panel below), RIOT took off riotously again, rising 101% on the price signal, 92% on the breadth signal and 96% on the volatility signal in less than five days (again, see the chart panel below) – as Kennedy Gammage would say “buy when the market tells you.”

None of this makes any sense to me. I like to think this is three guys smoking weed in Castle Rock, Colorado, where it’s legal who get the brain stroke to go for a “blockchain” in their name because they sort of are one…and laughing at the idea. Wouldn’t that be a riot? What a stroke!

Well, Wednesday we may get a chance to see if “sell when the market tells you” is more telling than “sell when the stock tells you” since all of my short-term swing signal gave sells today for tomorrow’s open (see table below). Geez…going to have to take swing profits on these signal, somewhere around 90% to 100%. On a stock in three to five days.

What a riot!

SWING TRADING SIGNALS:

LONG-TERM BREADTH: Buy (Day 4).

PRICE: Sell. (Day 1).

SHORT-TERM BREADTH: Sell. (Day 1).

VOLATILITY: Sell, (Day 1).

CONTEXT:

SPY CLOSE – 266.78

QQQ CLOSE – 155.69

CNN MONEY’S FEAR AND GREED INDEX: (65, rising, greed level).

NIFTY-50 STOCK LIST: 27 Buys; 6 Overbought, 4 Oversold, 4 new buys today, 4 new sells.

(click on the chart panel for a larger view)



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