Why Not Let PPOT Pick Me Some Stocks
 

We have the other thread where some members did some imaginary stock picks, but how about you make some picks and I will actually purchase them. Just a couple of rules.

1. As I am using real money, how about you only make serious picks.

2. I am going to limit this experiment to $1000 so I am just looking at stocks under $15 to maximize return.

Right off I am looking at Ford (trading around $5.00), but hope you guys can pick out some winners!

This will be interesting to see.

I prefer tan ones, they go well with khakis.

Vwo

You should start a google group so you can track the stocks through a shared Excel ss.

high speed trains, and companies that supply them

buy now, they will start to boom
i've predicted this years ago
today, the first news article of relevance came to the news, KLM-Air France, is looking to start a high speed rail service...

planes are going down with the fuel , trains can be run on any kind of energy

ISIS, wait until it drops below $15. Sell at $18. Its been a perfect channeling stock.

That one may be a winner!

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Bid/Size
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Ask/Size
17.21
Price Open

17.00
Previous Close
17.58
Day High
16.89
Day Low

1.04
Beta
20.15/1/8/08
52wk High/Date
10.91/5/7/08
52wk Low/Date

1.6 Billion
Market Capitalization
95.6 Million
Shares Outstanding
44.60
Volatility Avg(20 day)

754.9 Thousand
Avg Vol (10 day)
NM
P/E Ratio
-1.40
EPS (TTM)

Wasn't this a Simpsons episode? :D

could be , but KLM Air France is going to do it
and it makes sense

i can get faster to Marseille from here, by train then by plane
as costs for fuel go up
the investments in train will see an increased ROI

there are less penalties for surplus weight via trains
they are less affected by particular fuel shortages ( you can make electricity from various fuels)
easier to operate, etc etc etc

all that's holding em back now, is aged infrastructure... air travel was to cheap and competitive to warrant the costs, but all that will change, hell, it IS changing right under our noses... Europe has a lead , with existing railroads, but they need to interlink, Belgium France Holland and UK are partially linked, but Germany isn't, nor is the rest of Europe...

US has immense potential, because of scale, and let's face it, it's not really more difficult to lay down new HST tracks, then to convert old slow speed tracks, you still gotta do the same work,
the only thing you don't do with existing, is acquiring the land... but the US has the advantage of scale, and it's one single nation, vs the scattered ones in the EU...

i'm telling you, HST, in the long run, can't loose with that

How about buying up some UAL (United Airlines). Nice and cheap after this screw up.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080908/bs_nm/ual_dc

Amtrak is making a comeback, eh?

How about FNM or FRE at .70/share?

go to the local library and look at ValueLine

it works and has been proven to work for many decades


or..... CISCO, INTEL, QCOM....

if they go for HST, yes, if they don't, not
the sooner they get off their ass , the better in terms of come back