Stocks in a Portfolio

[metro]

Hi SSP,

quick question, are the portfolios set up to not hold any stocks at a given time or does there always need to be one?

I am surprised WTN hasnt set off the sell trigger yet.

[garilou]

quick question, are the portfolios set up to not hold any stocks at a given time or does there always need to be one?

As far as I understand the system, since the triggers are set for each stock individually, I guess there is no reason that a portfolio could not be empty at a given time.
I wonder what Super Stocker Picker would answer that question,

When a sell order arrives, I always look if it would not be a good signal for a short: I did a lot of profit when I  shorted INM when a sell order arrived for that stock!

I am surprised WTN hasnt set off the sell trigger yet.

I guess you are not the only one. 
This sort of interrogation has come out a few times for other stocks. The thing is that we do not know the secret recipe that triggers buys and sells.   

[Super Stock Picker]

Hello,

Regarding the Price Momentum portfolios, the Weekly and Monthly versions have hardcoded limits so that there will always be between 3 and 10 stocks on hold at anytime.

Then, the Ultimate Price Momentum series portfolios need a stock to be in the Weekly for a certain number of weeks so if the Weekly fully refresh every week, all the other ones would be empty.

That's enough theory. Practically, I think I remember once when the Ultimate v4 and v5 have been empty for a week or two.
And the only reason why WTN has not been sold yet is because the stock is still meeting our criteria for those portfolios, nothing else.

[garilou]

You were fast SSP 

I wanted to add that in topic:
Statistics about our portfolios performances
http://www.superstockpicker.com/forum/index.php?topic=28.0

We can see (at the very end) that effectively Ultimate Price Momentum v5 updated weekly was at least once totally empty.

On the other hand, the Portfolio: Low PEG Ratio updated monthly had once a maximum number of stocks on hold of 16!!!
This is a lot!

If I ever had so many stocks in my portfolio, I'd be happy that someone would monitor it for me
 
In the moment. I have in my accounts 1 US stock, 2 CAN stock, 2 US shorts, 1 CAN short, and  I have my hands full! 

Louise