Douglas Estadt

Webcasts thousands of CEO conferences
Has daily video stock update show on MSN
Personal Information
Education
University of Pennsylvania
Job Title
Founder and CEO, Wall Street Media and Wall Street Webcasting
Industry
Financial Services

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Short term model (day trading) which buys credible growth stories and waits for the news to be priced into the stock. Prefers small to mid cap stocks.

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INVESTOR
Inception date
Risk Score
Strategy
Asset class
Cap. bias
Long/Short
Current holdings 12
Avg. trades per month
Latest trade LVS
Subscribers

Performance and Risk

Performance Summary (as at end of )
Manager*
S&P 500
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* Includes trades that fail Covestor Trading Rules

Past performance is not indicative of future performance

Strategy

Summary

The model relies on access to management pitches and conference calls and looks for powerful growth stories.  It then takes a view on whether these are credible, and not yet fully valued in by the market. Short term model that buys credible growth stories and waits for the news to be priced in.

Asset Allocation

Top Holdings (excluding cash) (as at end of )
Symbol Security Allocation(%)
GGP General Growth Properties, Inc. 87.50
AUTC AutoChina International Limited 19.86
JOEZ Joe's Jeans Inc. 15.54
DCTH Delcath Systems, Inc. 14.54
CBOE CBOE Holdings, Inc. 13.10
  Top holdings total (excluding cash) 150.55%
  Cash -87.34%
  Total number of holdings 12
  Leverage 1.87

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Investment Report

May 2010

In his "The Black Swan" Taleb called it "losing the noise" and 2009 was the year I did that by cutting off all financial news/information from any source which was not transparent with their investments/trades. I have earned my returns for the year by only seeing/hearing financial info from people/sources who show me what they are doing with their money.

When I have taken a position based on a theory I have stuck to it (and added to it when the position moved against me) in each case when I continued to believe the reason I initially opened the position remained valid.

I will be continue to be long China/Vietnam/Hong Kong, biotechs with late stage products, and “story” stocks. I will continue to day trade when I see what I think/hope are profitable trades.

History

Monthly Performance (%)
Month Return Avg. Sub. Risk Performance

Transactions

Latest Transactions (as at end of )
Executed Symbol Security Type Price
September 01, 2010 LVS Las Vegas Sands Corp. Sell $29.15
September 01, 2010 TTWO Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. Buy $8.39
September 01, 2010 TTWO Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. Buy $8.39
August 31, 2010 LVS Las Vegas Sands Corp. Buy $28.39
August 31, 2010 CBOE CBOE Holdings, Inc. Buy $20.95
August 31, 2010 CMFO China Marine Food Group Limited Sell $5.26
August 31, 2010 UCO ProShares Ultra DJ-UBS Crude Oil Sell $8.94
August 31, 2010 UCO ProShares Ultra DJ-UBS Crude Oil Buy $8.95

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