I’ve been working on the following project for a couple of weeks on and off and as simple as its data may be I think it gives some interesting insights/ affirmations to Tim’s strategy. As you’ve seen in the title this is ‘Part 1’. This is because I believe the data can show multiple insights; you’ll have to wait for the remainder as I work through the data. It’s important to also note that Tim constantly mentions that his watchlists are not there for purely stock picks, sure you can look at it and determine for yourself if it matches and is worth your setups, but more so you should take away the why certain stocks are in play and what setups he’s looking to execute if at all, and so the lessons learnt below are one way of studying his watchlists.

In this analysis I captured all stocks Tim mentioned in play for a one year sample set, in his watchlists from June 2015 to July 2014. I listed and categorised under long or short each stock Tim mentioned. Each stock mention represents 1 week of mention.

The data for part 1 shows the following:

418 stocks mentioned throughout the year

262 stocks long biased. Demystifying any thoughts that Tim is predominantly short biased.

156 stocks short biased

1160 The number of times 418 stocks where mentioned in play for the year. Interesting, why? Because it means focusing on a strategy, a small number of stocks can be in play throughout the whole year.

191 the number of stocks that were only mentioned in play once (meaning for 1 week) for the whole year.

227 the number of stocks that were in play for more than 1 week. 82 were in play for 2 weeks, and 16 stocks were in play for more than 10 weeks, not sequentially, but on an on and off basis throughout the year. Infact 1 stock VOIL was mentioned for 21 weeks within the year, that’s 21 out of 52 weeks in a year, with DGLY coming in second with 20 weeks.

32.62% Technology Sector; the highest selected sector of stocks in play by Tim. This just statistically confirms that Tim does have a preference to this sector, and he’s mentioned it, year in year out.

25.71% Healthcare Sector; the second highest number of sector stocks in play, in other words biotechs, and throughout this year we are aware that biotech has been the trend alike marijuana stocks last year Point-in-case VLTC today.

The full list of sectors Tim mentioned in play with his stock picks:

%	Sector
32.62	Technology
25.71	Healthcare
16.19	Services (Restaurants mostly)
8.10	Industrial Goods
6.43	Consumer Goods
5.48	Basic Materials
1.67	Conglomerates
2.38	Financial
0.48	Raw Materials
0.48	Utilities
0.24	Warrant
0.24	Oil & Gas

As noted below, Tim mostly trades stocks on NASDAQ, predominantly where tech stocks are, no surprise.

%	Exchange
66.9	NASDAQ
18.66	OTCBB
7.89	NYSE
6.46	AMEX

 

335 Stocks where mentioned to hail from USA but in second place was China with 37 and third Israel with 15.

40 out of 418 The number of stocks in play that were originally above $10/share. Meaning Tim trades stocks below $10/share 90% of the time. He sticks to his strategy. He trades penny stocks. 

Slight errors:

Some stocks sectors, industry and country location were not listed on either yahoo finance, finviz, or by google search and were categorised by company description.

Stocks long or short were categorised by first sight. The data was analysed from June 2015 backwards. So remember that Tim’s bias is dynamic and some stocks may have ended up on the opposite bias at one time or the other i.e. a stock categorised as long may have had a short bias a previous week. This is specific to stocks that were mentioned for more than 1 week of in play.

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