2018-12-03: Comments: Current holding CTRE has shown two additional high-volume up-days, i.e., institutional buying, and so we moved to a FULL (20%) position in the name. 

2018-12-02: Comments: Adding USNA (pivot buy point $123.25, 18-week cup-and-handle base, accelerating sales/earnings growth, margin expansion, ROE 22.16%, Institutional A/D 2.31, Industry Group Rank #8, Relative Strength Rank 92, stop $115, trade risk -6.7%) to the Watch List for Monday, December 3, 2018 - HALF POSITION ONLY. 

On Friday, CTRE triggered it's buy point, and was purchased for the GSA Portfolio.

2018-11-29: Comments: Adding CTRE (pivot buy point $20, base-on-base breakout on 173% avg daily volume, accelerating sales growth, Institutional A/D rank 1.35, Industry Group Rank #1 (REIT), Relative Strength Rank 94, stop $18.85, trade risk -5.8%) to the Watch List for Friday, November 30, 2018 - HALF POSITION ONLY.

2018-11-28: Comments: Watch List candidate ROL triggered it's buy point, and was purchased for the GSA Portfolio.

2018-11-27: Comments: Adding ROL (pivot buy point $62.10, 10-week cup-and-handle base, accelerating sales/earnings growth, margin expansion, ROE 31%, Industry Group Rank #28, Relative Strength Rank 93, stop $59.29, trade risk -4.5%) to the Watch List for Wednesday, November 28, 2018 - HALF POSITION, PILOT BUY ONLY.

2018-11-12: Comments: We were stopped out of SPSC at -7.5%.

2018-11-08: Comments: Watch List candidate SPSC was purchased for the GSA Portfolio.

2018-11-07: Comments: Adding SPSC (pivot buy point $97.68, 8-week cup-and-handle base, upward earnings estimate revisions, curr year est grow +93%, sales/earnings acceleration, margin expansion, institutional A/D 1.31, pocket pivot, Relative Strength Rank 95, Industry Group Rank #3, stop $90.48, trade risk -7.4%) to the Watch List for Thursday, November 8, 2018.

2018-10-07: Comments: We were stopped out of PLNT at -5.63%. All out once again this year.

2018-10-02: Comments: We were stopped out of DIN at a loss of -5.2%. None of our pilot buys are working - continuing to keep things light.

2018-09-26: Comments: Watch List candidate PLNT triggered its buy point, and was purchased for the GSA Portfolio.

2018-09-23: Comments: Not seeing many high quality, low risk basing pattern set-ups in the current environment, as well as getting stopped out/no movement in pilot buys - SITTING OUT for now.

2018-09-18: Comments: FIX and NVTR did not act as expected, and were sold from the GSA Portfolio at -2.6% and -2.2% respectively.

2018-09-16: Comments: Adding PLNT (pivot buy point $52.3, 5-week cup-and-handle base, accelerating earnings/sales, margin expansion, curr year growth est +34.85%, Institutional A/D Rank 2.46, Industry Group Rank #24, Relative Strength Rank 93, stop $49.5, trade risk -5.4% - HALF POSITION ONLY) to the Watch List for Monday, September 17, 2018.

2018-09-09: Comments: Continuing to maintain a 30% exposure to the market, with limited success in our holdings. We are not seeing a lot of quality, low-risk setups at the current time, and so we watch and wait.

2018-08-27: Comments: NVTR and DIN triggered their buy points and were purchased for the GSA Portfolio.

2018-08-25: Comments: Adding NVTR (pivot buy point $21.54, 10-week cup-and-handle base, upward earnings estimate revisions, accelerating sales, Insitutional A/D 1.91, pocket pivot, Industry Group Rank #22, Relative Strength Rank 98, stop $19.95, trade risk -7.5% - HALF POSITION ONLY), DIN (pivot buy point $81.66, 9-week cup-and-handle base within 18-week larger base, current year earnings estimate +23.37%, accelerating sales and earnings, Insitutional A/D 1.09, pocket pivot, Industry Group Rank #26, Relative Strength Rank 94, stop $77.58, trade risk -5% - HALF POSITION ONLY) to the Watch List for Monday, August 27, 2018.

2018-08-21: Comments: Watch List candidate FIX triggered it's buy point, and was purchased for the GSA Portfolio.

2018-08-19: Comments: Taking a toe-in-the-water position in FIX (pivot buy point $56.71, 3-weeks tight pattern, upward quarterly estimate revisions, current year growth estimate +56%, institutional A/D Rank 1.12, Price/Sales 1.07, ROE 18%, Industry Group Rank #43, Relative Strength Rank 91, stop $53.87, trade risk -5% - STARTER HALF SIZE ONLY) to the Watch List for Monday, August 20, 2018.

2018-07-30: Comments: Stopped out of remaining names as expected. CHEF (-4.12%), USAT (-3.35%), FIVE (-6.76%).