Wednesday, September 21, 2011

On Selling RIM

A few posts ago I mused that Research In Motion at $23 was almost a joke – unless the market knew something we don’t know - but I don’t think RIM is going bust anytime soon. The technical view of RIM is one of the worst big cap train wrecks I have ever seen. RIM was so bad it had to be good

A few weeks later there was some technical good news on RIM based on a relative perform analysis on RIM vs. AAPL. In August RIM popped from $22 to over $32 then suddenly the torpedo and now right back to $22. Clearly the trade is not working and so I have three choices - sell, hold or add on to the position

Adding on is out because we never add to a losing position unless we planed the original buy in tranches. I won't sell yet just in case we are forming a double bottom. Note the slightly higher money flow lines. I will however sell on a weekly close below the August 8 low of $21.40 - see the daily RIM chart with the stop support line.

2 comments:

Piazzi said...

TSX has violated what you had marked as major support

sjalees said...

Hi Bill
Are you still holding RIM? It has hit darn close to Aug 8 bottom.
Best regards,

Sayed