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Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 7:55
AM
Subject: [sharechat] WAM an interesting
example of changing sentiment
Remember a few
months ago, WAM was at around 2.50.
Interesting at the time were the differing
opinions. I thought them a buy on instinct ie oversold
Phedorus thought they were a buy when they went
into uptrend 2.47?
and Peter gave us a highly detailed fundamental
report on why they were only worth
2.20 !
Adding to all this a big fund
manager was unloading shares as fast as possible.
General sentiment seemed to be that competition
was rising and the loss of the auckland
contract was detrimental.
Now a few months later what do we find ? Shareprice rising over 3
dollars,
all the brokers picking the stock as one of the
years star performers and suddenly
once again WAM are back in favour.
What does this all
tell us?
1. Sentiment changes rapidly
2. Share prices fluctuate for no apparent
fundamental reason (company not changed anything)
3. Brokers and fund managers move markets and are
fickle creatures
4. Fundamental analysis is not guaranteed to pick
prices, ie peters post
5. T.A ignored all this and bought at a good
time
6. Ignore brokers picks, (probably
recommended all those they currently overweight in so further gains
unlikely)
Nick