Top Ten Smart Money Moves – August 17, 2020
Top Ten Smart Money Moves, starting January 2015, is the official trading newsletter of The Responsible Trader to promote his advocacy, Responsible Trading. This newsletter contains the previous day’s data from PSE, the Top Ten Foreign Buying and Selling, Top Ten in Total Traded Value, including Trading Notes based on the data of the previous day. This newsletter is given free to all the friends of The Responsible Trader and to members of the Facebook group and the other organizations where he is a member. For the previous issue where complete details about the newsletter was fully discussed, please refer to: Daily Top Tens October 17, 2014.
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As promised in my last post, Back from the Hack, we are resuming all our activities both in our website and Facebook starting August 1, 2019.
This section of our website has been running for the past five years. Perhaps you are asking, why Top Ten Smart Money Moves? This is what I have written in my new book: “Swing Trading with TRT – A Definitive Guide for Swing Trading the Philippine Stock Market.”
“SMART MONEY
The PSE achieved a milestone by the end of the year 2018 when they reported that the number of stock market accounts broke past the one million mark as a result of the substantial increase in online accounts.
Retail investors owned most of the stock market accounts, representing 97.5% of the total accounts while the remaining 2.5% is held by the institutional investors also considered as smart money.
While we, the retail traders, are big in number, we are small in terms of influence in the stock market because more than 50% of the Total Traded Value Daily is accounted for the institutional investors whose transactions are focused mostly on a handful of their selected stocks.
In our Website, we have a regular feature “Top Ten Smart Money Moves” where we monitor the Top Ten stocks being bought and sold by the smart money.
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Trading Notes for Today – (Based on August 17, 2020 Data)
Total Traded Value – PhP 5.765 Billion – Low
Advances Declines – (Ideal is 2:1) 73 Advances vs. 104 Declines = 1.42:1 Neutral
Total Foreign Buying PhP 2.086 Billion
Total Foreign Selling – (PhP 2.575) Billion
Net Foreign Buying (Selling) – (PhP 0.489) Billion – first day of Net Foreign Selling after 2 days of Net Foreign Buying
Data from the Philippine Stock Exchange
Screenshot courtesy of PSE.com.ph
PSE HEAT MAP
Screenshot courtesy of PSEGET
Top Ten Foreign Buying and Selling
Top Ten in Total Traded Value
Top Ten Gainers and Losers
From now on, I will just quote the related article from Business World so that we will have everything in one piece:
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PSEi declines ahead of Duterte’s announcement
August 17, 2020 | 9:00 pm
PHILIPPINE SHARES ended in negative territory on Monday as investors awaited the government’s announcement of new quarantine protocols in Metro Manila and nearby provinces.
The benchmark Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) fell 8.13 points or 0.13% to 6,068.78 while the broader all shares index went down 1.85 points or 0.05% to 3,594.34.
Philstocks Financial, Inc. Research Associate Claire T. Alviar said in a mobile phone message that aside from anticipation for President Rodrigo R. Duterte’s announcement regarding new lockdown measures scheduled Monday night, investors are likewise still “digesting” the first-half earnings of listed companies following the last day of reporting.
“The government is expected to announce new guidelines in Metro Manila and other areas. Many investors are anticipating more relaxed lockdown measures since the Palace is very vocal that we cannot afford to extend the strict measures,” Ms. Alviar said.
“Relaxed quarantine guidelines will give a positive sentiment for the market while extending strict lockdown will point otherwise,” she added.
Meanwhile, PNB Securities, Inc. President Manuel Antonio G. Lisbona said Aug. 16 marked the start of the Chinese ghost month, when the index historically goes into a slump as investors typically hold off on trading.
“Looks like the market is poised to confirm yet another year where the ghost month’s bearish nature will prevail,” Mr. Lisbona said in a mobile phone message.
Most sectoral indices declined on Monday, except property which increased 14.28 points or 0.48% to 2,959.77 and holding firms which rose 14.09 points or 0.22% to 6,259.11
Meanwhile, industrials fell 71.81 points or 0.9% to 7,884.28; financials shrank 10.23 points or 0.88% to 1,151.69; services contracted 7.72 points or 0.53% to 1,432.01; and mining and oil retreated 25.36 points or 0.43% to 5,843.88.
Value turnover stood at P5.76 billion on Monday with 3.07 billion issues switching hands, down from the previous trading day’s P9.46 billion with 6.80 billion issues.
Decliners beat advancers, 104 against 73, while 62 names ended unchanged.
Net foreign selling stood at P489.04 million at the close of Monday’s session versus Friday’s net buying worth P516.25 million.
“Foreigners turned net sellers after two consecutive days of being net buyers. As we progress through the week, we’ll have to see if the 6,000 support area holds,” Timson Securities, Inc. Head of Online Trading and Trader Darren Blaine T. Pangan said in a mobile phone message.
“Given the current economic circumstances, the odds are high that the market will not break through 6,100 or sustain a move above 6,100 if it does break out,” PNB’s Mr. Lisbona said. — R.M.D. Ochave
Source: https://www.bworldonline.com/psei-declines-ahead-of-dutertes-announcement/
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Good luck on all your TRADES today.
DISCLAIMER There is a very high degree of risk involved in TRADING. Past results are not indicative of future returns. Nothing contained in this newsletter constitutes a solicitation, recommendation, PROMOTION or endorsement of any security. In accordance with the Responsible TRADER’s Creed: I will never tell and you take full responsibility for all your TRADING results
NOTES: Please take note of the following changes. Effective August 6, 2015: 1. Caption Market Breadth has been changed to Total Traded Value to simplify the presentation. 2. Market Breadth is expressed in terms of Number of Advances and Declines. Expressing this as a Ratio by using the larger number as Numerator we derive the Market Sentiment whether Bullish or Bearish. 3. Based on Past three-year data of Average Total Traded Values, following classifications will be used to make the presentation more relevant to present times. a. Low – Total Traded Value less than PhP 8 Billion b. Medium – Total Traded Value Php 8 Billion but not more than P15 Billion c. High – Total Traded Value more than Php 15 Billion.
Starting with August 11, 2017 data we are including the Top Ten Gainers and Losers for a more comprehensive coverage of significant stock movements during the day.