Top Ten Smart Money Moves – March 16, 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 March 16, 2020 Data)
Total Traded Value – PhP 6.443 Billion – Low
Advances Declines – (Ideal is 2:1) 46 Advances vs. 145 Declines = 3.15:1 Bearish
Total Foreign Buying PhP 3.180 Billion
Total Foreign Selling – (PhP 3.922) Billion
Net Foreign Buying (Selling) – (PhP0.742) Billion – 3rd day of Net Foreign Selling after a day 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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Stocks plunge as investors assess virus impact
March 16, 2020 | 9:00 pm
By Denise A. Valdez, Reporter
LOCAL SHARES plunged on Monday as investors continue to assess the economic impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
The 30-member Philippine Stock Exchange index lost 458.57 points or 7.91% to 5,335.37 on Monday. The broader all shares index likewise dropped 221.85 points or 6.35% to 3,271.79.
“Market has been sent into turmoil by COVID-19, same with the rest of the world,” First Metro Investment Corp. Vice-President Cristina S. Ulang said in a text message. “The volatility will subside and a recovery is possible only if and when the infection spread dissipates.”
As Metro Manila started its first working day under community quarantine yesterday, listed firms one-by-one disclosed the impact of limited operations to their businesses. This resulted in almost all PSEi member stocks hitting their 52-week lows.
The PSE also kicked off yesterday its reduced trading hours starting yesterday which will last until April 14. The local market will open at 9 a.m. and close at 1 p.m.
“With the number of cases rising, the country has added measures for more social distancing. This however would imply that growth would be cut as establishments would realize less business as a result,” Regina Capital Development Corp. Head of Sales Luis A. Limlingan said in a mobile message.
“Furthermore, stock futures plunged Sunday night even after the Federal Reserve embarked on a massive monetary stimulus campaign… [M]any investors said they would ultimately want to see coronavirus cases peaking and falling in the US before it was safe to take on risk and buy equities again,” he added.
All sectoral indices at the local bourse closed in red territory yesterday. Holding firms lost 568.49 points or 10.02% to 5,105.16; financials dropped 126.47 points or 8.93% to 1,289.19; property trimmed 232.35 points or 7.78% to 2,753.05; mining and oil shaved off 204.34 points or 4.32% to 4,523.47; industrials fell 176.21 points or 2.49% to 6,894.90; and services slipped 26.14 points or 2.20% to 1,161.47.
Some 618.19 million issues valued at P6.44 billion switched hands on Monday, down from last Friday’s 950.23 million issues worth P10.72 billion.
Declining stocks outnumbered those that gained, 145 against 46, while 40 names ended unchanged.
Foreign outflows were trimmed to a net P741.72 million from last session’s net selling worth P1.64 billion.
During these times, Ms. Ulang said it is best to have a diversified portfolio and not chase market rallies.
“If you’re light in equities, load up on high quality, high-paying dividend stock. Be selective. Secure some accrual income from government and corporate debts,” she said.
Source: https://www.bworldonline.com/stocks-plunge-as-investors-assess-virus-impact/
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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.