"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame" Erica Jong

As some of the more frequent visitors to my blog might already know, my investing style is somewhat different from a typical money manager out there. A significant portion of my portfolio is selected based on somewhat mechanical basis- it is intended to serve as a "hedge" against my more aggressive short and contrarian picks. Remember, the quant screens I use, utilize a number of factors that I personally (not necessarily conventional Wall Street quant funds) consider important. A lot of well followed financial/accounting research out there is too widely followed, and thus is quite useless in my book as it is not going to generate you any excess return...

I repeat my exercise monthly, but absent a significant price decline in the original picks I only rebalance my list quarterly. Below is a group of new stocks that made it to my most recent scan. To my surprise many of the oil servicing stocks still managed to make it into the top 15 again... My skeptical mind is telling me that oil prices will have to fall over the next 12 months, but my quantitative side keeps telling me that it is still too early to sell the O&G servicers regardless of what the oil does in the short term... Oh, well I guess I'll just have to find a middle ground and will simply take smaller positions in these stocks than I would have otherwise...

I am not going to go into much detail explaining the rationale for these plays- consider this to be simply another list of ideas from your truly:

APH- Amphenol Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets electrical, electronic and fiber optic connectors, interconnect systems, and coaxial and flat-ribbon cable worldwide.

SPN-Superior Energy Services, Inc. provides oilfield services and equipment to serve drilling and production-related needs of oil and gas companies primarily in the United States.

RPM-RPM International, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture, marketing, and sale of various specialty chemical products to industrial and consumer markets worldwide.

PACR-Pacer International, Inc. operates as a non-asset based third-party logistics provider in North America. The company operates through two segments, Intermodal and Logistics.

WSO-Watsco, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, distributes air conditioning, heating, and refrigeration equipment, as well as related parts and supplies in the United States.

NE-Noble Corporation provides various services for the oil and gas industry in the United States and internationally.

CELG-Celgene Corporation, a biopharmaceutical company, engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of innovative therapies to treat cancer and immune-inflammatory related diseases in Europe and the United States.

CLB-Core Laboratories N.V. provides reservoir description, production enhancement, and reservoir management services to the oil and gas industry worldwide.

PPDI- Pharmaceutical Product Development, Inc. (PPD), a contract research organization, provides drug discovery and development services, post-approval expertise, and compound partnering programs.

Anyway, just thought I would spruce up my usual economic ramblings with some actionable investing ideas :) Don't forget that using stop losses with quant ideas is a very good idea :)

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