Promising Long Shots

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A couple of days ago, I bought into a large quantity of small high-risk/high-reward positions (the entire 41 of which you can see in the watch list in the right column labeled Long Stocks (High Risk). It's only been a couple of days, but the behavior of this set of stocks has been pretty encouraging so far.

Most of them look something like this:

One might assume I've taken leave of my senses, since this kind of chart looks like that of a company headed for $0. I'm sure in a few cases it does. But I've spread my bets so widely, and my confidence of a general market boost sometime in the next couple of months is so strong, I've put an entire account into precisely these kinds of positions. And I think I'll be able to do something in this account in a very short amount of time I normally wouldnt' be able to do………….double it.

Here are a few samples (with closer views than you normally see, plus volume) of these holdings.

I would note that CEG, shown above, is a good example of the kind of meaty percentage gain I'm after; its trading pre-market is showing a 15% gain, and I think there's plenty more where that came from.