Afterthoughts: Metrics for stock evaluation.

Here is from my recent experience:

My trading on this stock involves several buys and sells so far. Here is the trade history. In 12/14/12, I have two buys. As of 10/07/14, I still own the stock.

Buy On	At	Sell On	At	Days	Return	Ann. Return
12/14/12	8.06	01/17/14	32.07	389	298%	279%
12/14/12	8.06	01/08/14	30.00	380	272%	261%
04/24/14	18.48	06/17/14	20.11	53	9%	61%
04/28/14	17.56	10/07/14	19.80	162	13%	29%

CAMP is a good stock to trade as the fundamentals were quite good most of the time. When the fundamentals are good, buy it. When they are bad, sell it.

I can tell the price and its P/E were exceedingly high in Jan, 2014 and that’s the reason I sold it besides qualifying for the long-term capital gain. On 1/17/14, the stock was high valued at $32.07 with P/E = 24 and RSI = 65. It was even higher valued at $32.80 with P/E = 104 and RSI=67. 

It looked like a double top to me in Jan. to March. A double top predicts a plunge. The price dropped almost half in April, 2014 and I picked the stock up two times at decent prices. From the chart, notice the double bottom, a technical indicator that predicts a surge.  Use the double top and bottom as a secondary indicator.

Today, the stock was up by about 20% after the earnings announcement. The forward P/E looks very decent and so is my Pow P/E (similar to P/E with cash and debt into consideration) with almost one dollar cash per share and only 1% debt/equity.