Junior Market makes big breakthrough resistance and seems to be heading higher.
At the close of the Junior Market on Thursday, the market index surged 100.47 points to close at 3,477.34, resulting from gains in 12 securities and eight declines while the prices of 9 remained unchanged, leaving the market’s average PE at 14.3.
Junior Market activity, ended with 29 securities changing hands, resulting in an exchange of 5,740,254 units for $7,603,716 compared to 1,154,175 units for $4,201,370 from 30 securities trading on Wednesday.
Trading ended with an average of 197,940 units for an average of $262,197 in contrast to 38,473 units for an average of $140,046 on Wednesday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 79,486 shares at $192,801 compared to an average of 37,077 shares at $167,956 for each security traded. In contrast, November closed with an average of 120,579 shares at $506,880 for each security trading.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator with three stocks ending with bids higher than their last selling prices and 3 with lower offers.
At the close of the market, Access Financial traded 9,000 units to finish with a gain of $3.67 at $33.77, AMG Packaging lost 1 cent with 13,000 shares changing hands at $2.05, Blue Power rose 9 cents to end at $7 with 3,838 units crossing the market, Caribbean Cream lost 15 cents in ending at $4.25, by swapping 22,651 shares. Caribbean Flavours, traded 100 shares, but lost 64 cents in closing at $15, Caribbean Producers added just 1 cent to close at $4.80 with an exchange of 12,000 shares, Consolidated Bakeries lost 35 cents in closing at a 52 weeks’ low of $1.45 with 839,5000 shares crossing the exchange. Elite Diagnostic gained 20 cents after a transfer of 8,590 shares at $5.50. Everything Fresh dipped 19 cents after exchanging 90,368 shares at $1.03, Fontana gained 5 cents and closed trading of 93,258 units, to end at $7.85. FosRich jumped $1.89 to end at $5.50 while exchanging 8,590 shares, Honey Bun closed with a rise of 39 cents at $7.99, with 37,205 stock units crossing the exchange, iCreate traded 725,100 shares but fell 5 cents to end at a 52 weeks’ low of 55 cents. Indies Pharma traded 2,814 shares and rose 15 cents and close at $3.20, Jamaican Teas traded 3,077 shares after declining by 5 cents to end at $6.15, Knutsford Express climbed 90 cents in exchanging 1,330 shares at $11. Lasco Distributors closed trading of 7,700 units and lost 16 cents to end at $3.54, 
Lasco Financial gained just 1 cent to close at $4.42 with 17,200 shares changing hands, Limners and Bards lost 2 cents with 32,050 shares changing hands at $2.80. Recently listed, MailPac traded 3,596,138 shares with the price jumped 85 cents to close at a new high of $2.17. The stock has more than doubled the IPO price of $1; it went to the market in November. Medical Disposables traded 2,536 shares after rising 51 cents to close at $8, SSL Venture Capital, to be renamed Boost Venture traded 70,850 shares but fell 35 cents close at a 52 weeks’ low of $1.15 and Stationery and Office Supplies rose 50 cents in trading 96 units at $11.50.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
Junior Market activities ended on Wednesday with 30 securities changing hands, resulting in an exchange of 1,154,175 units for $4,201,370 compared to 1,065,830 units valued at $4,608,133 from 25 securities trading on Tuesday. 
Investors transferred 30,200 shares of Jetcon Corporation after falling 15 cents to end at $1.80, Knutsford Express lost 90 cents in trading 1,500 stock units at $10.10,Lasco Distributors closed trading with 88,435 units and gained 20 cents to end at $3.70. Limners and Bardslost 7 cents with 36,899 shares changing hands at $2.82, newly listed MailPac traded 49,373 shares and rose 32 cents to close at a new high of $1.32.Main Eventlost 20 cents to close at $6 after 36,234 shares crossed the exchange, Stationery and Office Supplies lost 55 cents in trading 36,550 units at $11 and tTechfell 50 cents in transferring 50 stock units at $5.50.
Junior Market activity ended on Tuesday with 25 securities changing hands, resulting in an exchange of 1,065,830 units valued at $4,608,133 compared to 783,241 units at $4,794,911 from 26 securities trading on Monday. 
Jetcon Corporation transferred just 15 shares after rising 15 cents to end at $1.95, Lasco Distributors closed trading of 17,427 units and shed 40 cents to end at $3.50. 
Junior Market activities ended on Monday with 26 securities changing hands, from 29 on Friday, resulting in an exchange of 883,148 units valued at $4,794,911 compared to 2,703,365 units valued at $18,646,706 on Friday. 
Lasco Distributors closed trading of 9,000 units and gained 40 cents to end at $3.90. Lasco Financial closed trading of 17,100 units and shed 9 cents to end at $4.41, Lasco Manufacturing exchanged 171,733 shares, after rising 17 cents to end at $5.22, Limners and Bards lost 5 cents and traded 7,500 shares at $2.95. Paramount Trading rose 2 cents in transferring 38,656 stock units at $1.98, Stationery and Office Supplies fell 5 cents in trading of 16,904 units at $11 and tTech exchanged 8,000 shares at $6 with the fall of 1 cent.
With the closing of the two initial public offers of MailPac Group and Lumber Depot last week, things started to return to more normally in the market this past week with the two main markets recording net gains for the week. 
Importantly, the company is on the way to earn 70 cents per share for 2020.
Projected earnings, along with the PE ratio for each company’s current fiscal year, are used in determining potential gains with the likely gains ranked in descending order with highest-ranked being the most attractive. Potential values will change as stock prices fluctuate and will result in movements of the selection in and out of the lists for most weeks. Earnings per share are revised on an ongoing basis as new information is received that can result in changes in and out of the list.
Junior Market activities ended on Friday with 29 securities changing hands, from 32 on Thursday, resulting in an exchange of 2,703,365 shares costing $18,646,706, compared to 9,668,717 units for $14,175,803 on Thursday. 
Knutsford Express traded 57,500 units and gained 82 cents to end at $11. KLE Group fell 30 cents in trading of 25,000 units at a 52 weeks’ low of $1.40, Lasco Distributors closed trading of 161,966 units and gained 20 cents to end at $3.50. Lasco Financial closed trading of 49,351 units and gained 11 cents to end at $4.50, Lasco Manufacturing exchanged 18,705 shares, after rising 3 cents to end at $5.05, Limners and Bards climbed 18 cents and traded 29,455 shares at $3, Paramount Trading shed 4 cents in a transfer of 21,750 units at $1.96 and Stationery and Office Supplies fell 45 cents in trading of 4,921 units at $11.05.
At the close of the market, Access Financial climbed $8 to settle at $37 with 68,059 shares changing hands, Blue Power lost 5 cents at $6.90, in swapping 6,743 units, Caribbean Flavours added 5 cents after exchanging 4,702 stock units at $13. Dolphin Cove gained $1.90 to end at $11.20 in trading 3,196 shares, Derrimon Trading ended with a loss of 1 cent at $2.64 with 7,405 stock units changing hands, Express Catering fell 20 cents trading 650 units at $6.20, Everything Fresh ended with 8,910,186 shares crossing the exchange, after rising 21 cents to $1.25. Express Catering fell 20 cents trading 650 units at $6.20, Fosrich lost 10 cents in trading 27,056 shares to close at $4.70, General Accident gained 55 cents to end at $7.75, in exchanging 10,000 shares, GWest Corporation closed with 100,000 units crossing the exchange and gained 7 cents to end at 97 cents. 
Indies Pharma ended market activity exchanging 137,922 shares to close at $3.10 after falling 26 cents, Jamaican Teas gained 10 cents with 24,400 shares crossing the market at $6.20, Lasco Distributors dipped 20 cents in an exchange of 14,190 units at $3.30, Lasco Financial closed 9 cents higher at $4.39, with 4,075 stock units changing hands. Lasco Manufacturing lost 8 cents trading 4,555 shares to close at $5.02, Stationery and Office Supplies rose 31 cents in an exchange of 40,958 shares at $11.50 and tTech traded 3,626 shares, after rising 50 cents to end at $6.01.
Investors traded the same number of Junior Market securities of 30 for each day this week up to Wednesday with modest volume changing hands.
Indies Pharma closed 16 cents higher at $3.36, with 22,045 stock units trading, Jamaican Teas closed 15 cents higher at $6.10, with 6,500 stock units trading. KLE Group fell 5 cents in trading of 540 units at $1.70, Knutsford Express lost 32 cents in trading 7,900 shares, to close at $10.18, Lasco Distributors closed 20 cents higher at $3.50, with 713 stock units changing hands, Lasco Financial fell 20 cents in trading of 26,760 units to close at $4.30. Lasco Manufacturing closed 10 cents higher at $5.10, with a transfer of 187,153 stock units, Limners and Bards climbed 12 cents and exchanged 56,121 shares at $2.82, Main Event fell 50 cents in trading of 9,500 units at $6 and Medical Disposables lost 84 cents with 4,000 units changing hands at $7.96.
Investors traded the same number of Junior Market securities on Tuesday as on Monday but with fewer units changing hands with a mere 779,323 units valued at $4,286,981 compared to 1,945,433 units valued at $5,415,942 on Monday.
Indies Pharma slipped 16 cents in trading 12,809 stock units to close at $3.20, Jamaican Teas shed 25 cents with 15,300 units crossing the exchange at $5.95. Jetcon Corporation declined 10 cents in trading 3,210 units at $1.80, Knutsford Express saw 3,368 units transferred with a gain of 50 cents to end at $10.50, Lasco Distributors shed 10 cents in trading of 55,474 units at $3.30, Lasco Manufacturing lost 15 cents in 54,354 units changing hands at $5. Limners and Bards fell 5 cents in trading of 33,137 units at $2.70, Medical Disposables traded with 27,000 shares, after rising 80 cents to end at $8.80, Paramount Trading closed with a transfer of 26,842 units and gained 25 cents to end at $2 and SSL Venture lost 8 cents in trading 3,000 shares to close at $1.50.
Trading activity on the Junior Market on Monday ended with 30 securities changing hands, against 26 26 on Friday but with an exchange of just 1,945,433 units valued at $5,415,942 compared to 5,092,867 units valued at $20,132,259 on Friday.
Blue Power closed trading of 1,600 units and gained 10 cents to end at $7.30, Caribbean Flavours rose 70 cents higher to close at $13, with 2,298 stock units changing hands. Caribbean Producers closed with a loss of 5 cents at $4.70, in swapping of 109,552 shares, Consolidated Bakeries exchanged 35,000 units and gained 1 cent to end at $1.80, Elite Diagnostic ended trading with 81,123 shares, after rising 31 cents to $5.30. Investors transferred 252,481 units of Everything Fresh moving the price up by 5 cents to end at $1.10, Express Catering gained 30 cents to end at $6.40, in trading 18,082 shares, Fosrich fell 5 cents with 18,900 units changing hands at $4.75, General Accident climbed 79 cents to end at $8.09, with 19,988 stock units trading. Honey Bun rose 5 cents and exchanged 882 shares at $6.50, iCreate gained 1 cent to end at 62 cents, after trading 281,304 shares, Indies Pharma shed 3 cents with 30,104 units crossing the exchange at $3.36, Iron Rock Insurance lost 3 cents in trading 93,990 units at $3.45. Jamaican Teas lost 3 cents trading 17,750 units at $6.20, 
Jetcon Corporation closed with a loss of 5 cents at $1.90, in swapping of 20,200 shares, Knutsford Express lost 85 cents in trading 3,643 stocks units to close at $10, Lasco Distributors dropped 49 cents in trading of 6,091 units at $3.40. Lasco Financial closed trading of 322,888 units and gained 35 cents to end at $4.50, Lasco Manufacturing fell 4 cents in trading of 45,901 units at $5.15, Limners and Bards climbed 3 cents and exchanged 63,595 shares at $2.75. Medical Disposables closed trading of 3,000 units and gained 55 cents to end at $8, Main Event climbed 40 cents in exchanging 200 shares at $6.50, Stationery and Office Supplies rose 13 cents to settle at $11.19 with 2,300 shares changing hands. SSL Venture gained 8 cents to close at $1.58, with 373,768 stock units trading and Ttech climbed 1 cent and exchanged 14,936 shares at $5.51.