Portfolio of the Week

[skiracer]

I'm getting ready to post todays results of the POTW but there are 3 position moves that I need help with pertaining to the time of sales prices. They are: I could use these asap if anyone has them available. My brokerage's time and sales doesn't give me the data after the close anymore. Used to be able to go back a couple of days after the close each day but now only during market open hours. This will be a big help please.

Alice4321us: 10:14 sell MTEX.
MIMO_100: 10:31 sell FTEK.
RL: 3:10 enter AXTI.

[peanuts]

Ski,

all are opening prices at the times you posted:

MTEX $15.83
FTEK $19.232
AXTI $4.50 (no trade at 3:10, this is 3:11 opening price)

All information according to Ameritrade

[skiracer]

Ski,

all are opening prices at the times you posted:

MTEX $15.83
FTEK $19.232
AXTI $4.50 (no trade at 3:10, this is 3:11 opening price)

All information according to Ameritrade

You're a nut. Thanks bud. As in Peanuts.

[peanuts]

Ski,

Just real quick: I'm actually positive on my short position, but you have my short as a long. Same with DMK. He's is short, but in a losing position right now, and you have him recorded for a gain. Also, I thought the positions were percentage gain/loss. :confused: If it is dollar gain or loss, then I am calling BRK.A as my stock for the rest of the year. It moves in thousand dollar increments...

and whizzy has a .14 loss, not .05

ps. percentage gain/loss is better.... :D The formula is: ((end-beg)/beg)x100 = percent change

[skiracer]

Ski,

Just real quick: I'm actually positive on my short position, but you have my short as a long. Same with DMK. He's is short, but in a losing position right now, and you have him recorded for a gain. Also, I thought the positions were percentage gain/loss. :confused: If it is dollar gain or loss, then I am calling BRK.A as my stock for the rest of the year. It moves in thousand dollar increments...

and whizzy has a .14 loss, not .05

ps. percentage gain/loss is better.... :D The formula is: ((end-beg)/beg)x100 = percent change

Peanuts,
Whiz's entry was supposed to be 2.01 and not 2.10. That's why I have it .05. Initially when I first looked at the list that Rob posted I missed the two shorts. I changed them to short positions, in red, today but forgot to reverse the numbers as they should be for shorts. Down is + and up is -. I'll fix it right now. With that formula can I plug in the formula and highlight the whole sheet and get the gain/loss percentage for all of the positions at once?

Once I plug the formula into the fx bar what do I do after that please. I would like to show them in percentages if you can lead me through it.

[skiracer]

Well I have been messing around with it and I think that I am getting it a little better and more concise. I would like to know how to flood the background with color or the individual rows or columns with color. Any other suggestions to make it more eye appealing are welcome.
Pete Hansen. I am not dissing you Pete. I don't get anything for BRCL on Stockcharts.com. Sorry but if you would help me out here please Pete and tell me what you want to do. Anyone else get anything on BRCL?
I think I have everyone's positions down right now. I'm putting the long positions in BLUE and the short positions in RED.

Stky is still on the top of the leader board with his NVEC play. This could be it for the week. Not to much change within the remaining players today. Still 5 undecided's in the PRETTY IN PINK ZONE.

Remember any suggestions are welcome as far as making this esthetically pleasing. Here are today's results and standings:
Karel, I think this should be acceptable size wise yes. Before you thumbnail it please give me a chance to make it alittle smaller if it needs it. I like the larger format since it is easier on the eyes as long as it fits your parameters.

http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/8466/potw1031zr5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[dmk112]

Ski, it looks like you're using Excel. To color the background of a cell you can click on the cell and then click on the 'paint bucket' button on the toolbar.

[Karel]

Ski, you are doing just fine. This one is 614px wide. (Rob's were 687, so you have some more room.) I don't think a sheet with a font this big really needs alternating row backgrounds, but here is an Excel tip anyway:

http://www.techonthenet.com/excel/questions/cond_format2.php

They leave a step out however, as you loose the border color this way. Just don't click OK after you have set the background color, but go to the border tab, select the lightest gray as color (or another color when you choose that as your background), and click on Outline. Now you click on OK.

Regards,

Karel

[skiracer]

Ski, you are doing just fine. This one is 614px wide. (Rob's were 687, so you have some more room.) I don't think a sheet with a font this big really needs alternating row backgrounds, but here is an Excel tip anyway:

http://www.techonthenet.com/excel/questions/cond_format2.php

They leave a step out however, as you loose the border color this way. Just don't click OK after you have set the background color, but go to the border tab, select the lightest gray as color (or another color when you choose that as your background), and click on Outline. Now you click on OK.

Thanks Karel and DMK. I wasn't thinking of anything multi-color but maybe a solid color wash for the background with a border around that to emphasize the sheet. Just thoughts and I'll try it later tonight. There is only so much that you can do. What I would like more help with is the suggestion that Peanuts made about the gain/loss being in % rather than numerically. I would like to know how to plug that in and if I have to do it with each players results or can I do the whole sheet at once. Thanks.

[Karel]

[...] What I would like more help with is the suggestion that Peanuts made about the gain/loss being in % rather than numerically. I would like to know how to plug that in and if I have to do it with each players results or can I do the whole sheet at once. Thanks.

Ski, that is easy. Currently you use a formula like =[close] - [entry] for the results. What you need is either:
=([close] - [entry]) / [entry] (and format as a percentage)
or:
=([close] - [entry]) * 100 / [entry] (no need for formatting, but no percentage sign)

This is the formula for long positions. For shorts you put a - just after the =

Regards,

Karel

[skiracer]

Ski, that is easy. Currently you use a formula like =[close] - [entry] for the results. What you need is either:
=([close] - [entry]) / [entry] (and format as a percentage)
or:
=([close] - [entry]) * 100 / [entry] (no need for formatting, but no percentage sign)

This is the formula for long positions. For shorts you put a - just after the =

Regards,

Karel

Thanks Karel. After I type the formula into the fx bar then I just hit enter and it will give me the percentage. Can I highlight the whole sheet and do it all at once or do I have to do it individually?

[peanuts]

Thanks Karel. After I type the formula into the fx bar then I just hit enter and it will give me the percentage. Can I highlight the whole sheet and do it all at once or do I have to do it individually?

While moving the cursor around the worksheet, you might notice that when the cursor goes to the bottom right corner of any cell, the cursor changes to a black + sign. When that happens, you can click on the black + sign and drag a formula in the cardinal directions. In this case, you would type in the formula and then click the black + and drag the formula down to the end of the contestant list. If you'd like, you can email the spreadsheet and I can check it for you. I've got alot of experience with excel, and I like using it. I've set up a generic email address for occasions just like this. Just email the spreadsheet to me and I will check out the formulas. email.peanuts@yahoo.com I hardly ever use this email address

[skiracer]

While moving the cursor around the worksheet, you might notice that when the cursor goes to the bottom right corner of any cell, the cursor changes to a black + sign. When that happens, you can click on the black + sign and drag a formula in the cardinal directions. In this case, you would type in the formula and then click the black + and drag the formula down to the end of the contestant list. If you'd like, you can email the spreadsheet and I can check it for you. I've got alot of experience with excel, and I like using it. I've set up a generic email address for occasions just like this. Just email the spreadsheet to me and I will check out the formulas. email.peanuts@yahoo.com I hardly ever use this email address

I can do that.

[IIC]

Well I have been messing around with it and I think that I am getting it a little better and more concise. I would like to know how to flood the background with color or the individual rows or columns with color. Any other suggestions to make it more eye appealing are welcome.
Pete Hansen. I am not dissing you Pete. I don't get anything for BRCL on Stockcharts.com. Sorry but if you would help me out here please Pete and tell me what you want to do. Anyone else get anything on BRCL?
I think I have everyone's positions down right now. I'm putting the long positions in BLUE and the short positions in RED.

Stky is still on the top of the leader board with his NVEC play. This could be it for the week. Not to much change within the remaining players today. Still 5 undecided's in the PRETTY IN PINK ZONE.

Remember any suggestions are welcome as far as making this esthetically pleasing. Here are today's results and standings:
Karel, I think this should be acceptable size wise yes. Before you thumbnail it please give me a chance to make it alittle smaller if it needs it. I like the larger format since it is easier on the eyes as long as it fits your parameters.

http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/8466/potw1031zr5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)



Guess my pick wasn't good enough to post...IIC

[peanuts]

Guess my pick wasn't good enough to post...IIC

Monday, 10:29 LVLT, right? If so, I'll add it when I get the spreadsheet...

Is that OK Ski?

[IIC]

Monday, 10:29 LVLT, right? If so, I'll add it when I get the spreadsheet...

Is that OK Ski?


Whatever time it was...I believe the price at that time was 5.39

[skiracer]

Monday, 10:29 LVLT, right? If so, I'll add it when I get the spreadsheet...

Is that OK Ski?

Sorry Doug. When you are taking care of this it is easy to see how easy to miss something or miscalculate something. I'm pretty meticulous with those things and it makes you appreciate the job Rob did with it for as long as he did. Anyway I'll take care of the entry. Peanuts, I appreciate your offer but I'm going to try to play around with it myself first to see if I can do it myself. Thanks.

[JohnHenry]

Hi Ski

Please sell NVEC and buy KAI...thanks

[peanuts]

Hi Ski,

I'd like to close my short position in THC

I want to short SIM now

[New-born baby]

Please short TWGP for me. Thanks.

[skiracer]

I need some help with the time an sales again please anyone. Here are several that I need prices for at the time shown: as soon as possible please if anyone could or would:

NVEC 10:32
KAI 10:32
THC 11:14
SIM 11:14
TWGP 2:51

[Runner]

I need some help with the time an sales again please anyone. Here are several that I need prices for at the time shown: as soon as possible please if anyone could or would:

NVEC 10:32
KAI 10:32
THC 11:14
SIM 11:14
TWGP 2:51

NVEC @ 10:32 price 43.38
KAI @ 10:33 27.69
THC @ 11”14 7.05
SIM @ 11:14 18.25
TWGP @ 14:51 33.66
According to IB

[skiracer]

NVEC @ 10:32 price 43.38
KAI @ 10:33 27.69
THC @ 11”14 7.05
SIM @ 11:14 18.25
TWGP @ 14:51 33.66
According to IB

Thank you Runner.

[Peter Hansen]

Guess my pick wasn't good enough to post...IICSki I might be dyslexic My pick should be BRLC and NOT BRCL I made mistake Pete

[skiracer]

Guess my pick wasn't good enough to post...IICSki I might be dyslexic My pick should be BRLC and NOT BRCL I made mistake Pete

No problemo Pete. I'll get you in from Monday morning with BRLC. I need some help please. I need the open price for this stock.

[skiracer]

Sorry that I'm late but very very busy. Here's the sheet. Pete, I'll get you in from Monday as soon as I get the opening price for Monday. But you're in so don't worry. Alice takes over the top spot from Stkytreat with her position in MTEK. Followed by Karel and Riverbabe. Stky gave back a considerable portion of yesterday's gains. Peanuts is a close 4th with his second pick of the week. I'm doing the second picks a little different that we are used to but that last column is the total gains or losses between the two positions.

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/7083/potw1101up6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[IIC]

[quote=Peter Hansen;70270]

No problemo Pete. I'll get you in from Monday morning with BRLC. I need some help please. I need the open price for this stock.


You make the rules SKI but IMO he should be stuck w/ what he posted...Just like if he put in the wrong ticker symbol at his broker...Sorry Pete...Nothing personal...But I think fair is fair...But I won't complain about whatever SKI decides....Doug(IIC)

[IIC]

BTW...the open on Mon for BRLC was 6.23...There was no open for BRCL since it doesn't exist...IIC

[skiracer]

[quote=skiracer;70277]


You make the rules SKI but IMO he should be stuck w/ what he posted...Just like if he put in the wrong ticker symbol at his broker...Sorry Pete...Nothing personal...But I think fair is fair...But I won't complain about whatever SKI decides....Doug(IIC)

Thank you Doug for being so considerate. If he put in the wrong sticker symbol at his broker wouldn't they tell him that they didn't have a stock for that symbol and then he would have entered the right symbol after he realized his mistake. For the moment I am just trying to create good will amongst all of us. Some will benefit more from it than others but after all, " what are we barbarians" that we can't be forgiving to each other. I don't want to be considered the rule maker Doug. I just happen to be steering the boat for awhile. Pete won't do this again will you Pete.

[IIC]

[quote=IIC;70280]

Thank you Doug for being so considerate. If he put in the wrong sticker symbol at his broker wouldn't they tell him that they didn't have a stock for that symbol and then he would have entered the right symbol after he realized his mistake. For the moment I am just trying to create good will amongst all of us. Some will benefit more from it than others but after all, " what are we barbarians" that we can't be forgiving to each other. I don't want to be considered the rule maker Doug. I just happen to be steering the boat for awhile. Pete won't do this again will you Pete.

What's a "sticker" symbol?

[IIC]

BTW...what buy price am I gonna get on LVLT?

[skiracer]

BTW...what buy price am I gonna get on LVLT?

Whatever price you tell me is fine with me. It will be on your conscience. Post it and I will make the correction, if necessary, in the morning. Good night everyone.

[grebnet]

PACT from Monday ( post # 8957) price $ 5.85

[JohnHenry]

Sorry that I'm late but very very busy. Here's the sheet. Pete, I'll get you in from Monday as soon as I get the opening price for Monday. But you're in so don't worry. Alice takes over the top spot from Stkytreat with her position in MTEK. Followed by Karel and Riverbabe. Stky gave back a considerable portion of yesterday's gains. Peanuts is a close 4th with his second pick of the week. I'm doing the second picks a little different that we are used to but that last column is the total gains or losses between the two positions.
Pete is in the sheet at Monday's opening price. I meant a stock symbol Doug. Sorry about that. I have been up since 4 am and haven't stopped all day. Just spent about a hour on this POTW game and am trying to do the best I can to accomodate everyone of us and present a decent looking sheet that any newbies to the site will say, boy those guys at that Mr. Market is Huge site are on the ball and that Skiracer is totally on top of his sheet. By the way here is the newest and revised sheet:

http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/5840/potw1101sy2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

NVEC @ 10:32 price 43.38
KAI @ 10:33 27.69
THC @ 11”14 7.05
SIM @ 11:14 18.25
TWGP @ 14:51 33.66
According to IB

Hi Ski

When you have the time please check to see if KAI is $27.69 or $27.99? Thanks

Btw...I know NVEC was going to go down but I didn't know by $4...gee

[IIC]

Whatever price you tell me is fine with me. It will be on your conscience. Post it and I will make the correction, if necessary, in the morning. Good night everyone.


I don't think I can remember where to find intraday open prices by the minute for previous days. But it seems to me that I clicked submit when LVLT was at 5.39. But, it might have opened that minute at 5.40 on the first trade....So if nobody can verify it...Just give me 5.40 instead of 5.29...No problemo.

However, for stocks that you need the open for a particular day...like BRLC...you can go to Nasdaq.com, Yahoo or Stockcharts "Historical" (That's where I got BRLC...You might have to be a subscriber to SC to get that unless you change chart dates...But I think you are a subscriber anyway)...The Amex site has it too...Not sure about the NYSE though... http://Amex.com http://NYSE.com http://Nasdaq.com

[IIC]

Hi Ski

When you have the time please check to see if KAI is $27.69 or $27.99? Thanks

Btw...I know NVEC was going to go down but I didn't know by $4...gee

Heck...I didn't either...Maybe somebody wants to make the IIC 100 look bad...lol...But the saving grace is that it is also in the IBD 100 Top 10 for the Top 10 comparison battle...so we both get whacked....But SMSI really hurt the IIC 100...Look out below (Even though I made a few bux on it this week)...Doug

[Lyehopper]

This ain't an easy job is it?

Ski, if you get tired of this let me know and I'll try to help. I have one of Rob's earlier POTW programs that automatically goes to the internet and grabs the prices. I can't give it to you (without his permission) but I might be able to help.... I'd really hate to see people lose interest in the POTW because it is my favorite feature of the forum and I put so much energy into building it up last year.

You know, Rob might not like profanity but he really is a genius IMO.

[skiracer]

This ain't an easy job is it?

Ski, if you get tired of this let me know and I'll try to help. I have one of Rob's earlier POTW programs that automatically goes to the internet and grabs the prices. I can't give it to you (without his permission) but I might be able to help.... I'd really hate to see people lose interest in the POTW because it is my favorite feature of the forum and I put so much energy into building it up last year.

You know, Rob might not like profanity but he really is a genius IMO.

Lye,
Rob has been in contact with me and he set me up with his spreadsheet over at Google docs. I opened up a Google acct. this morning and now have access to Rob's document at Google. I have a few questions on how to use it but I intend on picking his mind and using it for the POTW since it is set up and running with all the features that we need.
The biggest problem is that Quotetracker, a trading platform that I have set up for realtime streaming quotes and raw data & time of sales has stopped giving the entire day of time of sales once the market closes. I think this is so unless I switched something off inadvertently.
I'll work it out with a little help from my friends. No problemo at all.

[skiracer]

Sorry that I'm late but very very busy. Here's the sheet. Pete, I'll get you in from Monday as soon as I get the opening price for Monday. But you're in so don't worry. Alice takes over the top spot from Stkytreat with her position in MTEK. Followed by Karel and Riverbabe. Stky gave back a considerable portion of yesterday's gains. Peanuts is a close 4th with his second pick of the week. I'm doing the second picks a little different that we are used to but that last column is the total gains or losses between the two positions.
Pete is in the sheet at Monday's opening price. I meant a stock symbol Doug. Sorry about that. I have been up since 4 am and haven't stopped all day. Just spent about a hour on this POTW game and am trying to do the best I can to accomodate everyone of us and present a decent looking sheet that any newbies to the site will say, boy those guys at that Mr. Market is Huge site are on the ball and that Skiracer is totally on top of his sheet. By the way here is the newest and revised sheet: I just fixed several errors on my part so everything should now be correct and the way everyone's pick should read. The ranking has changed with the revised numbers but here is yesterday's revised sheet:

http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/9571/potw1101ff3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[peanuts]

Ski,

I should be in first place, dude. I need some percentage points for my score. I have the gain recorded as 6.623% on the THC short

Thanks for keeping score

[Peter Hansen]

Ski thanx .......i must be more careful in the future

[skiracer]

Ski thanx .......i must be more careful in the future

No problem Pete, anytime.

[spikefader]

Hi all. I neglected to enter a pick this week, obviously.

Hey ski, thanks for picking up the ball. Having kept score myself, I know you're sacrificing a lot.

Rob, thank you for your score-keeping. This may surprise you, but I'll miss you around here. Perhaps you can choose to embrace tolerance for those who posts crap or stuff you disagree with....cuz running ain't the answer.

"...cofront the problem.........Fight.......Win!"
http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/659/face1ic3.jpg

[New-born baby]

Ski,
Please cover my TWGP short. Thanks@

[peanuts]

Ski,

I'm going to cover the SIM short, right now. I'll reply to this message with the price at the time of the post.

I'll ride the rest of the week out with a profit. Good luck beating me, everyone else :)

[peanuts]

Ski,

I'm going to cover the SIM short, right now. I'll reply to this message with the price at the time of the post.

I'll ride the rest of the week out with a profit. Good luck beating me, everyone else :)

Ski, this price was $17.48 at 3:48 pm. No shares were traded during the 3:47 minute

[dmk112]

...Perhaps you can choose to embrace tolerance for those who posts crap or stuff you disagree with....cuz running ain't the answer.



Is that why he left? Did I miss something?

[skiracer]

Ski,

I should be in first place, dude. I need some percentage points for my score. I have the gain recorded as 6.623% on the THC short

Thanks for keeping score

Peanuts,
Sorry bud. I think that with the SIM and THC plays you should be around 8.8 % for the week. What would you rather have the 1st place ranking or the money from the trades? I am truly sorry for the error on my part. But no big deal right. I'll make the correction tonight. I'm overloaded with paperwork and things to do. Got two sites up and running and About 38 million in work going on at this time and a lot of responsibility with reports, coordinating, and scheduling. Jeez they pay you $3000 a week plus bonuses and they think they own you.

[skiracer]

If anyone could help me with the time of sale price on TWGP at 1:26 today. Thank you.

[IIC]

If anyone could help me with the time of sale price on TWGP at 1:26 today. Thank you.

Mine shows no trades at 1:26 EST but the first trade at 1:27pm was 30.05...Doug

[Websman]

Peanuts,
Sorry bud. I think that with the SIM and THC plays you should be around 8.8 % for the week. What would you rather have the 1st place ranking or the money from the trades? I am truly sorry for the error on my part. But no big deal right. I'll make the correction tonight. I'm overloaded with paperwork and things to do. Got two sites up and running and About 38 million in work going on at this time and a lot of responsibility with reports, coordinating, and scheduling. Jeez they pay you $3000 a week plus bonuses and they think they own you.

Pay me $3000 a week and I'd probably lick your boots....jejeje

[skiracer]

Pay me $3000 a week and I'd probably lick your boots....jejeje

I don't make that much either Webs. Just trying to get a rise out of Peanuts.

[skiracer]

Mine shows no trades at 1:26 EST but the first trade at 1:27pm was 30.05...Doug

Thank you Doug.

[IIC]

Thank you Doug.
After the close I found that I can go back by the minute for the last 3 hours of the trading day

[Websman]

I don't make that much either Webs. Just trying to get a rise out of Peanuts.

Ssssssssssssjjjjjjjejejeeeeeee!!!!!!!

[New-born baby]

Mine shows no trades at 1:26 EST but the first trade at 1:27pm was 30.05...Doug

Thanks, Doug. TWGP was my short, and that the price I punched out on.

[peanuts]

Just trying to get a rise out of Peanuts.

...put me into the pit of beautiful naked women :D


tstststssssststss :p

[Websman]

...put me into the pit of beautiful naked women :D


tstststssssststss :p

BWWAHAHAAAAAA!!!!!!

[RL]

Ski no complaints glad you picked up the ball. But I was admitted to the hospital on Oct 30th. just got home and checking on the POTW You have me In AXTI thats my pick but should have entered at $4.76 at this time you have AXTI at $35.16 love It but do not think It Is right but I'll take It. Always felt you were a friend.:o:o:o

[skiracer]

I see that $3000 a week post brought out the best in you guys.
Some big changes in the leader board today. Perhaps the biggest was my error in computing Peanuts percentages on his short position in THC. I just hear the letters THC and I go bonkers. Karel and Grebnet are in the 2nd and 3rd slots with Alice right on Greb's heels in the 4th position. 12 positions in the GREEN and 8 in the RED. That's a decent 66 % to the plus side. You have to be happy with those results for a group rating. Here are todays results. Any errors or ommissions please let me know and I take care of them pronto.

http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/3513/potw1102cq1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[skiracer]

Ski no complaints glad you picked up the ball. But I was admitted to the hospital on Oct 30th. just got home and checking on the POTW You have me In AXTI thats my pick but should have entered at $4.76 at this time you have AXTI at $35.16 love It but do not think It Is right but I'll take It. Always felt you were a friend.:o:o:o

Ray, hope everything is ok. I picked this thing up in a rush and am pretty busy with everything else on top of it. Sorry about the error. I'll correct it later on tonight.

[IIC]

Ski no complaints glad you picked up the ball. But I was admitted to the hospital on Oct 30th. just got home and checking on the POTW You have me In AXTI thats my pick but should have entered at $4.76 at this time you have AXTI at $35.16 love It but do not think It Is right but I'll take It. Always felt you were a friend.:o:o:o


Hope you are OK...Best, Doug(IIC)

[peanuts]

Ski,

I know you hate me, but at least you can put up the right score ;) ... My SIM play was a gain of $.77 per share for 4.22%. The THC trade is correct.

Combined gain of 10.8% for the week, and now I'm in cash.

Have a good night. Now that I don't hold THC, you can enjoy it all you want...

[peanuts]

Ski no complaints glad you picked up the ball. But I was admitted to the hospital on Oct 30th. just got home and checking on the POTW You have me In AXTI thats my pick but should have entered at $4.76 at this time you have AXTI at $35.16 love It but do not think It Is right but I'll take It. Always felt you were a friend.:o:o:o

Glad you're back at home. Hospitals smell funny... :)

[RL]

They will be taking a few more blood tests on Mon. I have a positive out look so every thing will be a ok. By the way my daughter Is coming along well her ankle and one wrist Is healed well, It's a long way back but she will heal. count your blessings, the room that I was In was a man 51 years old that contacted a virus In the brain they have no cure.

[Websman]

They will be taking a few more blood tests on Mon. I have a positive out look so every thing will be a ok. By the way my daughter Is coming along well her ankle and one wrist Is healed well, It's a long way back but she will heal. count your blessings, the room that I was In was a man 51 years old that contacted a virus In the brain they have no cure.

Welcome home Ray! I hope all is well. I hate doctors, but I guess they're a neccessary evil. I seems like every time I go to see one I end up getting stiches. Sometimes i feel like a patchwork quilt. LOL

To me having good health is better than any amount of money one could ever make. I'm going to go ahead and declare nothing but good health for you! :)

[New-born baby]

Ski,
Thanks for keeping score. I know it is a lot of work, and I want to tell you that I (and I know everyone else, too) appreciates it all.

Now my question: I shorted TWGP at $33.66, and covered today at $30.05, for a gain of $3.61. $3.61 divided by $33.66 comes to 10.72%. Is that good enough for first place?

[skiracer]

Peanust,
I've tried to hate you but it didn't work. You're just to pathetic for hatred. Ok, I'll fix you're score. Just kidding about the pathetic and hatred thing bud. No problemo. Trying to do this stuff in my head and fast ya know.

NBB,
Not according to my calculations it isn't. But then I was using "fuzzy math" and just trying to get close. I guess you expect me to adjust your also. A friend in need is a pest.

Ray,
Just this one time because you've been in the hospital and you're daughter has been hurt. But don't expect this kind of special treatment from me in the future. I tried to give you $29 or so and you wouldn't take it. That's it never again. I guess you want me to fix your score to. Ok but this is the last time.

You guys expect to much from me. What do you think my name is Rob?

[IIC]

...put me into the pit of beautiful naked women :D


tstststssssststss :p

Peanuts...I love a challenge...So my next project will be getting you a girlfriend...So, to start I need to know...Have you ever had a date?

On the off chance that your answer is "Yes"...Can you describe the date?...Where did you go?...What did you do?...How far away from Pittsburgh did she move?...Stuff like that!

[skiracer]

Ski,
Thanks for keeping score. I know it is a lot of work, and I want to tell you that I (and I know everyone else, too) appreciates it all.

Now my question: I shorted TWGP at $33.66, and covered today at $30.05, for a gain of $3.61. $3.61 divided by $33.66 comes to 10.72%. Is that good enough for first place?

I can add ya know NB. What's the matter don't you think I can add and subtract. And by the way it isn't good enough for 1st place tonight anyway. Mr. Peanut got you by .08 %. See what not using profanity does for you.

[skiracer]

I see that $3000 a week post brought out the best in you guys.
Some big changes in the leader board today. Perhaps the biggest was my error in computing Peanuts percentages on his short position in THC. I just hear the letters THC and I go bonkers. Karel and Grebnet are in the 2nd and 3rd slots with Alice right on Greb's heels in the 4th position. 12 positions in the GREEN and 8 in the RED. That's a decent 66 % to the plus side. You have to be happy with those results for a group rating. Here are todays results. Any errors or ommissions please let me know and I take care of them pronto.

Boy you guys certainly take a guy for his word. What's the big problem with being a couple of dollars or a few percentage points off? Ok I fixed it this time but don't be pushing me to far with this being correct all of the time stuff. I never promised anyone a rosegarden or a politically or numerically correct POTW. Here's the corrected sheet. I guess I'm actually going to have to learn how to use the formulas. Well I hope you're all happy now. Ray, I'll put you in the right ranking order tomorrow morning or sometime. Just realized the 0 is higher than minus something. You should be in there right after Stkytreat. Isn't this more fun this way. At least I'm keeping everyone on their toes making sure their scores and rankings are correct. I told you I would need some help.

Ray is now in his correct slot with his correct entry and scores. I think everything is in order now. Let me know if there are anymore errors that need correcting as I am here to serve and take care of all your wishes.

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/1171/potw1102rn2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[peanuts]

Ski, this thread is awesome, dude :)

Doug, what on Earth are you talking about? Couldn't you tell that was a playful use of the English language?

btw: It's different here. In Pittsburgh, we don't go out on dates. If you're lonely, you just go to the bar and wait until you here this in a feminine voice, "I'm sooooooo drunk" That's the mating call. ATTACK!!! :D

[IIC]

Sell LVLT buy ICOC at the open...IIC

[spikefader]

Ski, is there any reason you don't use the spreadsheet Rob used?

[skiracer]

Ski, is there any reason you don't use the spreadsheet Rob used?

No. Rob set me up with the spreadsheet at Google documents and I set up an account with them just so that I could use his sheet. I've been extremely busy with these two projects I have underway and I just haven't had the time to take a look at his sheet. I'm not sure how to use it anyway. I emailed Rob asking for instructions on how to use it and haven't heard back from him yet. I did want to try to learn and comprehend how to set up something similar to what he had done for myself in Excel. Karel has also been trying to help me with learning to set up and use the formulas but it really has been a matter of time on my part. I thought that over the weekend I would have some free time to spend on looking at Rob's and trying to get something viable set up to work for the one I have been using over he last couple of days.

[Lyehopper]

You know Ski everyone here has been so supportive of you in your noble POTW effort this week and Lord knows I did my part to help you by staying in ca$h....

How do I say this to my old bud Skiracer.... hmmmmm, OK here's how.... Ski, friend, bud, pal.... I knoooow that you're really a great construction project manager and I think you're worth.... not $3k per week.... but $5k per week.... Maybe even $10k!.... I also think you are a great big game hunter (btw muzzleloader season opens tomorrow) and a very fine and talented striper fisherman..... I have heard rumors that you were even quite the ladies man, back in the day.... AND STILL ARE (if you want to be) But as the POTW scorekeeper? you really suck dude! That said; I'll pay you a healthy Goji severance package to retire early as POTW scorekeeper right now!

I say we ALL just plead with Rockin'Rob to return and try not to curse quite so much in the future. Maybe Rob is just "sitting out" as a protest or something. Knowing him as I do, I'll bet he has an updated scorecard on his laptop right now and can post it in about twenty seconds if he wanted to.

Who's with me?!!!! ROB! We get your point! I get your point, your point has been made! you are right on point! I'll never cuss again (well almost never).... If I ever see Tatnic on the street I'll walk up to him, quietly, like a kidnapper might walk up on his target.... and then I'll say PSSST! and then just headbutt him as hard as I can.... and yell "THAT'S FROM @$%*& ROCKIN'ROOOOOB!!!!"

DUDE!!!! RETURN TO THE FORUM! PLEASE! the POTW NEEDS YOU!!!! SKIRACER WON'T ADMIT IT, BUT HE NEEDS YOU, HE SEEMS LIKE A TOUGH GUY BUT HE'S VERRRRRY NEEEEEDY!

[skiracer]

I would be more than supportive of Rob returning to take over the POTW. I only took it because no one else stepped up and I didn't want to see it go down the drain. It takes up time which I could use elsewhere but I've only had it for a couple of days and I don't think the inconviences have been that hard to live with. It will only be a short period of time before I will have a working knowledge of how to use the formulas and whatever else is necessary to do it with Rob's or my own sheet without repeating these recent problems. I really haven't had the time to give it much thought other than keeping it going. Anyone who wants to take it off my hands right now may do so with my blessing and support.

[Lyehopper]

I would be more than supportive of Rob returning to take over the POTW. I only took it because no one else stepped up and I didn't want to see it go down the drain. It takes up time which I could use elsewhere but I've only had it for a couple of days and I don't think the inconviences have been that hard to live with. It will only be a short period of time before I will have a working knowledge of how to use the formulas and whatever else is necessary to do it with Rob's or my own sheet without repeating these recent problems. I really haven't had the time to give it much thought other than keeping it going. Anyone who wants to take it off my hands right now may do so with my blessing and support.
I don't want it to go down the drain either.... I know you have the ability to keep the score Ed, but I think you might "burn out" doing it manually.

I have kept score many times and in the early days there was only five or six players and manually it would take me alot of time nightly to figure the scorecard.... I eventually started using a simi-automated system using my Vector-Vest portfolio tracker and that was faster but still took me an hour per night once there were fifteen players. Rob has created a completely automated program that takes the data from the internet.... and his program makes very few mistakes.

I could post the score in about an hour per night, sometimes less.... Rob's system takes literally minutes (I have an older copy but I can't remember everything about operating it). He has made several revisions to his current program and I seriously doubt he'd give the automated version out to anyone because he's spent so much time on it. That spreadsheet he's given you will indeed work.... but it's still very time consuming. I'm gonna call him at home and see what's on his mind.

[Websman]

btw: It's different here. In Pittsburgh, we don't go out on dates. If you're lonely, you just go to the bar and wait until you here this in a feminine voice, "I'm sooooooo drunk" That's the mating call. ATTACK!!! :D

I had a smart comment about prisons and soap...but I deleted it.

[IIC]

I commend Ed (Ski) for stepping up to the plate at a moment's notice. I think we should give him a chance to work out the bugs...Doug(IIC)

[skiracer]

I commend Ed (Ski) for stepping up to the plate at a moment's notice. I think we should give him a chance to work out the bugs...Doug(IIC)

I have worked it out. I though all afternoon after Lye's post commending my efforts about how am I going to do this and then I saw that Rob had emailed me and I am now going to use his sheet. Everything is going to be ok in POTWland. Rob has surely developed a spreadsheet that basically takes care of itself for the week. Truly amazing.
Anyway back to what we're here for. Pete and his pick BRLC came out of nowhere to snatch victory from the grasp of Peanuts and NBB who were locked in a .01 % battle for 2nd and 3rd places this week. The WhizKid and Karel filling out the top five.

http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/5677/potw1103qk2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[billyjoe]

Peter, Peanuts, New-born,
Great job. It's good to see you guys back at the top.

-----------billyjoe

[IIC]

Nice scoresheet Ski...But I'm sorry you came in last.

Congrats to Peter on the earnings play.

Congrats to Peanuts on the "gutsy" SIM short.

Congrats to NBB on the guidance play.

[skiracer]

Nice scoresheet Ski...But I'm sorry you came in last.

Congrats to Peter on the earnings play.

Congrats to Peanuts on the "gutsy" SIM short.

Congrats to NBB on the guidance play.

Yea, it wasn't my fault. I had to do the POTW spreadsheet all week and couldn't spend anytime watching my POTW picks. I should get a 12 % one time allocation for administrative duties. The sheet was brought to you by Spreadsheets by Rob. Anything you need in an operational spreadsheet. I won't be coming in last when, as the scorekeeper and rule monger, I award myself the administrative allowance.

[IIC]

Yea, it wasn't my fault. I had to do the POTW spreadsheet all week and couldn't spend anytime watching my POTW picks. I should get a 12 % one time allocation for administrative duties. The sheet was brought to you by Spreadsheets by Rob. Anything you need in an operational spreadsheet. I won't be coming in last when, as the scorekeeper and rule monger, I award myself the administrative allowance.

Don't feel bad...I imagine that I will come in last some day too ;)

[Mary]

Seems like I should've been in last place 'cause I don't even know how to play this game. I just picked eBay at the beginning of the week and let it ride all week long.

[Peter Hansen]

Peter, Peanuts, New-born,
Great job. It's good to see you guys back at the top.

-----------billyjoe

Billie .....If ya blast away ......eventually you hit the bullseye LOL Pete

[New-born baby]

Peter, Peanuts, New-born,
Great job. It's good to see you guys back at the top.

-----------billyjoe

BILLYJOE! Are you alright? Did you work so hard that you turned into a dog?

[New-born baby]

Ski,
thanks for the great work.
Start me off in CA$$$$H money, please. :D

Rob:
Please come home!

[billyjoe]

BILLYJOE! Are you alright? Did you work so hard that you turned into a dog?

New-born,
That's my dog in puppy prison for going after a pit bull and a doberman at obedience school. She weighed 12 pounds . The dobe weighed over 100 and the pit bull about 75. You should see her run when they turned on her.

----------billyjoe

[Peter Hansen]

Ski thanx for the great job .....well done ..put me in for ADL Long

[skiracer]

Ski thanx for the great job .....well done ..put me in for ADL Long
And same to you Pete. Nice job with your pick.

[billyjoe]

Ski,
You're doing a great job. I'll throw the dice and take AES long again. It will soar or tank this week.

-----------billyjoe

[Tatnic]

You know Ski everyone here has been so supportive of you in your noble POTW effort this week and Lord knows I did my part to help you by staying in ca$h....

How do I say this to my old bud Skiracer.... hmmmmm, OK here's how.... Ski, friend, bud, pal.... I knoooow that you're really a great construction project manager and I think you're worth.... not $3k per week.... but $5k per week.... Maybe even $10k!.... I also think you are a great big game hunter (btw muzzleloader season opens tomorrow) and a very fine and talented striper fisherman..... I have heard rumors that you were even quite the ladies man, back in the day.... AND STILL ARE (if you want to be) But as the POTW scorekeeper? you really suck dude! That said; I'll pay you a healthy Goji severance package to retire early as POTW scorekeeper right now!

I say we ALL just plead with Rockin'Rob to return and try not to curse quite so much in the future. Maybe Rob is just "sitting out" as a protest or something. Knowing him as I do, I'll bet he has an updated scorecard on his laptop right now and can post it in about twenty seconds if he wanted to.

Who's with me?!!!! ROB! We get your point! I get your point, your point has been made! you are right on point! I'll never cuss again (well almost never).... If I ever see Tatnic on the street I'll walk up to him, quietly, like a kidnapper might walk up on his target.... and then I'll say PSSST! and then just headbutt him as hard as I can.... and yell "THAT'S FROM @$%*& ROCKIN'ROOOOOB!!!!"

DUDE!!!! RETURN TO THE FORUM! PLEASE! the POTW NEEDS YOU!!!! SKIRACER WON'T ADMIT IT, BUT HE NEEDS YOU, HE SEEMS LIKE A TOUGH GUY BUT HE'S VERRRRRY NEEEEEDY!

lol.. the last time a bunch of good 'ol boys (drunks) tried to attack me (there were 4 of them) I laid two of them out and then started wrecking their car with rocks. One tried to pull a hammer on me so I figured I was justified. This happened in front of funeral home in Radford VA while I was walking around the neighborhood looking for my girlfriend's cat. Maybe one of them was you...if it was, I apologize for that beatin';), but you guys started it!

[skiracer]

lol.. the last time a bunch of good 'ol boys (drunks) tried to attack me (there were 4 of them) I laid two of them out and then started wrecking their car with rocks. One tried to pull a hammer on me so I figured I was justified. This happened in front of funeral home in Radford VA while I was walking around the neighborhood looking for my girlfriend's cat. Maybe one of them was you...if it was, I apologize for that beatin';), but you guys started it!

Guys, I hardly ever ask for anything from anyone that I am not ready to do myself. When it comes to the use of profantity I've got one of the filthiest mouths going. I'm not so proud to announce that here in front of everyone but it's the truth. As far as fighting and killing I'm probably way out in front of everyone here except maybe Runner. I'm also not proud of that but it is the truth. But I am going to ask you to consider this request from me regarding my thread. I hate to see this arguement happening between members in the first place but please not on my thread. Tatnic I expressed to you earlier that I valued whatever you have to say anytime on this tread and I still mean it but please take this somewhere else. I don't think this is the place for it an I don't want to be part of it and have it taking up space here. Perhaps we should start a thread where if two members want to argue they can do it there and if anyone else wants to read that stuff or particapate they can without involving everyone else.
I love to express myself with the F & MF words every chance I get on the construction sites because it gets everyones attention but I don't need to do that here and don't want anyone else using profanity or carrying their arguements over onto this thread.
It's a simple request amongst friends and I would expect everyone to comply with it. Just for the record it is hard for me to not use the profanity to express my feeling about specific points that I am trying to convey but I want to go on record as agreeing with Rob on this profanity thing. I don't think it is necessary or vital to any of us to need to use it but if you must then I would have to ask you nicely once and warn you once and then it's the ignore button. So please take this request about the arguing and profanity into consideration for me. Thanks. Ed

[Tatnic]

Thanks. Ed[/COLOR]

You got it Ed. Sorry for the disruption.

[skiracer]

You got it Ed. Sorry for the disruption.

Actually Tatnic I didn't realize that I was on the POTW thread and was speaking like it was mine which is way off base. I meant what I posted earlier for my own personal thread and not this one. I don't speak for everyone participating in this thread and by no means control it just because I'm using Rob's program and spreadsheet to keep the score without doing a thing except to capture it and upload it over here. Maybe make a few changes for entries and exits and prices etc. and for a full three days. Anyway I think it is big of you to take the high road on this. Thanks.

[Lyehopper]

lol.. the last time a bunch of good 'ol boys (drunks) tried to attack me (there were 4 of them) I laid two of them out and then started wrecking their car with rocks. One tried to pull a hammer on me so I figured I was justified. This happened in front of funeral home in Radford VA while I was walking around the neighborhood looking for my girlfriend's cat. Maybe one of them was you...if it was, I apologize for that beatin';), but you guys started it!
That was you? hey! I want my hammer back, that was a top-of-the-line Estwing you know!?

[Mary]

... This happened in front of funeral home in Radford VA while I was walking around the neighborhood looking for my girlfriend's cat. Maybe one of them was you...if it was, I apologize for that beatin';), but you guys started it!

Any man who will spend time looking for his girlfriend's cat is OK by me. I heard somewhere that men will tell women they love cats but when the women aren't looking, men kick cats. I love cats and will have nothing to do with any man who is cruel to animals, especially cats.

[spikefader]

...The sheet was brought to you by Spreadsheets by Rob...Rob's design is huge, as is his generosity to share it.

[skiracer]

Any man who will spend time looking for his girlfriend's cat is OK by me. I heard somewhere that men will tell women they love cats but when the women aren't looking, men kick cats. I love cats and will have nothing to do with any man who is cruel to animals, especially cats.

I love cats. We just lost two treasures within the last two years. My wife still can't look at a cat without getting tears in her eyes. We had a Maine Coon named Nissa and a Mynx called Critter. The Maine Coon had six toes. The sixth toe was like a thumb. I think they also call the Hemingway's because at his joint in Key West he had a bunch of them running around with six toes. I saw that with my own eyes in the early 1950's when we lived in Key West.

[spikefader]

ASF long for me next week thanks, ski. Good luck all!

[Lyehopper]

Rob's design is huge, as is his generosity to share it.
Ditto Spike!..............................

Huge win last week PETE! you swing for the fences don't you dude?LOL!


http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/icons/icon2.gif I'll take Ca$h this week Ski.... Thanks for keeping Score http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/icons/icon14.gif

[skiracer]

Ditto Spike!..............................

Huge win last week PETE! you swing for the fences don't you dude?LOL!


http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/icons/icon2.gif I'll take Ca$h this week Ski.... Thanks for keeping Score http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/icons/icon14.gif

I'm only giving him a break for the time being.

[billyjoe]

Ski, Mary,
We've got an awesome Maine Coon cat. I'll try to post a picture. We had real racoons on the back porch and the cat dwarfed them.

-------------billyjoe

[skiracer]

Ski, Mary,
We've got an awesome Maine Coon cat. I'll try to post a picture. We had real racoons on the back porch and the cat dwarfed them.

-------------billyjoe

Just curious but did yours have six toes like ours? I have to find a picture of her.

[Tatnic]

That was you? hey! I want my hammer back, that was a top-of-the-line Estwing you know!?

Lye...I don't care what anyone else says about you, you're finest kind!

[billyjoe]

Just curious but did yours have six toes like ours? I have to find a picture of her.

Ski,
Nope, only 5 big toes.

--------billyjoe

[skiracer]

This is one of my favorite pictures of her. She liked to lie in this one spot where the sun came in through the window and if you felt her head right there it was almost hot from the warmth of the sun. She was a beauty and had about 5 colors in her coat. She was 15 when she passed on. She died while I was holding her in my arms at the vets. I never loved another animal the way I did this cat. My wife still can't talk about her after two years. She was really my wife's cat and would follow her around wherever she went in or out of the house. You would think she was sleeping but she was watching everything out of those slits.

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/7264/nissafj7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Mary]

Hey Ski ...

Put me in VIAC this week, long please. Thanks!

Mary

[IIC]

lol.. the last time a bunch of good 'ol boys (drunks) tried to attack me (there were 4 of them) I laid two of them out and then started wrecking their car with rocks. One tried to pull a hammer on me so I figured I was justified. This happened in front of funeral home in Radford VA while I was walking around the neighborhood looking for my girlfriend's cat. Maybe one of them was you...if it was, I apologize for that beatin';), but you guys started it!


Hey Tat!!!...Did you ever find the cat???

[Karel]

Peter, Peanuts, and NBB, good job! I am still long PCCC.

Regards,

Karel

[peanuts]

First of all, I would like to reach out and smack HUGE Peter Hanson for stealing the gold this week! Normally, I would be very happy for such a fine performance, but when the glory is stolen from me, I want to see blood. :D Just kidding, Pete, that was a great find and a great long, so I guess that makes you absolutely 100% $$$HUUUUUGE$$$ Way to go!

NBB, well, dude, it looks like me and you are only BIG this week. I was going to declare a tie if we had ended in the top spots, but that Pete guy whipped us like we were Wisconsin sweet butter. Nice short play!

Skiracer, for the following week, I would like to start with a long position in XTXI. Thank you very much, and keep up the great work!

[Gary611]

Good luck to all, please stay with THI long for the week.

-Gary

[IIC]

SKI...You missed Spike's pick...I'm considering one in the same group...IIC

[diogenes]

Ski- Thanks for taking over.

Start me with ca$h.

[jiesen]

Here are the K-data (based on previous 13 weeks of POTW) results for weeks 31-43. It's ranked by "special K", or Cumulative Gain (%) / Weeks played.

http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/7950/weeks3143jd5.png


Weeks 5-17 (and 3-15) (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?t=655&page=562&pp=10)
Weeks 7-19 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?t=655&page=593)
Weeks 9-21 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=53126&highlight=special#post53126)
Weeks 11-23 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?t=655&page=644)
Weeks 13-25 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=56534&highlight=k-data#post56534)
Weeks 15-27 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showpost.php?p=58290&postcount=7068)
Weeks 17-29 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showpost.php?p=59735&postcount=7374)
Weeks 19-31 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showpost.php?p=60552&postcount=7485)
Weeks 21-33 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showpost.php?p=62010&postcount=7719)
Weeks 23-35 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showpost.php?p=63455&postcount=7953)
Weeks 25-37 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showpost.php?p=65032&postcount=8262)
Weeks 27-39 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showpost.php?p=66155&postcount=8444)
Weeks 29-41 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showpost.php?p=68997&postcount=8835)

DMK is HUGEagain but ROB is EVEN HUGER, squeaking past DMK with a 0.01% better special-K factor. Of course, having DMK's 35% gainer fall off this time was what brought him back down to the sub-supernatural plane. And a hearty congrats goes out to our 3rd place winner, STKY, who managed to average a 2% weekly gain over 13 weeks of play. Not bad for a kid still in high school, eh?

Congrats also to Diogenes, Park Twain, and Gatorman for respectable gains in a rough quarter.

So, it looks like Rob is going out with style, and taking the gold with him. (Please do come back, Rob, when you've cooled off a bit... you were the best scorekeeper ever, and I don't think I can manage to do this again without your nicely organized POTW data.) Ski, your efforts are very much appreciated, and I know it's not easy to keep this going- especially to the standard that Rob's set- but keep it up! You'll find it much easier once you've had a few weeks under your belt.

[jiesen]

They will be taking a few more blood tests on Mon. I have a positive out look so every thing will be a ok. By the way my daughter Is coming along well her ankle and one wrist Is healed well, It's a long way back but she will heal. count your blessings, the room that I was In was a man 51 years old that contacted a virus In the brain they have no cure.

Ray,

I'm glad to hear that your daughter is doing well, and you're back home from the hospital. Being stuck in a hospital is no fun- especially since there's no POTW in the hospital! Makes me want to go out and enjoy the health I've got... in fact, I'm going to do just that right now.

[jiesen]

Ski,

Please put me in AMLN long for next week.

Thanks!

[skiracer]

Some of the early plays for this coming week. Just to help in not having any duplicate plays and to get the whole picture of what the early going is shaping up to be for this week. I'll try to keep it updated occassionally during the day today and tonight. I also might have to change the background colors to blue and gold in celebration of Notre Dame's convincing win over Univ. of North Carolina yesterday. GO IRISH!!! and bring on USC!!!

http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/5734/potw1105ln6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/6076/potw1105bottomje2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[riverbabe]

I'm gambling on WYNN long. Thank you ski. river

[Gatorman]

Will take CMTL long

[skiracer]

SKI...You missed Spike's pick...I'm considering one in the same group...IIC

Sorry Doug, but I'm not allowing anymore picks from that group this week. Spike's was the last one. Make another pick please.

[grebnet]

I gotta stick with it... PACT

[skiracer]

Some of the early plays for this coming week. Just to help in not having any duplicate plays and to get the whole picture of what the early going is shaping up to be for this week. I'll try to keep it updated occassionally during the day today and tonight. I also might have to change the background colors to blue and gold in celebration of Notre Dame's convincing win over Univ. of North Carolina yesterday. GO IRISH!!! and bring on USC!!!
I'm going to be eliminating a few of the names from the list so that I can get a capture to fit on one page. Otherwise I have to do it in two captures and then there is the problem of lining the two captures up etc... Quasi-Ernie is going, NY4ever is going, and a few others that will go as I need the spaces. I hope no one was counting on seeing their picks or that they would be entering the game this week. I can always plug them back in if it comes down to it.

http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/5052/potw1105zi5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[IIC]

Speaking of NY4ever...He was not on my Top Million Fave People List...But I believe that he told us he had cancer...I feel bad about that...Anyone know what happened to him???

[skiracer]

Speaking of NY4ever...He was not on my Top Million Fave People List...But I believe that he told us he had cancer...I feel bad about that...Anyone know what happened to him???

I don't remember him telling us that he had cancer. Anyone would feel bad for someone suffering from cancer but regardless he was a terrible personality. I can't say that I'm sorry that he is gone, not literally of course but figuratively from the POTW.

[IIC]

I don't remember him telling us that he had cancer. Anyone would feel bad for someone suffering from cancer but regardless he was a terrible personality. I can't say that I'm sorry that he is gone, not literally of course but figuratively from the POTW.


Well...I may not be the best trader here...But I bet I have the best memory...Here is a copy of his post last April:


http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/statusicon/post_old.gif 04-27-2006, 05:12 PM
NY4Ever (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/member.php?u=1658) http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/statusicon/user_offline.gif vbmenu_register("postmenu_49251", true);
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 237


http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/icons/icon1.gif
Very sorry to hear about the passing of your father. Last Friday, I was informed by my doctor that my cancer, which I thought was cured for 8 years, had returned. Both myself and my wife have been treated for this beast. it isn't a picnic as you well know. Very few people are lucky enough to die from a massive heart attack according to my doctor. Take care. Time is the great healer.

[skiracer]

Well...I may not be the best trader here...But I bet I have the best memory...Here is a copy of his post last April:


http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/statusicon/post_old.gif 04-27-2006, 05:12 PM
NY4Ever (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/member.php?u=1658) http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/statusicon/user_offline.gif vbmenu_register("postmenu_49251", true);
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 237


http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/icons/icon1.gif
Very sorry to hear about the passing of your father. Last Friday, I was informed by my doctor that my cancer, which I thought was cured for 8 years, had returned. Both myself and my wife have been treated for this beast. it isn't a picnic as you well know. Very few people are lucky enough to die from a massive heart attack according to my doctor. Take care. Time is the great healer.

You're memory is like an elephant. That is a terrible situation for him and I do hope that he is making out ok with it. There is no easy way to die is there?

[IIC]

Sorry Doug, but I'm not allowing anymore picks from that group this week. Spike's was the last one. Make another pick please.

OK...forget my PSPT pick...Start me in ca$h...IIC

[JohnHenry]

Hi Ski

I like NVEC long again please. Thanks for saving the POTW!

Oh Yeah, I forgot...Congrats to Peter, Peanuts, NBB and everyone in the green.

[IIC]

Hi Ski

I like NVEC long again please. Thanks for saving the POTW!

Oh Yeah, I forgot...Congrats to Peter, Peanuts, NBB and everyone in the green.


Nice to see you in tune w/ the IIC 100

[Rob]

GDP long


Goodrich Petroleum.
Lots of insider buying, including one
Ms. Geraldine Ferraro, whom some
o' you political junkies may remember.
Big pop Friday; reports today.
Thanks, Ski.


http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/8171/acu9.gif (http://imageshack.us) http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/7648/baj5.gif (http://imageshack.us)

[skiracer]

I'll start in CA$H.

[mimo_100]

I'll start in CA$H, ski

[RL]

Ski please start me In cash thanks have a good day

[New-born baby]

GDP long


[CENTER]Goodrich Petroleum.
Lots of insider buying, including one
Ms. Geraldine Ferraro, whom some
o' you political junkies may remember.

I wish I could forget . . . .

[skiracer]

I'm experiencing some difficulty with my access to Rob's spreadsheet which I'm sure we will work out and there are other more personal things today that will keep me from posting todays POTW results until late tonight or early tomorrow morning. What I really need is someone to take the entries that are not at the open today and post those entry prices for me. That would be a huge help with todays results. Thanks.

[mimo_100]

Ski,

I made this suggestion quite a while ago, but no one liked it.

I will make the same suggestion again.

Create a POTW Opening and closing transactions thread that everyone posts to. This thread is only transactions, no chit chat, etc. That way the scorekeeper does not have to go through a bunch of posts to find out
what everyone is doing.:)

Tim

[mimo_100]

Ski,

Buy HAS.

Tim

[skiracer]

Ski,

I made this suggestion quite a while ago, but no one liked it.

I will make the same suggestion again.

Create a POTW Opening and closing transactions thread that everyone posts to. This thread is only transactions, no chit chat, etc. That way the scorekeeper does not have to go through a bunch of posts to find out
what everyone is doing.:)

Tim

I'm not having a problem with it the way it is but I think it would be better with what you are suggesting.

I'll take ACOR short.

[New-born baby]

I'll take TWLL long, please.

[dmk112]

Give me FMD - short.

[New-born baby]

I'll take TWLL long, please.


Please cover TWLL and short QQQQ.

[IIC]

Please cover TWLL and short QQQQ.


CSCO and AAPL are moving the Q's

[Tatnic]

Please cover TWLL and short QQQQ.

I like your timing on the cubes, as long as you're holding for more than a few weeks that is.

[Lyehopper]

This market is a classic short seller butt kickin' Bull.... Shorts are getting hammered and the covering is helping to drive this thing.

I really wanna get all bearish here too.... but I'm SKEERD'....

[billyjoe]

This market is a classic short seller butt kickin' Bull.... Shorts are getting hammered and the covering is helping to drive this thing.

I really wanna get all bearish here too.... but I'm SKEERD'....

Don't be scared Lye , we'll hold your hand . I mean the "brokeback mtn" guys will.

-----------billyjoe

[alice4321us]

Please put me in SRZ long this week. Thnx

[Lyehopper]

http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/icons/icon2.gif Out of Ca$h.... and into X (short) please Ski....

[Lyehopper]

Don't be scared Lye , we'll hold your hand . I mean the "brokeback mtn" guys will.

-----------billyjoe
Thanks Billy, I couldn't have done it without you.

[skiracer]

I'm experiencing some difficulty with my access to Rob's spreadsheet which I'm sure we will work out and there are other more personal things today that will keep me from posting todays POTW results until late tonight or early tomorrow morning. What I really need is someone to take the entries that are not at the open today and post those entry prices for me. That would be a huge help with todays results. Thanks.
I haven't gotten any responses but please someone check all the prices that came after the open for me. I got the thing with Rob's spreadsheet straightened out and I'm up and running with it. I can use it and will have the results for today either late tonight or early tomorrow morning if someone will help out with those prices.
__________________
skiracer

[peanuts]

Ski, as prescribed:

MIMO - HAS (long) $27.27
Ski - ACOR (short) $16.00
NBB - TWLL (long) $17.77, sold TWLL @ $17.5854
NBB - QQQQ (short) $42.51
DMK - FMD (short) $66.06
Alice - SRZ (long) $30.42
Lye - X (short) $67.74

[Tatnic]

Speaking of NY4ever...He was not on my Top Million Fave People List...But I believe that he told us he had cancer...I feel bad about that...Anyone know what happened to him???

that guy had a different story every few months. He was saying that he was a cancer survivor but to be honest, I could never believe anything he said. If he is over 70, then chances are he could have prostate cancer, its very common for guys that age. Doesn't necessarily mean a death sentence, well I guess life is a death sentence after a certain age.

I had an epiphany the other day as to why old people drive so slowly...its because they know that time is so precious that they're enjoying the scenery and every damn second of the day. Young people drive too damn fast because they just want to get from point a to b in the fastest time possible, without enjoying the trip. Life is a trip, enjoy the ride and that means taking it slow and easy and soak in things before they slip by. I'm hardly old, but I only drive fast when I'm on the road for many hours at a time.

[IIC]

that guy had a different story every few months. He was saying that he was a cancer survivor but to be honest, I could never believe anything he said. If he is over 70, then chances are he could have prostate cancer, its very common for guys that age. Doesn't necessarily mean a death sentence, well I guess life is a death sentence after a certain age.

I had an epiphany the other day as to why old people drive so slowly...its because they know that time is so precious that they're enjoying the scenery and every damn second of the day. Young people drive too damn fast because they just want to get from point a to b in the fastest time possible, without enjoying the trip. Life is a trip, enjoy the ride and that means taking it slow and easy and soak in things before they slip by. I'm hardly old, but I only drive fast when I'm on the road for many hours at a time.

If you lived in L.A. you'd always drive slow...There's so much traffic it's impossible to drive fast...IIC

[skiracer]

that guy had a different story every few months. He was saying that he was a cancer survivor but to be honest, I could never believe anything he said. If he is over 70, then chances are he could have prostate cancer, its very common for guys that age. Doesn't necessarily mean a death sentence, well I guess life is a death sentence after a certain age.

I had an epiphany the other day as to why old people drive so slowly...its because they know that time is so precious that they're enjoying the scenery and every damn second of the day. Young people drive too damn fast because they just want to get from point a to b in the fastest time possible, without enjoying the trip. Life is a trip, enjoy the ride and that means taking it slow and easy and soak in things before they slip by. I'm hardly old, but I only drive fast when I'm on the road for many hours at a time.

It's like sex. Really meant to be taken slowly and savored. Life is the same way. I turned 62 today. It makes you realize your mortality. After all these years I am finally coming to the realization and understanding about what is really important and what is a waste of time. It should savored and treasured. It is fleeting and could be over before you know it. My wife just made me my favorite dinner, prime rib roast beef with mushroom gravy and cauliflower with a cheese sauce over it. Mushrooms stuffed with suasage, garlic, and onions as an appetizer. I opened my last bottle of Caymus 1985 Cabernet Sauvignon which is a treasure and cannot be found anymore anywhere. My wife drinks very little so I had to drink the whole bottle almost by myself. The wine was as good as it gets to the tastebud. I feel like a million bucks physically and for 62 look pretty good. But the best part of it is that we have been married for 30 years and are still deeply in love. She is the best think that has ever happened to me and our life is so good. I am blessed. I'm just pouring myself a couple of fingers of Granmarnier and we're sitting on the couch and are going to watch a movie on one of the movie channels. I won't be writing up the POTW results tonight but I'll have everything done and posted for the morning. Peanuts, if I were a betting man, an I am, I would have bet that it would be you to get those prices for me. Thanks alot. It will be a big help in the morning getting the results together and posted. Granmarnier and a big fatty, not my wife, and her on the couch together along with great health. Plus got Rob's spreadsheet straightened out. Life is great. Have the results together and posted in the morning.

[spikefader]

http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/icons/icon2.gif Out of Ca$h.... and into X (short) please Ski....Lye vs A Bullish Fuzzy C SssSssSss

Good luck dude!!!!

[skiracer]

MARY: Numero Uno: after her 2nd wk: Did Rob slip a shooter in on us? Outcome remains to be seen.
Karel, Billyjoe, Jiesen: 2nd, 3rd, 4th respectively and in close order. 10 green/7 red and 3 pretty in pink to start us off this week. Spike wasn't able to find first gear and didn't get it off the starting line yet. I'm sure he will find it and the gas pedal before this week is up.
More Kudos to Rob for letting us use his spreadsheet, putting up with me and my list of questions on how to do everything with his sheet, and just being Rob. This sheet makes me look good and does all the work for you from a click on the keypad. All of our thanks bud. Here is yesterdays sheet: Conspicous only by a few missing regulars who go by the names: Webs, Runner, GWhiz, Park Twain and all the remaining names on the list that seem to have lost interest or fallen off the planet.

http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/8708/potw1106tz5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[spikefader]

...Spike wasn't able to find first gear and didn't get it off the starting line yet. I'm sure he will find it and the gas pedal before this week is up.heads up, ski; the spreadsheet has an error in it...I'm actually +0.91% as of closing price. But nice write-up anyway. :D

[RL]

Happy birthday Ski hope you have many more. I'll try AXTI-LONG please. Now don't tell me Mary Is really Rob:confused:

[IIC]

long OMRI 21.92...IIC

[IIC]

long OMRI 21.92...IIC



Dang...I guess I have to take a price of 22.07

[skiracer]

Dang...I guess I have to take a price of 22.07

Doug,

Your trade took place at 9:53 am. Peanuts has been getting the prices for me and he'll post the actual time of sale prices at the end of the day for all the transactions that take place during the day. I hope.

[skiracer]

heads up, ski; the spreadsheet has an error in it...I'm actually +0.91% as of closing price. But nice write-up anyway. :D

Spike, jeez just when you start to feel good about yourself another error. You're absolutely right and I will take care of the correction tonight. I thought it was a cute write-up and then no cigar. That took place in the copy and paste phase of moving your row and a bottle of Cab and some Granmarnier. I typed that 0.00 in myself and didn't realize I made the error. The rest of the scores got take care of through Rob's program. It's a wonder that I didn't make more as it was pretty late and I was under the influence.

[IIC]

Doug,

Your trade took place at 9:53 am. Peanuts has been getting the prices for me and he'll post the actual time of sale prices at the end of the day for all the transactions that take place during the day. I hope.


Whatever he says...now it looks like I'll get 22.29...Oh well.

I got screwed on my real trade on ANTP too today

[skiracer]

Whatever he says...now it looks like I'll get 22.29...Oh well.

I got screwed on my real trade on ANTP too today

The last thing I would want to do is to beat you on the opening price, so I know that Peanuts will be getting the time of sale price for Doug's trade but just to make sure, and I'm in no way not trusting Peanuts pricing, but if someone else wants to verify or dispute the pricings as they are posted please feel free to post your concerns with the substantiating proof. I only want the fairest and best for everyone the same way.

[skiracer]

Whatever he says...now it looks like I'll get 22.29...Oh well.

I got screwed on my real trade on ANTP too today

The last thing I would want to do is to beat you on the opening price, so I know that Peanuts will be getting the time of sale price for Doug's trade but just to make sure, and I'm in no way not trusting Peanuts pricing, but if someone else wants to verify or dispute the pricings as they are posted please feel free to post your concerns with the substantiating proof. I only want the fairest and best for everyone the same way.

[IIC]

The last thing I would want to do is to beat you on the opening price, so I know that Peanuts will be getting the time of sale price for Doug's trade but just to make sure, and I'm in no way not trusting Peanuts pricing, but if someone else wants to verify or dispute the pricings as they are posted please feel free to post your concerns with the substantiating proof. I only want the fairest and best for everyone the same way.



I'm not complaining...it is what it is...It was moving so fast I was just too slow to click submit

[Mary]

MARY: Numero Uno: after her 2nd wk: Did Rob slip a shooter in on us? Outcome remains to be seen.

WooHoo!! Look at me go! :p

However, I do know that the stock market tends to be fickle at times. Since the company I picked works with stem cell research, I think the results of today's elections will have an effect on the price of VIAC stock. We'll see. If I wanted to sell this stock during the game, would I be allowed to say at some point to sell it and buy [whatever my next pick is]?

[New-born baby]

WooHoo!! Look at me go! :p

However, I do know that the stock market tends to be fickle at times. Since the company I picked works with stem cell research, I think the results of today's elections will have an effect on the price of VIAC stock. We'll see. If I wanted to sell this stock during the game, would I be allowed to say at some point to sell it and buy [whatever my next pick is]?

Yes. Just say, "Sell my VIAC." And when you are ready for the next pick,
say, "BUY/Short this symbol." Easy.

[skiracer]

WooHoo!! Look at me go! :p

However, I do know that the stock market tends to be fickle at times. Since the company I picked works with stem cell research, I think the results of today's elections will have an effect on the price of VIAC stock. We'll see. If I wanted to sell this stock during the game, would I be allowed to say at some point to sell it and buy [whatever my next pick is]?

Mary,
All you have to do is to post that you want to exit or sell VIAC and enter something else of your choice either long or short. You get the price at the time of your post for the sell order and the buy order. You get two round trips. Your first entry and sell and the second entry and sell. Or you could exit VIAC and stay in cash for the rest of the week or until you find something you like.

[Mary]

Happy birthday Ski hope you have many more. I'll try AXTI-LONG please. Now don't tell me Mary Is really Rob:confused:

No. I am not Rob. I really am Rob's younger sister. If I have to, I'll find a picture of the two of us and post it here.

Mary

[skiracer]

No. I am not Rob. I really am Rob's younger sister. If I have to, I'll find a picture of the two of us and post it here.

Mary

Mary,
I would like to see a picture of you and Rob at an early age. I have one of my sister, she's three years younger, and I when I was about 7/8 and she was about 4/5. I'll have to dig it out and post it. Maybe over on the "off topic thread".

[peanuts]

Sorry guys,

I've got a bunch of things gong on today, tomorrow, and Thursday. I will be at my computer tonight, but I do not know when. If someone hasn't posted the prices for the trades today by the time I get to my computer, then I will post them myself. But I'm not guaranteeing the time each night

[spikefader]

Spike, jeez just when you start to feel good about yourself another error. You're absolutely right and I will take care of the correction tonight. I thought it was a cute write-up and then no cigar. That took place in the copy and paste phase of moving your row and a bottle of Cab and some Granmarnier. I typed that 0.00 in myself and didn't realize I made the error. The rest of the scores got take care of through Rob's program. It's a wonder that I didn't make more as it was pretty late and I was under the influence.SssSss....no problemo.....and I'm sorry that was yer last bottle of that particular year and grape. You definately write well under the influence of it :D

[skiracer]

SssSss....no problemo.....and I'm sorry that was yer last bottle of that particular year and grape. You definately write well under the influence of it :D

That year Caymus Special Selection was bought for around 15/20 a bottle in 1989 - 1992 range of years. I had several cases of it and it was good back then. That last bottle was at least 20 years old and was very very good. But that's the end of the Caymus. I have some Heitz's "Martha's Vineyard" from 1985 and 1986 that is a classic California Cabernet that was probably 40/50 a bottle when the Caymus 1985 Caymus was 15/20 in 1989 or so. I bet you couldn't touch the 85 or 86 Caymus Special Selection, if you could find it available, for under 400 a bottle right now. I sold one to a friend about 2 years ago for 250. The Heitz's are very rare ones, especially those years and were very highly rated and would easily fetch over 400/500 a bottle for those years if you could find them. Each of those two vineyards had wines of the year internationally those years and had respective 100 point rankings for their top Cabernets, which is rare.
I picked those bottles up when the craze wasn't as driven by the yuppie generation and the subsequent escalation of prices they brought on with the substantial increase in demand.
The supplies are limited and what was once a somewhat kind of expensive hobby has now become almost priced out of doing anymore because the demand is so high for the best vineyards bottlings that they don't even sell to distributors for liquor stores anymore. They have people who take it all before it gets bottled and then they do what they want to do with it.

[skiracer]

Sorry guys,

I've got a bunch of things gong on today, tomorrow, and Thursday. I will be at my computer tonight, but I do not know when. If someone hasn't posted the prices for the trades today by the time I get to my computer, then I will post them myself. But I'm not guaranteeing the time each night

I would gladly accept the prices for any intraday action by anyone that can post the realtime "time of sale" prices for me the earlier the better. If not then Peanuts will get them whenever he can and I'll be happy for that. Thanks Peanuts.

[skiracer]

The only price I need is for IIC (Doug) for OMRI at 9:53 am. Thanks anyone.

[Mary]

Mary,
I would like to see a picture of you and Rob at an early age. I have one of my sister, she's three years younger, and I when I was about 7/8 and she was about 4/5. I'll have to dig it out and post it. Maybe over on the "off topic thread".

I just posted a cute picture of Rob and me at a very early age over in the "Who Are You?" thread.

Mary

[peanuts]

Ski,

sorry for the delay... stupid regular job... I'm not going to last much longer...

IIC, OMRI, 9:53 am, $22.2101
RL, AXTI, market open, $4.92

Tomorrow, I will be in meetings until late in the night
Thursday, I will be delivering people to their proper destinations at the proper time, and then I'm going to a 50 person free happy hour that my co-worker won thru the radio today
Friday, I will have an early morning meeting and then conferencing until the evening, then entertaining foreign guests throughout the night
Saturday, I sleep

In a way, it's probably good for me to get away from the market for a little while, but I am learning what my true passion in life really is while enduring this week of "real" work...

[IIC]

Ski,

sorry for the delay... stupid regular job... I'm not going to last much longer...

IIC, OMRI, 9:53 am, $22.2101
RL, AXTI, market open, $4.92

Tomorrow, I will be in meetings until late in the night
Thursday, I will be delivering people to their proper destinations at the proper time, and then I'm going to a 50 person free happy hour that my co-worker won thru the radio today
Friday, I will have an early morning meeting and then conferencing until the evening, then entertaining foreign guests throughout the night
Saturday, I sleep

In a way, it's probably good for me to get away from the market for a little while, but I am learning what my true passion in life really is while enduring this week of "real" work...



What are you doing on Sunday?

[skiracer]

MARY, Mary, Mary quite to the contrary is showing the members just how to do it. Still atop the
leaderboard entrenched in Green and talking about changing horses in midstream. What's up this girl's sleeve for the rest of the week? SKIRACER blows past most of the field in coming from near last to vie for the lead just 1.99 off the leader and top spot. Gatorman steps on the gas and steams into 3rd place with Alice4321US right on his heels.
14 positions in the green and 7 in the red. 1 pretty in Pink. Will Mary succumb to the pressure that midweek plays on rookies finding themselves on top of the leaderboard? SKIRACER and GATORMAN are battle and time tested veterans that are used to the stress and pressure of MAJOR LEAGUE POTW. Let's see what Wednesday brings? And here's today's sheet and results: BTW I put Doug's play from 9.53 am this morning in at 21.92 on his sayso of what the stock was trading at that time. Nice day today with that pick Doug.

http://img472.imageshack.us/img472/3258/potw1107fh9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[skiracer]

Sorry Doug but I didn't see Peanuts post with the scores before I posted the sheet. Tomorrow I will make the adjustment to your entry price and results for the week. I tried to be as fair as one could be.

[IIC]

Sorry Doug but I didn't see Peanuts post with the scores before I posted the sheet. Tomorrow I will make the adjustment to your entry price and results for the week. I tried to be as fair as one could be.



That's OK....I guess http://bestsmileys.com/crying/2.gif

Originally, I put 21.92...then I put 22.07...then 22.29...I have no idea why it kept changing on me...http://bestsmileys.com/clueless/7.gif

But Peanuts says 22.21...so that's what it is...Doug

[Websman]

Sorry I didn't get a pick in this week Ski...I've been very busy. As a matter of fact, I'm on my laptop, at a basketball game right now.

I promise to enter next week...

[riverbabe]

Hi Ski,
please sell WYNN. Thanks

[riverbabe]

Hi Ski,
please sell WYNN. Thanks

Whoops, looks like I sold too soon. Ski, thanks for taking over here. Your hard work is really appreciated!

[Tatnic]

nbb is short the cubes, not long. I only noticed that because I thought his timing was pretty decent.

[IIC]

nbb is short the cubes, not long. I only noticed that because I thought his timing was pretty decent.


1st level support 42.50 held (close enough)...medium support is 42.30...I think they look fine...some resistance at 43.10ish and 43.35ish

[skiracer]

nbb is short the cubes, not long. I only noticed that because I thought his timing was pretty decent.

Thanks for bringing that to my attention. Will make the necessary changes tonight.

[skiracer]

I need a time of sale price for WYNN at 9.33. I'm almost ready to give it to Riverbabe at 77.50 which was the opening price today but let's see what 3 minutes difference will make it anyone can get that for me please. Thanks.

[Tatnic]

1st level support 42.50 held (close enough)...medium support is 42.30...I think they look fine...some resistance at 43.10ish and 43.35ish

I did say that it seemed like a good entry as long as his trade is more than a few weeks. Time is the biggest factor at this point...if the market can't make new highs soon, it will most likely take a break for a few weeks and retrace.

But...but, we just had one of the biggest buy signals in a while last summer, so I don't expect the market to fall apart.

[skiracer]

Mary unfazed by the pressure. Holds on to coveted #1 spot atop the leader board. And her brother Rob comes deep from the pack to move into the #2 slot. Who are these people and where do they get these picks. Skiracer slips to #3 with the Gatorman's fangs nipping at his heels from the #4 position.
Only two days left this week and it has been topsy turvy with some rad changes taking place over the 1st 3 days in the top 4 places. I'm looking forward to some position changes as the players jockey for moves up in new vehicles. Here is today's score sheet:

http://img275.imageshack.us/img275/5589/potw1108dq3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[IIC]

I did say that it seemed like a good entry as long as his trade is more than a few weeks. Time is the biggest factor at this point...if the market can't make new highs soon, it will most likely take a break for a few weeks and retrace.

But...but, we just had one of the biggest buy signals in a while last summer, so I don't expect the market to fall apart.


????...I don't know what you mean???...The Naz Comp and Naz 100 both made new highs today...And I'll bet Web's life that the Q's open higher tomorrow...Doug(IIC)

[IIC]

Ski...How come my closing price is black and everyone elses is blue?...Doug(IIC)

[Websman]

????...I don't know what you mean???...The Naz Comp and Naz 100 both made new highs today...And I'll bet Web's life that the Q's open higher tomorrow...Doug(IIC)

Ohhhh....uh....I hope the Q's open higher tomorrow. jjjjjjjjjjjjaaaaaaaaaweeee!!!!!!

[Websman]

Ski...How come my closing price is black and everyone elses is blue?...Doug(IIC)


It's a black thing...You wouldn't understand.

[IIC]

Quote:
Originally Posted by IIC http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/buttons/viewpost.gif (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=71027#post71027)
????...I don't know what you mean???...The Naz Comp and Naz 100 both made new highs today...And I'll bet Web's life that the Q's open higher tomorrow...Doug(IIC)


Ohhhh....uh....I hope the Q's open higher tomorrow. jjjjjjjjjjjjaaaaaaaaaweeee!!!!!!

Don't worry...I just got a tune-up on my crystal ball this morning

[skiracer]

It's a black thing...You wouldn't understand.

Yo home. I see where you coming from. I mean the Oakland thing with the Ebonics an all is where the talk is at. Them California white boys don't have no grip on what we speak. I tried and leave a signal for the boy but he don't get it.

[skiracer]

Ski...How come my closing price is black and everyone elses is blue?...Doug(IIC)

That is a visible mistake on my part Doug. Please excuse my ineptitude as it could be THC induced thus relieving me of any responsibiltiy for my actions. I will gladly correct the error on Thursday afternoons results spreadsheet. I did correct your entry price on OMRI from 21.92 to 22.21 which moves you from 4th to 5th in the rankings today. You be blue again tomorrow.

[IIC]

That is a visible mistake on my part Doug. Please excuse my ineptitude as it could be THC induced thus relieving me of any responsibiltiy for my actions. I will gladly correct the error on Thursday afternoons results spreadsheet. I did correct your entry price on OMRI from 21.92 to 22.21 which moves you from 4th to 5th in the rankings today. You be blue again tomorrow.

Oh...a mistake...I thought I was special or somethin'...IIC

[skiracer]

Oh...a mistake...I thought I was special or somethin'...IIC

Well you are special Doug.

[Mary]

[B]Mary unfazed by the pressure. Holds on to coveted #1 spot atop the leader board. And her brother Rob comes deep from the pack to move into the #2 slot. Who are these people and where do they get these picks.

Well, I don't know about Rob, but I just Googled something like "stock research" and looked at a couple of sites that showed up on the first page of Google results. I found a site that had two charts, one was "notable upgrades" and the other "notable downgrades." One of the upgrades when I first found this site was VIAC upgraded from "hold" to "buy." I read about what the company does and figured the election results might have an effect. The Rush Limbaugh v. Michael J. Fox flap about whether or not Fox was exaggerating his symptoms put the stem cell research argument on front page news again. So I gambled I was either going to win big or lose big with that pick. Looks like I'm winning big ... so far. But the week's not over yet.

[skiracer]

Well, I don't know about Rob, but I just Googled something like "stock research" and looked at a couple of sites that showed up on the first page of Google results. I found a site that had two charts, one was "notable upgrades" and the other "notable downgrades." One of the upgrades when I first found this site was VIAC upgraded from "hold" to "buy." I read about what the company does and figured the election results might have an effect. The Rush Limbaugh v. Michael J. Fox flap about whether or not Fox was exaggerating his symptoms put the stem cell research argument on front page news again. So I gambled I was either going to win big or lose big with that pick. Looks like I'm winning big ... so far. But the week's not over yet.

However you got to the pick is water over the dam right now Mary. It turned out very nice for you so far. It's a great feeling to win this thing even if you don't own the stock itself. Even better when you win and own the stock. Good luck for the rest of the week. Your brother is looking over your shoulder. I think I will be exiting ACOR in the morning. I have something that might provide enough gain to pass Rob and catch you. Exciting isn't it when you're on top of the board.

[peanuts]

I need a time of sale price for WYNN at 9.33. I'm almost ready to give it to Riverbabe at 77.50 which was the opening price today but let's see what 3 minutes difference will make it anyone can get that for me please. Thanks.

Ski,

Riverbabe, 9:33 AM, WYNN, $76.036

[skiracer]

Ski,

Riverbabe, 9:33 AM, WYNN, $76.036

Thanks Peanuts. Riverbabe you've got some credit coming in the morning. I'll make the change then from what I used vs to what it actually was at 9.33. What a difference 3 min. can make.

[skiracer]

Mary unfazed by the pressure. Holds on to coveted #1 spot atop the leader board. And her brother Rob comes deep from the pack to move into the #2 slot. Who are these people and where do they get these picks. Skiracer slips to #3 with the Gatorman's fangs nipping at his heels from the #4 position.
Only two days left this week and it has been topsy turvy with some rad changes taking place over the 1st 3 days in the top 4 places. I'm looking forward to some position changes as the players jockey for moves up in new vehicles. Here is today's score sheet: Riverbabe, I made the change early this morning and your score and ranking are now what they should be according to the time of sales price yesterday at 9:33 am. The change moved you ahead of Karel by percentage points.

http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/9117/potw1108fq8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[skiracer]

Cover ACOR. Stay in cash. Forget cash and buy SNTS.

[Tatnic]

Well, I don't know about Rob, but I just Googled something like "stock research" and looked at a couple of sites that showed up on the first page of Google results. I found a site that had two charts, one was "notable upgrades" and the other "notable downgrades." One of the upgrades when I first found this site was VIAC upgraded from "hold" to "buy." I read about what the company does and figured the election results might have an effect. The Rush Limbaugh v. Michael J. Fox flap about whether or not Fox was exaggerating his symptoms put the stem cell research argument on front page news again. So I gambled I was either going to win big or lose big with that pick. Looks like I'm winning big ... so far. But the week's not over yet.

That's pretty impressive...thanks for your investigative work Mary.

[riverbabe]

Hi Ski,

Please buy ENER for me. Thank you! river

[Mary]

That's pretty impressive...thanks for your investigative work Mary.

Are you trying to be a jerk? If so, you have succeeded. If not, I'd hate to see what it looks like when you do try.

[New-born baby]

Are you trying to be a jerk? If so, you have succeeded. If not, I'd hate to see what it looks like when you do try.


Mary,
Perhaps he meant it as a compliment. When I read your post, I was impressed with how you dug VIAC up. I had never tried to do it your way, but I think I will give it a spin. I sincerely mean it: thanks for the post. :D


By the way,Tatnic: I usually put a smiley face on the post to try to indicate to our readers that I mean it in a friendly way. The trouble with writing is that people can't see our facial expressions and body language, and that is perhaps 80% of the way we communicate. We always have to be extra careful. I know that sometimes in the past I have written some posts that were not received as I intended. :)

[Tatnic]

Are you trying to be a jerk? If so, you have succeeded. If not, I'd hate to see what it looks like when you do try.

YOu know, I had this little inkling in the back of my mind that you might think I was being facetious, but I wasn't. Obviously you did a great job finding that company based on what I thought was some pretty decent reasoning. In fact, I spent a good part of the morning looking into stem cell companies because of your work. I haven't found anything yet any better than what you came up with, but I'm still looking. You can believe me or not, makes no difference to me.

[Tatnic]

You can believe me or not, makes no difference to me.

that's not really true. I hope you believe me and I wish I hadn't lost my temper a week or so ago and blasted you and rob in one post about the whole swearing thing.

I feel bad that rob thinks he can't post here anymore and enjoy this site, that was not my intent and now he and lye are staying away in protest I'm guessing.

So, if your brother can find it in himself to come back to posting I'm sure he'd make a lot of people happy as I'm sure he is truely missed here. If he's waiting for me to leave then with any luck I'll have to anyway since I'm hoping to be too busy in the not-to-distant future with other conflicting endeavors. Plus I'm headed up north for a week at deer camp so I'll definately be out for about 10 days starting this Saturday.

[Mary]

YOu know, I had this little inkling in the back of my mind that you might think I was being facetious, but I wasn't. Obviously you did a great job finding that company based on what I thought was some pretty decent reasoning. In fact, I spent a good part of the morning looking into stem cell companies because of your work. I haven't found anything yet any better than what you came up with, but I'm still looking. You can believe me or not, makes no difference to me.

As you mentioned in the post you wrote just after this one, the reason I immediately jumped to the conclusion that you were being facetious is because of your prior post. As for my "decent reasoning," that type of reasoning is all I have to go on until I learn how to read these charts that you and the other members of this group rely on.

It is an unfortunate truth in our society that lots of decisions are based on emotion. The reason this is unfortunate -- and I think we all know this -- is that emotions are fickle and very changeable. So, if emotional reaction to current events is what affects the market, then anticipated emotional reaction to current events should be looked at along with the company's financial stability, etc. Also, it is important to remember that not everyone who plays the market (which also affects stock pricing) is a financial genius and how those people play the market will also have an effect.

I'm preaching to the choir now, huh? OK. I'll stop.

[Mary]

Mary,
Perhaps he meant it as a compliment. When I read your post, I was impressed with how you dug VIAC up. I had never tried to do it your way, but I think I will give it a spin. I sincerely mean it: thanks for the post. :D


Ha! Why am I suddenly reminded of the joke about a bunch of engineering experts being very stumped about how to solve the problem of a semi truck being stuck under an overpass when a little boy walks up to them and says, "Why don't you let some air out of the tires?" ;)

[skiracer]

I need time of sale prices for: Thank you.
ACOR: 9:39 am
SNTS: 9:39 am
ENER: 10:09 am

[peanuts]

I need time of sale prices for: Thank you.
ACOR: 9:39 am
SNTS: 9:39 am
ENER: 10:09 am

ACOR, 9:39 am, $15.26
SNTS, 9:39 am, $8.13
ENER, 10:09 am, $38.26

I'm off to a free happy hour. I will really enjoy this!

[skiracer]

ACOR, 9:39 am, $15.26
SNTS, 9:39 am, $8.13
ENER, 10:09 am, $38.26

I'm off to a free happy hour. I will really enjoy this!

Thanks Peanuts. This is a big help for me. Think skiing somewhere like Hunter Mtn., Windham Mtn. or anywhere in Vermont would be nice. Have a great time and be careful driving afterwards.

[skiracer]

THE DAILY POTW FORM
ALL THE CONTEST RESULTS WORTH READING!!!
ROB's little sister MARY in only her second POTW week ever as a player continues to dominate the leader board for the 4th day in a row. Oblivious to the pressure of holding the top spot MARY strides into the stretch with a .61 lead over the ICEMAN who has been steadily tracking the top of the leaderboard.
ROB slips out of the 2nd spot to 3rd and RL, where did he come from, slips past SKIRACER into the 4th position. SKIRACER was his own undoing as he covered the ACOR short and jumped right into the long position in SNTS which then fell .20 dropping SKI into the 5th spot. There are alot of "IF's going into the last day of the week and it could turn out to be a doozy as there are several players within striking range of the top spot. STAY TUNED!! This could turn out to be a wild ride going into the finish tomorrow. As always here's today's sheet with the results: Tell them where you read it:
THE DAILY POTW FORM
SPREADSHEETS BY ROB

And for all you RUTGERS UNIVERSITY fans out there in NEW JERSEY:

GO RUTGERS
BEAT
LOUISVILLE!!


http://img373.imageshack.us/img373/4354/potw1109io5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[IIC]

ACOR, 9:39 am, $15.26
SNTS, 9:39 am, $8.13
ENER, 10:09 am, $38.26

I'm off to a free happy hour. I will really enjoy this!


Peanuts...Have a coupla brewski's for me...Doug

http://bestsmileys.com/drinking/18.gif

[skiracer]

Peanuts...Have a coupla brewski's for me...Doug

http://bestsmileys.com/drinking/18.gif

And we wonder why they call us male chauvinist pigs.

[IIC]

ROB's little sister MARY in her first POTW week ever as a player continues to dominate the leader board for the 4th day in a row...Ski

Short memory Ski???...I believe Mary was 20th last week w/ EBAY

[skiracer]

ROB's little sister MARY in her first POTW week ever as a player continues to dominate the leader board for the 4th day in a row...Ski

Short memory Ski???...I believe Mary was 20th last week w/ EBAY

That's called poetic license Doug. Actually an oversight on my part but only you would catch that.

[skiracer]

THE DAILY POTW FORM
ALL THE CONTEST RESULTS WORTH READING!!!
ROB's little sister MARY in only her SECOND! POTW week ever as a player continues to dominate the leader board for the 4th day in a row. Oblivious to the pressure of holding the top spot MARY strides into the stretch with a .61 lead over the ICEMAN who has been steadily tracking the top of the leaderboard.
ROB slips out of the 2nd spot to 3rd and RL, where did he come from, slips past SKIRACER into the 4th position. SKIRACER was his own undoing as he covered the ACOR short and jumped right into the long position in SNTS which then fell .20 dropping SKI into the 5th spot. There are alot of "IF's going into the last day of the week and it could turn out to be a doozy as there are several players within striking range of the top spot. STAY TUNED!! This could turn out to be a wild ride going into the finish tomorrow. As always here's today's sheet with the results: Tell them where you read it:
THE DAILY POTW FORM
SPREADSHEETS BY ROB


And for all you RUTGERS UNIVERSITY fans out there in NEW JERSEY:


GO RUTGERS
BEAT
LOUISVILLE!!

[billyjoe]

Crap , I forgot about that game. I'm off to the TV. Thanks

-----------billyjoe

[New-born baby]

that's not really true. I hope you believe me and I wish I hadn't lost my temper a week or so ago and blasted you and rob in one post about the whole swearing thing.

I feel bad that rob thinks he can't post here anymore and enjoy this site, that was not my intent and now he and lye are staying away in protest I'm guessing.

So, if your brother can find it in himself to come back to posting I'm sure he'd make a lot of people happy as I'm sure he is truely missed here. If he's waiting for me to leave then with any luck I'll have to anyway since I'm hoping to be too busy in the not-to-distant future with other conflicting endeavors. Plus I'm headed up north for a week at deer camp so I'll definately be out for about 10 days starting this Saturday.

Tatnic,
You're a great man to apologize. Thank you for being a real man about it. I hope you stick around. Pretty please.

I didn't read the posts that were offensive, so I can't comment with any real knowledge. But I would say that MM forums have been fairly clean, up to now, and I hope they will get completely pure. Also almost all of the posts have been from people who have tried to be helpful, and rooted for the success of fellow forumites. I hope this continues and improves, too. We sure do not help anyone by being negative simply for the reason of being negative. We need the objective eye, and a sincere desire to be helpful.

I hope Rob and Lye come back ASAP. Mary, if you could ask brother Rob to come back, we would appreciate it very much. Rob is a very good trader to have around. I always appreciated his FA. He's a sharp guy. And pass the word to Lye that we need him here, as I am about to short steel. :D

God bless us all :D And Tatnic, get a big buck for us Mr. Market types. Around here, nothing less than HUGE will do :D

[IIC]

Wow...Rutgers beat Louisville...Maybe they'll be # 1....in the Big East

[Tatnic]

Peanuts...Have a coupla brewski's for me...Doug

http://bestsmileys.com/drinking/18.gif

movie stars and midgets, eh? Oh boy, I crossed the line again and will hear from the PC police no doubt!

[Tatnic]

Tatnic,
You're a great man to apologize. Thank you for being a real man about it. I hope you stick around. Pretty please.

I didn't read the posts that were offensive, so I can't comment with any real knowledge. But I would say that MM forums have been fairly clean, up to now, and I hope they will get completely pure. Also almost all of the posts have been from people who have tried to be helpful, and rooted for the success of fellow forumites. I hope this continues and improves, too. We sure do not help anyone by being negative simply for the reason of being negative. We need the objective eye, and a sincere desire to be helpful.

I hope Rob and Lye come back ASAP. Mary, if you could ask brother Rob to come back, we would appreciate it very much. Rob is a very good trader to have around. I always appreciated his FA. He's a sharp guy. And pass the word to Lye that we need him here, as I am about to short steel. :D

God bless us all :D And Tatnic, get a big buck for us Mr. Market types. Around here, nothing less than HUGE will do :D

Thanks NBB...most of the bucks in northern Maine are big, but they're few and far between. In the year 2000, we took 6 and 3 dressed over 200 lbs. Since then we've haven't even taken 6 more. Feast or famine.

[New-born baby]

Thanks NBB...most of the bucks in northern Maine are big, but they're few and far between. In the year 2000, we took 6 and 3 dressed over 200 lbs. Since then we've haven't even taken 6 more. Feast or famine.

Tatnic,
Come to Wisconsin; they're as thick as cheeseheads. It's easy to get deer here. I took out a 12 point with my Buick; a man in my church hit a huge deer with his pickup and did $5k damage to it. And last year we had a woman from my church killed by a deer when she swerved and went into the ditch. People also shoot them here, too. You'd do us a service by cutting down on the herd.

[riverbabe]

ACOR, 9:39 am, $15.26
SNTS, 9:39 am, $8.13
ENER, 10:09 am, $38.26

Um, ski & peanuts, I haven't had a quibble so far, but I don't think the ask for ENER was anywhere near 38.26 at 10:09 yesterday. Granted I can only pull up a 10 min. chart at this point, but the open and high at 10:00 was 38.21 with a close at 37.80 and at 10:10 the open was 37.81. Now, also granted that the ask price could have been 38.26 at 10:00, this thing was dropping like a rock by 10:09 and I'm sure I caught it on its way down at 37 something at 10:09. Granted the ask might have been something like 37.86 or so, but I don't think it was anywhere near 38.26.

Would appreciate a cross check, 'cause I really need to get into the GREEN here! ;) Thanks. river

[IIC]

Sell OMRI......IIC

[IIC]

Sell OMRI......IIC


I believe I got 24.28

[IIC]

Just for the record:

http://img354.imageshack.us/img354/3167/omrilo6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[IIC]

Buy EDU......IIC

[Mary]

That's called poetic license Doug. Actually an oversight on my part but only you would catch that.

I caught it too but why would I say anything? It looked so much more impressive for me to be leading the pack in my first week when, in reality, I was in my second. :p

[IIC]

Sell EDU...let the chips fall where they may.....IIC

[Mary]

Just for the record:

http://img354.imageshack.us/img354/3167/omrilo6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

How do you do that? Do you have a screen shot program?

[IIC]

Sell EDU...let the chips fall where they may.....IIC


Ski...I copied the t/s if you need it...bot at 30.48...no trades at 11:27 but the first trade at 11:28 was 3.449. (EDIT: I MEAN 30.449)

Good luck Mary...I'm outta pix...IIC

[Tatnic]

Tatnic,
Come to Wisconsin; they're as thick as cheeseheads. It's easy to get deer here. I took out a 12 point with my Buick; a man in my church hit a huge deer with his pickup and did $5k damage to it. And last year we had a woman from my church killed by a deer when she swerved and went into the ditch. People also shoot them here, too. You'd do us a service by cutting down on the herd.

lol, that's some expensive meat, although probably not as expensive as mine. I once figured out my average cost of venison per pound and its pretty staggering!

[skiracer]

lol, that's some expensive meat, although probably not as expensive as mine. I once figured out my average cost of venison per pound and its pretty staggering!

Come to NJ. They are not as big as what you guys are talking about but they are plentiful and you could get a nice rack up to around 10/12. In the mid to southern section where I live they are smaller but plentiful. There is a large park near my home that we walk in almost every day usually right after I get home before dinner. A guy whose backyard borders on the park is putting corn out and I've seen a few 10 and 12 pointers in there. There is a herd of about 24 eating there every night with about 3/4 big bucks in the herd.

[spikefader]

Close ASF long and short TGEN (http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/trading/ViewShortableStocks.php?key=tgen&cntry=usa&tag=United+States&ib_entity=llc&ln=) please!

[skiracer]

Peanuts or anyone,
I need the time of sales for these stocks at the posted times: Thanks.

ENER: yesterday at 10:09 am. river disputes the prices as posted yesterday and would like some confirmation by another party or would Peanuts take another look please.

Todays:

OMRI: 10:05 am - long
EDU: 11:17 am - long
EDU: 11:27 am - long
ASF: 1:08 pm - long
TGEN: 1:08 pm - short

[peanuts]

Peanuts or anyone,
I need the time of sales for these stocks at the posted times: Thanks.

ENER: yesterday at 10:09 am. river disputes the prices as posted yesterday and would like some confirmation by another party or would Peanuts take another look please.

Todays:

OMRI: 10:05 am - long
EDU: 11:17 am - long
EDU: 11:27 am - long
ASF: 1:08 pm - long
TGEN: 1:08 pm - short

Ski, as requested:

OMRI / 10:05 / $24.28
EDU / 11:17 / $30.41
EDU / 11:27 (11:29) / $30.32
ASF / 13:08 / $39.98
TGEN / 13:08 / $3.86

Riverbabe,

I am very sorry because I made a mistake in my haste to post the trades yesterday. I re-checked the opening price for your trade at the time you made the post, and the price should be $37.75 for ENER at 10:09 am. Real sorry about this, sweety.

So Ski, please excuse my mistake and give Riverbabe the proper price if you see fit. Or you can deduct the difference off of my trade for punishment for not being as good as Rob... If it makes a difference I double-checked the prices tonight

[skiracer]

[quote=peanuts;71311]Ski, as requested:

OMRI / 10:05 / $24.28
EDU / 11:17 / $30.41
EDU / 11:27 (11:29) / $30.32
ASF / 13:08 / $39.98
TGEN / 13:08 / $3.86

Riverbabe,

I am very sorry because I made a mistake in my haste to post the trades yesterday. I re-checked the opening price for your trade at the time you made the post, and the price should be $37.75 for ENER at 10:09 am. Real sorry about this, sweety.

Peanuts,
Thank you for doing this for me. Myself and everyone else appreciates your going out of your way to do this on a timely basis. Thanks for going back and checking out Riverbabe's ENER entry price for yesterday. Now everyone should be happy and I can get the score sheet updated and announce this weeks winner

[skiracer]

THE DAILY POTW FORM
ALL THE CONTEST RESULTS WORTH READING
MARY STUNS!!! EXPERIENCED TRADERS!!!
In what has to be the most shocking results of the year ROBS little sister pulls away from the field in stunning fashion to hold on to her lead and take her first win after only her 2nd full week of play. There have been reports of several experienced traders going into their garages and taking the pipe. ICEMAN surges back into 2nd place with SKIRACER holding onto 3rd place. RIVERBABE slips into 4th on the merit of a scorekeeping correction and the strength of her 2nd pick this week. 15 green and 5 red with 1 pretty in pink still in CASH. A decent week with gainers outpacing the losers by a 2/1 margin
THE DAILY POTW FORM
SPREADSHEETS BY ROB

And a big CONGRATULATIONS to NEW JERSEY'S FINEST!!!
Rutgers 28 - LOUISVILLE 25

AS ALWAYS HERE'S TODAY SHEET WITH THE RESULTS: TELL THEM WHERE YOU READ IT:
http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/8050/potw1110tz6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[IIC]

Wait a minute!!!...Those are not the prices of EDU...See Below

It doesn't really matter because Mary beat me anyway...But where does Peanuts get these prices???

I'd like to know if someone else has the ability to get the prices on EDU...Not for the contest but I'd like to know if my source is bogus...I got 30.48 at 11:17am EST and 30.449 at 11:28am EST...Peanuts has 30.41 at 11:17am and no trade till 11:29am at 30.32...Now I will be honest...I was watching and did not see the trade at 11:28am as it happened...I did see the trade go by at 30.32 .

http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/313/edubuyhp3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/9443/edu1127notraderb8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/5225/edu1128xa0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[skiracer]

Wait a minute!!!...Those are not the prices of EDU...See Below

It doesn't really matter because Mary beat me anyway...But where does Peanuts get these prices???

I'd like to know if someone else has the ability to get the prices on EDU...Not for the contest but I'd like to know if my source is bogus...I got 30.48 at 11:17am EST and 30.449 at 11:28am EST...Peanuts has 30.41 at 11:17am and no trade till 11:29am at 30.32...Now I will be honest...I was watching and did not see the trade at 11:28am as it happened...I did see the trade go by at 30.32 .

http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/313/edubuyhp3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/9443/edu1127notraderb8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/5225/edu1128xa0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Unless you actually have the raw data and time of sales screen available to you then your not getting the right price. I don't know what it is that you are posting from but that is not look like a time of sales screen to me. There could be hundreds of different trades at different prices within a one minute time frame.

[Mary]

In what has to be the most shocking results of the year ROB'S little sister pulls away from the field in stunning fashion to hold on to her lead and take her first win after only her 2nd full week of play.

Yeah, but now the pressure is on to try to follow that act. The VIAC pick was a gift that just fell in my lap. I've been using the same market research site ever since I made the VIAC pick and, although I've seen other upgrades from "hold" to "buy" and read about those companies, I have not yet seen anything that reaches out and grabs my attention the way VIAC did. I almost wrote a post today when VIAC was up by only $0.03 to sell VIAC but I didn't do it. I was fretting about someone in this group (can't remember if it was Peanuts or Ski) who threatened that he had a secret pick that was going to challenge my first place position.

P.S. By not breaking under pressure and selling when VIAC was up $0.03, I gained an additional $0.09 since, according to a quick Google search, VIAC gained $0.12 today. :)

[Runner]

Unless you actually have the raw data and time of sales screen available to you then your not getting the right price. I don't know what it is that you are posting from but that is not look like a time of sales screen to me. There could be hundreds of different trades at different prices within a one minute time frame.

http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/232/edxo6.png (http://imageshack.us)

[IIC]

Unless you actually have the raw data and time of sales screen available to you then your not getting the right price. I don't know what it is that you are posting from but that is not look like a time of sales screen to me. There could be hundreds of different trades at different prices within a one minute time frame.

Whatever...I think the stuff I posted indicates the opening price for the minutes indicated....If there is zero vol then it didn't trade that min.

However, no one can list all the T/S for Naz stocks...That info does not exist....Even the Nasdaq itself does not publish that info because they don't have it.

I'm not trying to be a complainer...And I offer my congrats to Mary for a fine performance...Plus she would've won anyway...But as scorekeeper I think you should let us know which published T/S prices will be considered "Official" for the contest...thx...Doug

[Tatnic]

Come to NJ. They are not as big as what you guys are talking about but they are plentiful and you could get a nice rack up to around 10/12. In the mid to southern section where I live they are smaller but plentiful. There is a large park near my home that we walk in almost every day usually right after I get home before dinner. A guy whose backyard borders on the park is putting corn out and I've seen a few 10 and 12 pointers in there. There is a herd of about 24 eating there every night with about 3/4 big bucks in the herd.

geez Ski, doesn't he worry about Lyme Disease? A deer tick is in many cases so small they're mistaken for freckles, and usually its the small ones that carry the bacteria. And don't you guys have bears in abundance now? Putting out corn for deer is a bad idea if there are bears in the vicinity, the next thing you know he'll come home to a bear in his bath tub. Remember that poor family in NJ that had their baby stolen from a crib by a black bear? I sure hope that no one was putting out food for deer and attracked that bear by accident. That's the problem with feeding wildlife, there are unintended consequences.

[skiracer]

geez Ski, doesn't he worry about Lyme Disease? A deer tick is in many cases so small they're mistaken for freckles, and usually its the small ones that carry the bacteria. And don't you guys have bears in abundance now? Putting out corn for deer is a bad idea if there are bears in the vicinity, the next thing you know he'll come home to a bear in his bath tub. Remember that poor family in NJ that had their baby stolen from a crib by a black bear? I sure hope that no one was putting out food for deer and attracked that bear by accident. That's the problem with feeding wildlife, there are unintended consequences.

We don't have many bears in this portion of the state although about 4/5 months ago a small black bear came out of the park that I am talking about and walked down the middle of our street. I was at work at the time and my wife called me to tell me that there was a bear walking down ours street. Not sure where it came from or how it got here but must have worked it's way down from up north somewhere. I personally have never seen one in this area.

I know that feeding them will attract more of them but the park I am talking about basically surrounds our whole neighborhood and is loaded with deer. Directly across the street from the park is the old Ciba-Geigy manufacturing plant site and it is probably as large as or larger that the park and is also loaded with deer. It's like they have a private reserve with no real predators. Like I said earlier I have a doe that has taken to living in our backyard.

[skiracer]

Whatever...I think the stuff I posted indicates the opening price for the minutes indicated....If there is zero vol then it didn't trade that min.

However, no one can list all the T/S for Naz stocks...That info does not exist....Even the Nasdaq itself does not publish that info because they don't have it.

I'm not trying to be a complainer...And I offer my congrats to Mary for a fine performance...Plus she would've won anyway...But as scorekeeper I think you should let us know which published T/S prices will be considered "Official" for the contest...thx...Doug

Doug,
I don't have them available to me after the close. I do have them available to me during the open hours but I'm not always available to read the posts and correlate them with the time of sales during the open hours so I have to rely on Peanuts or Runner or anyone who is gracious enough to take the time to do this for us and the POTW in general. I am taking Peanuts or Runners or anyone else who has the available time of sales prices and will post them when I ask for them as the price I am going to use. I think that we are all going to have to deal with those prices. Peanuts and Runner's prices matched for EDU at the time of 11:17:07 am. That is close enough for me an I hope that you can agree with them and let them be good enough for you since they both matched. This is the best that I can do under the circumstances.
I'm sure there will be times where mistakes will be made but as with Riverbabe's entry in ENER which Peanuts erred on initially he was gracious and accomodating enough to go back and check it out and make the correction. We can't expect anymore from someone who is trying their best to help and to keep this thing afloat. Anytime there is a disputed price or anything else in question, all I ask is that each of us exhibit enough patience to let me find the error and make the corrections as necessary. That is the best I can do.

[Peter Hansen]

Ski I am going for broke again.......JOB Long .........Thanx .......and again Thank You for the Great job you are doing with the POW challenge !

[billyjoe]

Congratulations to Mary, Doug, and Ski. Maybe it's just beginners luck for Mary, but I don't think so and we have to worry about Doug and Ski every week. Give us a break. As they say "the worm will turn". I predict a future with Mary, River, and Louetta dominating this contest. We guys are just too emotional about this investing business.

--------------billyjoe

[peanuts]

Wow, what a week! Mary, I am happy that you beat the seasoned stock pickers this week. Your pick is VIAC proved to all of us here that Rob isn't the only one with the brains in your family. Great job, and as per the standard weekly congrats, you are $$$HUUUUUGE$$$

Doug, Ski, you gotta do better than that to win, but you and your picks were BIG! Nice job

Skiracer, I would like to start the week in CA$H, please. Thank you very much, and keep up the great work!

[Websman]

In honor of the superior skills of Jack Haddad, I want to play...

MRVL - long

[IIC]

I congratulated Mary...But I forgot to congratulate Ski.

Anyway, speaking of bears...I touched a wild bear in Yellowstone Park back in '69. In retrospect that was pretty stupid...but I lived...Doug

[jblaze71]

Ski,

I was wondering in I could get in POTW. If so I would like ASEI long.

[skiracer]

Ski,

I was wondering in I could get in POTW. If so I would like ASEI long.

You're in Blaze. I don't know if you have read the rules but you might want to read them sometime or you could just wait until you do sometime wrong and then be corrected. Anyway welcome to the POTW.

[jiesen]

Yeah, but now the pressure is on to try to follow that act. The VIAC pick was a gift that just fell in my lap. I've been using the same market research site ever since I made the VIAC pick and, although I've seen other upgrades from "hold" to "buy" and read about those companies, I have not yet seen anything that reaches out and grabs my attention the way VIAC did. I almost wrote a post today when VIAC was up by only $0.03 to sell VIAC but I didn't do it. I was fretting about someone in this group (can't remember if it was Peanuts or Ski) who threatened that he had a secret pick that was going to challenge my first place position.

P.S. By not breaking under pressure and selling when VIAC was up $0.03, I gained an additional $0.09 since, according to a quick Google search, VIAC gained $0.12 today. :)

Congrats on a superb victory, Mary! And nice job, Doug and Ski, too! Ski, I'm really digging your writeups. :D

For next week, please put me in (surprise, surprise) AMLN long.

[skiracer]

Jiesen,
I am trying to keep the commentary light and interesting but it flows out of me better on some days than others depending on what time of the evening that I compile the sheet and write it. I'm excited to hear that you are digging it. That makes it worthwhile. Now I would like to win it once in a while. Here are some of the new picks for this coming week, not in any particular order alphabetical or sort. And congratulations to MARY and DOUG on great plays last week. Riverbabe, you had a great play with WYNN and after you exited the play it went off the scale. You probably would have been real close to the #1 spot. But none of that matters now. Lets see what the new week brings. Welcome JBLAZE71 to the game and his 1st week of participation in it. There have been a number of past players who have gone missing in action. Please report in just to let us know that everything is ok and perhaps to get back into the POTW action.
Well we have two of those three ladies participating. This is a direct invitation to MS. LOUETTA to grace us with her participation in the POTW this coming week and any week that she wants to play.

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/9548/potw1111tw1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[spikefader]

Nice win, Mary.

Congrats to IIC and ski for fine efforts too.

Ski, you have the cost basis for my short wrong and I'm too high in the list.

I would like to short PARL as my next pick. Thanks for running a great game, ski!

[skiracer]

Nice win, Mary.

Congrats to IIC and ski for fine efforts too.

Ski, you have the cost basis for my short wrong and I'm too high in the list.

I would like to short PARL as my next pick. Thanks for running a great game, ski!

Water over the dam now Spike. I was trying everything in the book to get people past Doug and keep him out of the top spot. Caught in the act I guess. You're in with PARL short.

[New-born baby]

Ski,
I'll take the vaunted CAMH this week. Thanks!

[Gwhiz]

Congrats on the win Mary

I'll take PACT long this week

[IIC]

Water over the dam now Spike. I was trying everything in the book to get people past Doug and keep him out of the top spot. Caught in the act I guess. You're in with PARL short.



Everyone is out to get me...Never get the credit...always the blame :(

[billyjoe]

Everyone is out to get me...Never get the credit...always the blame :(

Doug,
I'll give you all the credit you want .....at 20% interest. A special deal for you better than "check into cash" and maybe better than Ace Cash Express. I'm always here to help you get by until your next check arrives.

----------billyjoe

[skiracer]

Everyone is out to get me...Never get the credit...always the blame :(

Ah the life of a martyr and the ensuing sainthood.

[IIC]

Some of my other fave sayings at work are:

I only work half days...12 hours

How much do you expect me do get done in only 25 hours a day?

[skiracer]

Some of the early picks for this week. The invitation for players goes out to everyone and anyone who thinks they can compete at these levels of sophistication and ability. MARY, you do realize that everyone will be gunning for you this week. We just might have to get out the dolls and pins. We haven't had a back to back winner two weeks in a row in quite some time. Here are the early picks:

http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/5599/potw1112hy3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[billyjoe]

Ski,
NYX long please. Thank you.


------------billyjoe

[Rob]

Ski, isn't CAMH an over-the-counter stock?

Additionally, I'm surprised that no one, not even New-born Baby, brought up the fact that there was also an error in New-born's score last week, i.e. that his score only reflected his second round-trip of the week and omitted his first one, which was opened here (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=70749), closed two posts later, and for which Peanuts provided the correct opening and closing prices here (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=70802).

[Karel]

Mary, congratulations!

Ski, PCCC long please!

Regards,

Karel

[skiracer]

Ski, isn't CAMH an over-the-counter stock?

Additionally, I'm surprised that no one, not even New-born Baby, brought up the fact that there was also an error in New-born's score last week, i.e. that his score only reflected his second round-trip of the week and omitted his first one, which was opened here (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=70749), closed two posts later, and for which Peanuts provided the correct opening and closing prices here (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=70802).

CAMH might be an over-the-counter stock. To be honest I didn't check. I'm not that up to date or well versed in all of the rules that have become part of the POTW. I'm terribly sorry about any scorekeeping errors that have cropped up while I have been running the POTW. I stepped up to take on the task of running the contest because no one else did and I didn't want to see it go by the wayside. It was left in somewhat of a lurch and without any forewarning so I stepped up. But it does take away alot of valuable time on my part that I should be spending on my businesses and with my family which come first. Rob your spreadsheet is awesome and anyone that is somewhat computer literate would have no problem using it and taking care of the scorekeeping. Hopefully without the errors and to put the time in to make sure everything is above board with the picks. You were very good with it and perhaps you should take it back over. Anyway hopefully someone will step up to take on the job this week. Peanuts and Runner were great in providing my with the realtime time of sales intraday prices for all the entries and exits that took place during the week. Thanks guys, you know I appreciate it.

[Mary]

If I want to play this week but don't have a pick yet, is that when I tell the scorekeeper that I want to be in CA$H? And when/if I find a pick, then I post it and go from there?

Mary

[IIC]

If I want to play this week but don't have a pick yet, is that when I tell the scorekeeper that I want to be in CA$H? And when/if I find a pick, then I post it and go from there?

Mary


You can do that now if you want. You have until just before the close on Monday to enter ca$h or your first pick though...Doug

[IIC]

First of all let me say that I enjoy the way this contest is set up...allowing 2 pix etc...However, I think the scorekeeping duties are pretty cumbersome and time consuming. I believe even Rob had asked in the past if someone would take them over.

Therefore, I suggest we change the format to one pick...Has to be in on Sunday evening by a certain time...You get the open on Monday and the close on Friday...that's it.

Any thoughts?

...Doug(IIC)

[Mary]

Play smart. Play safe. Have fun. Love your scorekeeper. Send him your finest meats and cheeses.

I was just reading a few weeks back in time in this thread and this old post that Rob wrote during his last week as scorekeeper. This has me wondering about a common phrase I've seen in this forum. The introduction you always see at the top of the page from Mr. Market includes this sentence: "Bring me your finest meats and cheeses." Lye's signature on his posts says "Eat more beef and GOJI's." Then Rob said what's quoted above. Although I think the reason for Lye's signature has something to do with his occupation, it fits in with the other posts where I've seen reference to "finest meats and cheeses." Is this an inside joke that only the veteran forum members understand?

[Mary]

Therefore, I suggest we change the format to one pick...Has to be in on Sunday evening by a certain time...You get the open on Monday and the close on Friday...that's it.

Any thoughts?

...Doug(IIC)

Meaning that if someone makes a pick and sees he/she is losing their socks at the close on Tuesday or Wednesday, they can't change horses in the middle of the stream to sell the first pick and buy another?

Wouldn't this also put an end to starting off the week in CA$H because we wouldn't be permitted to go long or short on a stock mid-week?

[IIC]

I was just reading a few weeks back in time in this thread and this old post that Rob wrote during his last week as scorekeeper. This has me wondering about a common phrase I've seen in this forum. The introduction you always see at the top of the page from Mr. Market includes this sentence: "Bring me your finest meats and cheeses." Lye's signature on his posts says "Eat more beef and GOJI's." Then Rob said what's quoted above. Although I think the reason for Lye's signature has something to do with his occupation, it fits in with the other posts where I've seen reference to "finest meats and cheeses." Is this an inside joke that only the veteran forum members understand?

I think Mr. Market came up with that motto when he was 5 years old.

...Doug(IIC)
Send me your finest beer and cigars

[IIC]

Meaning that if someone makes a pick and sees he/she is losing their socks at the close on Tuesday or Wednesday, they can't change horses in the middle of the stream to sell the first pick and buy another?

Wouldn't this also put an end to starting off the week in CA$H because we wouldn't be permitted to go long or short on a stock mid-week?


Exactly...I don't particularly like a rules change here...But scorekeeping is a thankless job...Heck, I update the pick of the year contest every weekend...Doesn't take me very long to do it...but someone else can take that over next year...Doug

[Rob]

Rob [. . .] perhaps you should take it back over.I would be willing to do so—I would even like to—as long as this site remains a respectable place to exchange trading ideas. Does anyone think that's asking too much?

p.s. ... and as long as I personally have the time and the interest to keep up with it.

[diogenes]

Start me with Ca$h.

[New-born baby]

I would be willing to do so—I would even like to—as long as this site remains a respectable place to exchange trading ideas. Does anyone think that's asking too much?

p.s. ... and as long as I personally have the time and the interest to keep up with it.

I am with you, Rob, and would LOVE to have you back. (No offense, Ski :D). And the place ought to be respectable and clean.

[Lyehopper]

I am with you, Rob, and would LOVE to have you back. (No offense, Ski :D). And the place ought to be respectable and clean.
....................amen

[jiesen]

Here are the K-data (based on previous 13 weeks of POTW) results for weeks 33-45. It's ranked by "special K", or Cumulative Gain (%) / Weeks played.


http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/7296/weeks3345ps1.png


Weeks 5-17 (and 3-15) (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?t=655&page=562&pp=10)
Weeks 7-19 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?t=655&page=593)
Weeks 9-21 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=53126&highlight=special#post53126)
Weeks 11-23 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?t=655&page=644)
Weeks 13-25 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=56534&highlight=k-data#post56534)
Weeks 15-27 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showpost.php?p=58290&postcount=7068)
Weeks 17-29 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showpost.php?p=59735&postcount=7374)
Weeks 19-31 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showpost.php?p=60552&postcount=7485)
Weeks 21-33 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showpost.php?p=62010&postcount=7719)
Weeks 23-35 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showpost.php?p=63455&postcount=7953)
Weeks 25-37 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showpost.php?p=65032&postcount=8262)
Weeks 27-39 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showpost.php?p=66155&postcount=8444)
Weeks 29-41 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showpost.php?p=68997&postcount=8835)
Weeks 31-43 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showpost.php?p=70684&postcount=9117)

ROB is HUGE, yet again. He is undisputed king of the POTW with an astounding 84% gain over the past 13 weeks, averaging about 5% each week on his POTW score. DMK showed us he is human after all, with 2 consecutive weeks of negative scores. Still, a 30% gain over just 6 weeks picking ain't too shabby. Nice job, DMK, and kudos to Sticky, who rounds out 3rd with an impressive 15% gain over the quarter. Congrats to all who finished in the green for the past 13 weeks, including Diogenes, Gatorman, Peanuts, He Who Hops in Caustic Soda, and me! :D

Thanks, Rob, for pointing out the discrepancy in NBB's score. Unfortunately for him, that 1% is what kept him just shy of the green group. :p Better luck next time, NBB!

[Lyehopper]

http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/icons/icon2.gif Ski or Rob.... I'll take X (short) to start the week please.

HUUUUGE win Mary! WTG!

[skiracer]

I would be willing to do so—I would even like to—as long as this site remains a respectable place to exchange trading ideas. Does anyone think that's asking too much?

p.s. ... and as long as I personally have the time and the interest to keep up with it.

I just want to set the record straight. This forum never had a problem functioning with anyone's language, profanity, or conduct before Rob ever came here. There have been plenty of foolish arguements and disagreements but they always seemed to work themselves out amicably on their own. There has never been any problem in the exchange of ideas or concepts on trading or investing between any of us before or after Rob.
Rob left the forum and the POTW in a lurch and without any regard as to whether or not the forum or the POTW continued operational because of his feelings on the general use of profanity in our postings. I'm sure there were plenty of times when light profanity was used in the heat of arguement or discourse to strengthen someone's feelings about an issue. I never felt that the more profane curse words were used that much where it became noticeable or uncomfortable and never heard anyone, except maybe NewBorn, voice any opinion about their use or an increase in the use of them. That was his decision and no one forced him to take that position.
I hate it when someone or something places everyone in a spot where the normal function is disrupted because of them and I refuse to let anyone or anything hold me hostage or ransome because of that. My regard for this forum and the POTW is what made me step forward and take over the scorekeeping. No one else stood up. I'm not about letting anyone influence my lifestyle or comfort because of their feelings and I wasn't about to let the POTW go down the drain in that way.
I never wanted to use Rob's spreadsheet or anything that was his for the simple reason that we were getting by without his spreadsheet before him and I saw no reason why we wouldn't be able to work our way through this small and temporary inconvenience without any disruption of the game even without his spreadsheet. But even though no one offered or stood up to take over for even a day or two to keep it going there were still those that had to have it a certain way although they weren't up to doing it themselves. It was a bad decision on my part to use his spreadsheet and in my gut I knew it would come back to bite me on my ass. It is an awesome tool but nothing is indespensable in this life and his is not the only code that could be written to perform in the same fashion as his spreadsheet. It was only a matter of time.
Now that two weeks have gone by and the POTW never missed a beat and the profanity is gone Rob thinks that maybe he would like to come back and take over the scorekeeping duties again. But with the stipulation that this site remains a respectable place to exchange trading ideas. Can anyone who has been here for some time say that it has been anything but a respectable place to exchange ideas on anything. And in the future from this point forward who is going to set the standards and rules governing our behavior and conduct. Are we going to be held ransome for want of a scorekeeper or a spreadsheet. What is the difference regarding our conduct if Rob gets another hair up his ass and decides that things aren't going the way he wants them to or if he just loses interest and decides that he's had enough.
You can do whatever you want to do as far as who keeps score or runs the POTW. I only wanted to keep it going and to show everyone that the whole is larger than any small part and that nothing is indespensable. My feelings haven't changed. I still don't think the need for profanity is justified but can't see where a light profanity or curse word is what we are judged by. Are we a bunch of hypocrites?
Personally speaking no one holds me for ransome or hostage. The one thing that I regret and hate myself for is when I comply with everyone for their sake and forego my gut feelings about something that I know beforehand will come back at me. I regret ever having used Rob's spreadsheet. I knew it was a mistake. And thank you NBB for the simple show of support. Et tu brute!! Your little smiley certainly made the dagger in my heart that much more pleasant. I'll remember your haste in making that decision.

[riverbabe]

Personally speaking no one holds me for ransome or hostage. The one thing that I regret and hate myself for is when I comply with everyone for their sake and forego my gut feelings about something that I know beforehand will come back at me. I regret ever having used Rob's spreadsheet. I knew it was a mistake. And thank you NBB for the simple show of support. Et tu brute!! Your little smiley certainly made the dagger in my heart that much more pleasant. I'll remember your haste in making that decision.[/B]

Dearest Ski: I realize I've only been here a very short time, but for you to step up and take on the responsibility for the POTW was, for me, an admirable thing to do. I couldn't find anything derogatory that could have provoked your response above, but I might have missed it. I, personally, am grateful that you stepped up to the plate. If Rob wants it back, is it a wise thing to give it up now? You are doing a fine job IMHO and a few preliminary glitches are expected. Not that I have anything against Rob, I just don't know him as well as I know you. Why not continue? Especially because you've put in such a great deal of time and effort to get it right!

Sometimes I have to restrain myself from saying, well, I shouldn't say the words I am thinking. And I do restrain myself online, only because I don't think it's particularly professional, which this forum really is.

Just another opinion, supportive of your efforts... THANKS! river

[IIC]

I was going to keep my mouth shut...Because I am well aware that I have a knack for ticking people off...I'm not stupid...But after reading Ski's post I decided to voice my opinion on the subject now.

This is not Rob's Forum...I like Rob and I wished him well on the thread he started. But as I posted ...I think he is being hyper-sensitive...I do not think that profanity is a problem here...If I...or others... want to say Damn, Crap or whatever within reason... I personally think it is OK...I do not think demeaning comments about sex, religion or race are appropriate...And I don't believe I've ever seen that here...But even if I had...The choice to remain would be mine...I would never try to hold anyone hostage if they disagreed with me.

I don't necessarily agree with everything that Ernie and Karel do to control this forum...I've sent them some suggestions in the past...They can decide for themselves...And it appears to me that they run this place w/ a pretty much "Hands Off" approach...I have absolutely no problem w/ that...I'd run things a little differently if I was in charge...But then again, I've run 4 of my own forums into the ground...So running forums is probably not my forte.

I did not like the way Rob just abandoned the scorekeeping duties at a moment's notice...And as I said...I commend Ski for stepping up to the plate so fast.

I will not beg Rob to come back...I will not allow him to dictate what I can or cannot post...If Rob wants to stay...Great!!...If he wants a forum with a bunch of language censorship...Then let him start his own Forum.

Hopefully, Rob and his buddies will not take what I have to say in the wrong way...But I think that I am entitled to my own opinion...Just like the rest of you...Best To All...Doug(IIC)

[Rob]

So ... I'm hearing that it IS too much to ask. Hmm.

Skiracer, you are the one who said to me, and I quote, "perhaps you should take it back over." So when I say I would like to, you bite my head off???? What's up with that???? Keep it if you want it. I don't care. And, by the way, sorry my attempting to help you with a spreadsheet somehow offended you.

You're pretty hard to figure out, dude.

Yeah, I left the scorekeeping duty on pretty short notice. Guilty as charged. Guilty of trying to maintain a modicum of decency around here. So nevermind all the many many hours I put into the contest over the past year. Just forget all of that. It never happened. I didn't do a thing as far as y'all are concerned. Bunch of ingrates.

[IIC]

So ... I'm hearing that it IS too much to ask. Hmm.

Skiracer, you are the one who said to me, and I quote, "perhaps you should take it back over." So when I say I would like to, you bite my head off???? What's up with that???? Keep it if you want it. I don't care. And, by the way, sorry my attempting to help you with a spreadsheet somehow offended you.

You're pretty hard to figure out, dude.

Yeah, I left the contest on pretty short notice. Guilty as charged. Guilty of trying to maintain a modicum of decency around here. So nevermind all the many many hours I put into the contest over the past year. Just forget all of that. It never happened. I didn't do a thing as far as y'all are concerned. Bunch of ingrates.

Let me tell 'ya something ROB...I have no idea what conversations took place between you and SKI...But let me enlighten you a little...The way I look at it is that you are trying to force us to bow to your wishes...You are not in charge here...I'm not either...Take a look at the Chopping Thread...Mr M made a request...It was not a directive...But I think you'll see that I understood that he is in charge...So I made a conscious decison to abide out of respect (although I think he was really talking to Toby)...But you have no authority here...Sure, you can make suggestions...as a member...Just like I can...But I posted on your thread you started...You should be directing your requests to those in charge...Did you do that???...What did they say???...Your censorship ideas are not my cup of tea...I don't see what you are saying as a problem...And now you said above that you "Don't Care"...So take it or leave it...We all have a choice.

Best of Luck...Doug(IIC)

[Rob]

Doug, there are so many red herrings, straw men and inconsistencies in your argument I lost count—not to mention outright misrepresentation of fact. Weak. Weak. You disappoint me, my friend.

[skiracer]

CAMH might be an over-the-counter stock. To be honest I didn't check. I'm not that up to date or well versed in all of the rules that have become part of the POTW. I'm terribly sorry about any scorekeeping errors that have cropped up while I have been running the POTW. I stepped up to take on the task of running the contest because no one else did and I didn't want to see it go by the wayside. It was left in somewhat of a lurch and without any forewarning so I stepped up. But it does take away alot of valuable time on my part that I should be spending on my businesses and with my family which come first. Rob your spreadsheet is awesome and anyone that is somewhat computer literate would have no problem using it and taking care of the scorekeeping. Hopefully without the errors and to put the time in to make sure everything is above board with the picks. You were very good with it and perhaps you should take it back over. Anyway hopefully someone will step up to take on the job this week. Peanuts and Runner were great in providing my with the realtime time of sales intraday prices for all the entries and exits that took place during the week. Thanks guys, you know I appreciate it.

This is what I said. Read it closely to see if there is anything there that isn't the truth. I'm just setting the facts down as they were and are. You want it back you've got it back. I stated initially that I wanted to do my own thing but Lye, specifically, stated his feelings about my scorekeeping and his feeling on it. Spike asked my why I wasn't using your spreadsheet and you offered out of the goodness of your heart. I accepted. I gave you every bit of recognition and praise that anyone could regarding the effectiveness and ease of use of your sheet. I picked it up and ran with it from the cold start after you left without any notice or regard for the game leaving everyone in the game holding the bag. But that is ok. I tried to be as congenial and as sensitive as I could with your feelings about what you were doing as far as leaving the forum. But you make is sound like we are a bunch of depraved profane using animals. In several private messages I was outspoken on your returning to the forum and the contest. No one including myself forced you into your actions. What are we supposed to do because you left stop living. You left the forum and the contest on your own accord but you reserve the right to pick out the errors at your leisure. Your timing was impeccable. Why didn't you point the mistake with NBB when it happened and it would have been straightened out.
This forum is bigger than any one part of it including you and me. Spare me the crap about how I am. Everyone here knows how I am from my actions and you from yours. The only thing I did was to pick it up after you dropped it without notice. Now you want back in but only if we can guarantee that it will be according to the way you want it to be and then only if you have the time and maintain the interest in doing it. Spare me this please. This was always a decent forum before you got here and will be after you or I leave. When giving or doing something for someone always give from the heart regardless of the way things turn out. If they don't turn out the way you want or expect them to and you can't live with that then you shouldn't be giving it in the first place if you feel the way that you do. It's yours now to take and run with it or it's no ones and goes down the drain. Just don't expect me to sit by and listen to you about how we should conduct ourselves or the way we are.
Lye, don't talk to me about being friends and certainly let's not be hypocrites about the profanity thing.

[Rob]

Ski, yes, and my response to THAT post was ...
I would be willing to do so—I would even like to—as long as this site remains a respectable place to exchange trading ideas. Does anyone think that's asking too much?

p.s. ... and as long as I personally have the time and the interest to keep up with it.Hey, forgive me if I don't like wading in a verbal cesspool, even if it is only ankle deep. But since some here seem like it that way, or at least not object to it, I'm sure that it will get deeper and deeper as time goes on.

[Gatorman]

I'll take ET long.

[Runner]

CAMH might be an over-the-counter stock. To be honest I didn't check. I'm not that up to date or well versed in all of the rules that have become part of the POTW. I'm terribly sorry about any scorekeeping errors that have cropped up while I have been running the POTW. I stepped up to take on the task of running the contest because no one else did and I didn't want to see it go by the wayside. It was left in somewhat of a lurch and without any forewarning so I stepped up. But it does take away alot of valuable time on my part that I should be spending on my businesses and with my family which come first. Rob your spreadsheet is awesome and anyone that is somewhat computer literate would have no problem using it and taking care of the scorekeeping. Hopefully without the errors and to put the time in to make sure everything is above board with the picks. You were very good with it and perhaps you should take it back over. Anyway hopefully someone will step up to take on the job this week. Peanuts and Runner were great in providing my with the realtime time of sales intraday prices for all the entries and exits that took place during the week. Thanks guys, you know I appreciate it.

Ski I don’t really follow this Port of the week thing. I just noticed you needed some info that I had. If I’m around I’ll offer to give the intraday sale prices. I’m not interested in the contest as to me it is meaningless. I also think it could develop bad habits in taking risks that one should not. I know some actually buy the stocks they use for the game. After it is all said and done what matters is our performance over time. Here is my pic of the week..LoL

http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showpost.php?p=71469&postcount=194

[skiracer]

Ski I don’t really follow this Port of the week thing. I just noticed you needed some info that I had. If I’m around I’ll offer to give the intraday sale prices. I’m not interested in the contest as to me it is meaningless. I also think it could develop bad habits in taking risks that one should not. I know some actually buy the stocks they use for the game. After it is all said and done what matters is our performance over time. Here is my pic of the week..LoL

http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showpost.php?p=71469&postcount=194

And that is a beautiful pic of the week.

[Runner]

And that is a beautiful pic of the week.

Thanks Ski, just playing with my camera. I shot a bunch today in a nice park.

[Websman]

The POTW has been good, but I get a lot more out the list of everyones real positions on Ski's thread.

[Lyehopper]

Hopefully, Rob and his buddies will not take what I have to say in the wrong way...But I think that I am entitled to my own opinion...Just like the rest of you...
I thought we were all "buddies" here. It's time to move on fellas. Now would everyone PLEASE just shut the $%#& up about this..... and let's get this thing back to freakin' normal.

Now Ski, your asumption that nobody would pick up the scorekeeping duties are just wrong. I stated that I couldn't do it..... but if no one had stepped up I would have indeed done so and I even offered to help you if you needed it.... and if I had not stepped up.... and you had not.... someone would have. Before I came here and before Rob came here, there was always someone here willing to keep score, the POTW is bigger than all of us.

Rob has held no one hostage here, he just wants to make a point. With all due respect, I've seen you make "a point" here a time or two in the past as well.... As far as I'm concerned Ski, you are the current scorekeeper and will continue to keep the scorecard until you decide otherwise. I'm just happy that there's so much passion for this game here....

[jiesen]

Friends, friends... can't we all just get along? C'mon - group hug! Or if not, let's just agree to disagree and move on. We're all much better than this. So on to business:

AMLN long

[IIC]

Doug, there are so many red herrings, straw men and inconsistencies in your argument I lost count—not to mention outright misrepresentation of fact. Weak. Weak. You disappoint me, my friend.


You wanna get into a pissing match that you will never win?...Forget it...I've said my piece...If I continue w/ it I'll look like an asshole or a whiner like you are being...Take back your POTW...Count me out...I'll spend time on the threads I find of interest...Doug

[diogenes]

You wanna get into a pissing match that you will never win?...Forget it...I've said my piece...If I continue w/ it I'll look like an asshole or a whiner like you are being...Take back your POTW...Count me out...I'll spend time on the threads I find of interest...Doug
Sorry Doug you have been assimilated.

http://media.urbandictionary.com/image/large/borg-18527.jpg

[billyjoe]

Skiracer's Stock Slopes , Rob's Lobs , and Portfolio of the Week are 3 of my favorite threads . Can't we keep them all going strong? Actually there's only a couple threads I don't like, but I read them all anyway even if I don't understand much of what is said.

------------billyjoe

[skiracer]

I thought we were all "buddies" here. It's time to move on fellas. Now would everyone PLEASE just shut the $%#& up about this..... and let's get this thing back to freakin' normal.

Now Ski, your asumption that nobody would pick up the scorekeeping duties are just wrong. I stated that I couldn't do it..... but if no one had stepped up I would have indeed done so and I even offered to help you if you needed it.... and if I had not stepped up.... and you had not.... someone would have. Before I came here and before Rob came here, there was always someone here willing to keep score, the POTW is bigger than all of us.

Rob has held no one hostage here, he just wants to make a point. With all due respect, I've seen you make "a point" here a time or two in the past as well.... As far as I'm concerned Ski, you are the current scorekeeper and will continue to keep the scorecard until you decide otherwise. I'm just happy that there's so much passion for this game here....

I would be ok with Rob taking over if he wants it. I've had enough. I couldn't see using his spreadsheet after all of this. Let him do it.

[riverbabe]

Ski, yes, and my response to THAT post was ...
Hey, forgive me if I don't like wading in a verbal cesspool, even if it is only ankle deep. But since some here seem like it that way, or at least not object to it, I'm sure that it will get deeper and deeper as time goes on.

Rob, forgive me please, I don't know you. But, my impression is that you are having a hissy fit and over-reacting over something rather trivial. You are now jealous that Ski has taken over the spot that you relinquished? I personally think that he was very considerate to all on this board to step up to the plate when you unceremoniously dumped everbody with no warning.

If all the protagonists here could pull back on the testosterone levels, maybe you all could start behaving like intelligent, caring and reasonable adults. river

[JohnHenry]

Congrats to Mary, Iceman, and the Skier….sorry for being late with the congrats. I’ve been very stupid crazy busy with school work.

I’ll take STLD long….thanks for keeping score Ski.

[RL]

Ski please put me In CBT-LONG thanks have a good day

[Rob]

I would like to say a few things for the record. While I did did leave off from scorekeeping in the POTW rather abruptly, it was not "without warning." All anyone needs to do, if he or she wants to see the truth of the matter, is look at my posts in this thread and in the thread I started called "A Humble Request," and put together a little timeline, paying attention to not only what I said but also the posts I was responding to. That may be more work than anyone might care to do, and I understand that. But doing so would disprove the notion that I stopped keeping score "without warning."

Why did I do it? Because I saw something good deteriorating, and I wanted to prevent that from happening. Nothing more, nothing less. Is that a crime? As some have correctly observed, this is not my Web site, and I am not even the moderator. This is obviously true; therefore I do not have any tangible means to enforce rules of propriety. If I had those means I would use them, but I don't. Yet I still saw a trend heading in the wrong direction, and if this trend were to continue, it would ruin something that I value, something I have grown to love and appreciate. So I did the only thing I could do in my circumstance. I made the decision to try to use what little influence I had at my disposal to take a stand for what is right and good. What some have flippantly and incorrectly referred to as "censorship," a poilitcally-charged buzz word, is really nothing more than an appeal to common decency. I don't think many realize how demanding it can be keeping the score here week in and week out over a long period of time. And I had done it for something like nine months running. And over that period of time I thought I had found some "friends" here. I thought maybe if I mustered up the courage to take a stand for a worthy and good thing, that perhaps my "friends" might back me up on it. And indeed at first it seemed like that might even be the way it was going, even if just a little.

When Skiracer stepped up and took the bull by the horns, I praised him for it in private messages to him and to Lyehopper. I admired his courage. At the same time I believed he was going to find it probably more challenging than he realized, especially since his areas of expertise do not include working with Excel spreadsheets, as he said himself. I saw him struggling with it and wanted to help him, since that what "friends" do when they see a "friend" who needs help. So I threw together an Excel spreadsheet on docs.google.com and gave him colaborative access to it. I encouraged him to look at how the formulas are built, to read the Excel help screens on the worksheet functions being used. In fact I encouraged him to copy those formulas into his own Excel spreadsheet and modify them to suit his own needs. He had several questions he posted to me in private messages, and I carefully tried to thoroughly answer his questions. I probably spent as much or more of time doing that than I would have had I continued keeping the score myself. So I hadn't really abandoned the contest at all, as all this was going on "behind the scenes." Concurrently with this I was also exchanging a few lengthy private messages with certain other forum members, including Tatnic, about the matter of using respectable language on this forum, which is public after all.

After two weeks I could see that Skiracer was beginning to get a real understanding of just how demanding this scorekeeping job can be. (Try it for nine months, Skiracer. Try it for nine months, anyone! I dare you. And after you have done so, don't you dare make the mistake of expecting you have any right whatsoever to make any simple requests.) So when Ski openly suggested I take the job back, the job that IIC referred to as "thankless"—one of the few things he's said recently that I can agree with—and since it did seem that perhaps the profanity thing was sort of ebbing, I thought perhaps this would be the right time to go with it and responded in the affirmative. Boy, what an eye-opening experience that was! Suddenly a couple of people whom I had begun to view as "friends" turned on me with spite and vitriol that I would never have imagined, putting me completely on the defensive. So I spoke up in my defense, only to be accused of "whining" and "wanting to get into a pissing match," when in reality nothing could be further from the truth.

I have done absolutely nothing to warrant the kind of shabby treatment I have received here. And I think you who have done this thing know in your hearts that I'm speaking the truth, whether or not you have the courage to admit it.

[mimo_100]

TBSI, long , please Ski.

I am a volunteer on quite a few boards of trustees (High School Financial Advisory Board, by invitation only; also elected to my homeowners association board, to name two). In very short order you develop a thick skin. People have their own agenda's. Everyone is different. Those who have respect for the human dignity of the person next to them, and stick by that purpose, can weather any onslaught of negativism. Rob is a good person and I congratulate him.

[riverbabe]

Hello,
If nobody has taken it yet, please put me in TGT long (Tarjay, where my kids spend all their money). Thanks, river

[peanuts]

Rob,

I like you. I think your work on POTW was outstanding.

You aren't going to get everyone to agree with you. Not with the cussing, not with any justification of actions. It is my opinion that your best course of action is to do what you feel is right and do what you want to do to contribute to something that is bigger than any of its parts (this forum). I would respect any decision that you make, but you're fooling yourself if you think that anyone feels that they owe you anything in return for your contributions. There are those that give and those that take. Those that take should be grateful, but those that give should not do so for want of gratitude. You'll always be disappointed in the results.

I hope you stick around, because I am very grateful for all the great things you do: the handy-dandy Fibancci retracement worksheet, the revenue and earnings growth charts, the POTW tracking write-up and participation, your "Rob's Lobs" thread... dude, it's all great stuff and I miss it.

The thing is, is that I thought that what Ski did was HUGE of himself. And I am very grateful to him as well. I rather enjoyed the learning process that we could all see him going through, because it added that realism to the thread. I mean, here's a guy that DOESN'T really know all the stuff about Excel that some of us do, yet he was willing to put himself up there, errors and all, for OUR benefit. And this guy has a family and intense job to worry about...

He lifted me up because of what he did, not what he said. I have always been a firm believer in the old saying, "Actions speak louder than words"

I think your future actions will show all the doubters more than what you can say with the keyboard. Take my philosophy... slap them in the face with the results :D The ball is really in your court, not the people that say harsh things

[Lyehopper]

Take back your POTW...Count me out...I'll spend time on the threads I find of interest...Doug
The POTW does not belong to Rob.... It does not belong to Ski, It does not belong to me (that rhymes).... it belongs to BillyJoe who has just allowed others to keep score. Now, can we move forward? please!

[peanuts]

Ski,

Long UNIB, thanks

[skiracer]

The POTW does not belong to Rob.... It does not belong to Ski, It does not belong to me (that rhymes).... it belongs to BillyJoe who has just allowed others to keep score. Now, can we move forward? please!

Let Rob take the scorekeeping of the POTW. I have no problem with that at all. I do have a problem with being dictated to about something that really isn't a problem. I thought that I was doing a pretty good job but it was Rob's spreadsheet that he developed that was really doing the work. I made a few errors, mostly in haste and the fact that I'm really not in Rob's league with the Excel, but it didn't appear to be any big deal with the errors. After all it's only a game. Rob's accessment of our conduct here regarding the cesspool and the profanity seems to me to be somewhat farfetched. I don't see us as being that way in any shape or form. I guess it is a matter of perspective. I would just as soon forget about all of this and let Rob take care of the POTW and move on.

[Rob]

Without having had much time to do as much research as I would have liked, I'm picking PCP long.

[Lyehopper]

Let Rob take the scorekeeping of the POTW. I have no problem with that at all. I do have a problem with being dictated to about something that really isn't a problem. I thought that I was doing a pretty good job but it was Rob's spreadsheet that he developed that was really doing the work. I made a few errors, mostly in haste and the fact that I'm really not in Rob's league with the Excel, but it didn't appear to be any big deal with the errors. After all it's only a game. Rob's accessment of our conduct here regarding the cesspool and the profanity seems to me to be somewhat farfetched. I don't see us as being that way in any shape or form. I guess it is a matter of perspective. I would just as soon forget about all of this and let Rob take care of the POTW and move on.
Skiracer.... Your efforts were appreciated by all including me.... I just thought it was a crying shame that since Rob had already perfected and automated the POTW scorekeeping that his program might not be utilized...

I also hoped Rob would return because he is an asset to the forum..... and I would way rather have him around here than exercise my "rights" to curse here.... I can always call you on the phone (or go to work) if I want to exercise my "cursing rights."

As one who kept score for many months myself, I know the difficulty involved in accurately keeping up with this thing and it is, as IIC has stated, a "thankless job."

Ski, Thanks for you contribution to this forum and although you are a passionate man and one who never hesitates to speak your mind, I really respect your backing off in this instance.

Doug, Your contribution to the forum is also great and I hope you'll continue to play the POTW.

Now on to me.... It came to my attention over the past week that perhaps I was somehow responsible for Dave Steckler's absence and maybe some others. This is entirely possible, so I'd like to say right here and now that I always read Dave's thread and although I liked to argue with Dave I would really like to see him return to actively posting and speaking his mind as he always did. It's all the different personalities here that make this place work (imo) and I'd hate the forum to lose anyone.... Well, except "the stock boy" and that was just plain old fun.

[peanuts]

Now on to me.... It came to my attention over the past week that perhaps I was somehow responsible for Dave Steckler's absence and maybe some others.

I thought that I was a factor in Steckler's decision, but ultimately, he made it. I've regretted my posts to him, because he mentioned that he doesn't like holding hands, then he stopped posting... :confused:

[Lyehopper]

I thought that I was a factor in Steckler's decision, but ultimately, he made it. I've regretted my posts to him, because he mentioned that he doesn't like holding hands, then he stopped posting... :confused:
He also moved to Texas.... and had a death in the family. Those factors may have come into play more than any personality conflicts here. Dave seems like the sort of guy that isn't easily offended imo....

[alice4321us]

If someone is tracking the POTW then enter my pick CHINA for this week.

[Mary]

I don't have a new pick for this week's POTW, so I'm going to stay with VIAC to see if it continues to go up.

So ... put me in the game as VIAC long please.

Mary

[Rob]

If someone is tracking the POTW then enter my pick CHINA for this week.I'm keeping track, Alice. And I'm willing to post the results too, unless anyone else would care to step up and take it. Anybody want it? Now's your opportunity. It's wide open. It's yours if you want it.

I see there are a number of people who've made no pick yet this week ... DMK? ... Skiracer? ... Doug? ... New-born? (CAMH is OTC) ... Greb? ... Gary? ... Anybody else who would like to try their hand?

[IIC]

I'm keeping track, Alice. And I'm willing to post the results too, unless anyone else would care to step up and take it. Anybody want it? Now's your opportunity. It's wide open. It's yours if you want it.

I see there are a number of people who've made no pick yet this week ... DMK? ... Skiracer? ... Doug? ... New-born? (CAMH is OTC) ... Greb? ... Gary? ... Anybody else who would like to try their hand?


Just keep me in ca$h till further notice...thx...Doug

[grebnet]

OK Ill give up on PACT and will go with KSW

[skiracer]

I'm keeping track, Alice. And I'm willing to post the results too, unless anyone else would care to step up and take it. Anybody want it? Now's your opportunity. It's wide open. It's yours if you want it.

I see there are a number of people who've made no pick yet this week ... DMK? ... Skiracer? ... Doug? ... New-born? (CAMH is OTC) ... Greb? ... Gary? ... Anybody else who would like to try their hand?

Rob, I couldn't be happier that you have decided to take the reins. I don't know how things escalate to the point that they do at times but the general forum and the POTW are more important than any of us individually. Things get said that afterwards seem so foolish. I'm sorry for my part in all of this and am just glad to see you back and hopefully we can all put this behind us and move on at the best investing forum on the internet. I thought that sometime on Sunday I took MED long. I'll have to go back and look.
If you would go back to post #9273 you will see that I placed your spreadsheet up with a number of the earlier picks for the POTW. I had put up MED - long as mine but never mentioned it in a post. In all the turmoil that was going on I never mentioned it because I didn't think I was going to have to do that since at the time I was still keeping the score. But MED - long was my choice please.

[Karel]

Rob, I couldn't be happier that you have decided to take the reins. [...]
Well, with recent history in mind I see a caveat here: a project like this needs stability, and for that stability it needs a keeper or keepers who are prepared to relativize their own interests a bit, for the benefit of this project. I hope I am belaboring the obvious. And in case you didn't realize: I speak from personal experience as a moderator of this board.

Regards,

Karel

[Websman]

Well, with recent history in mind I see a caveat here: a project like this needs stability, and for that stability it needs a keeper or keepers who are prepared to relativize their own interests a bit, for the benefit of this project. I hope I am belaboring the obvious. And in case you didn't realize: I speak from personal experience as a moderator of this board.

Regards,

Karel

Out of all people I know in the Netherlands, you're my favorite...then again, I don't know anyone else that lives there...

Seriously though... YOU ROCK KAREL!!!

[Mary]

I don't have a new pick for this week's POTW, so I'm going to stay with VIAC to see if it continues to go up.

So ... put me in the game as VIAC long please.

Mary

I looked at the VIAC chart just after making my post to stay with VIAC this week. At that point, it said VIAC was up $0.13 (delayed by 15 minutes). Too bad I didn't post before the market opened today. :(

[Rob]

Congratulations to Mimo, the Gator-dude, and the newest player, Jblaze (who's already starting a fire) for capturing the coveted top three on this strange and weird Monday.

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[alice4321us]

Rob

Thanks for stepping up once again dude!!

regards

Alice

[New-born baby]

Rob,
Welcome back! Thanks for all you do.

Rob, I posted HERE (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showpost.php?p=71415&postcount=9267) that I wanted CAMH long today at the open. I know there has been a lot of discussion that intervened, so my post was easy to miss. I have been gone all day and just now checked in to see how I was doing.

Thanks.

[JohnHenry]

I rather enjoyed the learning process that we could all see him going through, because it added that realism to the thread. I mean, here's a guy that DOESN'T really know all the stuff about Excel that some of us do, yet he was willing to put himself up there, errors and all, for OUR benefit.

Nicely said Mr. Peanuts!

I just thought it was a crying shame that since Rob had already perfected and automated the POTW scorekeeping that his program might not be utilized...

He was running the same drill but wanted to add his own degree of difference, if it’s not yours; you will never have the same passion for it! Thought I put my two pennies in. Thanks

OH Yeah! Welcome back Mr. Rob dude!

[IIC]

I thought that I was a factor in Steckler's decision, but ultimately, he made it. I've regretted my posts to him, because he mentioned that he doesn't like holding hands, then he stopped posting... :confused:

To be honest...I thought that too. I think it was something you were saying about explaining reasons and he said something about doing your own homework...or something like that.

Now I realize that some here want to discuss details and reasons in depth...And that is a good idea...But everyone does not have the time or desire to do that. Maybe some here get many of their ideas from this forum and maybe for some this forum is the only real place they have to discuss stocks.

I get ideas at this forum but it is not my main idea source. I quit quite a few forums this year mainly because they were dying out or I just decided I needed to manage my time better...which I'm still dealing with.

Anyway, I believe Dave is a busy guy and maybe he just doesn't feel like taking the time to explain details...And I can appreciate that...However, I paid attention to what he was saying and I think I have a fairly decent idea where he is coming from...So when he posted ideas I knew it was up to me to do my own DD...That was fine with me.

I'm rambling here...But my take is that he didn't really want to participate in in-depth discussions...And to be honest...I don't either...But I find no fault with people that do...And to be honest, I've benefitted from reading many of them...Anyway, I wouldn't worry much about it...I'd like to see Dave post again...But people come and go...Maybe he'll come back???Best, Doug

[IIC]

If someone is tracking the POTW then enter my pick CHINA for this week.

I wish you well...I bailed at an avg. of 7.02 this morn...I fully expect them to screw up tomorrow's Conference Call...I paid an avg. of 6.80...I was glad to get out alive...Doug(IIC)

[Rob]

Rob,
Welcome back! Thanks for all you do. Thank you, NBB, and you're welcome.

I posted HERE that I wanted CAMH long today at the open. I know there has been a lot of discussion that intervened, so my post was easy to miss. I have been gone all day and just now checked in to see how I was doing.NBB, your post was not missed. I'm afraid CAMH is a disallowed, over-the-coutnter stock. I pointed this out at 9:38 a.m. on Sunday in this post (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=71428) and mentioned it again here (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=71568). Had you changed your pick prior to the open Monday, then CAMH would not have counted as your first pick. As it is, you now have one play left for the week.

[New-born baby]

Thank you, NBB, and you're welcome.

NBB, your post was not missed. I'm afraid CAMH is a disallowed, over-the-coutnter stock. I pointed this out at 9:38 a.m. on Sunday in this post (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=71428) and mentioned it again here (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=71568). Had you changed your pick prior to the open Monday, then CAMH would not have counted as your first pick. As it is, you now have one play left for the week.

DUH! I missed those posts, obviously. Okay, thanks again!

[Lyehopper]

He was running the same drill but wanted to add his own degree of difference, if it’s not yours; you will never have the same passion for it! Thought I put my two pennies in.
STKY, I can identify with that notion.... As a young man (with time to burn) you Might consider building a scorekeeping program of your own. http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/icons/icon14.gif

I have an idea for you.... Or anyone else that might have aspirations as a future POTW scorekeeper.

Come up with a system that's proprietary and uniquely yours and prove it out behind the scenes. Perfect your scorekeeping system to where it only requires about thirty minutes of your time per night (because it will rule your schedule otherwise).... It would be nice if you included running totals for each player on a quarterly and annual basis. You could also come up with charts or graphs to show each players performance.... As scorekeeper you also have the privilege of modifying the rules. Then when you want to unveil it just say so. I'm sure Rob doesn't plan on keeping the POTW score indefinitely.... But remember this, Rockin'Rob has set a "high bar" of quality for future scorekeepers to strive for.

[Lyehopper]

I would like to short PARL as my next pick.
Decent play Spike! Post us a chart showing what you saw here. http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/icons/icon14.gif

PARL long shareholders get punished time and time again with this stock don't they? Looks like it might slide back to $5 to me.

[Rob]

I will need to be going out at 5:00 or shortly thereafter this evening, and there is a possibility I will not be able to post the score before then. If that happens the score probably won't be posted until after 10:00 p.m. (or 7:00 p.m. on the left coast). Fret not.

[New-born baby]

How about AOB long? Thanks!

[Lyehopper]

http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/icons/icon2.gif Rob.... Cover X for me..... Then buy CYBE on the next tick, please.

[mrmarket]

Rob, Doug and Ski are all valuable members of this forum. Thousands of people read and use your ideas. I hope all three of you continue to contribute to and enjoy this forum. If you no longer enjoy it, please do not feel obligated to contribute.

Smile a little. Life is a joke, most people don't get it.

[Rob]

Rob, Doug and Ski are all valuable members of this forum. Thousands of people read and use your ideas. I hope all three of you continue to contribute to and enjoy this forum. If you no longer enjoy it, please do not feel obligated to contribute.

Smile a little. Life is a joke, most people don't get it.Thank you, your hugeness. I did wonder whether you had noticed the late unpleasantness. And as far as the enjoyment factor goes, with respect to feeling the obligation to contribute, that is how I have viewed it and how I continue to view it.

[Gary611]

Cheez!!! This stooge goes away for a few days & all heck breaks loose!!!
Rob, sorry that you had to go & come back again, It feels like you never left, NYUK, NYUK!! With all the picking, dropping, etc that goes on with running this thread, I am suprised that you were not the one using the profanity!!!
When things get tough, just remember that old Heckarewe Tribe Indian Proverb (F-Troop)" When buffalo go up mountain, the sheep graze by the lake."

[skiracer]

Rob, Doug and Ski are all valuable members of this forum. Thousands of people read and use your ideas. I hope all three of you continue to contribute to and enjoy this forum. If you no longer enjoy it, please do not feel obligated to contribute.

Smile a little. Life is a joke, most people don't get it.

Where could I get this kind of exposure for free, except maybe on Castro St. in San Francisco or the Halloween Parade around Washington Square in the NYC Village.

[IIC]

Rob, Doug and Ski are all valuable members of this forum. Thousands of people read and use your ideas. I hope all three of you continue to contribute to and enjoy this forum. If you no longer enjoy it, please do not feel obligated to contribute.

Smile a little. Life is a joke, most people don't get it.

Thanks Ernie...I have no intention of going anywhere...However, I am going to Vegas tomorrow morning thru Sat aft...Going to the Trader's Expo...So I may not be around much the next few days...Best, Doug

[Rob]

http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/icons/icon2.gif Sell PCP
http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/icons/icon2.gif Buy WIRE

[Rob]

http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/icons/icon2.gif Sell PCP
http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/icons/icon2.gif Buy WIREDang, I hope I don't regret that.

[Mary]

Speaking of regrets, I'm regretting my tardiness in notifying you that I wanted to stay with VIAC this week. I missed something like $0.13 by not posting my pick until about a half hour before the market close yesterday. Then today, upon checking the VIAC chart, the first time showed it down by $0.13 and the second time showed it down by $0.09. :(

[Rob]

Mary,

VIAC opened Monday @ 5.70, and you got in @ 5.798, a difference of 0.098 or 1.72%. So your cost of procrastination is less than you assumed it to be.

[Mary]

Mary,

VIAC opened Monday @ 5.70, and you got in @ 5.798, a difference of 0.098 or 1.72%. So your cost of procrastination is less than you assumed it to be.

Even so, I have a new pick and, like you, I hope I don't regret it.

Sell VIAC please.
Buy HANS please.

Thanks.

[Rob]

Hey, Gary, you Stooge! What's the big idea not posting a pick?

With all the picking, dropping, etc that goes on with running this thread, I am suprised that you were not the one using the profanity!!!I have been known to blow my stack and say "gosh darn!":mad: or "shoot!":mad: or "phooey!":mad: on more than one occasion. It's not a pretty sight. :cool:

[Rob]

http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/icons/icon2.gif Sell PCP
http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/icons/icon2.gif Buy WIRE

Dang, I hope I don't regret that.Just as I feared, my PCP high went higher, and while WIRE didn't exactly short circuit, it still sort of fizzled. Not to worry. I think WIRE is cheaper than dirt right now, and someone was obviously in a buying mood for a while there today.

[alice4321us]

I wish you well...I bailed at an avg. of 7.02 this morn...I fully expect them to screw up tomorrow's Conference Call...I paid an avg. of 6.80...I was glad to get out alive...Doug(IIC)

Hi Doug,

Looks like my gamble paid off here. I am good to get out of this one tomorrow if I think I need to :)

[IIC]

Hi Doug,

Looks like my gamble paid off here. I am good to get out of this one tomorrow if I think I need to :)


Well...Guess I shoulda known better than to go against the IIC 100...CHINA is # 13

Good for you...although they still have time to mess up the conference call...Doug

[spikefader]

Decent play Spike! Post us a chart showing what you saw here. http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/icons/icon14.gif

PARL long shareholders get punished time and time again with this stock don't they? Looks like it might slide back to $5 to me.Thanks; the way I've been picking this year I will take that compliment! :D

Going into this week I decided to choose from the open technicaltrades.net portfolio (http://www.technicaltrades.net/technicaltradesnet-open-portfolio/) and I specifically wanted a short. PARL was easily the best of them all when I looked at triangles and the weekly Bollinger Band action.

I agree that $5.00 is likely; probably 2.50 if/when that support breaks. Lye, have you ever heard me refer to a gap projection target? It's where you work out the size of the gap, then project it beyond the gap (in the direction of the gap) for the exact width of the gap. You'd be surprised how often it actually occurs. PARL has a $2.50ish gap projection target. I reckon it's going to hit it.

What are the fundies for PARL like anyway?

http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/6471/parlnov14pd6.gif (http://imageshack.us)

[Rob]

Skiracer takes a commanding lead with MED!! Ever see an uphill racer? Well you have now!

Meanwhile, Mimo is still climbing the charts and breakin' the girls' hearts, while Jblaze's flame is still burning bright.

Stick around ... there's more where this came from!

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/7629/com7.gif (http://imageshack.us)
http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/icons/icon3.gif:cramersmiley:http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/icons/icon3.gif

[skiracer]

Skiracer takes a commanding lead with MED!! Ever see an uphill racer? Well you have now!


Meanwhile, Mimo is still climbing the charts and breakin' the girls' hearts, while Jblaze's flame is still burning bright.

Stick around ... there's more where this came from!

http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/5722/dtp6.png

http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/icons/icon3.gif:cramersmiley:http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/icons/icon3.gif


Rob,
I think you have to check your numbers on MED's close. StockCharts has it at 9.99. Maybe that 9.78 was a typo. Anyone else want to help me verify the 9.99 closing price please.

[riverbabe]

Rob, I think if you look again, you will see that TGT closed at 59.16. Would appreciate the correction. Thanks, river

[Lyehopper]

Rob,
I think you have to check your numbers on MED's close. StockCharts has it at 9.99. Maybe that 9.78 was a typo. Anyone else want to help me verify the 9.99 closing price please.
@ 16:00 I show $9.98 as the opening tick and $9.99 as the close for MED....

Hey Rob, Earlier today I traded out of my X short and took CYBE long.

[Lyehopper]

Rob, I think if you look again, you will see that TGT closed at 59.16. Would appreciate the correction. Thanks, river
I show $59.07

[skiracer]

@ 16:00 I show $9.98 as the opening tick and $9.99 as the close for MED....

Hey Rob, Earlier today I traded out of my X short and took CYBE long.

Thanks Lye.

[riverbabe]

I show $59.07

Thank you Lye! Stockcharts says 59.07 was the open in the last minute. The close was 59.16. Gotta read the POTW rules again! Is it the open or the close that counts? Thanks a million! (If I had it to give!) ;) river

P.S. Rob, I really love you. Please be kind. Should I say "I'm sorry"?

[Websman]

Sell MRVL

go... $$$cash$$$

[IIC]

Well...Guess I shoulda known better than to go against the IIC 100...CHINA is # 13

Good for you...although they still have time to mess up the conference call...Doug

Guess the c/c wasn't as bad as I thought...these guys have a way of messing up what they are trying to get across...Couldn't have been too great though as it is quite a bit off the after hours high.

Glad to see you did well though Alice...Best, Doug

[IIC]

Ski...The "Official IIC Time/Sales Ticker" shows MED closing at $00.99...Sorry ;)

[Mary]

I might be showing my ignorance of stock charts here but when I look up HANS, it appears to me that it closed at $26.88, not $26.48. Am I looking at the wrong thing?

[Lyehopper]

Thank you Lye! Stockcharts says 59.07 was the open in the last minute. The close was 59.16. Gotta read the POTW rules again! Is it the open or the close that counts? Thanks a million! (If I had it to give!) ;) river
RiverBabe, If you check closely you'll see that that $59.16 tick happened at 16:02 or two minutes after the market officially closed..... The closing tick @ 16:00 was indeed $59.07.... I'll take monthly payments on that $million$....http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/icons/icon14.gif

[IIC]

Since I won't be around much after the first couple hours tomorrow I was looking for a contest stock to hold for 3 days...Decided on one I Dt'd today:

Please put me in UCTT long at the open...thx...Doug(IIC)

[Rob]

Ladies and gentlemen,

I'm in spot where I cannot get to it now, but it appears there are some discrepancies between businesseek.com (http://www.businessweek.com)'s closing prices for the various stocks and those reported elsewhere. I will make the needed corrections when I'm able to. Thank you for your patience.

[IIC]

Ladies and gentlemen,

I'm in spot where I cannot get to it now, but it appears there are some discrepancies between businesseek.com (http://www.businessweek.com)'s closing prices for the various stocks and those reported elsewhere. I will make the needed corrections when I'm able to. Thank you for your patience.

I've always found Stockcharts.com to be accurate and you don't have to subscribe to get the daily open and close...Doug

[Rob]

Okay. The chart for yesterday (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=71762) has been corrected. Please let me know if you see anything that looks incorrect.

As many of you may recall, early on when I first started keeping score, I was pulling closing prices from yahoo.com, and we noticed that for some reason they were often a little off from the majority of other sites' reported prices. At that point I began using businessweek.com instead, and ever since then there appeared to be little or no such problem—until yesterday.

Obviously there was a problem somewhere in the chain between businessweek's servers and those of the service from which they get their info feed. But when I got up early this morning and rechecked businessweek's reported closing prices, they appeared to have been corrected. The updated chart reflects those latest prices.

Hopefully this was a temporary glitch, and we will not have a similar problem again soon. If it becomes a recurring problem, I will have to find another source.

Again, thanks for your patience.

[Rob]

Hey Rob, Earlier today I traded out of my X short and took CYBE long.Oops! Sorry, Lyehopper! In all the closing price hoopla I neglected to fix that! I will make the correction, and it will be reflected in the next scorecard.

http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/664/agf6.gif (http://imageshack.us)

[alice4321us]

Sell CHINA and remain in Cash

[IIC]

Sell CHINA and remain in Cash


Great play alice :)

[riverbabe]

Please sell TGT. I'll make my next pick soon. Thanks, river.

[peanuts]

Dear Mr. Rob, sir

Welcome back! :) I'm going to make a move. It is going to be really bad, or really good. Please sell UNIB (whenever that next trade is :rolleyes: )

SHORT GROW

[peanuts]

Dear Mr. Rob, sir

Welcome back! :) I'm going to make a move. It is going to be really bad, or really good. Please sell UNIB (whenever that next trade is :rolleyes: )

SHORT GROW

forgot the green arrow http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/icons/icon2.gif

[riverbabe]

Okay everybody, I'm going to take this one before anyone else thinks about it! If THE RULES allow it, that is, and I can't remember anything that would disallow it. It's not a limit order. Is there a rule against IPOs? Well, here goes:

Please give me NMX long on the first tick of the IPO on Friday! PLEASE? Pretty please?? Otherwise, I'll have to go with my second choice that is not nearly as exciting. river

[billyjoe]

river,
Smart move. My question is do you get the price of the first shares traded after open ? What will it be 75? , 85? , 95? This is how the politicians and captains of industy spend $57 and get $85 for it. Unless you've got a few million in account you can't touch it.

------------billyjoe

[Rob]

That's an excellent question, BillyJoe. Perhaps there should be a rule about playing IPOs, such as: if a person plays an IPO at the issue price, then they must hold that position for a minimum of one hour.

To be honest, I don't know how the opening price of an IPO is recorded, i.e. whether it's the issue price or the price of the first sale. If the latter, then I think no such rule would be needed.

Does anyone know which it is?

[riverbabe]

river,
Smart move. My question is do you get the price of the first shares traded after open ? What will it be 75? , 85? , 95? This is how the politicians and captains of industy spend $57 and get $85 for it. Unless you've got a few million in account you can't touch it.

------------billyjoe
Right! Which, of course, is why I'm buying it with the millions and millions I have in my brokerage account (not my fun money account). I'm expecting the first shares traded will be at least 20 points above the highest price quoted, so you're sure in the ballpark. For the POTW, I am hoping to get the ask on the opening tick, which is most probably going to include that 20+++ premium. Goodness knows what I'll really be able to buy it at. It'll probably cost me more than that while waiting in the queue! river

[riverbabe]

Rob, I think the price of the first sale sounds very fair. river

[billyjoe]

Rob,
IBD always lists the performance of their top IPO's as the difference between issue price and current price. This is very misleading as very few can get in on the top IPO's at issue price.

-------------billyjoe

[Rob]

New-born Baby confounds the entire board, leaving us all in a state of utter shock and disbelief, as he launches like a bottle rocket, passing up even the formidable Uphill Racer!!! These two have definitely hit three cherries this week and set the bar to dizzying heights!!! Way to go, dudes!!!

Alice got out of CHINA and went back to Wonderland, but not before stuffing his saddlebags with a greater-than 9-1/2% gain!! Alice is trying to make the rest of us look like Tweedle-Dum!! (and doing a pretty good job of it by the way)

And just for the heck of it, let's give the One Who Hops in Caustic Soda honorable mention for a pretty amazing 6.56% gain today!!

http://img365.imageshack.us/img365/7140/dea3.gif (http://imageshack.us)
http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/7310/cramersmiley4hc.gif (http://imageshack.us)http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/7310/cramersmiley4hc.gif (http://imageshack.us)http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/7310/cramersmiley4hc.gif (http://imageshack.us)

[Websman]

Sell MRVL

go... $$$cash$$$

I know keeping up with this thing has got to be a headache... I don't know how you do it. You are the man Rob!

Here's my post from yesterday. http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showpost.php?p=71781&postcount=9368

Thanks Dude. :)

[peanuts]

Mr. Rob, sir

What do you have against peanuts? :D I've got a different price from Ameritrade for my GROW entry. Could you confirm, please

http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/3271/growft4.png

[JohnHenry]

Hi Rob

Please start me out with Cs$H Money! Thanks

Everyone have a Happy Thanksgiving....

[Lyehopper]

Hi Rob

Please start me out with Cs$H Money! Thanks

Everyone have a Happy Thanksgiving....
STKY, I think ya gotta post your play for next week after the close on Friday and before the close on Monday dude.... Today is just Wednesday.

[Rob]

Websman, a thousand pardons your venerable Vulcan-ness. You are quite correct. Your score has been corrected, placing you in a tie for sixth place with the Mighty Mimo. Also, should you decide to use it, you have one trade left for the week.

http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/3196/bcf9.gif (http://imageshack.us)


Peanuts, Peanuts, Peanuts, you know you cannot have two positions at the same time in this contest. When you said ...
Please sell UNIB (whenever that next trade is :rolleyes: )

SHORT GROW... it sounded to me as though you understood that your GROW short would not open until your UNIB trade closed.

Please look at this graphic:

http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/9600/byq1.gif (http://imageshack.us)

Also, please refer to this post (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=69173) for further clarification.


Sticky "Van McCoy" Treat, Lyehopper is correct. You may not take your position for next week until the close of trading this week.

[Rob]

Rob, I think the price of the first sale sounds very fair. riverI think so too, and that's how we will handle it this time; however, I'm going to take note of how the opening price is recorded (issue price vs. first sale) before settling on how the rule is to be stated.

[riverbabe]

I think so too, and that's how we will handle it this time; however, I'm going to take note of how the opening price is recorded (issue price vs. first sale) before settling on how the rule is to be stated.

Upon thinking about this a little more, I remember watching an IPO closely one time. As I recall, the ticker debuted with one sale at the issue price. After that, there was no trading for quite a while. I had the feeling the MMs were getting their ducks in a row before the onslaught. So, if that's what happens on Friday, forget the issue price. I'll take the first tick when the fun begins, if that's agreeable to you and everyone else here. river

[New-born baby]

I want out of AOB, please :D

[jiesen]

nicely played, NBB. You are HUGE!!!

[New-born baby]

nicely played, NBB. You are HUGE!!!

Hey, Jiesen: Love that DRUG call. You know the pharms, don't ya? :D Thanks for sharing!

[Rob]

http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/icons/icon2.gif Sell PCP
http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/icons/icon2.gif Buy WIRE

Dang, I hope I don't regret that.Oh, yeah. I'm regretting it now. I shoulda stuck with PCP. Would now be up about 7.5%. Oh well, maybe WIRE will spark tomorrow. Why do I always manage to sabotage myself like that? (rhetorical question)

[Rob]

I can't get the score posted right now, and I have to go somewhere. It'll be up later though. Hang in there.

[Mary]

Oh, yeah. I'm regretting it now. I shoulda stuck with PCP. Would now be up about 7.5%. Oh well, maybe WIRE will spark tomorrow. Why do I always manage to sabotage myself like that? (rhetorical question)

Look at the bright side, Rob. This is a game and not your real portfolio.

As an aside, I know I can't be a winner all the time, but might I say that it really bites to have had such a nice win last week and to be hanging around in the middle of the pack this week. My bright side is that I sold VIAC, which is not doing well this week, and my HANS pick is doing better (the last time I checked anyway).

[Rob]

Well, New-born Baby bailed on AOB and is sitting pretty with a HUUUGE 17.62%!!! Beautiful play, New!!! Shhhhh .... <whispering> nobody tell him he'd have a little more than 22% if he'd have held it. <ok, stop whispering now>

Mr. Speed Racer gave back a little of his HUGE gains today, but maybe he's just applying the clutch to shift into high gear tomorrow!! Sometimes MED means "medium," but there ain't nothin' medium about an 11.49% gain in four days!!

As Alice looks through the looking glass, things that used to be small now seem so big, and what was huge, like his lead over the One Who Hops in Caustic Soda, now appears quite small and still shrinking.

http://img481.imageshack.us/img481/2475/bie9.gif (http://imageshack.us)
:eek:http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/7310/cramersmiley4hc.gif (http://imageshack.us):rolleyes:

[skiracer]

Boy would I love to pull it out tomorrow and snatch what seems like a sure victory for NB and turn it into a second place finish. But I think that's going to turn out to be wishful thinking. I'm betting anything that NB sits in cash without making another pick for tomorrow. That would be the easy and safe way out. Maybe AOB goes up again tomorrow without NB and MED goes up enough to pull it off and if NB would have stayed in he would have held first place. Maybe if I .... nah I don't think so.

[New-born baby]

Boy would I love to pull it out tomorrow and snatch what seems like a sure victory for NB and turn it into a second place finish. But I think that's going to turn out to be wishful thinking. I'm betting anything that NB sits in cash without making another pick for tomorrow. That would be the easy and safe way out. Maybe AOB goes up again tomorrow without NB and MED goes up enough to pull it off and if NB would have stayed in he would have held first place. Maybe if I .... nah I don't think so.

I've already burned my first pick on CAMH, and it was disallowed. (A blessing in disguise). So I am what I am.

[skiracer]

I've already burned my first pick on CAMH, and it was disallowed. (A blessing in disguise). So I am what I am.

I forgot about that NB. I wouldn't blame you for sitting on it and taking the win anyway you can get it. Just kidding with you. Wish me luck then tomorrow.

[alice4321us]

Rob
Please put me in TWTC

thnx

[jiesen]

Hey, Jiesen: Love that DRUG call. You know the pharms, don't ya? :D Thanks for sharing!

Anytime, NBB! That's what this whole forum thing's all about, isn't it? I just hope this one turns in the direction of BRR rather than my other pinky GFCI. It definitely has the potential to do either.

[Rob]

[. . .] might I say that it really bites to have had such a nice win last week and to be hanging around in the middle of the pack this week.Mary, your net gain so far in 4 days is 3.52%. There is nothing that "bites" about that in my book. In fact, if you could do that with regularity, which is virtually impossible, in a short time you'd be extremely wealthy.

Figuring 252 trading days in a year, if you could gain 3.52% every 4 days and compound it, that would equal a 782% annual gain. If you could do that for three years, a $10,000 initial investment would be worth $6.86 million. Of course, anyone who tries to do something like that realizes in a very short time that it can't be done.

I'll tell you what really "bites." The 2nd week I played, I picked ISRG on earnings week and ended up with a -16.55%.

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/146/potw23069la.png (http://imageshack.us)

Incidentally, to this day ISRG has never fully recovered ...

http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/2710/agn8.gif (http://imageshack.us)

[Rob]

Peanuts, ever since my post (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showpost.php?p=71976) in the wee hours of yesterday morning, wherein I explained why you got a lower entry than you had thought for your short position on GROW, you have been uncharacteristically mum in this thread. So, are you mad at me? or what?

[peanuts]

Peanuts, ever since my post (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showpost.php?p=71976) in the wee hours of yesterday morning, wherein I explained why you got a lower entry than you had thought for your short position on GROW, you have been uncharacteristically mum in this thread. So, are you mad at me? or what?

Skiracer would have given me the better price :p ;)

No worries, dude. :) I'm just glad I didn't do the trade in real life.

[Rob]

It looks like $120 may be the first sale price. We'll see how it's reported later on the various info sites.

Edit: Or is it $125? I'm so confused! http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/1830/dizzy2px9.gif (http://imageshack.us)

[Rob]

Okay. Here's how http://www.nyse.com has it ...

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/4678/ala8.gif (http://imageshack.us)

... so $120 it is.

[Mary]

Mary, your net gain so far in 4 days is 3.52%. There is nothing that "bites" about that in my book. In fact, if you could do that with regularity, which is virtually impossible, in a short time you'd be extremely wealthy.

Figuring 252 trading days in a year, if you could gain 3.52% every 4 days and compound it, that would equal a 782% annual gain. If you could do that for three years, a $10,000 initial investment would be worth $6.86 million. Of course, anyone who tries to do something like that realizes in a very short time that it can't be done.

Except for the part where you say "it can't be done," this post gives me hope that I won't have to be a bag lady when I'm not able to (or don't want to) work anymore. I've got 20 years to work on my portfolio, which is currently worth more than $10,000. :)

[Gary611]

Mary, your net gain so far in 4 days is 3.52%. There is nothing that "bites" about that in my book. In fact, if you could do that with regularity, which is virtually impossible, in a short time you'd be extremely wealthy.

Figuring 252 trading days in a year, if you could gain 3.52% every 4 days and compound it, that would equal a 782% annual gain. If you could do that for three years, a $10,000 initial investment would be worth $6.86 million. Of course, anyone who tries to do something like that realizes in a very short time that it can't be done.

I'll tell you what really "bites." The 2nd week I played, I picked ISRG on earnings week and ended up with a -16.55%.

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/146/potw23069la.png (http://imageshack.us)

Incidentally, to this day ISRG has never fully recovered ...

http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/2710/agn8.gif (http://imageshack.us)


WOW!!

F or a second, I thought somehow I won this week, NYUK, NYUK!!!!

Gary

[Gary611]

Good luck to all for next week, I want to gobble up a quick win this upcoming Turkey week by posting now. ( I am in the middle of selling my vac. home in Maine & have been shufflin' back & forth from LI.) I must say, BRCM in 1999-2000 bought me 6 good years vacationing in Maine, it is time to say goodbye!

Anyway, put me in RWC, (last post) long please & a
Happy Thanksgiving to all!!

Gary From Long Island

[Rob]

Oh, baby!!! Oh, baby!!! Like a giant boa constrictor, New-born Baby coils around our throats and strangles the life out of us!!! And ... of course ... if you spell boa backwards, you get AOB, which for New-born this week stands for Awesomely Outstandingly Bodacious!!!

And as if one Babe isn't enough at the top of the list, the silver medal this week goes to another babe ... the one who lives in a van ... down by the river!! Riverbabe boldly ventured out and took the NYMEX IPO, that opened this morning at more than twice the issue price, and stampeded us all face down into that slimy riverbank!! And check this out ... this is Riverbabe's first medal performance since she put on those chest-high waders and waded out into this torrent!! Congratulations, River!!

Less than 2/10 of a percent separates numbers 3, 4, and 5 this week, but it is the One Who Hops in Caustic Soda that thinly prevails over Speed Racer and Alice B. Toklas to nose them out for the bronze!! Nice one, Lyehopper!! Nice one!!

Among all the active players this week, the average was a very healthy gain of 2.23%, bringing the average for the fourth quarter to 0.93%! As Martha might say, this is a good thing!

http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/7499/ehk6.gif (http://imageshack.us)
:)http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/7310/cramersmiley4hc.gif (http://imageshack.us):)
Week 1 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=35533) | Week 2 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=36922) | Week 3 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=38102) | Week 4 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=39064) | Week 5 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=39993) | Week 6 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=41095) | Week 7 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=41818) | Week 8 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=42478) | Week 9 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=43559) | Week 10 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=44360)
Week 11 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=45264) | Week 12 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=45982) | Week 13 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=46754) | Week 14 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=47384) | Week 15 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=47882) | Week 16 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=48505) | Week 17 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=49376) | Week 18 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=50244) | Week 19 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=51466)
Week 20 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=52227) | Week 21 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=52972) | Week 22 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=53898) | Week 23 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=54783) | Week 24 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=55499) | Week 25 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=56212) | Week 26 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=57045) | Week 27 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=58001) | Week 28 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=58738)
Week 29 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=59207) | Week 30 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=59830) | Week 31 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=60536) | Week 32 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=61268) | Week 33 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=61925) | Week 34 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=62458) | Week 35 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=63300) | Week 36 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=63757) | Week 37 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=64514)
Week 38 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=65173) | Week 39 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=65966) | Week 40 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=66693) | Week 41 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=67638) | Week 42 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=68658) | Week 43 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=69455) | Week 44 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=70534) | Week 45 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=71320)

[spikefader]

Nice win NB!!

Riverbabe; you had it in your hand for a while ......... and let it slip away ..... but nice silver medal.

Lye; solid bronze performance.

Short ERF (http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/trading/ViewShortableStocks.php?key=erf&cntry=usa&tag=United+States&ib_entity=llc&ln=) for my next pick please.

[Websman]

Long - BMD

Thanks Rockin' rob!

[riverbabe]

Nice win NB!!

Riverbabe; you had it in your hand for a while ......... and let it slip away ..... but nice silver medal.

Yup, that's what happens when you take you eye off the ball for a couple of minutes to get some "work" done! No excuses here. Just happy to be in the green. Congratulations NB and Lye!

[Lyehopper]

HUUUUGE win NBB!

And a great play with that "River card" Riverbabe....http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/icons/icon14.gif

http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/icons/icon2.gif Rockin'Rob Start me out in Ca$h next week please.

[peanuts]

NBB, what did you put in your wheaties on Monday? A very impressive win! No doubt, Baby, you are $$$HUUUGE$$$ :D Way to go!!!

Riverbabe, Lyehopper, a valient effort on your part, and for that, my opinon of both of you for this week, is that you are BIG :)

Mr. Rob, for the next week, I would like to begin with a short position in SWHC. Take that Spike! :p

Thanks for all the hard work, keep up the great job!

[Rob]

I would like to begin with a short position in SWHC.Well, with a 30-day avg. volume of > 850k, you shouldn't have any problems switching to another play if you decide to. :)

[spikefader]

Yup, that's what happens when you take you eye off the ball for a couple of minutes to get some "work" done! No excuses here. Just happy to be in the green. Congratulations NB and Lye!Yep...I hear ya! and who am I to be critical!! heh .......heck, my stats this year surely have me worst active player on average return. I need a couple of +20% just to get me green again!

Hey Peanuts! I think it's a good short, dude! Short stop limit at $12.40 (http://www.technicaltrades.net/2006/11/18/swhc-3/) is my preference....good luck this week. I am quietly confident that my ERF short will outperform your SWHC short this week..... hehehe I'm due some big numbers, peanuts, so look out! lol

[riverbabe]

Hi Rob,

I'll go with GME for the win! riverbabe

[billyjoe]

River,
Hope you make a fortune on your NMX. From what I've read it isn't expected to go below 120. Maybe it'll come down some so I can get it next week.

----------billyjoe

[New-born baby]

Thanks, all.

Rob,
Please start me off in ca$$$$$$h money. :D
And Rob, I love that new Avatar!

[IIC]

Congrats NBB RB and SKI...I wrote this big long thing about The Knife (NYMEX) and then I clicked the CSSGX Google Ad over to the right...When I back-clicked my message was gone...Maybe another time...IIC

[spikefader]

ERF (http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/trading/ViewShortableStocks.php?key=erf&cntry=usa&tag=United+States&ib_entity=llc&ln=)
Cancel that.

I'd like CRNT long please.
:eek:

[Mary]

Congrats NBB RB and SKI...I wrote this big long thing about The Knife (NYMEX) and then I clicked the CSSGX Google Ad over to the right...When I back-clicked my message was gone...Maybe another time...IIC

Stuff like this has happened to me before on other sites and it's VERY frustrating. That's why I now highlight and copy my replies before I click anything else. That way, if what I originally typed is gone, I can paste it back just as it was before it ended up in cyber-la-la-land.

Mary

[IIC]

Stuff like this has happened to me before on other sites and it's VERY frustrating. That's why I now highlight and copy my replies before I click anything else. That way, if what I originally typed is gone, I can paste it back just as it was before it ended up in cyber-la-la-land.

Mary

Problem is that I never seem to be able to highlight, right click and copy here...But lo and behold last night I discovered that you can highlight and click edit to copy...wish somebody had told me that a long time ago :(

[Rob]

[. . .] last night I discovered that you can highlight and click edit to copy...wish somebody had told me that a long time ago :(I did ... well, not with the edit, but with the [CTRL]+[C] key combination to copy, and then [CTRL]+[V] to paste. It works like a charm. You musta forgot.

[IIC]

I did ... well, not with the edit, but with the [CTRL]+[C] key combination to copy, and then [CTRL]+[V] to paste. It works like a charm. You musta forgot.


I remember that conversation...but I couldn't remember the details...thx...Doug

[Rob]

By the way, those keyboard shortcuts work equally well within probably 98% of all MS Windows applications.

[IIC]

By the way, those keyboard shortcuts work equally well within probably 98% of all MS Windows applications.

Glad you brought that up...I rarely use keyboard shortcuts 'cause I never remember them...So I just found this handy little list:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/126449

Here's another one that also includes Opera, Firefox and Mac

http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/keyboard

[Rob]

For the contest this week, unless I change my mind, I will take my chances with IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) long. No, this has nothing to do with our resident Ice Man.

Here's why I like ICE: Good, strong revenue and earnings growth (always my first concern), HUGE 32.9% R.O.A. and 43.2% R.O.E. (these numbers vary according to different info sites), zero debt, and steadily increasing earnings projections. Also, as you can see from this one-year chart, it's blue skying right now.

http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/6641/ajc2.png (http://imageshack.us)

This company IPO'd on Nov. 16, 2005, so one year, plus one trading day, amounts to its entire history so far.

In view of that nearly 7% pop last Friday, I would be less inclined to choose this one if it weren't for that HUGE spike in volume that accomapnied it. That's why I like to look at volume, Mr. Runner. Big price spikes on flimsy, anemic volume are almost sure to give it all right back. The chances that the gains will hold, while not certain, are easily superior when you see huge volume like that. That's one thing I believe Mr. O'Neil has right.

The P/E is pretty high in the mid to upper 80s, but it's more than 2½ x the forward P/E.

[Gwhiz]

I'll take TGB long !!!!!!!!

[IIC]

Please start me in ca$h Rob...thx...IceMan

[Peter Hansen]

Happy Thanksgiving to all........NVD LONG Thank You

[Mary]

I'll take EPIQ long to start the week.

[Gatorman]

Will take FIX long

[grebnet]

PACT-----try again

[RL]

Rob please put me In HB-LONG thanks much have a great day

[Karel]

Conratulations, NBB!

And Rob, I am still long PCCC.

Regards,

Karel

[jblaze71]

DVAX long please

[jiesen]

Congrats on the win, NBB!

Rob, please put me in AMLN long for this week. Thanks!

[Rob]

HB-LONGRay and his darts are going for the morbidity play this week.

Oh ... and a reminder to all: The market will be cerrado on Thursday this week for the observance of Thanksgiving.

[mimo_100]

CA$H Please to start the short week:)

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone and their families.

Tim

[skiracer]

MED - Long

[Rob]

Here's the current lineup for the week.

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/4027/aqs8.gif (http://imageshack.us)

[billyjoe]

Congratulations to New-born, River, and Lye. Rob, put me in CNE long. Thanks

----------billyjoe

[IIC]

Ray and his darts are going for the morbidity play this week.

Oh ... and a reminder to all: The market will be cerrado on Thursday this week for the observance of Thanksgiving.


Also, the market will close early on Friday...it will close at 1pm EST

[mimo_100]

Sell Short OTE

Thanx Rob

[Lyehopper]

http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/icons/icon2.gif Hey Rob.... short sell SHOO for me please....

[grebnet]

Well PACT sucks but Ill benefit from a big down open for once. Usually the opens go against me.

[alice4321us]

Long TWTC again.

[Mary]

Silly me ....

I picked EPIQ long this week but have been looking at EPIX periodically through the day to see where I stand. I thought I was up $0.02 but then realized I was looking at the wrong stock and am actually down $0.01.

[Rob]

Sorry for the tardiness. Greb, Blaze & Ski are the ones to catch. Here we go.

http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/8497/azj7.gif (http://imageshack.us)
:)http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/7310/cramersmiley4hc.gif (http://imageshack.us):eek:

[IIC]

Want an OJ book???...I'll get 'ya one but it won't be cheap.

It shoulda been titled "How I got away with murder"

[Mary]

Sell EPIQ and buy TRID please.

[Rob]

My ICE just battled its way back to the scrimmage line after closing at -3.58% yesterday. Now let's GO, ICE!

[IIC]

Please put me in MEK long...Doug

[New-born baby]

AOB Long, please :D

[Rob]

Gotta get this thing up and run, folks!

BillyJoe snuck into first place at the last minute, but Speed and Curly are right there, ready to stuff him into the trunk of the Mach V, or hit him over the head with a crowbar or something.

And the Ice Man made quite a showing in the last 87 minutes too!

http://img55.imageshack.us/img55/9199/bts3.gif (http://imageshack.us)
:cramersmiley:http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/7310/cramersmiley4hc.gif (http://imageshack.us):cramersmiley:

[billyjoe]

Please put me in MEK long...Doug

That dirty dog MEK went down 18% in about a week then went up over 11% after I sold at 11A.M. today.

------------billyjoe

[IIC]

That dirty dog MEK went down 18% in about a week then went up over 11% after I sold at 11A.M. today.

------------billyjoe

I saw where you posted that earlier...Sorry to hear it. However, if you watch the MACD 2,13,12 you can see that it was heading down last Thursday. This is in no way foolproof but since Peanuts mentioned it I have found it useful on 5 min, 60 min and daily charts. Have not checked much on weekly or monthly charts. 1 min charts seem to be too "whippy" on this MACD...Doug

http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/6969/mekae3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[riverbabe]

Please sell GME thanks, River

[billyjoe]

Rob,
Please sell CNE buy WCI long. Thanks

---------billyjoe

[riverbabe]

Rob, please buy BBI. Thanks, River

[Gary611]

but Speed and Curly are right there, ready to stuff him into the trunk of the Mach V, or hit him over the head with a crowbar or something.


Or a Phoney at the mike!
Happy Thanksgiving Wise GUY!!! Besides, It's Moe who has that problem, why you think I'm curly, NYUK, NYUK!!

[Rob]

Wow!!! Riverbabe busted our blocks with a well-timed switch of horses in mid-river!!! Excellent play, there, Riverbabe!!!

Mr. Racer turned the screws on the rest of us about another quarter turn, picking up an additional four tenths of a percent!!

Gwhiz and his TGB sunk a mine shaft and pulled out enough profit to land him in the number three position, but there are a number of players right on his tail waiting for a chance to extinguish that carbide lamp on his helmet!

And how could we let a 14%+ one-day difference go by without mentioning it? Look at how Websman pulled out of that tailspin! Hey, Webs, you shoulda bought Birch Mountain just before the close yesterday! Then you'd be in the driver's seat! Don't you just love how perfect hindsight is?

There will be no market activity tomorrow, and Friday will be an abbreviated session, but as we all know, anything can—and sometimes does—happen in just a couple hours. Be there or be trapezoid ... wait, that's not how it goes ... oh well, just be there!

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/605/ccy7.gif (http://imageshack.us)
;)http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/7310/cramersmiley4hc.gif (http://imageshack.us):rolleyes:

[Websman]

And how could we let a 14%+ one-day difference go by without mentioning it? Look at how Websman pulled out of that tailspin! Hey, Webs, you shoulda bought Birch Mountain just before the close yesterday! Then you'd be in the driver's seat! Don't you just love how perfect hindsight is?



Actually, I did buy a pile of BMD and made a nice profit on it in my real account... jejejejeee

[IIC]

Actually, I did buy a pile of BMD and made a nice profit on it in my real account... jejejejeee


GREAT!!! :)

[Websman]

GREAT!!! :)

It did feel good!

[riverbabe]

Please sell BBI, thanks.

[Rob]

The dreaded Uphill Racer put about 15 extra heavy coats of wax on those Rossignols, pointed the tips at the peak of the mountain and then reached around and ignited that rocket strapped to his back, sending him straight to the top with 16.2%!!! MED was a HUGE pick this week, Uphill!!! Congratulations on a spectacular win!!!

Blockbusting Riverbabe gave Uphill Racer one heck of a run for his money this week with, not one but ... count 'em ... two outstanding picks!! Congrats on a HUGE 10.23% gain and taking the silver for the second consecutive week!!

And then comes Dancin' Pete Hansen! He clicked his heels, put the moves on ol' Gwhiz and fandangoed him right out of the bronze! Fred and Ginger would've been envious of that fancy footwork, Pete!

Holy Toledo! That's four weeks in a row that the combined totals for the active players have us in the black, and three of those are more than 2%! Y'all deserve a million-dollar prize to divide amongst yourselves! Would anyone care to pony up the million? PM me!

http://img395.imageshack.us/img395/6637/ees9.gif (http://imageshack.us)
http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/7310/cramersmiley4hc.gif (http://imageshack.us):cramersmiley:http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/7310/cramersmiley4hc.gif (http://imageshack.us)
Week 1 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=35533) | Week 2 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=36922) | Week 3 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=38102) | Week 4 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=39064) | Week 5 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=39993) | Week 6 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=41095) | Week 7 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=41818) | Week 8 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=42478) | Week 9 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=43559) | Week 10 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=44360)
Week 11 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=45264) | Week 12 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=45982) | Week 13 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=46754) | Week 14 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=47384) | Week 15 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=47882) | Week 16 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=48505) | Week 17 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=49376) | Week 18 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=50244) | Week 19 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=51466)
Week 20 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=52227) | Week 21 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=52972) | Week 22 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=53898) | Week 23 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=54783) | Week 24 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=55499) | Week 25 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=56212) | Week 26 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=57045) | Week 27 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=58001) | Week 28 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=58738)
Week 29 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=59207) | Week 30 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=59830) | Week 31 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=60536) | Week 32 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=61268) | Week 33 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=61925) | Week 34 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=62458) | Week 35 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=63300) | Week 36 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=63757) | Week 37 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=64514)
Week 38 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=65173) | Week 39 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=65966) | Week 40 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=66693) | Week 41 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=67638) | Week 42 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=68658) | Week 43 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=69455) | Week 44 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=70534) | Week 45 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=71320) | Week 46 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=72142)

[New-born baby]

Big congrats to the Skiman, RiverBabe, and Super Pete Hansen! Keep up the hot picks, will ya?

Rob, Please put this baby in CA$$$$$$H money.

[Websman]

I'll take....

$$$ Cash $$$

[skiracer]

I'll take....


$$$ Cash $$$


Webs,
That was fast. Were you aftaid someone else was going to get if first.

[Websman]

Webs,
That was fast. Were you aftaid someone else was going to get if first.


I've already ran my screen... nothing for Monday, so cash is best. :mad: :eek: :o

[spikefader]

Nice WIN Ski!

Good jobs river and Pete!

ENT (http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/trading/ViewShortableStocks.php?key=ent&cntry=usa&tag=United+States&ib_entity=llc&ln=) short for me next thanks.

[billyjoe]

Congratulations to Ski. I've never been so happy to see someone gain 16.20%. River, I might pay you for some tips in advance next week. Don't tell anyone or I'll deny it. Pete, you've got the mojo back, good job.

---------billyjoe

[skiracer]

Congratulations to Ski. I've never been so happy to see someone gain 16.20%. River, I might pay you for some tips in advance next week. Don't tell anyone or I'll deny it. Pete, you've got the mojo back, good job.

---------billyjoe

Billyjoe,
I was going to say the same thing about you. Congrats River and Pete. Anyone checking this site out and the POTW picks of the members would have to be impressed with the results that this group has been putting up on a consistent basis week after week. My meds have been very good to me. I'll stick with it at least for the beginning of the week. MED long to start me off this week Rob please.

[Lyehopper]

Great win this week Skiracer! And the good news is you really own MED. http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/icons/icon14.gif

Congrats to River and Pete too.... River you know your stuff, I'll be paying closer attention to your picks..... And The Wiz kid is blowing my mind with these picks! WOW! Where are you getting these picks Wiz?

http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/icons/icon2.gif Rob.... Put in Ca$H to start off the week please.

[alice4321us]

Rob

please put me in SONS next week.

Thanks for all you do.

[scifos]

BDHHY Long please.

[Rob]

BDHHY Long please.Hey, Scifos! You finally showed up again! That was the longest honeymoon in history, dude!

[jblaze71]

Rob,

AKH short, please

Jblaze

[skiracer]

Great win this week Skiracer! And the good news is you really own MED. http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/icons/icon14.gif

Congrats to River and Pete too.... River you know your stuff, I'll be paying closer attention to your picks..... And The Wiz kid is blowing my mind with these picks! WOW! Where are you getting these picks Wiz?

http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/icons/icon2.gif Rob.... Put in Ca$H to start off the week please.

Lye,
Nothing like winning the POTW and owning a couple thousand shares of the stock at the same time. Well maybe sticking a 12 pointer, which I've never done so I don't really know how that feels yet. Thanks Lye. Alot of us had a great week this week. They're liable to be writing an article about all of us in the IBD if we keep this up.

[billyjoe]

Ski,
If you win next week , I'll probably be selling MED. Don't want to appear to be a pig or braggart. Has anyone ever won with the same pick twice?

----------billyjoe

[skiracer]

Ski,
If you win next week , I'll probably be selling MED. Don't want to appear to be a pig or braggart. Has anyone ever won with the same pick twice?

----------billyjoe

Billyjoe,
There are always going to be peaks and valleys from normal consolidations and pullbacks. I would exit the position myself to take as much of the gains as I can get if I see it stalling and re-enter on the pullback once it bottoms out. I can see it going over 15 or higher. Do your own thing of course but keep those gains intact.

[IIC]

BDHHY Long please.


Good to see that you are still among the living...IIC

[IIC]

Congrats to SKI, River and Pete...Excellent pix...Doug(IIC)

[peanuts]

BDHHY Long please.

Good to see you around, Scifos. :) Where did you find this stock? What is going on with it? A pinky that might blast off, eh?

[peanuts]

WOAH! Skiracer smokes past all of us at blazing speed. MED was a great pick, and it's even better that he owns it. Ski, you are $$$HUUUGE$$$ dude

Riverbabe and Peter Hanson, outstanding picks like that would put you in the category of the HUGE ones on any other week than last. But Ski's outstanding patience really paid off for him, so I guess the two of you are only BIG

AP long for me this week, Rob. Thank you very much, and keep up the great work!! :)

Spikefader, my SWHC short didn't work out as planned...

[riverbabe]

Ski, nice come from behind to beat me! Congratulations! I won't hold it against you! Happy to see you so exuberant about your win, and you should be! You stuck with it and it paid off bigtime.

And congratulations to Pete! Great job!

I'll hold off on next week's pick for now - need to find it! L&K to all, Riverbabe.

[IIC]

Scifos...BTW...I don't think Pinksheets are allowed in the contest...Doug(IIC)

[skiracer]

Ski, nice come from behind to beat me! Congratulations! I won't hold it against you! Happy to see you so exuberant about your win, and you should be! You stuck with it and it paid off bigtime.

And congratulations to Pete! Great job!

I'll hold off on next week's pick for now - need to find it! L&K to all, Riverbabe.

River,
It's always nice to win the POTW but twice as nice when I do win because I only play in the POTW what I own so if the play is good enough to win the POTW it usually means a decent score for me. I thought for sure you had it locked up this week with the short day on Friday but there was a little something or another on Bernie Schaefers intraday Blog that set it off so there was some racing luck going on there for me. This type of finish is what's beginning to make this weekly contest so enjoyable to participate in. That and the caliber of the participants is definitely raising the bar of late. So glad that you are on board with us. Definitely a positive affect. Good luck this coming week.

[spikefader]

..Spikefader, my SWHC short didn't work out as planned...Yeah, neither did my almost-pick of ERF short. You would have won by 1.6% had I stuck with it.

SWHC has got some conflicting TA in my book. The weekly is worth looking at:
http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/9827/swhcnov25nn0.gif (http://imageshack.us)
Better luck this week dude. You should have been playing that parabolic wonder, CAL, from your Peanut's growth portfolio (http://parabolicpicks.technicaltrades.net/index.php/archives/295), +27.69% since you released it 1 month ago!

[Gwhiz]

Spikefader,

what is that green indicator on the top of the graph?


I'd be tickled pink if you could explain it to me.

Thanks