Portfolio of the Week

[Runner]

Peanuts,
I'm going in for surgery and might not be back until Feb. Can you place me on medical leave from the contest? Thanks

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

Billy, sorry I missed this post. I wish you a speedy recovery from your surgery!!

[mimo_100]

I track the players through Yahoo! Unfortunately, no matter how many times I make the suggestion to them, there is no sorting function for the portfolios. At the end of the week, I'll do something different, but the day to day stuff is going to be like this. It's easiest this way, for now.

I really hate when my ideas are ignored when I send them to the company. I swear, they must never read the suggestions. Either that, or a Chimp is reading everything and making the decisions.

Scenes from the Yahoo! Office (http://youtube.com/watch?v=YR71GnQ4CU4)


Peanuts,

Thanks for taking over the contest. I appreciate all of the hard work.

I use Yahoo to track MrMarket Top 5 Stocks from the dumps.

You can "rope off" the cells in Yahoo, copy, then paste into an Excel worksheet.
From there you can sort to your hearts content.:)

Tim

[skiracer]

Peanuts,

Thanks for taking over the contest. I appreciate all of the hard work.

I use Yahoo to track MrMarket Top 5 Stocks from the dumps.

You can "rope off" the cells in Yahoo, copy, then paste into an Excel worksheet.
From there you can sort to your hearts content.:)

Tim

I was thinking the same thing with Excel. He could also use MSN Money Portfolio manager to set up a portfolio of all the players and their picks and it will record everything, including the daily price changes and percentage changes, for you, and then copy and paste the results to the POTW. It takes a little time to set it up but once done it would be a big timesaver for him an everything would be in one place.

[peanuts]

I was thinking the same thing with Excel. He could also use MSN Money Portfolio manager to set up a portfolio of all the players and their picks and it will record everything, including the daily price changes and percentage changes, for you, and then copy and paste the results to the POTW. It takes a little time to set it up but once done it would be a big timesaver for him an everything would be in one place.

uh ski, I don't see much of a difference between what you said and what I currently do with Yahoo!

For now, the daily portfolio tracking is simply a screen shot of the Yahoo! portfolio. I save the screen shot and then just paste the imageshack link to this thread. It is really easy for me to do this, and it is the fewest steps involved to get the information posted.

Sorry that I've lowered the bar that Rob has established... keep up the suggestions and tips... I can use them!

[peanuts]

Peanuts,

Thanks for taking over the contest. I appreciate all of the hard work.

I use Yahoo to track MrMarket Top 5 Stocks from the dumps.

You can "rope off" the cells in Yahoo, copy, then paste into an Excel worksheet.
From there you can sort to your hearts content.:)

Tim

Thanks, yes I've tried, but when I rope-off cells and paste into excel from Yahoo!, I get crazy information that I never roped off in the first place... I could never understand that. It does this with my other portfolios and it is really annoying. Also, I hate those stupid red and green arrows... what a waste of bandwidth

[peanuts]

Sell GMKT

Buy APKT

[skiracer]

uh ski, I don't see much of a difference between what you said and what I currently do with Yahoo!

For now, the daily portfolio tracking is simply a screen shot of the Yahoo! portfolio. I save the screen shot and then just paste the imageshack link to this thread. It is really easy for me to do this, and it is the fewest steps involved to get the information posted.

Sorry that I've lowered the bar that Rob has established... keep up the suggestions and tips... I can use them!

No, it's ok with me an it's your's to do what you want to do with it. Rob spoiled us to a degree. I was just trying to help. I'm teaching myself to write VBA code in Excel and am currently in the middle of a couple of tutorials on learnig to do that. It won't be to much longer before I get the gist of setting up something similar to what Rob had written into his spreadsheet. It's much harder to do than one would imagine but it's not prohibitive. Keep plugging along in your own fashion bud you're doing a good job. No problemo.

[Rob]

I'm teaching myself to write VBA code in Excel and am currently in the middle of a couple of tutorials on learnig to do that. It won't be to much longer before I get the gist of setting up something similar to what Rob had written into his spreadsheet. It's much harder to do than one would imagine but it's not prohibitive.Does that also come under heading of: It's-tough-to-teach-an-old-dog-new-tricks? :)

With a little persistence, Ski, I have little doubt that you will accomplish a great deal in learning some cool VBA tricks, and I congratulate you for your willingness to submit yourself to a little brain torture in order to achieve your goal.

[riverbabe]

Hi Peanuts. Please sell UAUA now! Thanks! Riverbabe

[skiracer]

Does that also come under heading of: It's-tough-to-teach-an-old-dog-new-tricks? :)

With a little persistence, Ski, I have little doubt that you will accomplish a great deal in learning some cool VBA tricks, and I congratulate you for your willingness to submit yourself to a little brain torture in order to achieve your goal.

Looking back on my post I wouldn't want to anyone think that the only reason I'm studying up on writing VBA code was the POTW. It is part of it because I am in awe of the way you set up your scorekeeping sheet when you were running the game. I'm also very interested in writing code for some of my own indicators, for my stock chart analysis, and setting up trigger points and stops. I'm also going to be able to put it to good work in making my Excel workbooks more accessable an easier to manipulate.
Like yourself I'm inquisitive, love a challenge, an am always looking to broaden my horizons as I move through life. I see no gain in remaining stagnant even knowing how hard it is to teach an old dog like myself new tricks. As long as my mental facilities remain intact I hope I will continue to do so. To me there is no greater satisfaction than overcoming the frustrations encountered in teaching yourself something new an then having it in your arsenal and at your disposal. Then lighting up a big spliff and relaxing in knowing that you perservered through the ordeal.

[peanuts]

Ski,

Your FORG is flying, dude!!!!

[skiracer]

Ski,

Your FORG is flying, dude!!!!

I don't like to count the money while I'm still sitting at the table because whenever I do you know what happens. But it does look good right now. I'm holding a big position because it is a cheapo.

[peanuts]

Skiracer was slowed this week only by the moguls of Wednesday and Thursday. Friday was like a freshly groomed trail and he raced his way right in the Gold position. Excellent pick, skiracer. You are mighty $$$HUGE$$$

Riverbabe says the heck with blue skies and paints her week green with an excellent pick of, wait, WHAT!!! United Airlines!!!!! woah, baby!!!! If you had taken the gold, I'd say that qualifies you for the mile high club! :D

Jiesen clandestinely remained in the shadows then mounted a miny takeover of the world by whipping AMLN into shape on Friday and scores a healthy third place!

Way to go Greenies!!!!!

http://img373.imageshack.us/img373/423/010506eowrg3.png

[New-born baby]

Ski, River, and Jiesen: mucho congrats to you all! Your green is better than my red!

CA$$H please, Mr. Peanuts!

[stenzrob]

Hey, I'd like to start doing the POTW. I can make multiple picks, right? And split my stake 50% each? If so, put me down for CRDN and SCLD for next week.

[skiracer]

Ski,

Your FORG is flying, dude!!!!

A friend brought this stock to my attention when it was just below 1.00. He's owned it since it was down around .45/.50 and he owns 30/40 thousand shares of it. I started to watch it and over the course of a couple of months it went to 1.55 range and I was kicking myself in the butt for not buying a little bit of it but I thought that I didn't want to chase it and figured I had missed out. Then I changed my mind about playing it in the POTW and dropped MED and took FORG in it's place but I like to own them if I play them in the POTW. I was checking out a site ,that I check out everynow and then, called www.technicaltrader.net (http://www.technicaltrader.net) an it was on their board as one of their top picks. When it dropped to 1.30 range the first couple of days I bought it up between 1.30 and 1.40 and was thinking that I was going to hold on to it for awhile. I own a large quantitiy of it because it is so cheap and 10000 shares fits right into my full position sizing in the range I bought it. The final couple of hours today was a pleasant surprise and the volume today was definitely an institutional accumulation day. They waited right until the end of the week which leads me to believe the beginning of next week will be strong. It's been over 3 in the past. I think there is alot of gas left in the tank here and even at this level is cheap. Decent fundamentals and product line with great exposure internationally. It is definitely worth a look.

[IIC]

Congrats Ski, River and J...IIC

[peanuts]

Hey, I'd like to start doing the POTW. I can make multiple picks, right? And split my stake 50% each? If so, put me down for CRDN and SCLD for next week.

stenzrob,

It's good to see you around here, again. It will be great for you to play! And you will be a welcome addition to the group of players.

Could you read the rules, first, please, before posting your picks. Just so we don't have to go back and forth explaining everything, ya know?

The rules are linked in my signature

[riverbabe]

Congratulations Ski (= Dude = Camel's Gonads!)

Yeah, I thought I finally would get the GOLD! But you skied by with barely a track in the snow (rain)! So, the CAMEL "ate" my FISH, while the APE just sat there and laughed! Let the WARS begin!!! You shall NOT prevail!!!

(PS. The language in this post has been tremendously cleaned up to pass PG13 standards!)

(PPS. I already belong to the Mile High Club! jejejejeje!)

Riverbabe

[stenzrob]

peanuts, Sorry, I was going by the original Portfolio rules (shows how long I've been gone), rather than the newer Pick rules. "I'll take SCLD for $1000, please, Alex."

[skiracer]

Congratulations Ski (= Dude = Camel's Gonads!)

Yeah, I thought I finally would get the GOLD! But you skied by with barely a track in the snow (rain)! So, the CAMEL "ate" my FISH, while the APE just sat there and laughed! Let the WARS begin!!! You shall NOT prevail!!!

(PS. The language in this post has been tremendously cleaned up to pass PG13 standards!)

(PPS. I already belong to the Mile High Club! jejejejeje!)

Riverbabe

And I love it when you talk implied dirty! Well there is still 51 weeks left River. One of the things I can't say I've done is the mile high club an I'm running out of time.

[skiracer]

peanuts, Sorry, I was going by the original Portfolio rules (shows how long I've been gone), rather than the newer Pick rules. "I'll take SCLD for $1000, please, Alex."

And I thought I was the only one using the Yerba around here. Go Stenz!

[riverbabe]

And I love it when you talk implied dirty! Well there is still 51 weeks left River. One of the things I can't say I've done is the mile high club an I'm running out of time.

Hey, call me...

[jiesen]

Alright, Bronze! Finally, AMLN starts to gain a little traction again...

Congrats Ski and River for winning the week. FORG was a spectacular play! Hope this one takes you a mile high, Ski. ;)

Peanuts, please put me in $$CASH$$ for next week. Thanks!

[spikefader]

Grats to ski, river and jiesen. Huge win there ski, you're in fine form as per usual, and pretty to watch.

[Karel]

Congratulations to Ski, River and Jiesen, and a heartfelt thanks to you, Doug! That was not a pretty start for me. But we may have lost a battle, etc.

Regards,

Karel

[riverbabe]

How come you don't like the "d" at the end of "an(d)"? It's both on this thread and the Real Estate thread and driving me crazy! Kind of like the curse of "perfect pitch." LOL ;)

[skiracer]

How come you don't like the "d" at the end of "an(d)"? It's both on this thread and the Real Estate thread and driving me crazy! Kind of like the curse of "perfect pitch." LOL ;)

I would be willing to comply but I could never explain the logic behind that usage unless I'm in a plane cruising above 5280 ft. Catch my drift?

[riverbabe]

I would be willing to comply but I could never explain the logic behind that usage unless I'm in a plane cruising above 5280 ft. Catch my drift?

Hmmm. Is that what they call it now?

[scifos]

Does that also come under heading of: It's-tough-to-teach-an-old-dog-new-tricks? :)

With a little persistence, Ski, I have little doubt that you will accomplish a great deal in learning some cool VBA tricks, and I congratulate you for your willingness to submit yourself to a little brain torture in order to achieve your goal.

I use VBA all the time in excel and access. Its a powerful tool, and quite easy to pick up. I also use it a lot with my stock spreadsheets: exporting multiple graphs as one picture, automatically downloading historical data from yahoo, custom formulas, general automation, stuff like that. PM me if you ever run into a problem.

[skiracer]

River,
I hope this explains the usage. Alot less expensive than plane tickets but that's another story. This definition is from the Purdue University Press dictionary from a Google search. Somewhere in these posts is another definition and conversation I had with Peanuts about the same topic but I can't seem to bring it up.

http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/4116/an2vj2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[peanuts]

peanuts, Sorry, I was going by the original Portfolio rules (shows how long I've been gone), rather than the newer Pick rules. "I'll take SCLD for $1000, please, Alex."

Great! :)

I've got you for SCLD long to start the week. You'll get the opening price on Monday. You can trade out of that anytime you want during the week, and choose one more pick. The sum of your percentage change for the each position taken during the week will be your 'score' for the week. The score for the week will affect your $970 starting balance. (Since you've missed the first week of the year, and the beginning of the yearly contest, you are automatically penalized 3% for each week that you did not or do not play.) You will begin the yearly contest with $970 rather than $1000. To avoid such a penalty in the future, place a stock pick each week, or just say CA$H (be sure to use the $ symbol, so I don't get all confuzzled and put you in Meta Financial Group, ticker CASH)

Looking forward to your performance!!!!

Anyone else want in? Come children, all are welcome, step into the light, all are welcome, all are welcome... :D

[peanuts]

River,
I hope this explains the usage. Alot less expensive than plane tickets but that's another story. This definition is from the Purdue University Press dictionary from a Google search. Somewhere in these posts is another definition and conversation I had with Peanuts about the same topic but I can't seem to bring it up.

http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/4116/an2vj2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

It was in the "outrageous predictions for 2007" thread

The difference between a vowel and a consonant is your tongue. It is impossible to make a vowel sound using your tongue against your teeth. You can only use the shape of your lips and inflection in voice tone to make a vowel sound. In order to make consonant sounds, you need to press your tongue against your teeth or bring your lips together to make the sound.

The rule that is applying to your construction of English sentences actually has very little to do with 'and'. 'And' is 'and', is 'and', and it will never be anything other than 'and'. It is a link between 2 objects. ie. My friend "and" I... Dogs like bones "and" treats... You are comparing apples 'and' oranges

"a" is not a link, but instead describes subjects as singular, ie. "a dog" or "an elephant", whereas a pluralization of these subjects would become "some dogs", or "many elephants". The key is the sound of first part of word which is the subject. If the word begins with vowel sound, then proper English is to place an "n" at the end of "a" to form "an". .

There are no English rules which state to drop the "d" from "and" when it is followed by a word with a vowel sound. There is no backwards integration of the rule for singular subjects on the rules for using "and". It is simply, "and"

However, skiracer, I like the way you write, right now. It was hard to get used to at first, but I would miss it if you did it any other way. It's part of your personallity. The message that you are trying to get across still comes through clearly, so really, whats the big deal?

Now, if you started to write like a 4th grader, I'd have to break your fingers. :D

[riverbabe]

However, skiracer, I like the way you write, right now. It was hard to get used to at first, but I would miss it if you did it any other way. It's part of your personallity. The message that you are trying to get across still comes through clearly, so really, whats the big deal?

Okay, an now I've learned something too. An I think I can probably get used to it. Your just you an I can learn to live with you just as you're.

[Rob]

"a" is not a link, but instead describes subjects as singular, ie. "a dog" or "an elephant", whereas a pluralization of these subjects would become "some dogs", or "many elephants".To be precise, "a" and "an" are indefinite articles, as opposed to "the," which is a definite article.

For example, if I say, "Hand me a book," the "a" is indefinite because it could be any old book. But if I say, "Hand me the book," then I'm referring to one particular book; therefore "the" is a definite article.

While the conjunctive word "and" links two items in a sentence and is always spelled with a d nowadays, there is apparently an archaic usage af "an" in which it may be either synonymous with "and" or mean "and if." It also has an' as a spelling variation. The only exceptions I know of today would be where someone is writing in such a manner as to express a colloquialism and spells it an' with an apostrophe in place of the d; or in some cases it might be spelled 'n' replacing both the a and the d with apostrophes.

[IIC]

So Ski...You telling me that if you catch a cold
you might sneeze a cough???

[scifos]

CHRW long please.

[skiracer]

I use VBA all the time in excel and access. Its a powerful tool, and quite easy to pick up. I also use it a lot with my stock spreadsheets: exporting multiple graphs as one picture, automatically downloading historical data from yahoo, custom formulas, general automation, stuff like that. PM me if you ever run into a problem.

I've been teaching myself the fundamental basics of using Excel an am trying to learn to write code for a number of applications. I'm coming along quite well with both but the time element is a hardship with the businesses, family, and trading all requiring my time. Thanks for the offer of help an you can count on me asking for your help. I appreciate the offer.

[skiracer]

It was in the "outrageous predictions for 2007" thread

The difference between a vowel and a consonant is your tongue. It is impossible to make a vowel sound using your tongue against your teeth. You can only use the shape of your lips and inflection in voice tone to make a vowel sound. In order to make consonant sounds, you need to press your tongue against your teeth or bring your lips together to make the sound.

The rule that is applying to your construction of English sentences actually has very little to do with 'and'. 'And' is 'and', is 'and', and it will never be anything other than 'and'. It is a link between 2 objects. ie. My friend "and" I... Dogs like bones "and" treats... You are comparing apples 'and' oranges

"a" is not a link, but instead describes subjects as singular, ie. "a dog" or "an elephant", whereas a pluralization of these subjects would become "some dogs", or "many elephants". The key is the sound of first part of word which is the subject. If the word begins with vowel sound, then proper English is to place an "n" at the end of "a" to form "an". .

There are no English rules which state to drop the "d" from "and" when it is followed by a word with a vowel sound. There is no backwards integration of the rule for singular subjects on the rules for using "and". It is simply, "and"

However, skiracer, I like the way you write, right now. It was hard to get used to at first, but I would miss it if you did it any other way. It's part of your personallity. The message that you are trying to get across still comes through clearly, so really, whats the big deal?

Now, if you started to write like a 4th grader, I'd have to break your fingers. :D

And spank me too please. I attended Catholic schools thru the 8th grade and that was the way it was taught. The capture above is from the Purdue University dictionary an I think it would be considered correct. It was drilled into me by several Nuns over the course of my early education an has stuck out of habit I guess. If you were caught talking in line, chewing gum, or using and instead of an before a vowel there were two things that you could expect. The first was to hold your hands out and get a good crack across the knuckles with the metal edge of the ruler or if you were persistent in your actions they would bend you over and give you a good crack or two across the lower back with a yardstick. In the 8th grade I had to be removed from the parochial school system because I got tired of constantly being hit and took the liberty of smacking one back. The hitting stopped at that point but the use of an vs. and stuck. I've always thought it was the correct usage but it is no big deal with me one way or another as long as no one tries to crack me across the knuckles because of it except for Riverbabe of course.

Doug,
Use "an" instead of "and" only if "an" is followed by a word beginning in a vowel otherwise use "and" or "a" as is suitable and phonetically correct sounding for that circumstance. Doug I can see that you never attended Catholic school. One specific thing about the Catholic schooling that I can remember was that from around 5th grade the girls started taking an unusually higher degree of interest in playing doctor.

[skiracer]

Lets take a concensus to see if it would be more comfortable for everyone else if I were to discontinue using "an" or "and" as I have in the past and to start using it in the more conventional way everyone else seems to use them. Sister Mary Francis will be turning over in her casket on this one.

[riverbabe]

Ski, honest, I think you're a wonderful human being, and I like you just the way you are! Sorry I even brought up the subject.

Maybe too much time on my hands! I'm procrastinating to avoid having to clean my house today!

Love, Riverbabe

[peanuts]

Tefron Ltd. (TFR)

They make intimate apparel and all kinds of other apparel. They sell it primarily in Israel. They also make heathcare related apparel. From all the sector watching I've been doing over this weekend, I see that these groups have been performing well, lately. TFR has some catching up to do, and while it currently sets on some key moving averages, I am assuming that the catching up will happen soon.

How many men use the default nighty/teddy/baby doll for their wife for the holidays? Valentine's Day is also right around the corner...

LONG TFR

and ski, don't change, camel sack :D

[skiracer]

Ski, honest, I think you're a wonderful human being, and I like you just the way you are! Sorry I even brought up the subject.

Maybe too much time on my hands! I'm procrastinating to avoid having to clean my house today!

Love, Riverbabe

River,
I didn't have a problem with any of it in the first place. I was just trying to start some more conversation about anything and I figured that as long as we were on that topic but in retrospect I have to wonder why I ever made that last post.

[Gary611]

Boy! I gotta lot of catchin' up to do!!

More to follow,
Bar none,
except me,
NYUK,NYUK!!!!!


CSCO long for next week, whomever!!!!!

[IIC]

Boy! I gotta lot of catchin' up to do!!

More to follow,
Bar none,
except me,
NYUK,NYUK!!!!!


CSCO long for next week, whomever!!!!!


Glad to see you are outta the Slammer Gary...I was a bit worried...Hope it was something minor like INSIDER TRADING...Doug(IIC)

[IIC]

Doug,
Use "an" instead of "and" only if "an" is followed by a word beginning in a vowel otherwise use "and" or "a" as is suitable and phonetically correct sounding for that circumstance. Doug I can see that you never attended Catholic school. One specific thing about the Catholic schooling that I can remember was that from around 5th grade the girls started taking an unusually higher degree of interest in playing doctor.

Well...I don't know about where you went to school but I remember back in the late 60's...there were several Catholic schools in my area that only went to 8th grade...The majority of the students that came over to our public school were put back a grade...I'm not kidding. Now, there were some Catholic High Schools...none near me...that were hard to get into and were known as great schools...But many of the K-8 schools were below par.

However, nowadays those same K-8 schools are hard to get into and are known as high achieving schools. Probably because the public schools went downhill...I don't know...Although back then I think that the teachers in Private schools did not have to meet certification standards like they do now...And IMO the certification standards are pretty darn low... even today.

[Gatorman]

Had done reasonably well with CSCO last week. Was going to try to ride it again next week.
Then, in an unexpected lightning move, some Stooge came out of nowhere and swiped it right out from under my nose.
You sure got to keep your eye on those Stooges.
Will have to go with another choice.
Will take WITS long.

[peanuts]

Boy! I gotta lot of catchin' up to do!!

More to follow,
Bar none,
except me,
NYUK,NYUK!!!!!


CSCO long for next week, whomever!!!!!

How'd you break out? Watch out for scifos

[IIC]

I select ATHR long at the open...thx...Doug(IIC)

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/2811/athrcq3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[skiracer]

I'll stick with a winner to start off the week. FORG - long please Peanuts.

[Websman]

LTRE - long

[Gary611]

Glad to see you are outta the Slammer Gary...I was a bit worried...Hope it was something minor like INSIDER TRADING...Doug(IIC)
Well in a nutshell, it was insider trading...... I was inside a bar & I traded slugs!!....don't forget, I'm a stooge!
This is my story & I'm stickin' to it.

Memorial Day Weekend, 2005

I was in a drinking establishment with my 2 boys (ages 29 & 31). Some asshole started something & got one of my sons into it, suckerpunched him. Me, completely sober (Designated Driver) defended him & by the time it was over ,was arrested. The final outcome was 30 days for dis con, reduced to 15 days & I have to do some community service. I really expected the worst in there; maybe my grey hair scared away the ass-rapers in the shower, but all in all, I did it ok. The fact that I blew a zero at the time of the crime saved me from a whole lotta shit, HEY, MY boy was in a jam & that was my story & I stuck to it.
Moral,, Become a lawyer, they never lose, I'm just about broke!!!!!

[IIC]

Well in a nutshell, it was insider trading...... I was inside a bar & I traded slugs!!....don't forget, I'm a stooge!
This is my story & I'm stickin' to it.

Memorial Day Weekend, 2005

I was in a drinking establishment with my 2 boys (ages 29 & 31). Some asshole started something & got one of my sons into it, suckerpunched him. Me, completely sober (Designated Driver) defended him & by the time it was over ,was arrested. The final outcome was 30 days for dis con, reduced to 15 days & I have to do some community service. I really expected the worst in there; maybe my grey hair scared away the ass-rapers in the shower, but all in all, I did it ok. The fact that I blew a zero at the time of the crime saved me from a whole lotta shit, HEY, MY boy was in a jam & that was my story & I stuck to it.
Moral,, Become a lawyer, they never lose, I'm just about broke!!!!!

You really didn't have to answer me...But from your story I admire you FWIW...But, as far as lawyers...I consider myself an Un-prejudiced guy...I don't care what race,religion,sexual orientation people are as long as they are nice people...But Lawyers...They are the devil's creation IMO....Reminds me of when I took my Lawyer to arbitration back in the 80's...I won...But it cost me more in County fees to do so than I won...What kinda BS is that???

Too bad though...If you had been convicted for DOC in LA County I doubt that you'd have spent more than 2 days inside...They don't have room inside for such minor infractions.

Anyway, I'm glad to see you are OK...I actually was a bit worried for real...Best, Doug(IIC)

[skiracer]

Peanuts,
Change my pick to CA$H to start please. Thanks.

[Lyehopper]

Peanuts.... Put me in Ca$h again please.

[spikefader]

APAC long for me this week thanks peanuts!

[JohnHenry]

Congrats to Ski, River, and Jiesen...a great way to start of a New Year.

Peanuts

I will take VCLK long please...thanks

[skiracer]

Well in a nutshell, it was insider trading...... I was inside a bar & I traded slugs!!....don't forget, I'm a stooge!
This is my story & I'm stickin' to it.

Memorial Day Weekend, 2005

I was in a drinking establishment with my 2 boys (ages 29 & 31). Some asshole started something & got one of my sons into it, suckerpunched him. Me, completely sober (Designated Driver) defended him & by the time it was over ,was arrested. The final outcome was 30 days for dis con, reduced to 15 days & I have to do some community service. I really expected the worst in there; maybe my grey hair scared away the ass-rapers in the shower, but all in all, I did it ok. The fact that I blew a zero at the time of the crime saved me from a whole lotta shit, HEY, MY boy was in a jam & that was my story & I stuck to it.
Moral,, Become a lawyer, they never lose, I'm just about broke!!!!!

I'm taking it that you were the "last man standing". What happened to the perpurtrators? Did they get canned also? I don't mean literally although that would have been suitable punishment.

[RL]

Peanuts put me In BBBY-LONG thanks:):):)

[Karel]

Peanuts, you're doing fine! PCCC long please.

Regards,

Karel

[riverbabe]

Hi Peanuts, please put me in LVS SHORT. Thanks. River

[peanuts]

I am switching to CA$H this morning before the bell

also, DMK, Mimo, and NBB, I do not yet have picks from you. I hope you can play before closing bell

[Rob]

I'll take IMCL long! Big news this week!

[mimo_100]

CA$H Please, Thanks

[peanuts]

SCHN short

[jiesen]

I'll take AMLN long, please!

[skiracer]

FORG - long please Peanuts. Thanks.

[peanuts]

SCHN short

cover SCHN short,

GMKT long

[peanuts]

Current Player Holdings

billyjoe............CA$H (carved in stone until Feb 2)
dmk112...........???
Gary611..........CSCO long opening price first trading day
Gatorman........WITS long opening price first trading day
IIC.................ATHR long opening price first trading day
jiesen..............AMLN long, 10:10 Monday
Karel...............PCCC long opening price first trading day
Lyehopper........CA$H
mimo 100.........CA$H
New-born baby..???
peanuts...........SCHN short 9:46, Monday - covered 10:20, Monday @ $35
......................GMKT long 10:20, Monday
Peter Hansen....CTRP long opening price first trading day (carved in stone until Jan 12)
riverbabe..........LVS short opening price first trading day
RL...................BBBY long opening price first trading day
Rob.................IMCL long opening price first trading day
scifos..............CHRW long opening price first trading day
skiracer...........FORG long 10:13, Monday
spikefader........APAC long opening price first trading day
stenzrob..........SCLD long opening price first trading day
StkyTreat........VCLK long opening price first trading day
Websman.........LTRE long opening price first trading day

DMK, NBB, and any newbies,

You have approximately 1 hour to place your pick for the week without facing the wrath of a mad ape :D

[peanuts]

And they're off...

1= long
-1= short
http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/7259/010807lt9.png
closed positions:
1) peanuts - sold short SCHN @ $35.51 Monday, covered @ $34.99 Monday, 1.4644% added to above score

GOLD: peanuts
SILVER: spikefader
BRONZE: Websman

[jiesen]

Way to go, Peanuts! 10% on day 1 is HUGE!!!

Keep it up :D

[peanuts]

Way to go, Peanuts! 10% on day 1 is HUGE!!!

Keep it up :D

Thanks J,

It's even better when it's done in real life, too ;)

[spikefader]

And they're off...
GOLD: peanuts
SILVER: spikefader
BRONZE: Websman
Arrrr, 't be gladdenin' t' th' heart t' be seein' th' swashbucklers on th' top o' th' ladder after Tide 1! Nice job today wi' a fantastically timed Fuzzy C support buy that rewarded wi' yer impulse!

[peanuts]

Sell GMKT

Remain in cash for the rest of the week :)

[New-born baby]

DMK, NBB, and any newbies,

You have approximately 1 hour to place your pick for the week without facing the wrath of a mad ape :D

Peanuts,
I entered "ca$$$$$h" last Friday after the close. I was so very sick with the flu yesterday. . . I enter GLD today.

[peanuts]

Ski, River, and Jiesen: mucho congrats to you all! Your green is better than my red!

CA$$H please, Mr. Peanuts!

New-Born Baby,

I'm sorry that I missed this post. I'll change the information and you will be entered into the contest for the week. I have you now for GLD long, Tuesday @ 9:45 ($60.55)

Get better, dude, and keep that crap in your state. We don't need a bunch of sick Pennsylvanians all driving to the drug store at once, now. Half the population is in their 80's, so if they're all out on the roads at once, my life will be at risk... :eek:

[peanuts]

Down the front and heading into corner #1...

1= long
-1= short
http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/1926/010907cp1.png
closed positions:
1: peanuts - sold short SCHN @ $35.51 Monday, covered @ $34.99 Monday, 1.4644% added to player's score
2: peanuts - bought GMKT @ $21.70 Monday, sold @ $23.75 Tuesday, 9.45% added to player's score, portfolio closed with a 10.91% gain for the week

GOLD: peanuts
SILVER: spikefader
BRONZE: IIC

[dmk112]

I keep forgetting to post my pick!

New years resolution: Post my picks on Sunday night

[Rob]

Move over, Peanuts. Move over, Spike.


I'm BAAAAaaaaack! :)


meaning .....


(Watch IMCL today, buds.)

[peanuts]

Move over, Peanuts. Move over, Spike.


I'm BAAAAaaaaack! :)


meaning .....


(Watch IMCL today, buds.)

The heat in on! We're going to be coming out of corner 2 and entering the back stretch, and Rob is predicting a full 7 length lead to be overcome in just a short section of the track.

Does your horse have afterburners? :D Or did you feed it that good chili? :p

(I'll be watching)

[Rob]

Well, the market didn't react to the IMCL news as energetically as I thought they would today ... but tomorrow's another day.

I always seem to underestimate just how much the street hates this company.

[Rob]

Hey, Peanuts, one thing I discovered about getting my prices from Yahoo is that their opening prices aren't always accurate on the up-front quote page but they seem to be always corrected by the time they go into the historical quotes page.

For example, I have the following opening prices for the following people, according to Yahoo's historical quotes. (I haven't cross-checked these anywhere yet.)

Gary611 ..... CSCO ... 28.54
IIC ......... ATHR ... 23.04
Karel ....... PCCC ... 13.92
RL .......... BBBY ... 39.95
StkyTreat ... VCLK ... 23.52

You might want to check that out.

[Rob]

Hey, Peanuts, one thing I discovered about getting my prices from Yahoo is that their opening prices aren't always accurate on the up-front quote page but they seem to be always corrected by the time they go into the historical quotes page........... incidentally, that's why I switched over to getting the opening price quotes from businessweek.com, because they seemed to be much more reliable.

[peanuts]

.......... incidentally, that's why I switched over to getting the opening price quotes from businessweek.com, because they seemed to be much more reliable.

Cool, thanks Rob!

I've really only used Yahoo! (and my own spreadsheets) to track my portfolios. Is there another site that can do the same stuff like what I post for the daily results? You know, something that I can just grab a screen shot and post the image...

[peanuts]

Out of corner 2 and starting down the backstretch, spike jostles past the leader, peanuts, who is on cruise control for the rest of the race, and now takes the lead by a nose. Rob is hot on their tails, and looks to be picking up some speed on the straight-away with Jeisen right on his side, and IIC on Jeisen's. It's gonna be a photo finish, folks!!! Anyone can win this!

1= long
-1= short
http://img479.imageshack.us/img479/8770/011007tk7.png
closed positions:
1: peanuts - sold short SCHN @ $35.51 Monday, covered @ $34.99 Monday, 1.4644% added to player's score
2: peanuts - bought GMKT @ $21.70 Monday, sold @ $23.75 Tuesday, 9.45% added to player's score, portfolio closed with a 10.91% gain for the week

GOLD: spikefader 11.97%
SILVER: peanuts 10.91%
BRONZE: Rob 5.25%

[Rob]

Cool, thanks Rob!

I've really only used Yahoo! (and my own spreadsheets) to track my portfolios. Is there another site that can do the same stuff like what I post for the daily results? You know, something that I can just grab a screen shot and post the image...The thing that's nice about Yahoo is that cool custom column where you can put the players' names. The thing that's not nice about Yahoo is that it doesn't give you the ability to sort.

I think I remember you saying that you use Ameritrade. Well you can plug the info into an Ameritrade watch list, and that will allow you to sort, but no "Notes" column. :(

Alternatively you could use Medved Quotetracker (http://www.quotetracker.com), which gives you the best of all worlds, though its feature-richness necessitates spending a bit of time to navigate the learning curve.

Oh yeah ... and many online portfolios (including Yahoo's) have a download spreadsheet button, allowing you to port the numbers right into a spreadsheet ... and then you could sort the data any which way you want.

[peanuts]

Oh yeah ... and many online portfolios (including Yahoo's) have a download spreadsheet button, allowing you to port the numbers right into a spreadsheet ... and then you could sort the data any which way you want.

Thaks again, Rob. It seems like I'll just use this, as it is the quick and easy for me.

The thing with Yahoo's exported Excel spreadsheet, is that it sends information you don't need and not the information that you do... I've been having troubles with it for some time now...

Maybe Google can beat them up on this playground, too... :D

[IIC]

Peanuts...you changed my opening to 23.01...it was actually 23.04. On Monday I noticed it then...Stockcharts had it at 23.04 and so did a few other places...nasdaq.com and Yahoo had it at 23.12 at first so I didn't bother to say anything because I seem to already be ticking people off lately.

However, I don't want you to give me an extra 3 cents either.

Anyway, I sold ATHR for a small gain today...Guess I shoulda sold it yesterday...Doug

[skiracer]

The thing that's nice about Yahoo is that cool custom column where you can put the players' names. The thing that's not nice about Yahoo is that it doesn't give you the ability to sort.

I think I remember you saying that you use Ameritrade. Well you can plug the info into an Ameritrade watch list, and that will allow you to sort, but no "Notes" column. :(

Alternatively you could use Medved Quotetracker (http://www.quotetracker.com), which gives you the best of all worlds, though its feature-richness necessitates spending a bit of time to navigate the learning curve.

Oh yeah ... and many online portfolios (including Yahoo's) have a download spreadsheet button, allowing you to port the numbers right into a spreadsheet ... and then you could sort the data any which way you want.

Wherever he's getting his quotes from is being contradicted on a number of positions by Stockcharts.com. He has FORG closing at 1.7101 today and they have it at 1.72. It's no big deal but it could make a difference in a close call at the end of the week. Also why doesn't he come up with some order by either an ascending or descending sort rather than leaving it as a random placement. How much trouble could it be to arrange them in some order? Medved Quotetracker is free and in 30 min. could be set up.

[peanuts]

I am not very good at being the scorekeeper.

You made this look so easy, Rob

Of course, it could be that I am a rung lower on the ladder of evolution... right? :rolleyes:

[skiracer]

I am not very good at being the scorekeeper.

You made this look so easy, Rob

Of course, it could be that I am a rung lower on the ladder of evolution... right? :rolleyes:

You have to be commended Peanuts for stepping up and offering to take the job in the first place. There are a number of things that would make it alot easier and more functional. It just takes more time without Rob's code and sheet to do it in the same fashion as he did. It's not like it is prohibitive but it can be done without his sheet and method it just takes more time. If you get to the point where it becomes to much and if it seems to be to much trouble for you to handle then hand it off to someone else or ask someone else to help with the work. With Stockcharts.com there is the ability to make a watchlist of each players pick and it will give you the opening and closing prices each day. Then it is only a matter of plugging in the numbers and the percentages each day into an Excel spreadsheet where you can manipulate the rows and columns to suit you and to have some order. Of course your personality comes into play when creating commentary like Rob did to make it that much more interesting. But other than that it shouldn't be any problem. You might look like a monkey but we know that your not one. If you need a hand I would be more than willing to make the time to help you keep track and do the numbers each night.

[stenzrob]

I just think it's nice of peanuts to track it at all, and I have nothing to complain about other than my SCLD performance. They did just report earnings tonight - reduced losses by improving margins. Their turnaround plan is on track. If it suddenly jumps to $1.50 (in my dreams), expect a post here from me!

[spikefader]

I just think it's nice of peanuts to track it at all, and I have nothing to complain about Here here stenz. I agree entirely! Peanuts, ya got no complaints from me either. May the POTW become bigger and better than ever! Personally I'm glad there's been a changing of the baton, and look forward to your own commentary, whatever form it takes. It's all good ya know?

[New-born baby]

Here here stenz. I agree entirely! Peanuts, ya got no complaints from me either. May the POTW become bigger and better than ever! Personally I'm glad there's been a changing of the baton, and look forward to your own commentary, whatever form it takes. It's all good ya know?

You're a bull again? That vector switches around like a tornado!

[riverbabe]

Buy to cover LVS. Thanks, Riverbabe

[stenzrob]

Sell SCLD, please. I'm seeing bid of $1.21 at this moment.
(Still holding in real life)

[peanuts]

Sell SCLD, please. I'm seeing bid of $1.21 at this moment.
(Still holding in real life)

Hi Stenzrob,

The timestamp on your post is 10:48, so you get the opening price in the next minute of trading. At 10:49, SCLD opened at $1.18. The extra .03 would have been nice, but I'm not ;)

[stenzrob]

Hi Stenzrob,

The timestamp on your post is 10:48, so you get the opening price in the next minute of trading. At 10:49, SCLD opened at $1.18. The extra .03 would have been nice, but I'm not ;)
OK, fine. Thanks peanuts.

[New-born baby]

Peanuts,
Please take me out the door of GLD;
and short AAPL for me, please.

[spikefader]

You're a bull again? That vector switches around like a tornado!Well it can act like a tornado, but actually ... Vector was bearish the whole time from Dec 15 to yesterday so it held that bias for 15 trading days and applying it to my current trigger system rewarded over 200 YM futures points per contract after commissions .... so it didn't do too badly considering the sideway price action since the signal......and the bullish signal last night has apparently nailed it thus far! :D The INDU seems to be in a new 1 impulse up from a Fuzzy C, so bullish potential is excellent. And remember, we're in a monthly INDU 3 impulse up.....typically the biggest wave of 'em all.

[peanuts]

Down the back stretch, IIC spits in the eye of Rob's horse and slowed it down enough for him to pass, Jiesen is trying to keep up with IIC and is neck and neck with Rob, now. Karel saw his opportunity and is taking the rail to pass Rob and Jeisen as they talk over who is going to push IIC off his horse. Still back in corner #2 is riverbabe, who fell off her horse out of the gate and is now running after the pack on foot.

The leaders going into the final turn are the super speedy stenzrob, who's amazing gallop on the backstretch has put him a full length ahead of the thoroughbred spike, and the cruise-control peanuts still maintains his steady pace to the line. Stenzrob and peanuts are moving along at the same pace, so it looks like spike has a chance for the finish.

1= long
-1= short
http://img454.imageshack.us/img454/8846/011107zq0.png
closed positions:
1: peanuts - sold short SCHN @ $35.51 Monday, covered @ $34.99 Monday, 1.4644% added to player's score
2: peanuts - bought GMKT @ $21.70 Monday, sold @ $23.75 Tuesday, 9.45% added to player's score, portfolio closed with a 10.91% gain for the week
3: riverbabe - sold short LVS @ $90.95 Monday, covered @ $99.50 Thursday, 9.4% loss subtracted from player's score
4: stenzrob - bought SCLD @ $1.03 Monday, sold @ $1.18 Thursday, gain of 14.5631% added to player's score
5: New-born baby - bought GLD @ $60.55 Monday, sold @ $61.00 Thursday, gain of .7432% added to player's score

GOLD: stenzrob 14.5631%
SILVER: spikefader 12.77%
BRONZE: peanuts 10.91%

(Doug, TD Ameritrade has the opening price at $23.01 for ATHR)

[scifos]

ALTR Long please for friday.

[riverbabe]

My very first short. Paper trade, thank God. Lesson learned, always set an upside stop, and don't deviate! River

[riverbabe]

Please buy GHDX for Friday. Thanks.

[peanuts]

Please buy GHDX for Friday. Thanks.

I'm pulling for you, riverbabe :)

I'm in this stock with real money since Wednesday @ 22.50, thanks to Runner. He's the one that brought it to the table.

[stenzrob]

I'll take EXP long on Monday morning, please. Off now to a ski trip with the youth group from church.

[IIC]

out ATHR...buy NAPS...IIC

[peanuts]

I'll take EXP long on Monday morning, please. Off now to a ski trip with the youth group from church.

I'm sorry stenzrob, but I cannot accept your pick at this time. The rules clearly state that a player must wait until after the close on the last trading day of the week before the player can enter a pick for the next week. ie, you have to wait until 4:00 pm, today to make your pick.

If you are saying that you're leaving for the weekend and you will not be able to post a pick before the market close on Tuesday (the first trading day next week), then I can make your pick to be EXP, but you will be "carved in stone" until Friday's close.

Rules are rules, and I can't go about breaking them- even if it is a church group :o

Enjoy the slopes!!

[stenzrob]

I'm sorry stenzrob, ...
I will come back and repost on Monday. Sorry to be such a klutzo.

[peanuts]

There were some very fast horses in the race this week, folks. We have 4 players with percentage scores in double digits!

Stenzrob, being absent from the forum for some time, comes out of obscurity with a vengence. Halfway through the race, he took the lead, went on cruise control, and never looked back. His horse came in first place this week with a whopping 14.56% gain in his first week of play!!! That horse was mighty big, infact, it was $$$HUGE$$$ Congrats, stenzrob on the finest pick of the fleet

Spikefader brings up the #2 spot riding a little horse with longs legs. APAC just kept going and going, and was going fast enough to keep peanuts and Jiesen right at its heels. Good show, spike!

It was a photo finish for 3rd place, but peanuts eeks out Jiesen for the bronze. Rumors are going around that monkey business affected the focus of Jiesen's horse, but nothing has yet been proven. Honorable mention goes out for a horse that missed 3rd by 1/20th of a percentage point!

Some other notables: Karel, Rob and IIC fought it out all race long. IIC was photographed spitting in Karel's horse's eye, but the camera was a piece of junk from Altria, so no penalties were placed due to picture quality. It was later learned that riverbabe was riding her horse backwards from the start, and Lyehopper wasn't allowed to enter a cow, so he decided to take the cash instead. If StkyTreat had not been feeding his horse candy before the race, it might have been able to focus. Ski's horse was left on the slopes last week and seemed a little stiff to run again. It was later found that NBB laced his apples with steriods, and his horse died after the race.

http://img356.imageshack.us/img356/3052/011207eowxu1.png

GOLD: STENZROB
SILVER: SPIKEFADER
BRONZE: PEANUTS

LINK (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showpost.php?p=75790&postcount=10018) to the yearly tracking results

[New-born baby]

HUGE % gains by top five! Congrats Strenz, Spike and Peanuts, Jiesen and Karel. Congrats to all the greenies this week.

CA$$$$$$H Money to start off next week, please.

[IIC]

Congrats Stenz, Spike and Peanuts...

http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/1876/icegl5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[riverbabe]

Congratulations to all the winners!!! Great picks!!! I have a lot of catching up to do! So, time to try to recoup and regroup! Riding a horse backwards can be painful in the POTW!

I'll take FRX long next week, please Peanuts. Prudential has raised its price target considerably, and it reports on Tuesday. The chart is looking very good!

Unfortunately, I'll be sitting in divorce court with my daughter in Chicago, hoping to end a grueling 2-1/2 year battle. But "Judge Judy" has been ruling sympathetically in her favor lately, so all fingers are crossed that it finally can be finalized this week. I'll only have access to the hotel lobby computer, so I won't be able to follow FRX (or anything else) during the day. Ah well, suspense is fun, right? Thanks, Riverbabe

[IIC]

Peanuts...I will take BRKR long at the open...Good Luck Everybody...IIC

http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/4489/brkrlt0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[peanuts]

Based on the chart and the sector action, I will be taking HRT long at the open.

[spikefader]

Well done Stenz and peanuts. Good write-up.

APN long for me this week, thanks.

http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/9826/littlehorseds6.gif

Good luck all.

[skiracer]

Great job this week Stenz, Spike, and Peanuts. Peanuts could you explain that weekly sheet to us and how you have it set up please.

[scifos]

DE long next week please.

[Gary611]

:cramersmiley: CYBI long for the week, good luck to all!!

[peanuts]

Great job this week Stenz, Spike, and Peanuts. Peanuts could you explain that weekly sheet to us and how you have it set up please.

I'm not sure what needs to be clarified. Maybe you have some direct questions?

Each player starts the year with an account balance of $1000

Each week, a player's balance is adjusted by their respective weekly score.

To double your money in 52 weeks, you need to get at least 1.35% return each week.

The purpose is to expose what it means when somebody says that they made 'so and so' percent in 'such and such' time. It is also meant to show the detrimental effects of just 1 poor performance, and what it takes to comes back from a big loss.

A few members should understand exactly what I'm taking about. This little portfolio tracking is all about risk and return management. If people begin to get satisfied with 2-3% gains, but don't cut losses short, 5 weeks of 2% gains can be wiped out by 1 week of a 9% loss.

example, starting with $1000:

week 1: 1000.00 x 2% = 1020.00
week 2: 1020.00 x 2% = 1040.40
week 3: 1040.40 x 2% = 1061.21
week 4: 1061.21 x 2% = 1082.43
week 5: 1082.43 x 2% = 1104.08

...so after 5 long difficult weeks of earning 2% each week, $1000 compounded each week yields a total return of $104.08 or 10.41%.

However, imagine if during the 6th week there is a loss of 8%. This puts the portfolio value back to 1015.75... less than the total portfolio value after the first week!!!!! So you fight so hard to make the 2% each week for 5 weeks straight, but never protect those gains in the sixth week, and really end up with a net gain of a small fraction of the total return after week #5.

Spike and Runner have been trying to drive home the reality of this risk return management to many people here, but few are actually picking up what they're dropping. Sometimes it takes undeniable statistics to wake some people out of their sleep.

Hopefully, this will help members with their own personal portfolios.

[skiracer]

I should have been more specific. I was looking back at post #10018 and I think that you have plugged in this weeks percentages and the total plus or minus percentage for the first two weeks but what are the rest of those numbers representative of for the successive weeks. Just curious.
Another point that I was thinking of was that if there is a -3.00 % penalty for not playing in any given week what about anyone that just stays in cash all week and does that for a number of weeks. They have no risk, their portfolio stays at a fixed amount and then they play the next week and if they are in the positive at the end of the week how does that get computed.

[jiesen]

I should have been more specific. I was looking back at post #10018 and I think that you have plugged in this weeks percentages and the total plus or minus percentage for the first two weeks but what are the rest of those numbers representative of for the successive weeks. Just curious.
Another point that I was thinking of was that if there is a -3.00 % penalty for not playing in any given week what about anyone that just stays in cash all week and does that for a number of weeks. They have no risk, their portfolio stays at a fixed amount and then they play the next week and if they are in the positive at the end of the week how does that get computed.

Ski, I believe a position in $$CASH$$ would give you a 0% score for the week, and by doing so week after week, someone who's ahead (like me!) could at least keep the gain indefinitely.

That said, Peanuts, please put me in $$CASH$$ for next week!

Also, congrats to Stenz, Spike, and Peanuts for the superb picking last week. I can't believe you took my bronze with just a 0.05% lead there, Peanuts! If you just would have rounded to the nearest 0.1% instead, we could have shared the prize, but nooo, you had to go and be all accurate about this.

Thanks for doing the cumulative scoring this way, too. You expressed perfectly the reasons for doing this, and it's exactly why I had posted cumulative results in the past contests. I'm just glad I don't have to do it anymore... I felt bad when I got lazy and neglected that duty. Now I can focus some attention to POTY updates instead.

[skiracer]

Ski, I believe a position in $$CASH$$ would give you a 0% score for the week, and by doing so week after week, someone who's ahead (like me!) could at least keep the gain indefinitely.

Jiesen,
What I was thinking is that if you fail to enter a pick or at least enter CA$H for the week then you get a -3.00% penalty for the week. But if you enter CA$H at the beginning of the week and stay in CA$H all week without making a pick then there is no penalty but also no gain. You could go several weeks without any penalty and without losing any money by staying in CA$H and then play one week and if you had a positive result for that week could basically have a pretty good total without putting yourself at any risk. You might not have as large a total as someone who plays every week and has a positive result every week but there is no risk in doing that while the players that enter every week are at a much larger risk of keeping their total on the positive side when they enter a pick and play every week. How about if you stayed in CA$H every week without making a selection and then played one week and win that week with a 20% gain. Would your total reflect a 20 % gain and be $1200 which would seem great but while the others that had entered a pick every week would be at risk of a lesser percentage and total having played every week and the associated risk of having to produce a winning percentage that many more weeks in a row.

I was thinking that maybe there should be a rule providing for some smaller penalty, less than the -3% if you didn't make a selection and play, for staying in CA$H the entire week and not making some selection at all during the week thus avoiding any risk at all for the week or perhaps larger than the -3% for perhaps taking advantage of the true intention of having the CA$H position available at the beginning of the week to see which way the wind will blow. That way the CA$H position wouldn't be misused.

[dmk112]

CLAY - long pls

[mimo_100]

Since this is a 4 day week and I haven't had time to research so far this year -- so start me in

CA$H

[mimo_100]

Since the aim of this thread is to reflect reality as much as possible,
I think we should consider paying a money market rate to anyone who stays in CA$H all week. Why should a person be penalized for making
the investment decision to be in CA$H?

[skiracer]

Since the aim of this thread is to reflect reality as much as possible,
I think we sould consider paying a money market rate to anyone who stays in CA$H all week. Why should a person be penalized for making
the investment decision to be in CA$H?

I think your missing my point which is the risk factor everyone faces who makes a pick. Staying in CA$H all week poses no risk and is thus a safe haven. The logic and concept behind the contest is to see who can make the best selections during the week and over the course of the year. Staying in CA$H all week doesn't prove anything about anyone's stock picking prowness. I don't think it is the same as making a selection during the week. Originally it was meant to provide a little more time for someone, for whatever reasons, not to make their pick by the open on Monday, and not for staying in all week unless like Billyjoe there were extenuating circumstances. Which in a case like his they should be granted a leave of absence and not held subject to any rules regarding making a weekly selection. I think the CA$H has evolved into something more than what it was meant to be. I feel the game was meant to be played and not to sit in a safe haven all week. I also feel that taking a gain on Monday and Tuesday on one or two positions and then sitting all week in CA$H only proves that you were lucky on Monday and Tuesday and didn't prove anything as to the strength of your picks over the course of the week. Staying in CA$H all week doesn't prove a thing and in no way can be considered actively participating in the contest as was originally intended.

[Karel]

Stenzrob, congratulations! Great pick!

I'll take PCCC long again; it is still heading my screen.

Regards,

Karel

[peanuts]

I think that we can all agree that the best way to improve your performance at anything is to practice, and practice, and practice some more until you get it right.

That being said, I view the POTW as a perfect place to practice your stock-picking skills. It is also a perfect place to practice your money management skills.

The yearly contest is the big picture... it answers the question, "what is the best manner to grow your money in one year by trading in the stock market?"

The weekly contest is the small picture. It is a contest within the larger yearly contest... it answers the question, "what is the hottest thing in the stock market, right now?"

It is up to the player to decide whether they want to risk their balance on a trade each week. The risk and return ratios should be considered, and the detriment of not cutting losses short is evident, as in the example I have stated earlier. If a player cannot determine what the best place for their money will be right now, then he or she should enter a CA$H position, as it is the only way to be certain that their capital is preserved.

This is only a contest, but it can be applied to real life investing. In reality, there are added benefits to this method, as a cash balance can be placed into a money market account and earn interest on a daily basis. But for the sake of this contest, a CA$H position which neither appreciates or depreciates serves the purpose of a real-life cash position. There is no harm in saying, "I don't know what is hot right now, but I do know that I want to have lots of money in the end, so it is safer to stay neutral, now"

I think it is safe to say that each and every one of us wants to make money in the long run. Under normal circumstances, we do not want to take losses, ever. We all have our own purposes for choosing the stock market to accumulate wealth, and we all have to implement our plans to the best of our ability. I think that these statements are indisputable.

edit: I would also like to dispute that it is luck to obtain a nice return in the first day, and poor sportsmanship to ride out the rest of the week in CA$H... it's like vacation time... well EARNED ;)

[Lyehopper]

Hey Peanuts.... stick me in ca$h again please sir....

btw.... The POTW is looking great under your watch Peanuts http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/icons/icon14.gif.... I'm sure you'll continue to find ways to improve it as time goes on.... Keep up the fine work!

Congrats to all the top players this week.

[skiracer]

I think that we can all agree that the best way to improve your performance at anything is to practice, and practice, and practice some more until you get it right.

That being said, I view the POTW as a perfect place to practice your stock-picking skills. It is also a perfect place to practice your money management skills.

The yearly contest is the big picture... it answers the question, "what is the best manner to grow your money in one year by trading in the stock market?"

The weekly contest is the small picture. It is a contest within the larger yearly contest... it answers the question, "what is the hottest thing in the stock market, right now?"

It is up to the player to decide whether they want to risk their balance on a trade each week. The risk and return ratios should be considered, and the detriment of not cutting losses short is evident, as in the example I have stated earlier. If a player cannot determine what the best place for their money will be right now, then he or she should enter a CA$H position, as it is the only way to be certain that their capital is preserved.

This is only a contest, but it can be applied to real life investing. In reality, there are added benefits to this method, as a cash balance can be placed into a money market account and earn interest on a daily basis. But for the sake of this contest, a CA$H position which neither appreciates or depreciates serves the purpose of a real-life cash position. There is no harm is saying, "I don't know what is hot right now, but I do know that I want to have lots of money in the end, so it is safer to stay neutral, now"

I think it is safe to say that each and every one of us wants to make money in the long run. Under normal circumstances, we do not want to take losses, ever. We all have our own purposes for choosing the stock market to accumulate wealth, and we all have to implement our plans to the best of our ability. I think that these statements are indisputable.

I would have to agree with the way you stated it Peanuts and I think that CA$H is a useful tool to stay in a safe haven. But it has nothing to do with stockpicking abilities and I thought this contest was about that but I see that we have transcended that and gone into a combination of other factors. Staying in cash and using that as a ploy for money management doesn't interest me as far as stockpicking abilities is concerned. Of course the orginal POTW contest has evolved over the course of the last couple of years into what it is today just as we have so this is what we have now. Money preservation and capital management instead of one good old stock picking contest. I think we will see more and more in CA$H positions over the course of the year and less and less stock picking because that is the guaranteed way of preserving your capital with alot less risk than actually picking stocks.

[sirtuck]

Is still to late to enter? I know I will lose 3% each week, I missed..My pick is bbi long sirtuck

[peanuts]

Is still to late to enter? I know I will lose 3% each week, I missed..My pick is bbi long sirtuck

Welcome aboard, Sire! Yes, it is true that your initial $1000 will be reduced by 3% the first week, and that balance reduced again by 3% last week, but not to worry, you still have 50 weeks of profitability to make up for those minor losses. Good luck.

I have your first position as BBI long, opening price on Tuesday. :)

Would anyone else like to join the fray? All are welcome!

[Lyehopper]

Staying in CA$H all week doesn't prove anything about anyone's stock picking prowness. .
Sure it does Ski!.... It says that you stayed in ca$h that week to avoid a loss in an undecided market.... It also shows that a player ACTUALLY took the time and showed enough interest in the POTW to post his (deliberate) ca$h pick. It also shows the personality of various players and their investment styles.

Peanuts' contest is not just a weekly deal. He has assigned a ca$h value in our imaginary "account" thus making the contest more realistic. With this in mind I'm (personally) striving for the most ca$h in my POTW account by year end 2007..... and I don't care about placing in the weekly standings.... Look, If my account is larger than yours by December 31, 2007?.... That'll sure say something about my freakin' "prowNess" now won't it?.... LOL!!!!

[skiracer]

Sure it does Ski!.... It says that you stayed in ca$h that week to avoid a loss in an undecided market.... It also shows that a player ACTUALLY took the time and showed enough interest in the POTW to post his (deliberate) ca$h pick. It also shows the personality of various players and their investment styles.

Peanuts' contest is not just a weekly deal. He has assigned a ca$h value in our imaginary "account" thus making the contest more realistic. With this in mind I'm (personally) striving for the most ca$h in my POTW account by year end 2007..... and I don't care about placing in the weekly standings.... Look, If my account is larger than yours by December 31, 2007?.... That'll sure say something about my freakin' "prowNess" now won't it?.... LOL!!!!

No, not in my opinion it won't. In my opinion it is taking away from the stock picking aspects of the contest. It will show that you or anyone else that decides to stay in CA$H for as long a period of time as they wish in good or bad markets, up or down trends, rangebound markets, will be in a safe haven and not have to do any serious stock picking to stay above the +- line while others that make the choice to try to make the best pick they can in any type of markets are either foolish or disillusioned about the game.
In my opinion it is going to end up diluting the concept of the game, which was to make the best stock picks you could under whatever circumstances presented themselves that week, and as the weeks go by more players will ask themselves why not stay in cash for as long as they can before making a pick because a larger number of others are doing that. Staying in cash doesn't prove anything to me as far as stock picking abilities are concerned. But it's no big deal and the choice is up to the individual as to what and how they want to play it. It would certainly be true that someone's account might have a larger balance at the end of the year than anothers if they stayed safely in CA$H for a good deal of the time but to me the truer evaluation of one's stock picking abilities is picking winners in good, bad, or indifferent markets. What appears to be happening is a changing in the concept of the contest and that the safest and easiest way to come out on top is to stay out of picking stocks.
Not to single out Peanuts but his is a good example. Last week he made two daytrades which encompassed a few hours of holding time. Then stayed in CA$H for Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. If he had won the contest would he have truly been the best stockpicker that week while everyone else stayed in stocks all week except for those that stayed in CA$H all week. I guess the concept of the game has subtly changed to something other than picking winning stocks under any circumstances.

[peanuts]

No, not in my opinion it won't. In my opinion it is taking away from the stock picking aspects of the contest...

Please ski, add to the 'aspects' of this contest by consistently picking winning stocks week after week. Show us how you beat the tar out of Lyehopper's score at the end of the year.

Try it before you knock it. You're acting like you know everything :D

[skiracer]

Please ski, add to the 'aspects' of this contest by consistently picking winning stocks week after week. Show us how you beat the tar out of Lyehopper's score at the end of the year.

Try it before you knock it. You're acting like you know everything :D

Spare me the patronizing Peanuts. I just explained my feelings on it and can see where it is headed.

[peanuts]

Spare me the patronizing Peanuts. I just explained my feelings on it and can see where it is headed.

gosh, ski, the last thing that I wanted to do was to be condescending towards you. The quotation above seems to paint me in a bad light.

I was merely stating that if you think that you can do better than Lyehopper (which your comments towards him suggested that his manner of investing was not the same as yours), then prove it at the end of the year.

I still believe that all of our intentions in the stock market are to make money. Each and every one of us go about it differently. The winner of the yearly contest can teach us alot about a great way to grow our own portfolios. I hope that it is you, skiracer, so you may teach us all how you did it. :)

The conversation, on my part, was heading nowhere but enlightenment. I have, within the last few years, realized the failures of communication on my part. I now try to avoid being a jerk to people at all costs (unless they are deserving). But I guess it is more in the delivery of the message, not the content, which makes one perceive a message offered to them as nice or not nice. I am assuming that I failed to deliver my message to you, as you have decided that I am trying to patronize you. I am not!

[Peter Hansen]

STP LONG For Me!

[skiracer]

[quote=peanuts;76509]gosh, ski, the last thing that I wanted to do was to be condescending towards you. The quotation above seems to paint me in a bad light.

I was merely stating that if you think that you can do better than Lyehopper (which your comments towards him suggested that his manner of investing was not the same as yours), then prove it at the end of the year.

I still believe that all of our intentions in the stock market are to make money. Each and every one of us go about it differently. The winner of the yearly contest can teach us alot about a great way to grow our own portfolios. I hope that it is you, skiracer, so you may teach us all how you did it. :)

The conversation, on my part, was heading nowhere but enlightenment. I have, within the last few years, realized the failures of communication on my part. I now try to avoid being a jerk to people at all costs (unless they are deserving). But I guess it is more in the delivery of the message, not the content, which makes one perceive a message offered to them as nice or not nice. I am assuming that I failed to deliver my message to you, as you have decided that I am trying to patronize you. I am not![/quote

Sorry I brought it up in the first place Peanuts. Your doing a great job with the POTW and I now see that it is morphing into something other than a stock picking contest which is ok with me. I never insinuated that I was better at any of this than anyone else. Only that staying in CA$H for the entire week or several days per week doesn't place that player within the same parameters of risk as staying in a stock selection for the entire week. But it is no big deal and sorry if I made you look or feel condescending or in a bad light because I don't see you that way. My feelings are that it takes alot more to pick a stock or two per week that provide a positive gain vs staying in CA$H regardless of the player doing it.

[ParkTwain]

Peanuts wrote:
The winner of the yearly contest can teach us alot about a great way to grow our own portfolios.


Not if the participant doesn't explain how he/she found the stock as a candidate and then picked the stock. I don't think that happened in the case of every participant in last year's (IIC's, that is, Doug's) Pick of the Year contest. However, doing so SHOULD be a prerequisite of joining such a contest. Otherwise, how do the rest not believe that the winner just got lucky, which is quite possible even in the stock market.

[mimo_100]

Peanuts wrote:
The winner of the yearly contest can teach us alot about a great way to grow our own portfolios.


Not if the participant doesn't explain how he/she found the stock as a candidate and then picked the stock. I don't think that happened in the case of every participant in last year's (IIC's, that is, Doug's) Pick of the Year contest. However, doing so SHOULD be a prerequisite of joining such a contest. Otherwise, how do the rest not believe that the winner just got lucky, which is quite possible even in the stock market.

I've been advocating this for a long time, especially in the POTW contest. If the purpose of this forum is LEARNING, then it is necessary to reveal how a person came up with the winner. Don't we all learn from someone who teaches us the path to success?

[peanuts]

It seems that the folks want a speech. How did you come to pick SCLD for the POTW contest? Tell us when you get back from skiing. :)

[skiracer]

Peanuts,
Take me out of FORG - I'm going in another direction.

[stenzrob]

Last week, I picked SCLD because they were reporting mid-week. SCLD is a turnaround play that I have been following for years. About six months ago, new top execs were put in place, and they disclosed their plan to return to profitability and growth. Over the last 3 months or so, new contracts were announced, and the plan seemed to be on track. The report last week had the potential to again confirm that the plan was on track. This turned out to be the case - while revenues were down, gross margins were up, so losses shrank. The chart has showed renewed buying interest since bottoming out.

This week I am picking EXP. They report on 2/1, so this pick could be premature. This is a valuation position in my portfolio - the PEG is about 0.3. Last year at this time, it gapped up from 40 to 50 and ran to almost 75. Beaten back down due to housing sector crash, but their business is partly residential and partly infrastructure (concrete for roads & bridges) construction. Picking for this week due to technicals - the MACD turned positive, and the 50 day crossed above the 200 day. One of their competitors, TXI, is approaching a new high breakout and may actually be a better pick for a 1 week gain, but I like EXP's valuation better and own it in real life. More of a "POTM" than a "POTW", I particularly like the 3 year weekly chart:
http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?c=exp,uu[h,a]waolyiay[df][pc10!c50!f][vc60][ila12,26,9!lp14,3,3]

regards ... stenz, back safely from a fun ski trip!

[Websman]

HEB - long

[skiracer]

Decided to stay with FORG - long.

[Gatorman]

Will take ONNN long.

[Lyehopper]

Staying in cash doesn't prove anything to me as far as stock picking abilities are concerned.
WeLLLLLLL, Now I guess as far as ol' Lyehopper's "concerned".... it ain't all about YOU now is it!?

[Lyehopper]

Decided to stay with FORG - long.
Seriously now Ski!.... "As far as I'm concerned".... I think anyone here could have picked that stock....

[skiracer]

WeLLLLLLL, Now I guess as far as ol' Lyehopper's "concerned".... it ain't all about YOU now is it!?

Of course it's not but Jeez Lye, I was only voicing an opinion. I think you guys might be carrying it a little farther than necessary. But everyone is entitled to their opinion right? And it was never meant just about you in any sense but what the CA$H position and the POTW are evolving into.

As far as FORG is concerned, take me out of it Peanuts and see if anyone else wants to use it as their play. I'll make another pick.

[JohnHenry]

Congrats to the top three.

I will be taking ATHR at the start please. Thanks.

[Lyehopper]

Of course it's not but Jeez Lye, I was only voicing an opinion. I think you guys might be carrying it a little farther than necessary. But everyone is entitled to their opinion right? And it was never meant just about you in any sense but what the CA$H position and the POTW are evolving into.

As far as FORG is concerned, take me out of it Peanuts and see if anyone else wants to use it as their play. I'll make another pick.
OK.... I'll take FORG long.

[jiesen]

put me in AMLN long, please!

[skiracer]

AOB - long

[Rob]

Hey, Peanuts!

Thanks for running the contest! You're doing fine.

Give IMCL long once again this week!

[peanuts]

Current Player Holdings

billyjoe............CA$H (carved in stone until Feb 2)
dmk112...........CLAY long opening price first trading day
Gary611..........CYBI long opening price first trading day
Gatorman........ONNN long opening price first trading day
IIC.................BRKR long opening price first trading day
jiesen..............AMLN long opening price first trading day
Karel...............PCCC long opening price first trading day
Lyehopper........FORG long opening price first trading day
mimo 100.........CA$H
New-born baby..CA$H
peanuts...........HRT long opening price first trading day
Peter Hansen....STP long opening price first trading day
riverbabe..........FRX long opening price first trading day
RL...................???
Rob.................IMCL long opening price first trading day
scifos..............DE long opening price first trading day
skiracer...........AOB long opening price first trading day
sirtuck.............BBI long opening price first trading day
spikefader........APN long opening price first trading day
stenzrob..........EXP long opening price first trading day
StkyTreat........ATHR long opening price first trading day
Websman.........HEB long opening price first trading day

RL, and any new entrants, you have until 3:59 to make a pick

Good luck, everyone else.

[Lyehopper]

OK.... I'll take FORG long.
"As far as I'm concerned".... If I lose my "prowNess" this week, it's Skiracer's fault.... Because I really wanted to be in ca$h.

[mimo_100]

I'll chase ATRI long.

Thanks.

[skiracer]

"As far as I'm concerned".... If I lose my "prowNess" this week, it's Skiracer's fault.... Because I really wanted to be in ca$h.

I know. I sold all my shares this morning on that small spike up at the open. I hate the stock, wouldn't own it if you gave me the money to buy it, think is stinks, would never play it in the POTW if it was the last stock on the planet, and you know you should never let anyone else influence your gut feelings about what you want to do. What are you nuts listening to me a fool like me. It serves you right. We both knew you should have stayed in CA$H like you wanted to. You should have listened to Peanuts in the first place. Thank God you took it instead of me. Look at AOB, I'm up .08 from the open. Boy that was close. :cramersmiley:

[peanuts]

sell HRT

buy AOS

[Lyehopper]

I know. I sold all my shares this morning on that small spike up at the open. I hate the stock, wouldn't own it if you gave me the money to buy it, think is stinks, would never play it in the POTW if it was the last stock on the planet, and you know you should never let anyone else influence your gut feelings about what you want to do. What are you nuts listening to me a fool like me. It serves you right. We both knew you should have stayed in CA$H like you wanted to. You should have listened to Peanuts in the first place. Thank God you took it instead of me. Look at AOB, I'm up .08 from the open. Boy that was close. :cramersmiley:
LOL!.... I hate NJ Yankees!

[RL]

Peanuts please put me In EBAY-LONG thanks

[skiracer]

LOL!.... I hate NJ Yankees!

I was actually rooting for you to win. I still own the stock and if you win the POTW I win the money. Today just looks like one of those days. I'm still in the green with the trade but have given back .21 on the 10000 shares I own. You know you really love us NJ Yankees.

[peanuts]

Week 3 - Stock Pickers Pageant

For the first day of the week, we have the talent competition. The judges were really pressed to make a clear winner for the round, but peanuts takes this round with a crafty day trade in HRT, then quickly going with a beat-down stock that looks like it might have something left in it. Websman comes in a close second by displaying some excellent skills at picking low priced stocks, and Karel rounds out the competition with a steady hand and cool head when it comes to lettin-em-ride.

Lyehopper received negative points for stealing his idea from another contestent, and not practicing first. The judges were informed that there are some back stage antics going on, and they plan to do nothing about it.

Upcoming events are as follows:
Wednesday: Interview
Thursday: Evening Wear
Friday: Swimsuit

1= long
-1= short
http://img47.imageshack.us/img47/4255/011607nj8.png
closed positions:
1: peanuts - long HRT opening price Tuesday - sold @ $28.7899 Tuesday, 6.7479% gain applied to players score

GOLD: peanuts 6.8579%
SILVER: Websman 6.44%
BRONZE: Karel 6.08%

[Websman]

Did HEB go up today?

[Lyehopper]

Lyehopper received negative points for stealing his idea from another contestent, and not practicing first. The judges were informed that there are some back stage antics going on, and they plan to do nothing about it.
I protest!.... I was setup!.... FRAMED!

[skiracer]

I protest!.... I was setup!.... FRAMED!

I would hang in there Lye. On the weekly chart this next wave or move up is either a 3rd wave or a 5th wave up and both are strong upward moves. And on the daily it looks like it could be just finishing a c wave down and a decent spike up could be right around the corner. One of Spike's c wave spikes. But just to show that I'm a sport I'll trade positions with you right now if you want to. It's no big deal to me because I still like the stock to make a move to 3 or 4 and certainly above 2 and I do still own it. So it's your call if you want to switch picks.

[Websman]

So...am I up on my pick?

[skiracer]

So...am I up on my pick?

Webs,
You're up .15 on your play. Are you saying you didn't know or are you looking for affirmation or praise of some type for that fifteen cents. Remember tomorrow could be a different day altogether. Be careful of counting your cash to much while you're still at the table. Boy you can tell that Peanuts is part of the VTP inner circle.

[skiracer]

Where did everyone go. Is everyone totally engrossed in American Idol?

[Websman]

Webs,
You're up .15 on your play. Are you saying you didn't know or are you looking for affirmation or praise of some type for that fifteen cents. Remember tomorrow could be a different day altogether. Be careful of counting your cash to much while you're still at the table. Boy you can tell that Peanuts is part of the VTP inner circle.


JEEEEEEEEJEJEJEJEEEEEE!!!!!!

[Websman]

sell - HEB

[peanuts]

Where did everyone go. Is everyone totally engrossed in American Idol?

You've forgotten that this forum has become a place to express political and religious views.

I'm sure that fewer people are coming here for stock ideas, as very few people actually post them, anymore :rolleyes:

[Runner]

You've forgotten that this forum has become a place to express political and religious views.

I'm sure that fewer people are coming here for stock ideas, as very few people actually post them, anymore :rolleyes:

Peanuts you got that right and this is why I started a weather forecasting thread and also partake in the Missiles and nuclear thread!!! hehehe

[skiracer]

You've forgotten that this forum has become a place to express political and religious views.

I'm sure that fewer people are coming here for stock ideas, as very few people actually post them, anymore :rolleyes:

I think we should be able to do both. But this is supposed to be a stock orientated forum and we have fallen a long ways from that. There is never any stock talk like we used to have. Personally I miss it and am losing interest in not having it. So that I am not being hypocritical I must admit to being part of the blame as we all are it seems. What has taken place that has changed that? We used to have a great exchange of ideas and commentary.

[skiracer]

I would hang in there Lye. On the weekly chart this next wave or move up is either a 3rd wave or a 5th wave up and both are strong upward moves. And on the daily it looks like it could be just finishing a c wave down and a decent spike up could be right around the corner. One of Spike's c wave spikes. But just to show that I'm a sport I'll trade positions with you right now if you want to. It's no big deal to me because I still like the stock to make a move to 3 or 4 and certainly above 2 and I do still own it. So it's your call if you want to switch picks.

Well Lye, what do you think. The offer remains open for awhile longer. Of course it still would need the approval of El Supremo regarding the rules, of which I don't think there is one covering this type of situation, but I'm still open to the switch if you want to do it. Big difference in the percentages from minus to plus. I own them both so I wouldn't mind rooting for you either way.

[peanuts]

Week 3 - Stock Pickers Pageant
Day 2 - Interview

All contestants were asked the same question:
If you win the crown for this pageant, what is the next step you will take?

Rob- "I will donate the crown to the Burger King"
skiracer- "I will sell it and then risk it all in ca$h"
Karel- "I will evolve this winning trading style into a new style, which would then eat the old style and proclaim itself as 'the supreme style' and sell it to church groups"
spikefader- "I will draw fur on it, and make it fuzzy"
peanuts- "I will compound the gains in the yearly contest"
StkyTreat- "I will buy lunch for Warren Buffet, and wear the crown during lunch"
Lyehopper- "I've got some nice rocks that I will put it next to, and really screw with the guy's head that finds it next"
Websman- "I will incorporate the trading design into the VTP"
RL- "I will try to sell my crown on the internet"
DMK- "I will wear it everywhere I go and force people to bow to me"
IIC- "I will take pictures of myself wearing it with this cool new camera I got from Altria"
scifos- "I'd rather have a Crown Victoria"
Gatorman- "I'd rather have a Crown and Coke"
sirtuck- "I will use it as my dog's food dish"
Peter Hansen- "I will, uh, what was the question?"
riverbabe- "You don't want to know <wink>"
stenzrob- "I want a crown for last week"
mimo 100- "I will bribe Tom Cruise with it"
Gary- "I will love it, and squeeze it, and call it George"

Upcoming events are as follows:
Thursday: Evening Wear
Friday: Swimsuit

1= long
-1= short
http://img73.imageshack.us/img73/8210/011707vd1.png
closed positions:
1: peanuts - long HRT opening price Tuesday - sold @ $28.7899 Tuesday, 6.7479% gain applied to player's score
2: Websman - long HEB opening price Tuesday - sold @ $2.49 Wednesday, 6.8667% gain applied to player's score

And the judges all agree:

GOLD: peanuts 7.1879%
SILVER: Websman 6.8667%
BRONZE: Karel 5.55%

[spikefader]

Good Lord! I just noticed the Web's timely trade for HEB. That worked out nicely!

I'm surprised you didn't buy today's low! Hehehe

[Gary611]

[quote=peanuts;76647]Week 3 - Stock Pickers Pageant
Day 2 - Interview

All contestants were asked the same question:
If you win the crown for this pageant, what is the next step you will take?


Gary- "I will love it, and squeeze it, and call it George"

I Did remember someone in the shower last month named George!!!
NYUK, NYUK!!!

[stenzrob]

All contestants were asked the same question:
If you win the crown for this pageant, what is the next step you will take?

Since we are all looking to learn from one another, shouldn't this be
"...what is the next step you will take, and why? (Annotated bibliography recommended but not required)"

[skiracer]

[quote=peanuts;76647]Week 3 - Stock Pickers Pageant
Day 2 - Interview

All contestants were asked the same question:
If you win the crown for this pageant, what is the next step you will take?


Gary- "I will love it, and squeeze it, and call it George"

I Did remember someone in the shower last month named George!!!
NYUK, NYUK!!!

Was it Georgie Porgie?

[Websman]

Good Lord! I just noticed the Web's timely trade for HEB. That worked out nicely!

I'm surprised you didn't buy today's low! Hehehe


I would have but I had to work...Too bad I missed the opportunity.
but not all was bad today...I did manage to charge a scumbag for an infraction which cost him another 5 years in the slammer...Man it feels good. Aaahahahaaaa!!!

[peanuts]

Since we are all looking to learn from one another, shouldn't this be
"...what is the next step you will take, and why? (Annotated bibliography recommended but not required)"

I agree, Stenzrob.

Everyone, please explain the statements which you have made to the judges for the Interview section of the stock picking pageant. :p

As for myself... that's what I'm supposed to do

As to why I chose HRT- the sector action was very nice, and I have been noticing bullish action in the stock. Why I chose AOS is explained in detail within the Peanuts Potent Plethora of Profit thread

[dmk112]

sell CLAY buy NYX

[skiracer]

All contestants were asked the same question:
If you win the crown for this pageant, what is the next step you will take?

I would use my crown to fight world hunger, build schools in all of the 3rd world countries, eliminate aids and all other life threatening diseases, stop the Antartic and Artic ice caps from melting, help bring peace throughout the world, save the rainforests and with what is left help the Yankees get another strong starting pitcher. That is what I would do if I were to win this pageant.

[scifos]

I picked DE because it was breaking out of a decending triangle.

[JohnHenry]

Yo Peanuts

Please sell ATHR and Short NUAN...Thanks

[New-born baby]

Please put me in AOB long. thanks!

EDIT: I just saw that SKI is in AOB. Ooopppsss!
SORRY.

[New-born baby]

Short CSX for me, please.

[Lyehopper]

Well Lye, what do you think. The offer remains open for awhile longer. Of course it still would need the approval of El Supremo regarding the rules, of which I don't think there is one covering this type of situation, but I'm still open to the switch if you want to do it. Big difference in the percentages from minus to plus. I own them both so I wouldn't mind rooting for you either way.
No thanks Ski, you are trying to trick me again because you know full well that FORG will pull a HOKU tomorrow.... and gap up about 112%.

If I win the crown with FORG this week, I will donate all my winnings to AYIIS (anti Yankee immigration institute of the south). This is a great non-profit group dedicated to stopping the illegal immigration of NJ Yankees into VA.

[skiracer]

No thanks Ski, you are trying to trick me again because you know full well that FORG will pull a HOKU tomorrow.... and gap up about 112%.

If I win the crown with FORG this week, I will donate all my winnings to AYIIS (anti Yankee immigration institute of the south). This is a great non-profit group dedicated to stopping the illegal immigration of NJ Yankees into VA.

Boy I hope it does and you win by the largest margin in the history of the POTW. It doesn't look like I'm going to do it with AOB this week either. I got stopped out at 13.35 earlier today. Should have sold it when everyone else was bailing at around 14. I'm looking for a re-entry as soon as I see what's going on with it today. May not have bottomed yet but I still like it at this level of lower. Also should have sold it in the POTW but was tied up in meetings all morning and wasn't really watching it. Just got back to my screens. I hate it when business interferes with my stock trading. These people think they own you just because they pay you.

I got my green card for travelling in the south back in the early 1970's and it's grandfathered in from that date. So I can still cross the Mason-Dixon line although many northerners, especially from NJ, are not permitted access to the south. I still plan on coming down sometime and teaching the southerners the proper use of the NJ Soprano slang phrases "dee's and doe's and whatta youse up ta".

[New-born baby]

PEANUTS,
Please cover my CSX short. Thanks!

[peanuts]

PEANUTS,
Please cover my CSX short. Thanks!

Great trade, NBB! :)

[Websman]

No thanks Ski, you are trying to trick me again because you know full well that FORG will pull a HOKU tomorrow.... and gap up about 112%.

If I win the crown with FORG this week, I will donate all my winnings to AYIIS (anti Yankee immigration institute of the south). This is a great non-profit group dedicated to stopping the illegal immigration of NJ Yankees into VA.

Hang on a minute... I thought that Yankees were defined as anyone who lives north of the Alabama border?

[New-born baby]

Great trade, NBB! :)

Thanks, Peanuts. And truth is I got out of CSX profitably today, too, in real life. I didn't have to eat that trade (praise the Lord!).

[Websman]

New trade...


RMBS - short

[peanuts]

Week 3 - Stock Pickers Pageant
Day 3 - Evening Wear

All contestants were to present themselves to the judges wearing their choice of attire:

The judges were not impressed with many of the contestants attire, except for the best ones of this section- Stkytreat, wearing neon NUAN shorts brought the crowd and the judges to their feet with the best in show. Second place went to riverbabe with a beautiful forest green gown. And third went to a contestant that tried to grab another contestant's wardrobe before he realized what was going on- a quick change got New-born baby 3rd place for this section of the pageant... nice choo-choo PJ's, dude

Lyehopper streaked across the stage with a FORG and received more negative points. Didn't your mother ever tell you to never run with forgs?
Gatorman's aligator-skin boots did not sit well with the PETA judges
Skiracer should reconsider wearing Mr. Market's clothing after he throws it in the trash
and Peter Hansen may as well become a spokesman for Hansen Energy Drinks when he walks around in his Monster suit

Upcoming events are as follows:
Friday: Swimsuit

1= long
-1= short
http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/8383/011807jt5.png
closed positions:
1: peanuts - long HRT opening price Tuesday - closed @ $28.7899 Tuesday, 6.7479% gain applied to player's score
2: Websman - long HEB opening price Tuesday - closed @ $2.49 Wednesday, 6.8667% gain applied to player's score
3: dmk112 - long CLAY opening price Tuesday - closed @ 17.17 Thursday, 6.1236% loss applied to player's score
4: StkyTreat - ATHR long opening price Tuesday - closed @ 23.54 Thursday, 4.1141% loss applied to player's score
5: New-born baby - CSX short 12:36 Thursday - closed @ 35.55 Thursday, 1.6644% gain applied to player's score

Adding the totals for the 3 sections so far concluded, gives us our leaderboard for the pageant:

GOLD: Websman 6.8667%
SILVER: peanuts 6.6379%
BRONZE: spikefader 4.98%

[Lyehopper]

Hang on a minute... I thought that Yankees were defined as anyone who lives north of the Alabama border?
No Webs, you got it all wrong.... Yankees actually live south of the Georgia border and north of the VA border.... You, my Vulcan bud, might as well live in NJ yourself dude!

[skiracer]

No Webs, you got it all wrong.... Yankees actually live south of the Georgia border and north of the VA border.... You, my Vulcan bud, might as well live in NJ yourself dude!

Whoa, just wait a minute. We don't want him up here in NJ. Lock up the Florida state lines. ;)

[stenzrob]

I concur with ski. Joisey is crowded enough already.
On the POTW, EXP was nice enough to make the effort to bring me back (slightly) above water for the week. And speaking of water, I am so looking forward to the swimsuit competition!

regards ... stenz

[peanuts]

After the poor showing yesterday for the evening wear, much of the audience left. They were not too enthusiastic to see Friday's swimsuit section of the pageant. Those who left did not miss much. The judges were squirming in their seats.

Boos were heard from the crowd when Lyehopper stepped out wearing scuba gear. dmk112 wore a thong and one judge puked. Skiracer found some of Mr. Market's old trunks and tried to keep them around his waist as he walked the catwalk, but when he did his turn, the crowd learned why Mr Market threw out those AOB trunks... there's a big hole in it!

The winners for the swimsuit part of the pageant were:
3rd- sirtuck, wearing VHS tape, and that's it
2nd- Karel, wearing Neanderthal wolf-skin bottoms
1st- stenzrob, wearing nothing at all but the bald eagle!

After the judges tallied the scores from each section of the contest, the top 3 for the pageant were chosen from the motley mix. And the winners are... wait, what's this? It looks like a tie for 2nd and 3rd! Peanuts and Websman have both had great scores, but Websman barely gets the silver trophy. Peanuts was beaten by 8/100ths of a percentage point to take the bronze trophy. And the winner, by a margin of only 1/10th of percentage point issssssssssssssssssss..................... SPIKEFADER!!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations, Spike... you are the stock picking pageant winner.

http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/4150/011907eowbm8.png

GOLD: SPIKEFADER
SILVER: WEBSMAN
BRONZE: PEANUTS

LINK (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showpost.php?p=75790&postcount=10018) to the yearly tracking results

It is kindly requested that the top 3 players explain why they chose to play the POTW in the manner which they have.

[Karel]

Being fourth is boring. Congratulations, Spike, Webs, and our glorious scorekeeper Peanuts. At least I got a second place in something. Proud to be evolved! (Though not necessarily from Neanderthals.)

Regards,

Karel

[stenzrob]

I will take IMOS long for next week. Posted briefly about it on my thread earlier in the week. Will explain more if I finish in the top three next week.

[New-born baby]

Congrats to Spike, Webs, and Peanuts, as well as all of those in the green this week. Lookout next week!

Start me off in CA$$$H money, please.

[Websman]

STEC - long
$$$

[peanuts]

It is kindly requested that the top 3 players explain why they chose to play the POTW in the manner which they have.

To open the week, I chose HRT, a healthcare related stock that has been showing alot of bullish price action over the last few months. The sector was improving and I really like the intraday set-up with HRT leading into the week. This chart explains what I was looking at. The black vertical line is the opening of trading for the week:

http://img334.imageshack.us/img334/7971/hrt011906intraday2pf.png

Once I sold HRT, I moved to being long on AOS. I like this company's fundamentals and I knew that they would report earnings on Monday, Jan 22. I was hoping for some type of price appreciation going into the report, but AOS did not perform very well after I chose it... basically traded flat. The following link will direct you to some of my posts already made regarding AOS: LINK (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showpost.php?p=75914&postcount=969)

So that's why I played last week the way that I did...

[Lyehopper]

Peanuts.... FORG (long) for me please....

[Gatorman]

Will take MOT long.

[spikefader]

Peanuts,

HRT was a solid pick, dude. I note this week it is on the Voodootrader Top 100 (http://www.chart.nu/) and just made my Spike's 8 List (http://www.technicaltrades.net/spikes-8/) this weekend! :eek:

As for my own POTW picks lately (and Scuttlebutt (http://technicaltrades.net/Scuttlebutt/viewforum.php?f=3) picks too) I've just been selecting the best looking candidates from my list of 8, which is basically a trend-spotting method. It's found a couple of real gems lately, such as JST +56% in 13 days and FTGX +40% in 15 days.

And for this week's pick I'm going long PNCL.

Good luck y'all.

[billyjoe]

Hello everyone, Still in the hospital.Willbe back later. Nurse wants me to eat supper.------------billyjoe

[New-born baby]

Hello everyone, Still in the hospital.Willbe back later. Nurse wants me to eat supper.------------billyjoe

BillyJoe,
I knew that all that snow shoveling would wreck your back. I tried to warn ya. Now it looks like you'll be caged up for awhile. We miss you around here. Get better, will ya?

[JohnHenry]

Congrats to the top three.

Peanuts please start me with CA$H money...thanks.

BillyJoe, hope you are doing well.

[mimo_100]

ATRI Long to start the week

Thanks to everyone who explained how they came up with their picks. Best wishes and good health to everyone.

[IIC]

Hello everyone, Still in the hospital.Willbe back later. Nurse wants me to eat supper.------------billyjoe


Congrats to Spike, Webs and Peanuts.

Billy, take care...Hope you get back on your feet soon...Doug

[peanuts]

billyjoe, don't do anything to that nice nurse that I wouldn't do... everything else is fair game :p Get better soon. Your cash play isn't so bad.

For myself, I will start this week in CA$H

[sirtuck]

long bhp sirtuck

[IIC]

Peanuts...pls start me in ca$h...IIC

[scifos]

Ca$H please.

[Peter Hansen]

SNP LONG for me ......Thanx!

[Rob]

Congratulations to Spikefader, Websman and Peanuts. Nicely done!

For this week: ImClone (IMCL) reports earnings Thursday morning. If they report the expected 43¢ per share, the P/E (based on the current price of 29.95) will drop from 11.3 to 10.22. Last quarter they beat the 45¢ consensus number by 20¢, and the stock price is still at about the same level as then, even though they recently reported positive results in the stage III clinical trial for use of Erbitux in 1st-line treatment of colorectal cancer. I'm not expecting anything resembling a bottle rocket, but the upside potential vs. downside risk at this point is ridiculously lop-sided in my opinion.

IMCL long!

[Karel]

PCCC is still on my screen, on the top even, so I'll take it long again for the week.

Regards,

Karel

[riverbabe]

Hi Peanuts,

That great (but volatile) Pittsburgh titanium company ATI reports Wed. AM.

Long for me to start with, please. River

[skiracer]

AOB - long
Congrats on another win Spike. Nice plays Webs and Peanuts. Thank God Spike came thru. Anybody except Webs and Peanuts.

[jiesen]

give me AMLN long, please!

[peanuts]

I'm going to short PKX

[IIC]

PRFT long...I actually bot it...IIC

[peanuts]

Current Player Holdings

billyjoe............CA$H (carved in stone until Feb 2)
dmk112...........???
Gary611..........???
Gatorman........MOT long opening price first trading day
IIC.................PRFT long 10:13 Monday
jiesen..............AMLN long 10:08 Monday
Karel...............PCCC long opening price first trading day
Lyehopper........FORG long opening price first trading day
mimo 100.........ATRI long opening price first trading day
New-born baby..CA$H
peanuts...........PKX short 10:10 Monday
Peter Hansen....SNP long opening price first trading day
riverbabe..........ATI long opening price first trading day
RL...................???
Rob.................IMCL long opening price first trading day
scifos..............CA$H
skiracer...........AOB long opening price first trading day
sirtuck.............BHP long opening price first trading day
spikefader........PNCL long opening price first trading day
stenzrob..........IMOS long opening price first trading day
StkyTreat........CA$H
Websman.........STEC long opening price first trading day

New entrants, dmk112, Gary 611, and RL... you have until 3:59 today to enter your picks into the POTW contest

[jiesen]

and congrats to Spike, Webs, and Peanuts for last week! You are all HUGE!!!

[RL]

Peanuts please put me In SVNT-LONG thanks:)

[peanuts]

Week 4 - The Burning Building
Day 1 - The fire begins

OK, here's this week's challenge: The building is on fire! All players are on the 5th floor and need to make their way through the door before both the building, and themselves are consumed.

Lyehopper gets off to an early lead. He ran from his room holding a FORG after he smelled smoke but then remembered that he was not cooking anything. Lets hope he doesn't trip as he runs. RL heard Lyehopper running down the hallway and then smelled the smoke. He's closely behind Lyehopper, clutching a sixer in one hand and his darts in the other. Jiesen also heard the ruckus caused by Lyehopper, but he can't stop screaming and chasing after his pet mice- he's still in his room. Skiracer noticed how warm he was getting, so he decided to go for a walk. We're not sure if he knows whether the building is on fire, or not. It seems that Karel is pulling meat from the ice-box and is getting ready for the Bar-B-Que. Riverbabe is putting on make-up. Gatorman has not gotten out of bed, yet. Peter Hansen is pounding on doors, but Rob is still on the pot- "I'll get out in good time," he says, "some things shouldn't be rushed"

1= long
-1= short
http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/6852/0122074ty.png
closed positions:
none

And the leaders are:

GOLD: Lyehopper 2.19%
SILVER: RL 1.38%
BRONZE: skiracer 0.80%

[skiracer]

I'd like to see you go all the way Lye. I would gladly settle for second with AOB.

[scifos]

Week 4 - The Burning Building
Day 1 - The fire begins

OK, here's this week's challenge: The building is on fire! All players are on the 5th floor and need to make their way through the door before both the building, and themselves are consumed.

Lyehopper gets off to an early lead. He ran from his room holding a FORG after he smelled smoke but then remembered that he was not cooking anything. Lets hope he doesn't trip as he runs. RL heard Lyehopper running down the hallway and then smelled the smoke. He's closely behind Lyehopper, clutching a sixer in one hand and his darts in the other. Jiesen also heard the ruckus caused by Lyehopper, but he can't stop screaming and chasing after his pet mice- he's still in his room. Skiracer noticed how warm he was getting, so he decided to go for a walk. We're not sure if he knows whether the building is on fire, or not. It seems that Karel is pulling meat from the ice-box and is getting ready for the Bar-B-Que. Riverbabe is putting on make-up. Gatorman has not gotten out of bed, yet. Peter Hansen is pounding on doors, but Rob is still on the pot- "I'll get out in good time," he says, "some things shouldn't be rushed"



Good thing I wasn't even in the building.

[Websman]

AOB - long
Congrats on another win Spike. Nice plays Webs and Peanuts. Thank God Spike came thru. Anybody except Webs and Peanuts.

Hey!!! I resemble that comment!

[skiracer]

Hey!!! I resemble that comment!

Jeez, I was on the edge of my seat all week. :cool:

[riverbabe]

Wasn't my fault! While I was putting on my makeup, the darned fire gapped up the stairwell right at the open!

[Gatorman]

Sell MOT. Buy SFN long.

[peanuts]

Just a heads-up:

I'll be on the slopes at Seven Springs when the market closes, so today's results and write-up will be considerably late. deal with it. :cramersmiley:

[RL]

Just to up date you on my daughters condition.Sorry I have not let those who were Interested not know what was taking place. This has taken up much of my time, but happy to help her all I can. The broken bones have all healed satisfactory but she Is just starting to walk a little with a walker. The pregnancy has not helped, the baby Is fine and will be born on March 20th. Thanks to all who Prayed for her, I'm a believer. We held a benefit for her as she will not be able to return to work for maybe two years and I could not afford her mortgage we raised enough to pay It untill she can return to work. Thanks again for your prayers:):):)

[IIC]

Just to up date you on my daughters condition.Sorry I have not let those who were Interested not know what was taking place. This has taken up much of my time, but happy to help her all I can. The broken bones have all healed satisfactory but she Is just starting to walk a little with a walker. The pregnancy has not helped, the baby Is fine and will be born on March 20th. Thanks to all who Prayed for her, I'm a believer. We held a benefit for her as she will not be able to return to work for maybe two years and I could not afford her mortgage we raised enough to pay It untill she can return to work. Thanks again for your prayers:):):)


Thank You for the update...Best, Doug

[New-born baby]

COSI long for me, please.

[peanuts]

Week 4 - The Burning Building
Day 2 - Somebody call the fire department!

Woah :eek: now that everyone is awake and aware that the building is on fire, we're starting to see some more action. Lyehopper made it all the way to the 4th floor, but abruptly turned around when he began to think that he forgot something. RL, who was close behind Lye at the start is now on his own, alone on the staircase, holding his darts in one hand and a fiver in the other. Gatorman woke up and quickly changed clothes, he's heading in the right direction, now. Karel, deciding that the Bar-B-Que might be better outside, grabs his meats and sprints for the exit. He is now in the lead! Mimo 100 is closing the space behind him. The meat smells delicious. Jiesen still can't find Minnie and continues to scream every once in a while. New-born baby saw a chance to get to the 4th floor before many others. He's poised to take the lead from Karel if he could just get up and run instead of crawling. Sirtuck ran into the shower fully clothed and then into the hallway, soaking wet and ready for the mad dash to the door. It has been rumored that peanuts is in his room stuffing his pockets with gold before he makes for the door, we'll see whether peanuts can get out without being roasted. IIC grabbed his camera; he's planning to sell the pictures of this drama to the newspaper for some lunch money. Riverbabe is finally ready and just opened her door. Let's hope she didn't forget anything. Rob is reading the sports section now.

1= long
-1= short
http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/3858/0123072iv.png
closed positions:
1: Gatorman - MOT long Monday @ $19.38, closed Tuesday @ $18.49, 4.5924% loss applied to player's score

And the leaders are:

GOLD: Karel 3.64%
SILVER: sirtuck 2.27%
BRONZE: mimo 100 1.65%

[jiesen]

Just to up date you on my daughters condition.Sorry I have not let those who were Interested not know what was taking place. This has taken up much of my time, but happy to help her all I can. The broken bones have all healed satisfactory but she Is just starting to walk a little with a walker. The pregnancy has not helped, the baby Is fine and will be born on March 20th. Thanks to all who Prayed for her, I'm a believer. We held a benefit for her as she will not be able to return to work for maybe two years and I could not afford her mortgage we raised enough to pay It untill she can return to work. Thanks again for your prayers:):):)

Thanks for letting us know about your daughter's recovery, RL. I'm so glad to hear she's doing so much better now, and that the baby is doing well, too. She's very lucky to have someone like you to look after her, and help her through this terrible ordeal.

[skiracer]

Ray,
Sounds like she was really banged up pretty bad. Glad that she is coming around and the baby is going to be fine. Were praying for her complete recovery. Keep believing in Jesus and that everything is going to turn out fine and it will.

[peanuts]

Thanks for letting us know about your daughter's recovery, RL. I'm so glad to hear she's doing so much better now, and that the baby is doing well, too. She's very lucky to have someone like you to look after her, and help her through this terrible ordeal.

I echo these sentiments, Ray. Next time that you need to raise money, let me know. I'd like to help.

[New-born baby]

Sell my COSI, please.

[peanuts]

covering my lousy PKX short and going long on GMKT

[stenzrob]

My pick LAST week was EXP, looks like it would have been a good pick this week instead. But, I'm liking the way my pick this week (IMOS) is shaping up, too. I'll stick with it.

regards ... stenz

[peanuts]

Week 4 - The Burning Building
Day 3 - 5th floor is gone!

Darts in one hand and a three-er in the other, RL gains the lead by taking a quick slug and jumping right through some flames. When she says that she's ready, she means it; riverbabe shoots past the rest of the players looking ready for a hot date. Sirtuck loses a little ground, but remains wet and safely ahead of the rest. Lyehopper remembered that he didn't forget anything and went back down the stairwell, still holding the FORG. Peanuts got roasted in his shorts and starting yelling something in Korean... things seem to be picking up now. Karel dropped some steaks and had to pause to gather them. For the most part, all the players seem to be on their way safely out the door. There are a few stragglers, and we all hope that they make it out alive. Jiesen may have to give up the search for Minnie if he's gonna make it, and Rob might have to do a courtesy flush, so he doesn't stink up the joint. Wait, hey, who forgot about Spike? Yo dude! The building is about to burn down!

1= long
-1= short
http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/7370/0124071ni.png
closed positions:
1: Gatorman - MOT long Monday @ $19.38, closed Tuesday @ $18.49, 4.5924% loss applied to player's score
2: New-born baby - COSI long Tuesday @ $5.93, closed Wednesday @ 6.10, 2.8668% gain applied to player's score
3: peanuts - PKX short Monday @ 84.75, closed Wednesday @ 86.98, 2.6313% loss applied to player's score

And the leaders are:

GOLD: RL 6.74%
SILVER: riverbabe 5.29%
BRONZE: sirtuck 3.17%

[New-born baby]

Peanuts:
I'll take HRT long right here, please.

[peanuts]

Week 4 - The Burning Building
Day 4 - a blazing inferno

This sucker is burning faster than we all thought. RL, riverbabe, and skiracer have all teamed up and are closest to the door. That threesome is seeing some wild action! New-born baby is standing now, and may go from crawling all the way to running in one day. He'll be one to watch. Without going into too much detail, Rob is stuck on the pot. It'll take a miracle, folks, for him to make it out alive. Karel said the heck with it, and he's gonna cook the meat, right now. Lyehopper, still holding his FORG, is setting places at the table for Websman, Spikefader, Rob (if he can make it), Peanuts, Peter Hansen, Jiesen, and Gatorman. Say, Karel, do you have anything to go with all that meat? Maybe a beer or something? Hey, if we can catch up with RL...

1= long
-1= short
http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/6018/0125071dg.png
closed positions:
1: Gatorman - MOT long Monday @ $19.38, closed Tuesday @ $18.49, 4.5924% loss applied to player's score
2: New-born baby - COSI long Tuesday @ $5.93, closed Wednesday @ 6.10, 2.8668% gain applied to player's score
3: peanuts - PKX short Monday @ 84.75, closed Wednesday @ 86.98, 2.6313% loss applied to player's score

And the leaders are:

GOLD: RL 3.17%
SILVER: skiracer 3.12%
BRONZE: riverbabe 3.05%

[Karel]

[...] Say, Karel, do you have anything to go with all that meat? Maybe a beer or something? [...]
I should hope so. I am a vegetarian. But beer is good, too.

Regards,

Karel

[stenzrob]

Peanuts, I have a couple of questions/suggestions about rules and results tracking. These are just for consideration to enhance realism - I am perfectly content to play by the rules.

When a player closes one position and opens another, and the footnote says "x.xx% gain applied to score", do you add or compound. For example, New-born baby this week has a 2.8668% gain and a 0.14% gain (so far). Adding the two gives 3.0068%. Compounding 1.028668 x 1.0014 gives 3.0108%. It's not going to make much difference, I'm just wondering.

The rule that if you don't make a pick for the week, you lose 3% seems harsh to me. Don't know about anyone else, but I occasionally travel for a few weeks at a time. Why wouldn't this be the same as being in $CASH ?

We know that stocks can open up/down/etc. on any given Monday. Could there be an option to continue to hold a position and instead of "buying" it again fresh at the Monday open, the purchase price for that week is considered to be Friday's close. For example, Rob picked IMCL two weeks in a row. Last Friday, it closed just under $30, and then opened on Monday at $30.02. Not that it's going to help Rob much in this case, but there is the possibility that some more extreme example may arise sometime.

I can't make out much of anything on the yearly performance chart due to the dark red background.

Again, these are just for consideration. I'm very appreciative of the effort you put into this, and love the commentary.

regards ... stenz

[stenzrob]

Hey Lye,
I was looking back on the stenzrob thread to see what screen parameters I was using a few years ago, and ran across a link on post #39 there to a screener that shows FORG as a candidate. I have not investigated any of the other screen results, or even FORG much. But, if you like FORG, there may be some others there that you might want to look into.

[peanuts]

Peanuts, I have a couple of questions/suggestions about rules and results tracking. These are just for consideration to enhance realism - I am perfectly content to play by the rules.

This is a "peoples contest." If the majority decide on a rule change, then I will abide. I realize that your absence may have excluded your ideas prior to the start of this contest at the beginning of this year, but I have already had the rules up for a vote.

When a player closes one position and opens another, and the footnote says "x.xx% gain applied to score", do you add or compound. For example, New-born baby this week has a 2.8668% gain and a 0.14% gain (so far). Adding the two gives 3.0068%. Compounding 1.028668 x 1.0014 gives 3.0108%. It's not going to make much difference, I'm just wondering.

At the end of the week, the score for each player is the sum of the fractional gains made throughout the week.

There is a separation of the yearly contest and the POTW contest. The rules state that the 2 percentage gains are added together to form the "score" for the POTW. This is as per the old rules which were passed on to me. This "score" is then converted to the weekly percentage gain for the yearly contest, which is the newly added feature for this thread.

The rule that if you don't make a pick for the week, you lose 3% seems harsh to me. Don't know about anyone else, but I occasionally travel for a few weeks at a time. Why wouldn't this be the same as being in $CASH ?

As per rule #12 (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showpost.php?p=75383&postcount=9927), you are permitted to carve your pick in stone for a set period of time if you know that you will be unable to post to the thread. This rule is not to be used unless extenuating circumstances (ie hospitalization or imprisonment) arrise which force you to not participate. dmk112 and Gary611 lose 3% this week because they didn't care enough to participate. That's harsh :cramersmiley:

We know that stocks can open up/down/etc. on any given Monday. Could there be an option to continue to hold a position and instead of "buying" it again fresh at the Monday open, the purchase price for that week is considered to be Friday's close. For example, Rob picked IMCL two weeks in a row. Last Friday, it closed just under $30, and then opened on Monday at $30.02. Not that it's going to help Rob much in this case, but there is the possibility that some more extreme example may arise sometime.

You can place your pick any time prior to the closing bell on the first day of the week, or choose CA$H and you're safe. The price you get is the first tick on the minute after your post, no matter how good or bad it turns out to be when the position is closed. :)

This is a weekly contest, contained within a yearly contest. I have thought about your idea in depth before you even asked it, but I decided then that the Pick Of The Week came before the yearly contest, and the preceeding rules and general theme of this thread should remain the same, as much as possible. Therefore, I chose to keep it centered around the rules which were already established. If the consensus vote of the participants is in agreement to change the method of weekly scoring, then it will switch to a compounding weekly return, rather than a simple sum of fractions. The issue is now for vote.

This player votes "no change"

I can't make out much of anything on the yearly performance chart due to the dark red background.

OK, I need a suggestion, because I have no problem seeing the different colors with my screen settings (I did not take the brown acid :D ) Is there anyone else who cannot see the lines on this chart:

http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/5673/yearlychartsg1.png

Again, these are just for consideration. I'm very appreciative of the effort you put into this, and love the commentary.

regards ... stenz

stenzrob,

Thank you for the feedback. I really mean it. :) I'm glad that you like the commentary. If you (or anyone else) has ideas for the weekly theme, please send them to me. Eventually, I'll run out of ideas, and we can have only so many horse races and burning buildings before everyone gets bored. Give me your ideas, and I'll make them reality :cool:

[skiracer]

I can't make out the numbers and am not sure I understand the order of standings. Could you explain. Isn't there a clearer way of showing the standings in the overall positioning over the course of each successive weeks play. Is this chart an order of standings to date?

[New-born baby]

I personally think Peanuts has done a great job, and I am thankful for how he is doing it. I myself don't want to impose any changes on someone who is doing all the work, and doing it so well. The only suggestion I would make is that it would be easier to read the scoreboard if the highest gainers for the week were listed in descending order. Otherwise I am quite satisfied at the way the contest is being conducted. Thank you Peanuts!

[skiracer]

I personally think Peanuts has done a great job, and I am thankful for how he is doing it. I myself don't want to impose any changes on someone who is doing all the work, and doing it so well. The only suggestion I would make is that it would be easier to read the scoreboard if the highest gainers for the week were listed in descending order. Otherwise I am quite satisfied at the way the contest is being conducted. Thank you Peanuts!

I have to agree with you NB. Peanuts is doing a great job and his imaginative commentary keeps it interesting even moreso. But just because he has taken on the responsibility of handling the job doesn't mean he is above anyone suggesting how something might be done better or questioning why something couldn't be done to make it easier to understand. I think it would be much better to have the daily order of standing sorted in either ascending or descending numerical order rather than randomly. Also on both the yearly graph and charts the numbers are very hard to make out. It's not like someone is saying, hey Peanuts you stupid shit make the graph and charts a little easier to read please, because that would be wrong in doing so since he is doing such a great job otherwise. But posing a positive suggestion or question should never be taken in a negative vein. After all what are we a bunch of barbarians that we cannot take or appreciate positive interaction from the participants.

[peanuts]

I can't make out the numbers and am not sure I understand the order of standings. Could you explain. Isn't there a clearer way of showing the standings in the overall positioning over the course of each successive weeks play. Is this chart an order of standings to date?

Which numbers can't you read?

"order of standings" what do you mean?

The chart is a chart, I'm not sure if I can explain it any more. Find your color, follow the line, that's where you are compared to the rest of the crowd. Your color will not change throughout the year, and as the year goes on the group should become more dispersed. Right now, its like a beginning of a marathon everyone is on top of one another.

[peanuts]

At the end of the week, the scorecard is sorted from best score to lowest score. During the week, the daily scorecard is sorted alphabetically, due to the ease of using Yahoo Finance to track the player's scores.

I can sort the daily scorecard by descending scores, if the player's consensus is for me to do that. I'll just let you all know now, that by doing this, I will have to spend more time each day constructing the scorecard than what I generally care to do. But I love you all and will sacrifice my time to make this contest better for you.

[skiracer]

At the end of the week, the scorecard is sorted from best score to lowest score. During the week, the daily scorecard is sorted alphabetically, due to the ease of using Yahoo Finance to track the player's scores.

I can sort the daily scorecard by descending scores, if the player's consensus is for me to do that. I'll just let you all know now, that by doing this, I will have to spend more time each day constructing the scorecard than what I generally care to do. But I love you all and will sacrifice my time to make this contest better for you.

Having handled the game myself on a few occassions I know how much time it takes to keep track of it but everyone who ever took care of it always kept the order of finish for each day in descending order. 1st at the top and on down to last at the bottom. You are truly a martyr to sacrifice your life and time for all of us. You know that time is the only non-replenishable commodity so this would truly be a gigantic sacrifice on your part. We all own you a great debt of gratitude. Perhaps one of the POTW participants could find some woman they know who would be willing to maybe take a closer look at you and even go out with you. Someone who has some fettish for martyrs would be a good fit. Of course you would have to pay for her airfare to bring her into the Pittsburg area. But even if you decide or the participants decide that it isn't important to have any order of daily finish and it doesn't get done you are still doing a great job for just taking the responsibilty of doing it. I personally love you and if I we were both gay I would consider dating you.

[riverbabe]

Sell ATI now please.

[riverbabe]

Buy SU please.

[IIC]

out PRFT....in ZANE long...IIC

[spikefader]

Peanuts just mentioned a stock to me in my trading room that I will play long here, so credit to him if I get back green today.

Close out PNCL and long OFI thanks peanuts! I think it's worth a couple % risk for the 5th!

[IIC]

out PRFT....in ZANE long...IIC

Doesn't look like I'm gonna win.

In real life I traded this sucker 6x today

-.20
+.03
+.13
-.04
+.05
+.02

[let-it-ride]

Hi Peanuts,

Going with ICOC long next week.

[peanuts]

Week 4 - The Burning Building
Day 5 - a solemn ending

The door-pounding couldn't do it, the fire whistles didn't matter (or was that Jiesen screaming), not even the sweet smell of riverbabe's perfume could get all of the players out of the building before it collapsed in a flaming ball of fire. Lyehopper, feeling sorry that Rob was missing out on Karel's BBQ, went back for him, but neither was seen again. Lyehopper was still holding that FORG when he left us. Jiesen finally found Minnie in a trap and decided to add her to the BBQ, the thing is, as soon as he sat down next to Peter Hansen, Peanuts, Karel, Gatorman, Spikefader, and New-born baby to eat their meal, the building came down on top of them. It was their last supper. Trying to gain a great vantage point for some excellent camera shots, IIC climbed to the roof-top for the best angle. It's too bad that the camera was lost along with him... there would have been some awesome pictures on that film.

It was not all bad news at this 5 Alarm Fire. We had a few survivors. RL, Websman, skiracer, and sirtuck all get out alive. Scifos and StkyTreat were visiting billyjoe in the hospital, so they were safe all along. But there were a few players that not only got out alive, but were able to save a good portion of their wealth while doing so. Stenzrob kept pushing on, saying over and over again what sounded like, "I must, I must," but what he was really saying was, "IMOS IMOS" He must not be a Stern fan. He was the third player out of the building. Mimo 100 hardly moved at all the whole time, but was able to move enough to wiggle out right behind the one with a hot date- Riverbabe, who at first was late to get out of her room because she was putting on make-up for her hot date, but then swept past the rest of the players. In the end we learned why she was moving so fast when she was finally ready- she had a date with a man named SU. Have a great one, Riverbabe! Congrats on bagging the guy and the winning spot for the week! I guess you're going back to his place tonight...

http://www.fiftiesweb.com/johnny-cash.jpg

http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/8296/012607eowth2.png

GOLD: RIVERBABE
SILVER: MIMO 100
BRONZE: STENZROB

LINK (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showpost.php?p=75790&postcount=10018) to the yearly tracking results

It is kindly requested that the top 3 players explain why they chose to play the POTW in the manner which they have.

[Gary611]

I will try to get more involved as some free time allows, youse guyz are HUGE!!!!!!!

I'll go with my only holding: THI You can't miss when you go to Timmys!!

Donuts to dollars!!

[spikefader]

lol great write-up dude!

Congrats to Riverbabe! And mimo and stenz.

[New-born baby]

well, I could kick myself for turning a 3% winner into a 3% loser. I was gone all day, but I thought, HRT is at support, so I'll buy some here and let it pop up 2-3%, and I'll have had a nice week. DOH!

Oh well; it wasn't real money this time.

Congrats to all the greenies.

Peanuts: start me off in CA$$$$$H money, please.

[jiesen]

Congrats on the win, Riverbabe! And nice job Mimo and Stenz for the Silver and Bronze.

Thanks for running the contest, Peanuts, you're doing an amazing job! Loved the commentary this week!;)
Please start me off in $$CASH$$ for next week.

[skiracer]

Congrats River, Mimo, and Stenz. A bad week for the plus side but you guys perservered. Good show. Great running commentary all week Peanuts. It certainly makes it that much more interesting.

FORG - long please Peanuts and only if Lye has had enough of it and doesn't want to try it another week.

[peanuts]

Thank you everyone for the kind words.

I will try to sort the daily scorecard for the players, from now on.

For next week, I will begin with CA$H

Welcome to our newest participant and recent member, let-it-ride. Don't let these guys fool you, they're all pushovers ;)

[riverbabe]

I can't believe I actually won for the very first time! I was beginning to believe I would always be the bridesmaid and never the bride. Nevertheless, contratulations to Mimo & Stenz, and RL and Skiracer for a great contest. I almost blew it by making a late trade into SU, hoping to gain an extra few points, which proved to be a disaster because it went down down down from from there.

I am using the POTW as a public proving ground for strategy, whether right or wrong, because it makes me pubically accountable for my decisions. I have so far learned never to bet against any gaming stock regardless of the chart or the market. I have also learned to stick by the winner and don't get out too soon. If I had stuck with ATI for a while longer today, I could have gained another percentage point. But, it's all a game, after all, and a huge bet. Personally, I made a 7.5% profit on ATI this week, but could potentially have done better.

ATI is a steel and titanium stock that forecast huge fourth quarter earnings and reported on Wednesday. The TA showed a double bottom with a big potential for a breakout that did occur. ATI is a very volatile stock, but I made a bet on it, and it came through. I might consider reinvesting in it in the near future on a pull back. Riverbabe

[skiracer]

It always feels good to win your first one and break the ice. I'm betting there will be more winning weeks in the future for you River.

[IIC]

Hi Peanuts,

Going with ICOC long next week.


Welcome...Mind telling us why you like it?

I bot it in May 5x avg. 6.01...held it all the way down...Sold about 30% at 7.06, 20% at 6.15 and about 30% in the 5.70's...Still have about 20% of the original buys...thx...Doug(IIC)

PS: Congrats River, Mimo, and Stenz...I tried a last minute push do or die...Guess I died

[Lyehopper]

Congrats River, Mimo, and Stenz. A bad week for the plus side but you guys perservered. Good show. Great running commentary all week Peanuts. It certainly makes it that much more interesting.

FORG - long please Peanuts and only if Lye has had enough of it and doesn't want to try it another week.
Well, actually I was going to play it again.

[skiracer]

Well, actually I was going to play it again.

No problemo Lye. If you want it you got it. I can make another pick.
Peanuts, take me out of FORG and give it to Lye. I'll take AOB - long again this week. Thanks. I hope you win by a 30% margin. I like it for a move up this week.

[Karel]

River, congratulations! I didn't check in between, but my record low win (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=75049) is a goner.

Regards,

Karel

[stenzrob]

Congrats to riverbabe on a great pick and a great week, also to mimo! I felt lucky to just get out of the burning building alive. It helped to concentrate on watching riverbabe running away in front of me. <insert obscure reference to Trace Adkins song here> Again, many thanks to peanuts for tracking & commentating.

My pick was IMOS for which I have posted a bit more info on the stenz thread. I see it as undervalued (by Yahoo data: PEG=0.15, price/sales=0.87, price/book=1.24), profitable with good growth, and recently raised estimates. Technically, it was moving up from a double bottom on strong volume before increasing guidance, and has been moving toward the top of a 2+1/2 year trading range on consistently strong volume.

[scifos]

I'll take WAG long. Thanks.

[spikefader]

River, congratulations! I didn't check in between, but my record low win (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=75049) is a goner.

Regards,

KarelThanks for the link back Karel. DMK's mulitple big winners on that performance list is HUUUUGEE!! Good job, dude!

[Gatorman]

Will take SFN long again for this week.

[sirtuck]

Sirtuck picks ABB long for next week, Congrat to riverbabe.

[JohnHenry]

Hi Peanuts

Please start me out with CA$H....Thanks

[skiracer]

Here's what I like about FORG this week. Lye's got it and I think it makes it's move this week. Any feedback on my take is welcome please. I own a nice chunk but this looks like a nice area to buy it. After looking at the chart a bit more there is another approach to the wave count that could hold water. On the weekly you could start the 1st wave at the .41 level and count from there. That would give a 5th wave up which is normally as strong as the 3rd wave and sometimes stronger. Either way, whether it be a 3rd or 5th wave it looks good here.

http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/3668/forgde2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/1787/forg2ar9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[IIC]

Let's look for MOT to keep falling off a cliff...I'll take MOT short at the open...thx...IIC

[skiracer]

I like AOB this week. Here's why. I also own it.

http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/7757/aobsu6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Websman]

RWC - long

[IIC]

I like AOB this week. Here's why. I also own it.

http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/7757/aobsu6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Geez...I thought you liked it since it has been in the IIC 100 Top 10 since November 20th

[IIC]

Speaking of the IIC 100...Where's Alice???...She had CHINA pegged back in November...It has been a top the IIC 100 almost every week this year...Had me fooled back in November...Great Call Alice

[skiracer]

Geez...I thought you liked it since it has been in the IIC 100 Top 10 since November 20th

Sorry, but I wouldn't know. I never look at the IIC 100 thread.

[Peter Hansen]

OFC LONG Thanx!

[spikefader]

NEXC long for me, thanks peanuts! Good luck all.

[stenzrob]

I will take IMOS long again - for the same reasons as last week.

regards ... stenz

[Rob]

I'd love to to take IMCL again ... I really, really would. But I will not, 'cause Google reports this week, and I've gotta go with Google.


GOOG long!

[let-it-ride]

IIC: Welcome...Mind telling us why you like it?

I bot it in May 5x avg. 6.01...held it all the way down...Sold about 30% at 7.06, 20% at 6.15 and about 30% in the 5.70's...Still have about 20% of the original buys...thx...Doug(IIC)

PS: Congrats River, Mimo, and Stenz...I tried a last minute push do or die...Guess I died

Hi IIC,

First I need to let you know that I’m pretty much a position trader. I buy stocks anywhere from 2 to 6 weeks before an earnings announcement. I trade based on a lot of factors and it would take me awhile to list out all of them so I tell you why I like ICOC for a position trade.

1. ICOC fundamentals. 22% revenue growth 4th quarter YOY. Operating income up 120% YOY. ICOC repurchased 85% of preferred stock and will retire it. Bayshore compounding plant went online mid-September 06. Bottom line: decent fundamentals.
2. So why is ICOC’s price dropping? Decreasing demand, decreasing resin pricing and their business is cyclical.
3. Why am I buying now for a position trade? Earnings announcement is 9 days away. ICOC has good fundamentals. Traders may think ICOC is oversold “short-term”.
4. Technicals: Bullish morning star last three days and short-term MACD is bullish. All the other indicators I look at are “very” bearish.
5. Risks to ICOC this coming week. POL’s (resin company) earnings announcement on Weds Jan 31st. POL announced in December that this quarter will be weak. POL has been moving up over the past 4 days.
6. I have found that stocks usually run up into earnings. So based on this trend I trade stocks with decent fundamentals that may be in a slump due to cyclical factors, delayed orders, commodity pricing, loss of investor interest in between earnings announcements, market makers, etc. I also position trade stocks that are in favor and going up.
7. I have a partial position in ICOC. If POL’s announcement is no worse then expected and POL’s share price stays flat or rises then I will move to a full position on ICOC this Weds. If POL’s announcement is worse than expected then I will hold the ICOC I have and sell before ICOC earnings on Feb 8th.
8. What about ICOC long-term? When resin demand picks up and resin pricing rises then ICOC will be a buy and hold. I’m not sure if we are at that point yet. If you are a buy and hold long-term trader than I would wait for a definite cyclical turnaround. You may miss the initial run up but there would be time to get in for a long-term hold.
9. I’m always working 4 to 8 position trades so if I make the wrong call on a few then I usually come out ok. Traders and/or investors seem to run up a stock going into earnings. I think they are looking for or hoping for that blowout quarter. I position trade based on this trend (and other factors mentioned) and as long as people out there think this is the quarter that gets the company back on track or this is the quarter that beats earnings again then they will run up the price most of the time.
10. A couple of my previous position trades: SMTS: I bought in late November and sold a few weeks before earnings. A few hopeful people on the SMTS message board before the earnings announcement, ouch. TWLL: This one had a lockup expiration in December and most lockup expirations drive down stock prices. I was buying TWLL around lockup expiration. Good fundamental stocks usually bounce back after lockup expiration. TWLL finally had a big bounce on January 11th and I sold out. You will notice I’m not looking at big percentage gains or the so called home run here. I’m just looking to keep growing my portfolio over time.
11. So will see what ICOC does over the next 7 to 8 days. It has been in a constant downtrend since last quarter and if it is going to run it will be over the next week. POL will set the tone for ICOC this week. POL makes this short-term ICOC position trade a bit risky.

[ParkTwain]

Second choice: VSAT

KNOL has a good-looking chart setup for this week.

Steels, certain TV stations, many kinds of low-P/E stocks (even grocers KR, SVU) are strong right now.

Many others are looking good (including several "high resistance ceiling" and post-ATH breakout candidates to watch going forward) such as:

ADS, ANGN
BLL
CHAP / AKS / MT (steel)
CIT, COLM, CSG
DFC
GCOM
HINT
KOG
MDP
NIHD
NXST / HTV / SBGI / TVL / GTN
(TV stations have become targets of private equity; see recent Barron's article,
http://www.smartmoney.com/barrons/index.cfm?story=20070117&afl=yahoo )
ONNN
PRGX (turnaround)
ROCM
SPIL, SWK, SXC
TDG, TPP, TPX, TWTC
VPRT
WFR

[mimo_100]

ATRI long again, peanuts.

Congratulations to everyone who played this week, no matter how your score turned out. Just the fact that you played and posted why you picked a certain stock is great.

I found ATRI in a "10 stocks for 2007" post (I'll look it up if anyone wants to read the post). I looked at it and thought it would be a candidate for
a short term profit especially becasue of its thin float (few shares outstanding). It traded 100 shares on Friday and the price of the stock moved enough to put me in the top 3.

Tim

[New-born baby]

I'd love to to take IMCL again ... I really, really would. But I will not, 'cause Google reports this week, and I've gotta go with Google.


GOOG long!

GOOG LONG! That's cheating! Getting a $200 pop out of a stock ain't fair! (unless the stock is mine). :)

Thompson Financial has them projected to earn $2.90 per share.

[Karel]

PCCC long, as it is still topping my screen.

Regards,

Karel

[New-born baby]

PCCC long, as it is still topping my screen.

Regards,

Karel

It made a nice looking reversal candle last Friday. Should get some green out of it today and tomorrow at least.

[New-born baby]

I'll take SIGA long, please.

[peanuts]

Current Player Holdings

Week 5
***welcome to our newest players, let-it-ride and ParkTwain. Good Luck, dudes!***

billyjoe............CA$H (carved in stone until Feb 2)
dmk112...........???
Gary611..........THI long opening price first trading day
Gatorman........SFN long opening price first trading day
IIC.................MOT short opening price first trading day
jiesen..............CA$H
Karel...............PCCC long opening price first trading day
let-it-ride.........ICOC long opening price first trading day
Lyehopper........??? PLEASE CONFIRM WHETHER YOU WANT FORG OR NOT
mimo 100.........ATRI long opening price first trading day
New-born baby..SIGA long 9:34 Monday
ParkTwain.........KNOL long opening price first trading day
peanuts...........CA$H
Peter Hansen....OFC long opening price first trading day
riverbabe..........???
RL...................???
Rob.................GOOG long opening price first trading day
scifos..............WAG long opening price first trading day
skiracer...........AOB long opening price first trading day
sirtuck.............ABB long opening price first trading day
spikefader........NEXC long opening price first trading day
stenzrob..........IMOS long opening price first trading day
StkyTreat........CA$H
Websman.........RWC long opening price first trading day

New players, RL, riverbabe, and dmk112, you have until 3:59 to place your picks for this week.

Lyehopper, I would appreciate some confirmation of your pick. I will place you in CA$H if I do not hear from you. If you confirm your pick, I will give you the opening price today. I do not appreciate the lack of communication on your part. You have to be more specific in your pick.

[jiesen]

Peanuts, please put me in AMLN long. Thanks!

[RL]

Peanuts please put me In SPPI-LONG thanks and have a great week:):):)

[Lyehopper]

Lyehopper, I would appreciate some confirmation of your pick. I will place you in CA$H if I do not hear from you. If you confirm your pick, I will give you the opening price today. I do not appreciate the lack of communication on your part. You have to be more specific in your pick.
What pick?.... I don't remember making my pick yet Peanuts. I simply stated (in response to Ski's question) that I was "planning" on playing FORG, but it was already taken (this post was directed to Ski and not you).... I think Skiracer then picked FORG for me (out of the goodness of his heart) but I see nothing in your rules that allows for that. If Ski can put me into a stock then why not let him pick for everyone? So I don't exactly follow you here dude.... btw, I'm not in ca$h yet either.... As I have until 3:59 PM EST today to make my decision.... I think? Right?

So you should not have an "appreciation" problem with me....LOL!.... Your beef is with Sir Skiracer. But technically he did nothing wrong, he just was presumptuous, but I see no presumptuousness rule listed in the current POTW rules either.

[riverbabe]

Buy TRA long pls. River

[peanuts]

What pick?.... I don't remember making my pick yet Peanuts. I simply stated (in response to Ski's question) that I was "planning" on playing FORG, but it was already taken (this post was directed to Ski and not you).... I think Skiracer then picked FORG for me (out of the goodness of his heart) but I see nothing in your rules that allows for that. If Ski can put me into a stock then why not let him pick for everyone? So I don't exactly follow you here dude.... btw, I'm not in ca$h yet either.... As I have until 3:59 PM EST today to make my decision.... I think? Right?

So you should not have an "appreciation" problem with me....LOL!.... Your beef is with Sir Skiracer. But technically he did nothing wrong, he just was presumptuous, but I see no presumptuousness rule listed in the current POTW rules either.

I guess we're in for a rule change, then :D

[Rob]

GOOG LONG! That's cheating! Getting a $200 pop out of a stock ain't fair! (unless the stock is mine). :)

Thompson Financial has them projected to earn $2.90 per share.Yes, 2.90 would be nice.

That would be a 10.7% Q-over-Q increase and 88.3% Y-over-Y. :)

It would give GOOG TTM EPS of $10.30 and a P/E of 48.14 based on Friday's close of $495.84.

And when you consider it's projected to earn $14.06 per share in 2007 (36.5% increase over '06), a 48 multiple is not too expensive for this stock, which has exceeded the street's projections 9 times out of 10 so far.

I like it.



Edit: By the way, NBB, where do you come up with the "$200 pop"? (Not that there would be anything wrong with that ...)

[peanuts]

MR long

I will explain later...

[peanuts]

What pick?.... I don't remember making my pick yet Peanuts. I simply stated (in response to Ski's question) that I was "planning" on playing FORG, but it was already taken (this post was directed to Ski and not you).... I think Skiracer then picked FORG for me (out of the goodness of his heart) but I see nothing in your rules that allows for that. If Ski can put me into a stock then why not let him pick for everyone? So I don't exactly follow you here dude.... btw, I'm not in ca$h yet either.... As I have until 3:59 PM EST today to make my decision.... I think? Right?

So you should not have an "appreciation" problem with me....LOL!.... Your beef is with Sir Skiracer. But technically he did nothing wrong, he just was presumptuous, but I see no presumptuousness rule listed in the current POTW rules either.

I see what your plan is... You're trying to lose all of your money before anyone else.

[Rob]

I'd love to to take IMCL again ... I really, really would.Looks like it would've been worth about 6% today had I played it. :cool:

[Lyehopper]

I see what your plan is... You're trying to lose all of your money before anyone else.
At least I'm not in dreaded ca$h. Gotta keep my prowNess in tact you know....

[stenzrob]

Peanuts,
You had asked for suggestions for weekly themes.
I humbly submit the following:
- A jungle safari
- A manned mission to Mars (and back)
- Getting to the lifeboats on the Titanic

[peanuts]

Week 5 - Traffic Jam
mile 1 - get in line

This week, the players are stuck in a traffic jam, sort-of. Everyone has there own destination to go to and it may be the same or completely different from the other players. Not all the modes of transportation will be the same, either. The main thing, is that we all have the same distance to go- 5 miles. Whoever travels their five miles the fastest (in other words, the highest percent return on your time) is the winner for the week. Let's see how everyone is starting off:

Websman is sitting in a hot rod and is trying to get it moving. Maybe someone put bleach on his tires, because he's just spinning his tires, now, and making a bunch of smoke. Scifos hops on his dog and hangs a bone on a fishing pole in front of it's face. Gatorman is programming his GPS unit to display the fastest way to get to his temp job as a restaurant mascot. Gary gets on his scooter for his morning coffee and doughnut, with peanuts racing behind him on a Big Wheel. Skiracer has taken off his skis and puts on roller skates. He's wearing a backpack that smells like a skunk. It's been a long time since Karel has been on his bicycle, and he's a little wobbly on it. Let's hope he remembers how to ride one of those things. Spikefader is going for a jog in his brand new shoes. He's gone a good distance already, and is currently in third place. He's trying to catch up with ParkTwain, who has decided to ride the information superhighway... maybe he'll have a high speed connection. And our leader right now is RL, who heard that there was a Sports Illustrated Bikini Contest in the park at 5:30 pm. His wife took the car, but his son left the skate board. RL is a fast learner... and skater

http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/9432/012907hw5.png

[peanuts]

Peanuts,
You had asked for suggestions for weekly themes.
I humbly submit the following:
- A jungle safari
- A manned mission to Mars (and back)
- Getting to the lifeboats on the Titanic

Awesome!!!! :) :)

I love it, dude. I will use them.

[Websman]

Awesome!!!! :) :)

I love it, dude. I will use them.

How about a prison theme?

[peanuts]

How about a prison theme?

Webs, I have a VERY active imagination. Are you sure that you want me to do a prison theme? jejejeje :D

[RL]

Peanuts Great Job You Have Made This A Lot Of Fun.i'll Work On Some Themes If I Sober Up;););) I Have Tipped A Few Celebrating My Lead Today.

[riverbabe]

Peanuts, love, are you sure my price was 14.24 at 10:36? Seems a little high. Please give it another little look. Thanks. Riverbbe

[skiracer]

Congrats River, Mimo, and Stenz. A bad week for the plus side but you guys perservered. Good show. Great running commentary all week Peanuts. It certainly makes it that much more interesting.

FORG - long please Peanuts and only if Lye has had enough of it and doesn't want to try it another week.

Originally Posted by Lyehopper http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/buttons/viewpost.gif (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=77092#post77092)
Well, actually I was going to play it again.
No problemo Lye. If you want it you got it. I can make another pick.
Peanuts, take me out of FORG and give it to Lye. I'll take AOB - long again this week. Thanks. I hope you win by a 30% margin. I like it for a move up this week.
__________________
skiracer

I was just trying to be gracious about the pick. Lye had taken it on the chin with it the last two weeks and was I offering it to him after his post about wanting to play it again.
I don't see how what I said would have anything with making it Lye's pick. That would have to be his decision. I gave it up so that he could have it if he wanted to take it. I kind of wish that I had kept it myself now.
I certainly didn't imply that it was Lye's pick but only that I was giving it up so that he could have it if he wanted to take it. That's what he implied to me in his post.
http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/misc/progress.gif

[IIC]

Some theme ideas:

Nursery Rhymes
Beauty Contest
Casino Week

[peanuts]

Peanuts, love, are you sure my price was 14.24 at 10:36? Seems a little high. Please give it another little look. Thanks. Riverbbe

Hey babe, as per rule #8, you get the opening price on the first tick of the minute after the timestamp on your post. For your TRA trade, I initially erred, and I am really sorry. I had your trade time as 10:47, when it should be 10:37- a typo on my part. Your entry price will be adjusted to $14.05 on the scoresheet tomorrow. Your score for today was 3.06% which puts you soundly in 2nd place. Please don't hate me, I'll give you the tongue :p


price information in the white bar
http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/7747/tratradejq1.png

spike, what can I say, dude... now you're being lead by a girl!!! :D

[peanuts]

Some theme ideas:

Nursery Rhymes
Beauty Contest
Casino Week

Thanks Doug!!!

I did the beauty contest... remember? Spike won the pageant.

Spike, what can I say, dude... you're hotter than some girls!!! :D

[IIC]

Thanks Doug!!!

I did the beauty contest... remember? Spike won the pageant.

Spike, what can I say, dude... you're hotter than some girls!!! :D

Dang...Your prediction came true...I finally forgot something :(

[skiracer]

Dang...Your prediction came true...I finally forgot something :(

Jeez, are you stupid or what? :eek:

[skiracer]

Is anyone else experiencing a computer slowdown on this site?

[peanuts]

Dang...Your prediction came true...I finally forgot something :(

OUTRAGEOUS!!!!!!! :eek: Are you sick or something?

the market is sure to tank tomorrow...:rolleyes:

[IIC]

Jeez, are you stupid or what? :eek:


Geez Ski...I expected a more Creative Bash from you than that

[IIC]

Is anyone else experiencing a computer slowdown on this site?


Yes...But I have noticed it for weeks

[IIC]

OUTRAGEOUS!!!!!!! :eek: Are you sick or something?

the market is sure to tank tomorrow...:rolleyes:

Actually...I forgot something one other time...But I forget when that happened...LOL

I was thinking about the Miss America Pageant on tonight...Although I plan to skip it...Let me know who wins: http://www.missamerica.org/

[spikefader]

Peanuts,
You had asked for suggestions for weekly themes.
I humbly submit the following:
- A jungle safari
- A manned mission to Mars (and back)
- Getting to the lifeboats on the TitanicExcellent stuff!

[skiracer]

Originally Posted by Lyehopper http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/buttons/viewpost.gif (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=77092#post77092)
Well, actually I was going to play it again.
No problemo Lye. If you want it you got it. I can make another pick.
Peanuts, take me out of FORG and give it to Lye. I'll take AOB - long again this week. Thanks. I hope you win by a 30% margin. I like it for a move up this week.
__________________
skiracer

I was just trying to be gracious about the pick. Lye had taken it on the chin with it the last two weeks and was I offering it to him after his post about wanting to play it again.
I don't see how what I said would have anything with making it Lye's pick. That would have to be his decision. I gave it up so that he could have it if he wanted to take it. I kind of wish that I had kept it myself now.
I certainly didn't imply that it was Lye's pick but only that I was giving it up so that he could have it if he wanted to take it. That's what he implied to me in his post.

http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/misc/progress.gif


If either one of us would have taken it we would be in first place right now. Only the first day but still on top of the board. So Lye ends up not making a pick at all yesterday and no cash position either.

[Karel]

[...] It's been a long time since Karel has been on his bicycle, and he's a little wobbly on it. Let's hope he remembers how to ride one of those things. [...]
Just for the record: for most Dutch their first bicycle is something of a rite of passage, somewhen in their Kindergarten years. When people have to admit they no longer can ride a bicycle because of the infirmities of old age, that really hurts. We must be a strong claimant for "greatest number of bicycles per caput", and that is not counting all the bikes in the Amsterdam canals.

Regards,

Karel

[Rob]

Possible themes:

The Wild West (Rawhide, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, etc.)
The Jamestown Settlement (in honor of the 400th anniversary; everyone who finishes at zero or less for the week is slaughtered in the infamous Massacre of 1622 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamestown_massacre))
Demolition Derby

[stenzrob]

Climbing Mt. Everest

[skiracer]

Climbing Mt. Everest

Or K2 or skiing down either one.

[Rob]

Or K2 or skiing down either one.How 'bout a rodeo? Or a Nascar Race? :)

[ParkTwain]

Hey Doug, how 'bout that Carl Icahn, eh?

[skiracer]

How 'bout a rodeo? Or a Nascar Race? :)

Either one would be good but I do prefer the Nascar Race. Peanuts could be good with that one.

[skiracer]

Peanuts,
Sell AOB and buy FORG long please.

[let-it-ride]

Hi Peanuts,

Sell ICOC buy TBV.

Thanks

[peanuts]

week 5 - Traffic Jam
day 2 - horns a-blowin

IIC can't seem to get out of reverse. He's on his way to Altria HQ to get a new camera that was lost in the fire. So far, he has trouble focussing. NBB is grinding his gears. Once he learns to use the clutch, he might get moving in his VW Bug. Skiracer stopped at Lyehopper's house and dropped off the skunky backpack and made a decent profit, but his new venture trying to sell Lyehopper's famous FORG's does not seem to working out for him. Let-it-ride rode his rooster, ICOC, for all it was worth on his way to the race track... a skinned knee and bruised chin is all he really got. That's OK, now he's got a chinese chicken that will get him there for half price. Karel keeps to his bike and just like the old saying... never forgot how to ride it. He's in third place on his way to church. RL slowed down a little to show the kids some new tricks he learned on his skateboard, but he's still in 2nd. And our new leader is ParkTwain. Rumors have spread that he's using the new Vista system and that's why he is so fast... Speaking of fast, Websman cought a little traction, but his tires are still spinning. He's moved a little from the starting line. Scifos' dog is back on its feet.

http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/4809/013007il9.png

[IIC]

Hey Doug, how 'bout that Carl Icahn, eh?

Give the knife one more twist Park.

At least I didn't trade it in real life.

Actually, it worked out well for a friend of mine though...I told her over the weekend to bail on MOT...But she didn't listen. Well, she was able to get out today with a small profit.

[Lyehopper]

Peanuts,
Sell AOB and buy FORG long please.
I thought you put me in FORG Ski?

[Rob]

Hey, Peanuts. Two thumbs up http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/icons/icon14.gifhttp://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/icons/icon14.gif on your scorekeeping efforts in general and especially for now ordering the players in descending order of weekly gain. Much easier to read that way. Thanks!

[skiracer]

I thought you put me in FORG Ski?

You know I can't do that and that wasn't my original intention. Only Peanuts has that kind of power over us.
I tried to let you have it. You said you thought you wanted to play it again so I backed out of it and took AOB. But you were a bad guy and didn't respond to Peanuts post asking you what you wanted to do. Now Peanuts held you out of it and the POTW this week and without another pick you're down another 3% again this week it looks like. FORG definitely hasn't been good to you. I waited for you to make a decision on it and when you didn't I figured you didn't want it. I thought it was going to go off yesterday but no cigar. Now it looks like I'm holding the bag unless it does what I figured it to do this week. I wish I hadn't tried to be a nice guy and had taken it like I wanted to do on Monday. I would have been in at 1.23 and would be in first place right now up about 6.5%. It looks like we both made a mistake.

[skiracer]

Hey, Peanuts. Two thumbs up http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/icons/icon14.gifhttp://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/icons/icon14.gif on your scorekeeping efforts in general and especially for now ordering the players in descending order of weekly gain. Much easier to read that way. Thanks!

I have to agree with you Rob. Peanuts finally listened to reason and put the list in order. It takes alot more time though to do it this way without your code. Now he'll appreciate just how hard it is to keep score.

[peanuts]

Hey, Peanuts. Two thumbs up http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/icons/icon14.gifhttp://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/icons/icon14.gif on your scorekeeping efforts in general and especially for now ordering the players in descending order of weekly gain. Much easier to read that way. Thanks!

Thanks Rob, I used your spreadsheet format from back in the day to tweak this scorecard.

I have to agree with you Rob. Peanuts finally listened to reason and put the list in order. It takes alot more time though to do it this way without your code. Now he'll appreciate just how hard it is to keep score.

Just remember who loves you, ski-daddy :cramersmiley:

[Rob]

I have to agree with you Rob. Peanuts finally listened to reason and put the list in order. It takes alot more time though to do it this way without your code. Now he'll appreciate just how hard it is to keep score. The sorting part is easy. Getting all the correct numbers and figures is the tricky bit.

Once you've got all the stuff you need, the sorting in descending order is just a matter of selecting any cell in the column you want to sort (within the range of rows that have the values to sort) and clicking the http://img456.imageshack.us/img456/826/52131618yt0.gif (http://imageshack.us) button. (At least, that's what the button looks like on my version of Excel (2000).)

[skiracer]

Thanks Rob, I used your spreadsheet format from back in the day to tweak this scorecard.



Just remember who loves you, ski-daddy :cramersmiley:

Skiracer not that way!

[riverbabe]

Pls. sell TRA. Pls. buy MO.

[peanuts]

Skiracer not that way!

That's not what Adman told me... and he's a stand-up guy

[skiracer]

That's not what Adman told me... and he's a stand-up guy

No he was the type of guy that would bend over to help you.
He also told me that you used to beg him to give you Stockboys private phone # but that he wouldn't. And that you were the reason that Stockboy left this forum. :)

[peanuts]

No he was the type of guy that would bend over to help you.
He also told me that you used to beg him to give you Stockboys private phone # but that he wouldn't. And that you were the reason that Stockboy left this forum. :)

I knew you and Adman were in close contact... and by close, I mean... :eek:

[peanuts]

Week 5 - Traffic Jam
day 3 - Hey, quit shoving!!!!

IIC just refuses to take it out of reverse. I guess he likes to lead with his best feature. let-it-ride is choking that chinese chicken instead of riding it. And skiracer is finding out that nobody wants what he's got to sell. Vista or not, ParkTwain is going pretty darn fast. Fast enough to edge out Karel for second, but not fast enough to beat RL on his skateboard for the lead. Those bikini chicks are said to be hotter than riverbabe, but peanuts doubts that... Gatorman is off on the right foot after looking over his GPS. It looks like Spikefader may have stepped on a nail during his jog. Websman can't stop spinning his wheels; That hot-rod will get moving soon enough. Rob just found out that he doesn't have brakes.

http://img472.imageshack.us/img472/92/013107pl7.png

[ParkTwain]

Sell KNOL
Buy CHAP

[peanuts]

sell MR
buy HLYS

[mimo_100]

sell MR
buy HLYS

Thanks for the fine job in handling the scorekeepers duties. If you would like some help writing Excel macros, give me a holler!

Where do you go to get the interday prices of the stocks as people buy and sell? Business Week?

Thanks.

Tim

[peanuts]

Thanks for the fine job in handling the scorekeepers duties. If you would like some help writing Excel macros, give me a holler!

Where do you go to get the interday prices of the stocks as people buy and sell? Business Week?

Thanks.

Tim

Thanks Tim. I would like to integrate an automatic closing, or real-time price quote download that can find a quote by symbol. I would need to know a site that offers quote downloads and then the functions to use in the spreadsheet. I'm OK at most of Excel, but I just decided to guess on the multiple choice questions for macros in my classes, rather than really learn them :rolleyes: I've been putting off catching up for too long. Now is a perfect time; I'll have to pull out my old text books. Man, I thought macros would be like calculus... never have to use it again. Glad I got the basics down, at least.

I get the intra-day prices from TDAmeritrade Streaming Charts

[peanuts]

week 5 - Traffic Jam
day 4 - call triple A

I guess we all now know how to motivate RL- just tell him about babes in bikinis, and he'll be anywhere in no time- he's like Michael J Fox on a skateboard. Karel picked up the pace on his bicycle and made his way into 2nd place, followed by Gatorman directly on his way to work. Let-it-ride seems to have found a useless communist chicken that is not responding to being choked. It might be resisting, have the bird flu, or even dead. IIC is getting used to driving in reverse. And skiracer has yet to make a sale. Websman won't have any tread left if he keeps spinning his wheels. Riverbabe is back to where she started- she must have forgotten something at Johnny's house. Big Bird crapped on Rob's windshield and he wrecked into a gas station and blew up.

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/2997/020107lf8.png

[let-it-ride]

I think the TBV chicken is dead. Probably wouldn't even get a dead chicken bounce if I fired the chicken out of a cannon against a wall. I own last place this week. :-)

[stenzrob]

week 5 - Traffic Jam
day 4 - call triple A

Boy, talk about spinnin' the wheels.
My pick is stuck in neutral.

[IIC]

Sirtuck...I was just coming here to switch my pick to ABB...but you have it...looks good if the volume picks up:

It is the first chart if you scroll down: http://stockcharts.com/def/servlet/Favorites.CServlet?obj=ID1659925

[IIC]

Thanks for the tip. My second post ever and look what I did. Can the post be removed? I didn't realize, until you pointed it out, that I couldn't do this. Makes perfect sense now that you mention it. Won't happen again.

Thanks!


You can delete it...but I can't.

I'll delete my post so they won't see your post in quotes. I doubt that they will come after you for a slip up...But they have come after 30 site owners that I've heard from over the past few years.

There is a certain line that they have to tolerate...But posting their ratings figures is not one of them...Best, Doug

PS...Just go to your post...Click EDIT below...Then click the DELETE circle...then Click the DELETE tab below

[IIC]

There ya go...nice job.

[nofreerides]

IIC, you have a ton of posts and know this site well. What is the best forum to post picks, like the ones below, and get feedback either way. What's good about the picks, what's not so good about the picks, etc.?

LAN AIRLINES S A ADS LFL
PEOPLESUPPORT INC PSPT
TEXAS PACIFIC LAND TRUST TPL
CHAPARRAL STEEL COMPANY CHAP
GOLDEN TELECOM INC GLDN
ALLEGHENY TECHNOLOGIES ATI

[IIC]

IIC, you have a ton of posts and know this site well. What is the best forum to post picks, like the ones below, and get feedback either way. What's good about the picks, what's not so good about the picks, etc.?

LAN AIRLINES S A ADS LFL
PEOPLESUPPORT INC PSPT
TEXAS PACIFIC LAND TRUST TPL
CHAPARRAL STEEL COMPANY CHAP
GOLDEN TELECOM INC GLDN
ALLEGHENY TECHNOLOGIES ATI

Well...This thread is for the contest...You could always start your own thread if you want to keep certain parameters...Or feel free to post whatever you want on my thread...I get a lot of readers but not many posters...As far as I'm concerned my thread is for posting potential winners...Fundamental, Technical, Long Term, Intermediate Term, Short Term, Day Trades...Whatever Looks Good...I'd actually like my thread to "Offer Something For Everyone"

[IIC]

ABB should move some on news

[stenzrob]

Well...This thread is for the contest...You could always start your own thread if you want to keep certain parameters...Or feel free to post whatever you want on my thread...I get a lot of readers but not many posters...As far as I'm concerned my thread is for posting potential winners...Fundamental, Technical, Long Term, Intermediate Term, Short Term, Day Trades...Whatever Looks Good...I'd actually like my thread to "Offer Something For Everyone"
For potential losers, which thread should we consult?

[IIC]

For potential losers, which thread should we consult?

I actually come up with a Losers Watchlist each morning (almost)...looking for potential rebounds

[stenzrob]

I think the TBV chicken is dead. Probably wouldn't even get a dead chicken bounce if I fired the chicken out of a cannon against a wall. I own last place this week. Maybe not. Today's action in TBV could catch you up to the $CASH holders and my pick, which has performed about as well as making a pit stop.

[Websman]

For potential losers, which thread should we consult?

I created a thread just for losing stocks. It just hasn't been used in a while...

Vulcans who short for fun.... http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showpost.php?p=27181&postcount=1

[let-it-ride]

Maybe not. Today's action in TBV could catch you up to the $CASH holders and my pick, which has performed about as well as making a pit stop.

It was a nice run today on TBV that should move me up a bit. I should have my head examined for taking a partial position on the first down day.

Wild ride for me this week for a lot of my trades. Will see what I can do next week.

[peanuts]

Week 5 - Traffic Jam
Day 5 - And the winners are...

I don't know if it really counts when you have to drag your dog through the drive-thru line, but Scifos gets to Krispy Kreme just as they turn on the "hot now" sign. Gary made it to Timmy's just ahead of the time it took Scifos to get to Krispy Kreme. If that means something, I'm not sure what it is. Spike was able to go 5 miles while hopping on his one good foot, but it was nowhere as fast as he needed to go in order to place in the top three. Speaking of which, it was a close race to the end for 4 players. New-born baby really got cruising once he learned how the clutch worked, but that little VW was no match for RL on a skateboard, trying to get in the front row for the bikini contest. Were those scissors in his back pocket? I wonder what he would want to do with those... Karel proves that the Dutch can ride a bike better than any other nationality and he gets to church just in time for Chapter 1. Who can compete against modern technology? First of all, probably Mr. Market, but he's not part of the contest, so that leaves us with the rest of the players. The answer is nobody. Gatorman knew that and used his Gatorman Garmin to plot the fastest way to The Gatorhaus... yes, he was dressed as a gator, but this was no alligator restaurant. This was a German bar in Florida and the defending National Champion Florida Gators were playing Tennessee in Basketball. Nice pick, Gatorman. You're truely a dedicated fan and worker to be there a day early! Congrats!!!
http://www.am850.com/sports/icons/gator_basketball.jpg

Websman just spun his wheels the whole time. He didn't make it anywhere; it was just smoke for him. Peanuts ditched the Big Wheel for some Heelys shoes, but gave up the race when he lost his front teeth to the pavement. Skiracer got busted by the cops. It was a good thing that nobody got seriously hurt in the accident, but Rob and Big Bird got into a fight. Ernie (no, not THAT one ;) ) had to break it up. One of our newest players, let-it-ride, showed us a few things: 1) that chicken-riding can be done in the first place 2) that proper motivation includes choking. and 3) Catching falling flu-infected Chinese chickens is tough work, but once you've got one, it can bounce better than rubber chicken. IIC just refused to put it in drive. He likes it when people stare.


http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/7177/020207eowsu5.png

It is kindly requested that the top 3 explain why they chose to play the POTW the way they did for the week.

LINK (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showpost.php?p=75790&postcount=10018) to the yearly results

[Gatorman]

Peanuts:
I picked SFN for a combination of Technical and Fundamental reasons. Recently, it has been closing at the or near the high of the day after breaking out of a base on good volume.What it needed in my opinion was a good jobs report to push it higher. It got that this week. It is above both the 13 day and 50 day EMA's with PEG ratio of 1.015. I liked the fast line crossover on MACD and positive Histogram.
It 1st came to my attention from one of my momentum screens,
Go GATORS

[IIC]

Peanuts...You asked for reasons from the Top 3 pickers...What about the bottom 3???

I'll go first...I was very busy last weekend and did absolutely no DD...that's why I played QID and QLD so many times this week...Doesn't take an Einstein to Daytrade those 2 and I actually made some money on them overall.

So why MOT short?...Because of the unfavorable article in Barron's last weekend...How was I supposed to know Park and his buddy Carl were gonna gang up on me???...IIC

[IIC]

Congrats to Gator, Karel and Ray http://bestsmileys.com/clapping/1.gif

[New-born baby]

Congrats to all the greenies, and Peanuts, start me off in ca$$$$$h money, seeing as to how I've got a funeral on Monday.

[spikefader]

Grats Gator, Karel and RL. Nicely done.

[Rob]

Peanuts...You asked for reasons from the Top 3 pickers...What about the bottom 3??? I'll go first...And why did I pick GOOG? Because I believed they would easily exceed the $2.90 Q4 earings estimate and that this bloody cash cow would rightly blow past $500/share.

Well shucks, they only reported $3.29, nearly three times the previous year's Q4 earnings figure, so I reckon I deserved to lose over 3% for the week. And, as if to rub a little salt in the open wound, IMCL, which I had said I really, really wanted to play (because of its being stupidly undervalued) opened Monday at $27.65 and closed Friday at $29.76, an increase of 7.63%.:(

In the real world I'm holding onto both of them.:)

Congrats to Gator, Karel & the Beer-drinking Dart-thrower!

[RL]

I was really cruisng along --then the blonde In the bikini asked for a ride I had to stop and think If I should throw away the beer and pick her up or keep the beer? Next thing I know I'm finishing third. Thanks for the accolades and now that my daughter Is out of the woods I will concentrate on building my dart board. Peanuts I really just throw darts thats how I picked my stock. By the way I kept the beer.:):):)

[skiracer]

Congrats Gator, Karel, and RL. Peanuts put me in FORG - long.

[Gatorman]

Another review of the volume and trending of SFN makes me think there is more there. So, will stay with SFN long for next week.

[scifos]

ca$h for now please.

[sirtuck]

Sirtuck pick bud long for POTW and because of Superbowl weekend.beer and football hmmm Goes together GO colts...

[New-born baby]

Sirtuck pick bud long for POTW and because of Superbowl weekend.beer and football hmmm Goes together GO colts...

You probably meant to say "go Bears," didn't you?

[jiesen]

Nice job Gator, Karel, and RL! You guys are HUGE!!!

Peanuts, please put me in AMLN long for next week.

[Lyehopper]

I'll take ECOL (long).....

[spikefader]

ICE long for me thanks! Good luck all.

[mimo_100]

I'll start in CA$H

Congratulations to everyone.

[peanuts]

I'll start in CA$H

Congrats to the greenies and good luck to everyone next week. It'll be a jungle out there...

[Peter Hansen]

CHINA Long for me please

[IIC]

Start me in CA$H...IIC

[Websman]

CHINA Long for me please

I bought CHINA this past week. I hope you win! :D

[Websman]

SIRI - long

[stenzrob]

Peanuts,
I think you made a small error in my favor in the yearly standings. My result for last week was -0.82%, but the yearly shows +0.82%.

Please start me in $CASH this week.

regards ... stenz

[peanuts]

Peanuts,
I think you made a small error in my favor in the yearly standings. My result for last week was -0.82%, but the yearly shows +0.82%.

Please start me in $CASH this week.

regards ... stenz

Thanks for letting me know. I will make the adjustment, but the change won't show up until the end of this week.

[JohnHenry]

Congrats to the top three.

Hi Peanuts

I will take UNP...thanks

[Rob]

Gotta go with GOOG long again. The sell-off Thursday and Friday was stupid. Looks like it will open lower this morning as well.

[Karel]

I follow a stupid screen (All Value Line Timeliness 1 stocks, ranked by 26 week return) and PCCC is still on it. Long PCCC! And I missed the open...

Regards,

Karel

[RL]

Peanuts will you put me In SGP-LONG thanks and have a great day:):):)

[peanuts]

Long PNCL

Got it from Spike a couple of weeks ago

[Lyehopper]

.....Peanuts put me in FORG - long.
You snake!....LOL!

[Gary611]

DCX long please, Congrats to last weeks' winners!

[stenzrob]

Put me in IMOS long, please.

[let-it-ride]

Hi Peanuts,

I'll go with LTS long this week.

[peanuts]

Current Player Holdings

billyjoe............???
dmk112...........???
Gary611..........DCX long 12:42 Monday
Gatorman........SFN long opening price first trading day
IIC.................$$CASH
jiesen..............AMLN long opening price first trading day
Karel...............PCCC long 9:50 Monday
let-it-ride.........LTS long 2:32 Monday
Lyehopper........ECOL long opening price first trading day
mimo 100.........$$CASH
New-born baby..$$CASH
ParkTwain.........???
peanuts...........PNCL long 10:18 Monday
Peter Hansen....CHINA long opening price first trading day
riverbabe..........???
RL...................SGP long 10:09 Monday
Rob.................GOOG long opening price first trading day
scifos..............$$CASH
skiracer...........FORG long opening price first trading day
sirtuck.............BUD long opening price first trading day
spikefader........ICE long opening price first trading day
stenzrob..........IMOS long 1:59 Monday
StkyTreat........UNP long opening price first trading day
Websman.........SIRI long opening price first trading day

billyjoe, dmk112, ParkTwain, riverbabe, and any new participants: you about 1 hour to post your pick for the week or face a 3% penalty and a grouchy face :mad:

[riverbabe]

Okay then, ALY long. River

[peanuts]

Week 6 - Jungle Safari

This is the challenge for the week: The players are all dropped into the middle of the jungle by the ruler, Mr Market. He has commanded that we all bring back to him the finest treasures which we will find. He is HUGE, and we must all obey. Meats and cheeses are standard gifts and what is brought back from the jungle should be better than these staples. The journey will be exciting and filled with danger at every bend. Do not disappoint Mr. Market.

Day 1 - anyone got a map?

A few players began their hunt for treasure on the wrong foot, it seems. Gatorman is a little hung over from this weekend, but he still has a great idea for the Huge one. Let's see if he gets there. Rob has stepped into some googy mud and is making no progress. Despite the warnings from the others, Lyehopper decided to try for a tough, but extremely lucrative treasure. His journey will not go smoothly.

Jumping off to an enormous lead, skiracer grabs the infamous FORG and bolts to where he thinks Mr. Market is. He holds a mighty treasure, but greed may affect his journey more than he thinks... Jiesen began yelling from the start, "THE CURE, THE CURE, I'VE GOT THE CURE" What ailment he is able to cure, we don't know, yet. But one thing is for sure- that little mouse can r.u.n. Keep an eye out for snakes. Karel is trying to carry quite a large load back to Mr. Market. He's used to it, by now, but muscles eventually wear down. We'll see how strong Karel is by the fifth day.

let-it-ride is playing cards with the CASH monkeys. These guys have neither a plan or a treasure, but let-it-ride does, and he's just sitting quietly, waiting for his chance to show off to Mr. Market. Websman and peanuts are tied for now, but the Vulcan may have something up his sleeve...

http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/7933/020507xk3.png

(oh, sorry you're red, StkyTreat... you're supposed to be green, dude)

[riverbabe]

Jus' so ya'll know, the AMEX had a major breakdown today, so I kept waiting in vain for a good entry into ALY. Still not up at close of market. Any other POTWs in the same predicament? Let the games begin tomorrow (I hope).

[peanuts]

Jus' so ya'll know, the AMEX had a major breakdown today, so I kept waiting in vain for a good entry into ALY. Still not up at close of market. Any other POTWs in the same predicament? Let the games begin tomorrow (I hope).

I did not know that the AMEX had a major breakdown today, and I can't seem to find any news on it either. Do you have an article or link, babe? I saw some posts in other places that mentioned other people having issues with AMEX today...

What do you think is going to happen tomorrow? High volatility?

[riverbabe]

I did not know that the AMEX had a major breakdown today, and I can't seem to find any news on it either. Do you have an article or link, babe? I saw some posts in other places that mentioned other people having issues with AMEX today...

What do you think is going to happen tomorrow? High volatility?

Peanuts, from RealMoney on thestreet.com yesterday: columnist conversation

Hal Uy
Problems at AMEX
2/5/2007 3:35 PM EST

The AMEX is experiencing major technical issues. Trading is unavailable.

I have absolutely no idea what will happen today. Riverbabe

[peanuts]

Peanuts, from RealMoney on thestreet.com yesterday: columnist conversation

Hal Uy
Problems at AMEX
2/5/2007 3:35 PM EST

The AMEX is experiencing major technical issues. Trading is unavailable.

I have absolutely no idea what will happen today. Riverbabe

I'm surprised that the AP hasn't run an article, yet. This seems like it could be news worthy. Does the AMEX system have holes? An article like that needs to be well timed, I guess... make sure everyone has their ducks in order before making a big stink over trading security. :rolleyes:

Alot of times I look back and ask myself, "what just happened?" :D

[peanuts]

The daily re-cap will be late tonight. If you are unhappy, see skiracer for any complaints and requests for refunds.

[skiracer]

The daily re-cap will be late tonight. If you are unhappy, see skiracer for any complaints and requests for refunds.

Having dinner with your "friend" tonight?

[peanuts]

Having dinner with your "friend" tonight?

I was chopping wood then I went to the hardware store for some tools and supplies. I've got a nice fire now and should enjoy the movie, Narnia, that she's bringing over.

I wonder if I'll find out how it ends... ;)

[skiracer]

I was chopping wood then I went to the hardware store for some tools and supplies. I've got a nice fire now and should enjoy the movie, Narnia, that she's bringing over.

I wonder if I'll find out how it ends... ;)

That's a decent movie. Be sure to watch it all as it gets better towards the end. I though you had Stockboy coming over.

[peanuts]

Week 6 - Jungle Safari

day 2 - gifts for the Huge one

Playing cards only inspired let-it-ride to get Mr Market's gift immediately and make a run for the palace. I think el Hugo will like it! Dung beetles tripped skiracer and is the only reason for him to be in second place. Peter Hansen is stronger than anyone imagined. He's trying to bring all of China back to Mr Market. The real question is, what is China doing in the jungle?

Sticky got hammered 3 feet into the ground by King Kong. After he's done shaking, he might be able to make it out. Lyehopper got lucky and made a right turn and slid down an embankment, into a river, and then found a nice clearing once he got out of the water and dried off. Now he's got to figure out a new path to take, but he should be able to see the way. Rob is still stuck in the googy mud.

The beating of a drum is heard in the far-off distance

http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/6223/020607qs8.png

[IIC]

I was chopping wood then I went to the hardware store for some tools and supplies. I've got a nice fire now and should enjoy the movie, Narnia, that she's bringing over.

I wonder if I'll find out how it ends... ;)

I was lurking outside of Peanut's place this evening and was able to take this quick photo of his date...Guess she is in charge of dessert...

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0006GBCVY.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

[ParkTwain]

I see that the same people are entering POTW with the same stock, week after week. This is perhaps a symptom of overall stagnation on $$MM$$ that was commented on elsewhere. The POTW should reward those who can keep their stockpicking eye sharp every week, by requiring a different pick every week.

Perhaps a new rule: A player's POTW pick can't be reused until 4 weeks from its initial use. (So I guess the players can fall back on recycling four stocks instead of only one!)

[jiesen]

ha! guilty as charged...

(by the way, I oppose that rule for obvious selfish reasons)

[Karel]

ha! guilty as charged...

(by the way, I oppose that rule for obvious selfish reasons)
Me too, me too! :D

But that is my strategy! I have explained it some posts back, and I prefer to stick to it. If anyone thinks (s)he can do better than me, feel free to try! My aim is to pick a stock (preferably a basket of stocks) that gives me a solid return in the long run, and that becuase of the vagaries of price developments in general then also gives me a good chance to bag the gold once in a while.

Mr. Peanuts President, I move Mr. ParkTwain's suggestion to be suppressed.

Regards,

Karel

[skiracer]

You snake!....LOL!

Ah ha. The truth comes out. I missed this post earlier. Thought I had better get it while the getting was good and look at me now although I was kind of counting on Tuesday to be a big day rather than a pullback of sorts. Thanks and good luck with ECOL.


Park,
That's a nice thought but I have to agree with Karel. There are only a few that really do that. Some, myself included, do it occassionally but sometimes you are a little early or late with the timing and a second or third week is necessary to get it right.

[peanuts]

I see that the same people are entering POTW with the same stock, week after week. This is perhaps a symptom of overall stagnation on $$MM$$ that was commented on elsewhere. The POTW should reward those who can keep their stockpicking eye sharp every week, by requiring a different pick every week.

Perhaps a new rule: A player's POTW pick can't be reused until 4 weeks from its initial use. (So I guess the players can fall back on recycling four stocks instead of only one!)

I just like it when a player plays any pick for the week. It's those who don't play at all that are penalized.

Personally, I don't find an issue with players recycling their stock week after week. Heck, I do that with my portfolio using real money, and I don't think my stockpicking eye is dull for doing so.

[peanuts]

I was lurking outside of Peanut's place this evening and was able to take this quick photo of his date...Guess she is in charge of dessert...

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0006GBCVY.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Doug, that altria camera takes nice pictures. It was awefully sweet of her to bring dessert like that. That's the only picture you have, right?

Now about that lurking behavior of yours...

[peanuts]

Is anyone else experiencing a computer slowdown on this site?

Yes...But I have noticed it for weeks

This site, and especially the POTW thread, is extremely slow, and I know its not me... I've got a super speedy connection, and no other sites give me problems.

Mr Market, Karel, Richard.... Help! :(

[IIC]

VCI long...IIC

[mimo_100]

long ATRI please

[stenzrob]

Park,
That's a nice thought but I have to agree with Karel. There are only a few that really do that. Some, myself included, do it occassionally but sometimes you are a little early or late with the timing and a second or third week is necessary to get it right.I am still waiting for my pick to take off. This is very much like real life. In deciding whether to make it yet again my POTW, it forces me to think a bit about whether to continue to hold it in real life.

[skiracer]

I am still waiting for my pick to take off. This is very much like real life. In deciding whether to make it yet again my POTW, it forces me to think a bit about whether to continue to hold it in real life.

Everything that I play I own and usually sell in the POTW if I sell it in my acct. Sometimes they go alittle longer before doing what you do or don't expect.

[Karel]

This part of the thread is closed for posting. It is continued here (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?t=1814)

Regards,

Karel