Pick Of The Year Contest

[billyjoe]

Final Results Pick of the Year Contest Celebrity Division 2006

It's all over with no surprise ending. Jimmy Cramer's ATI won by 57.13% points over FMCN , it's only competition and only other stock that spent several weeks at #1

The final week featured IPAS +4.44% among the 9 gainers and FTO -3.35%, XTO -2.93% , and ESLR -3.20 in the group of 8 decliners.

The celebrities ended the year with a +16.56% gain

Stock-------Celebrity-------------1/3/06---12/29/06-----%Gain/Loss
1. ATI---Jim Cramer/Mad Money-----36.40----90.68-------+149.12%
2. FMCN-Ian Wyatt/Growth Inv.-----34.58----66.39-------+ 91.99
3. FTO-- Hesler/Pro Timing NL-------19.02----28.73-------+ 51.05
4. STX--Unknown/Consumer Elect---20.07----26.50--------+32.04
5. SU----Navellier/Blue Chip Inv.----63.67----78.91---------+23.94
6. SGR---George/Personal Finance---29.09----33.50--------+15.16
7. MSFT--Carlson/Drip Investing-----26.25----29.86--------+13.75

8. FO----Credit Suisse/Zellman------77.75----85.39---------+9.83%
9. GOOG--Kramer/AOL Financial-----422.52--460.48---------+8.98
10. RSG--Fisher/Raymond James-----37.40---40.67----------+8.74
11. XTO--Maille/MD Wholesale-------44.56---47.05----------+5.59

12. ERTS--Gardner/Motley Fool------52.44---50.36--------- -3.97%
13. CSSGX-O'Neil/IBD Fund----------10.46----9.76--------- -6.69
14. IPAS--Hutheesing/Forbes Wireless-6.53---5.88---------- -9.95
15. ELOS--Gillette/Supernova Stocks-32.07--27.13---------- -15.40
16. ESLR--Rothstein/Follow the Ram--10.77---7.57---------- -29.71

17. MWY--Schaeffer/Power Stocks---18.87---6.98---------- -63.01%

I Know I'll remember these names and their performance whenever they try to get my money through regular mail or e-mail.

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

[IIC]

Final Results

FINAL RESULTS

Mr Market Stock Contest 2006

Close on 12/29/2006

Mickey Is $$$HUGE$$$

A $$$HUGE$$$ congratulations are in order for Mickey. He ran away from the pack in early March and never looked back. Most of the year the race was for silver and bronze. But Sirtuck’s ABB and Grebnet’s APLX moved well from July thru December to break away from the other contenders…Nice job guys!!!

Our A/D/U was 11/14/1 for the week and our YTD ended at 12/14/0.

Overall we were down 1.23% for the year…Not an impressive performance. Our only saving grace was that we beat CSSGX.

The CSSGX really stunk this year… Pretty amazing that IBD claims that the IBD 100 was up over 11%...Wonder how they calculate that???...and the CSSGX was down almost 7%. Morningstar has CSSGX rated at #968 out of 969 Funds in the Mid-Cap Growth Category… My Crystal Ball says the fund won’t even be around in another year.

Well…I promised prizes for the Winners…Mickey wins a $100 Gift Card…Sirtuck wins a One Year Print Subscription to Barron’s and Grebnet wins a 6 month subscription to http://Poormans.com

I’d like to offer a SPECIAL note of thanks to Bruce, the owner of Poormans.com for donating the subscription to his site. As you know, several members have mentioned him here. He was featured in the Smart Investors column in IBD several years ago. I’ve known Bruce for almost 3 years on the Net and although he and I are different types of investors, it is amazing to me how many of the same stocks we come up with…I invite all of you to take a look at his site. Here is a little about Bruce: http://trimurl.com/A27

The Consolation or Booby Prize for the rest of you is a FREE 2 week Subscription to IBD...To claim your prize click here: http://trimurl.com/A26

I use the open on 1/3/06 for the indices and the close on 1/3/06 for the CSSGX because funds are only priced at eod






Here are little charts of all our pix:

http://trimurl.com/4PW

http://trimurl.com/9SE ...IDWK replaced w/ FLEX

http://trimurl.com/4PY

Here are little charts of the Indices and CSSGX:

http://trimurl.com/4PZ

[MickyMouse]

Doug,

Thanks for the prize.

I am not aware of anything prizes offered for the coming 07 contest, and still deciding to enter my pick or not.

Have a healthy and wealthy 2007.

Mickey

[billyjoe]

The celebrity prizes are as follows:

1. Jim Cramer wins a year's subscription to thestreet.com

2. Ian Wyatt wins a six month subscription to Growth Investing Newsletter

3. Hesler wins a three month subscription to Pro Timing Newsletter

4. Bill O'Neil gets a two week trial to IBD

and you thought I was a cheapskate.

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

[IIC]

My SUPER SECRET (so don't tell anybody) SURE-FIRE Pick of the Year is...........................MPEL

...Doug(IIC)

[billyjoe]

Doug,
Are you serious ? I own MPEL. You must believe in Macau.

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

[IIC]

Doug,
Are you serious ? I own MPEL.

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

That's why I picked it...lol

[IIC]

Quote:
Originally Posted by billyjoe
Doug,
Are you serious ? I own MPEL.

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

That's why I picked it...lol

But there is still some risk here...They are gonna pay a premium for the land lease and the weather is not so kind over there.

[billyjoe]

Doug,
I have an assignment for you. Take some of your frequent flyer miles and fly to the grand opening of the Crown Macau Casino around July 1st. Report back to me. You also can gamble if you wish. It's all a tax deductible business expense. I'll vouch for you if the IRS audits you.

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

Why don't you book a business seminar for their convention center while you're at it. Reveal the IIC 100 investing system to a world market.

[IIC]

Doug,
I have an assignment for you. Take some of your frequent flyer miles and fly to the grand opening of the Crown Macau Casino around July 1st. Report back to me. You also can gamble if you wish. It's all a tax deductible business expense. I'll vouch for you if the IRS audits you.

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

Why don't you book a business seminar for their convention center while you're at it. Reveal the IIC 100 investing system to a world market.

Sounds good Billy...However, I don't think Southwest Air flies there

[scifos]

I think my pick of they year is CAPA.

[skiracer]

MED - long - my pick of the year.

[billyjoe]

Sounds good Billy...However, I don't think Southwest Air flies there

Doug,
I'm booking your flight: Leave LAX 7/1/07 fly EVA airways to Macau City MFM arrive 7/02/07. You'll be staying 6 nights at the beautiful Hotel Royal Macau , depart MFM 7/8/07 . It will only cost you $2430 and you'll get more than that back in winnings and probably another 100G from the seminar.

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

[jiesen]

I think my pick of they year is CAPA.

MED - long - my pick of the year.

Ok Ski, you got it. MED long.
Scifos- I know you're just messing with me... You do mean to take CAPA long, though, right?

[Websman]

I'll post my pick tomorrow