Portfolio of the Week

[diogenes]

Thanks guys!

[IIC]

Ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attention please?

[Rob waits a few moments for the clammoring to cease, but it doesn't. Rob then speaks in a louder voice ... ]

Ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attention please?

[Only a small lessening of the din takes place. Rob picks up an empty wine bottle and repeatedly raps on it with the handle of a butter knife, carefully calculating how hard he can strike the vessel without breaking it. Again he speaks ...]

Ladies and gentlemen! Ladies and gentlemen! Please may I have your attention?

[The crowd finally quiets down, all except for Doug, who for some reason is muttering profanities under his breath.]

Please do not be alarmed, but I have discovered an anomoly in the way the scoring system works. As some of you know, we've been using the magnificent Web site at http://www.businessweek.com to retrieve our daily stock prices for some time now. Those folks over at businessweek.com do a great job, don't they? How 'bout we show 'em some love? Let's give a big round of applause for businessweek.com!

[applause ... applause ... ]

Now, businessweek.com, which I'll refer to as "the source," says that their latest quotes are delayed by twenty minutes. That is why, as you may have observed, the time stamp on the last update indicates a time that is never earlier than 4:20 pm plus a few minutes. Well, this morning, by chnace, I discovered that the prices the source reports as yesterday's closing prices were, in the cases of a few stocks, a few pennies off from those which were reported yesterday at 4:25:24, the time of the latest update. For example, yesterday at 4:25, WIRE's last price was reported to be 46.50, and this morning the source indicates that yesterday's last price was 46.56. The net effect is that the Flaming Brain's percentage gain is in actuality higher than that which was posted yesterday, by thirteen one-hundredths of a percent (0.13%).

I do not know at what time the last scores were finalized on the Web site, but be assured that I am on top of the situation and will monitor it closely to make sure that the scores posted here will be reliable. During this process you may see that the scores are not posted as quickly after the close as that to which you have become accustomed. Please bear with me, and all will be well, I assure you.

Thank you for your kind attention. Now someone please pass me the hot sauce.

You are right Rob (&^%$$^*)...Now, will you please go back through all of last year's weekly results and verify that Ray actually won?...You can take a few days to do it if you need to...Thx...Doug(IIC)

[jiesen]

Okay, I figured I'd ask you guys in the hopes that I wouldn't need to go back through all the posts.

If you have everyone's weekly % performance since Jan '06 I could use that. Please!!

Scifos,

I've gone through and taken all of the year's data for the bi-weekly K-data report already. PM me your e-mail address, and I'll send you the spreadsheet I've got this weekend after I've done the next round of calculations. It'll be good to have someone else look at the numbers anyway, to make sure I'm not screwing it all up.

[Websman]

Hey Rob or Websman (whoever's got the info), is is possible to send me everyone's picks since the start of the year? I'd like Player's name, ticker, long or short, start price, end price. Thanks. I can PM you my email address if you need.

Dang, you figured it out! Rob and me are the same person...

[Rob]

Suspicious Minds

You are right Rob (&^%$$^*)...Now, will you please go back through all of last year's weekly results and verify that Ray actually won?...You can take a few days to do it if you need to...Thx...Doug(IIC)

That is so generous of you to allow me a few days to do your bidding, Mr. Fresh! But since I am willing to accept the fact that Ray won the contest in '05, I believe I shall delegate my time to other pursuits. Now please make a fresh pot of coffee, with freshly ground beans of course, and toast a couple onion bagels. Thanks. I'll give you twenty minutes.

Incidentally, I am happy to report to the group that yesterday's closing prices, as posted here, are in 100% agreement with those listed by the source this morning.

[Rob]

Scifos

Scifos, it sounds as though Jiesen's got you covered, dude.

[Rob]

I Can't Believe It

It would appear my IMCL is finally getting a little long-overdue respect.

Pleaaaasssse, not another head fake!

Oh, yeah ... also:

[Lyehopper]

trading....

Cover ESLR....

[diogenes]

Looks like ATI is falling...look out below

[Lyehopper]

Looks like ATI is falling...look out below

short it!....LOL!

Looks like I covered ESLR a little too soon.... Didn't want to get too greedy.jejeje

[Lyehopper]

Rock on Rockin'Rob!!!!

It would appear my IMCL is finally getting a little long-overdue respect.

Pleaaaasssse, not another head fake!

Oh, yeah ... also:

WOAH!!!!!! DUDE!!!!

edit: That ain't "head fake" volume my friend!

Rob, That puts you in the lead does it not?

[Lyehopper]

Looks like I covered ESLR a little too soon.... Didn't want to get too greedy.jejeje

SHEEESH!!!! I left 2-3%+ on the table!..... AHHHHHHHHH!.... smack!, SMACK! (Lye slaps himself across the face)....OUCH!

[Runner]

Rob, cover PARL..

[Rob]

Week 19 (6), Final (gut-wrenching) Result

Ahh! My first taste of the gold! Thanks for covering when you did, Lyehopper! That allowed me to beat you this week by a whopping three hundredths of a percent! That really was a great short, dude!

And look who's the 2nd "runner"-up! It's Runner! With his eagle-eye he spotted a great shorting opportunity also--in PARL! Good work, Runner, dude!

BJ and Dio both scored better than FG's this horrid week also! Good work, guys! And Dio, even though your ATI fell from grace a bit from yesterday, still, nearly 4% on the week is pretty remarkable--especially considering what a slaughterhouse it has been!

Sowers, BoSox, Huge Pete and Mimo round out the list of those who finished up this week. Normally I don't enumerate each one like that, but this week was a fairly short list, so ...

Well now for the bad news, fellas: Yes, two new worst loss of the year records were set this week: (1) worst average score among active players (-7.71%) and (2) greatest single one-week loss by a player. Sorry, BillyJoe, but at least you did it on a really sucky week, if that's any solace! As if that weren't bad enough, the total average for active players crossed into the red also. So let's see if we can't turn things around!

Wow, MFLX got slaughtered big-time as well! And on a good earnings report too! Can anyone spell "buying opportunity"? And if so, is this one? Nevermind the first question; if you can accurately answer that second one, I'll buy you a beer!

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[Rob]

Weirdness

Sorry for the weird colors in the framing of that chart. I had some formatting difficulties, and something went screwy on me. Anyway, all the good stuff is there.

Also, there are nine people who have not participated in more than three weeks, who do not appear on the list, though their scores are still figured into the averages. I just decided to conceal those rows. It looks nicer.

Edit: Hmmm, there's something weird about BillyJoe's Q2 average also. It's not figuring correctly. Not to worry, it shall be fixed!

Edit #2: It's fixed. For some unknown reason, there was a zero in that cell instead of the formula that was supposed to be there. Things are under control.