Pick Of The Year Contest

[billyjoe]

Jiesen,
I don't want to appear to be a whiner or complainer or cry baby, but thanks, spike, for the tissue . I expect a 100% gain by year's end anyway so I'll have the last yuk.

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

[Rob]

[MEA_1956]

Okaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Don't know shit about shorts so I shall just have to pick one off the dart board ( hope you don't mind RAY). Let's try ROB, no wait TRB sounds better.

My long will be DSX, Marlin

[jiesen]

Don't know shit about shorts so I shall just have to pick one off the dart board ( hope you don't mind RAY). Let's try ROB, no wait TRB sounds better.

My long will be DSX, Marlin

Ok, you got it Marlin! DSX long and TRB short at the close this Friday.

[jiesen]

And for my 'what if' picks, I'm taking

OSUR long and GFCI.PK short.


Notice that I'm picking on a Friday, because that's the day that I lock in the picks. If you want to avoid being a hoser, make your 'what if' picks on Friday!

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070226/20070226005917.html?.v=1

well whaddya know! The next trading day after I pick it for my short, GFCI goes and finds some natural gas. Isn't that a gas? Not that I'm really complaining, since I actually own this POS. But man, talk about getting screwed and hosed at the same time! Well, I fully expect this to trade back to 0.03 by the end of the week, and be making new lows again all next month. I bet the price will be 0.01 before another mention of this gas 'discovery' is ever made by GFCI management.

[grebnet]

The results should be interesting now

I know my two picks have taken a beating.. can you post all of the results while we are down here.. will ( hopefully) be interesting to look at the eventual turnarounds.

[jiesen]

I know my two picks have taken a beating.. can you post all of the results while we are down here.. will ( hopefully) be interesting to look at the eventual turnarounds.

Can't tonight, but I'll try to get to it either Thursday or Friday. Thanks for the reminder, though!

[jiesen]

Finally! Scorecard for March 12th:


I am winning!

[Websman]

Congrats Jiesen!

[stenzrob]

Thanks for the update, jiesen.
And, congrats on your HUGE results so far.

[jiesen]

Thanks, guys!

I also wanted to mention that this month will be last call for the "what-if" entries. So if you still want to make a pick, please do it before close of market 3/30/07. You'll get the price at the close the Friday of the week in which you make your pick.

[Rob]

Looking Up

Man, I really got hosed on the kick-off for this contest.

I thought it was supposed to use the opening price from the open on the first trading day of the year (Jan. 3rd), and that the Jan. 12 deadline was only sort of a "grace period" to let late-comers still enter.


Check this out:

Opening prices for IMCL:

1/3/07: 26.85

1/12/07: 30.60

Difference: 13.97%

I probably would have still picked IMCL on the 12th, as I did on the 3rd, but man that 14% hurts (for the contest anyway).

Hey, my chances just improved quite a bit overnight.

[jiesen]

Hey, my chances just improved quite a bit overnight.

see, Rob? I told you that 14% wouldn't matter much in the end... when you get to 140%, we'll take another look at your chances.

By the way, anyone wanting to make a what-if pick, do it now for today's prices! Otherwise, next week will be the final week open to picks for this contest. Good luck to all, and happy trading!

[Rob]

By my reckoning I believe I've risen to #2 on the list.

[jiesen]

biotech is where it's at, baby!