March Madness Stock Pickers Tournament

[RL]

THANKS

Thanks Ernie great getting congratulated from the big guy. You make all of this possible.

I CLAIM THE TITLE OF THE BEST STOCK PICKING DART THOWER IN THE UNIVERSE
SEND ME MOLSONS CANADIAN [ THE SEX BEER] BUFFALO CHICKEN WINS X-HOT AND LINDBURGER CHEESE.

MR MARKET IS HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGEEEEEEEE

[billyjoe]

More congratulations to RL and MEA1956, the only players with all 5 winners. RL just made it with INVN + $6 and MEA1956's ANN was up $22.
Six others picked 4 out of 5 winners. The biggest dollar gains on individual stocks were YTOWN + PHOTON up $1070 on ESMC and MI6OP + GREBNET profited $1030 on PRFT.
The entire portfolio started with $170000 ended with $179245 for a gain of 5.44% in 13 days. There were 75 different stocks picked with 53 up 21 down and 1 unchanged. Nine stocks were duplicate picks with NCEN being picked by 3 different people. Interestingly the top 2 picks, ESMC +53.5% and PRFT + 51.5% were both picked by 2 different players. OK boys, when and from whom did you get the inside scoop? We can put you away for a long time unless you are willing to make a deal.

LIST OF STOCK PERFORMANCE
1.ESMC YTOWN+PHOTON +53.5%
2.PRFT MI6OP+ GREBNET +51.5
3.TASR RL +37.7
4.MPP RL +32.8
5.CAMD KINGOFTHEHILL +29.2
6.UWN RL +28.8
7.AH BJU +21.0
8.NUTR BAKXS +19.6
9.LIPD KINGOFTHEHILL +18.3
10.COSI PHOTON +17.0
11.JILL MEA1956 +16.6
12.BRKT THEBIGN1 +15.6
13.ELN KINGOFTHEHILL +14.3
14.AUO GREBNET +14.29
15.NHLC MRMARKET +14.2
16.AMED BJU +13.2
17.NUS BJU +12.5
18.GTI CARRIBEANMIKE +12.3
19.NIHD MRMARKET +12.0
20.JAH BJU +11.4
21.PAL CARRIBEANMIKE +11.1
22.BYD KINGOFTHEHILL +10

That would be one sweet portfolio of 22 stocks for 13 days

23.AACE SCIFOS+TAXMAN +9.7
24.HZO BAKXS +9.7
25.HELE DAVE +9.4
26.UALAQ JIESEN +9.4
27.PARL YTOWN+IGGY +9.3
28.NT TAXMAN +8.8
29.DPTR CARRIBEANMIKE +8.2
30.LIZ MEA1956 +6.9
31.LOOK GREBNET +6.5
32.CLE MEA1956 +6.4
33.UPL RL +6.2
34.PPC BAKXS +6.1
35.CYBE THEBIGN1 +5.6
36.CHS MEA1956 +5.5
37.KSWS DAVE +4.9
38.AICO MRMARKET +4.6
39.ERES THEBIGN1 +4.4
40.NAVR MI6OP +3.9
41.IMGG MRMARKET+IGGY +3.7
42.UHAL PHOTON +3.4
43.CERG BAKXS +3.3
44.SI MI6OP +3.2
45.ARO YTOWN +3.0
46.VAR PHOTON +2.6
47.TOUS TAXMAN +2.5
48.XING JIESEN+JIESEN +2.4
49.OMM SCIFOS +2.2
50.MRVT IGGY +1.4
51.ANN MEA1956 +1.1
52.LAD SCIFOS + .7
53.INVN RL + .3
54.LQMT JIESEN unchanged

The following stocks, I just can't remember who bought them
55.IPAR -1.1
56.HU -1.3
57.CLZR -1.5
58.FCFS -3.6
59.HSKA -4.3
60.OMNI -4.3
61.BGO -4.4
62.TOL -4.7
63.UTSI -4.7
64.GI -5.0
65.FUN -5.7
66.DHI -5.9
67.NCEN -7.4
68.GUSH -9.8
69.FMT -10.3
70.CALM -11.9
71.RATE -13.7
72.ALSM -14.6
73.PROX -15.2
74.WSBK -16.3
75.ACRG -24.0

That's all folks
billyjoe

[scifos]

Great Job billyjoe, and Congratulations to RL. That was a lot of fun and both billyjoe and RL did really fantastic jobs.

[The Photon]

Thanks

This was fun, Congrats RL, and thanks for the effort Billyjoe- The Photon

[mrmarket]

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The entire portfolio started with $170000 ended with $179245 for a gain of 5.44% in 13 days. That's all folks
billyjoe

Just curious...what did the S&P500 do over the same period?

[carribean_mike]

Thanks - that was fun. I enjoyed my 20 minutes of fame.

[Dave]

That was a ton of fun, thanks to billyjoe for all the effort and the very entertaining posts! Too bad the tourney didn't go one more day for us NCEN pickers...doh!

-Dave

[kingofthehill]

congrats to all, it was alot of fun,

[billyjoe]

Just found out our attendance at the final at The Market Dome Arena was 75000 beating previous record Syracuse vs. Indiana 64959. Only MrMarket could put on an event so huge!
billyjoe

[ytown12]

AWESOME BABY

As Dick Vital would say : AWESOME BABY !!

First off congrats to RL (strongest team throughout and we all knew you would be cutting the nets).

Also once again thanks to Billyjoe for putting on and organizing the tournament. You did a great job and your team did pretty well too.

And also a great job by all 17 teams (15 teams made money and the two that did not only were down only a few Bejamins)... 15 out of 17 ... That is getting close to MM status..

And speaking of MM, Thanks to the The Huge One, Numero Uno, The Big Cheese, The Head Honcho for having a forum where we can have fun, share ideas and make $$$$

[jiesen]

man!

It's over already... I was just staging my comeback!

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040406/cntu001_1.html

Check that out. I know it's just fluff, but why couldn't they have announced it YESTERDAY!? Maybe on an up day we could have squeezed some shorts and closed me out at $15 on XING.

Oh well, them's the breaks. It was a great tourney tho, thanks for setting it up BJ, and 10 meats and cheeses to you RL for kicking all our azzez.

[Karel]

The entire portfolio started with $170000 ended with $179245 for a gain of 5.44% in 13 days. That's all folks
billyjoe

Just curious...what did the S&P500 do over the same period?

First, well done billyjoe and congratulations to RL! This was very entertaining, when I had the time to follow it.

The S&P500 had a good time too, but nowhere near the average of all players: 10264 (and I included the dividend, otherwise it is 1022. BTW, with the final list as posted, I get an average of 6.4%. We have an awesome bunch of stockpickers here!

Regards,

Karel