Announcing the bigger and better than ever, 2025 Pick of the Year (PotY) contest!

[mrmarket]

Nice job wolfy

[BlueWolf]

Hello Pickers! It was pretty much a meh week for the markets as all three major indices treaded water at their recent lows. Basing at a low is usually an indicator that there will be more downside to come, but the longer the indices base at the low, the better the chance they’ll reverse direction and start moving up;. With all the bad news lately, though, I’m not sure anything is going to follow predictive patterns. All we can do is stay tuned.

There was some movement on the leaderboard as Antioch’s BJ leapfrogged its way back into 1st place. Trailing by the very thinnest of margins in 2nd place is BillyJoe’s BP, which is followed by Minni17’s ATAT in 3rd place. As for the rest of us … ugh. There’s still plenty of time to make a move, though, so let’s kick start the market and make some more green positions.

[BlueWolf]

Ugh. That’s all I have to say: Just one, big, long, messy ugh. The whole market seems to just be dripping, one annoying ploop after another, like a melting candle over the side of a table. If you look at it on a monthly chart, you say, “Oh, that don’t look too bad,” but on a daily chart it looks like Armageddon has started. Need more context, I guess, although it’s been a little rough on our picks as we’re running out of green highway. This week, the standings look like this: Antioch’s BJ is in first, BillyJoe’s BO (I know, I know, it’s supposed to be BP, but I left it in for context) is in 2nd, and Minni17’s ATAT is in third. Good job guys. Keep those green heels dug in.

[jiesen]

Excuse me, BW, but BillyJoe doesn't have BO.

[BlueWolf]

Oh boy, I walked right into that one, didn’t I. You’ll have to forgive me, I was still a little loopy from surgery last week. Gotta remember to proof read.

[BlueWolf]

I’ll keep this short as I’m still cleaning the blood off my screen. I’ll start with the only piece of good news I think we’ll be able to point for a while. We actually have one pick still in the green and doing fairly well. Congratulations Antioch on your pick BJ, which now firmly and deservedly holds on to 1st place. Our 2nd and 3rd place picks, Minni17’s ATAT and BillyJoe’s BP, are actually not doing too badly all things considered with losses below 10%. Then the picks descend rapidly on a ski slope of despair into the financial abyss. Man, this has been some nasty business. Hang in there, pickers. Hopefully that light at the end of the tunnel is a pinprick of sunshine coming and not another freight train headed our way. We’ll just have to see.