Portfolio of the Week

[Gary611]

Congratulations to this weeks' winners!!

I will try to get more involved as some free time allows, youse guyz are HUGE!!!!!!!

I'll go with my only holding: THI You can't miss when you go to Timmys!!

Donuts to dollars!!

[peanuts]

Week 4, end of week results

Week 4 - The Burning Building
Day 5 - a solemn ending

The door-pounding couldn't do it, the fire whistles didn't matter (or was that Jiesen screaming), not even the sweet smell of riverbabe's perfume could get all of the players out of the building before it collapsed in a flaming ball of fire. Lyehopper, feeling sorry that Rob was missing out on Karel's BBQ, went back for him, but neither was seen again. Lyehopper was still holding that FORG when he left us. Jiesen finally found Minnie in a trap and decided to add her to the BBQ, the thing is, as soon as he sat down next to Peter Hansen, Peanuts, Karel, Gatorman, Spikefader, and New-born baby to eat their meal, the building came down on top of them. It was their last supper. Trying to gain a great vantage point for some excellent camera shots, IIC climbed to the roof-top for the best angle. It's too bad that the camera was lost along with him... there would have been some awesome pictures on that film.

It was not all bad news at this 5 Alarm Fire. We had a few survivors. RL, Websman, skiracer, and sirtuck all get out alive. Scifos and StkyTreat were visiting billyjoe in the hospital, so they were safe all along. But there were a few players that not only got out alive, but were able to save a good portion of their wealth while doing so. Stenzrob kept pushing on, saying over and over again what sounded like, "I must, I must," but what he was really saying was, "IMOS IMOS" He must not be a Stern fan. He was the third player out of the building. Mimo 100 hardly moved at all the whole time, but was able to move enough to wiggle out right behind the one with a hot date- Riverbabe, who at first was late to get out of her room because she was putting on make-up for her hot date, but then swept past the rest of the players. In the end we learned why she was moving so fast when she was finally ready- she had a date with a man named SU. Have a great one, Riverbabe! Congrats on bagging the guy and the winning spot for the week! I guess you're going back to his place tonight...

GOLD: RIVERBABE
SILVER: MIMO 100
BRONZE: STENZROB

LINK to the yearly tracking results

It is kindly requested that the top 3 players explain why they chose to play the POTW in the manner which they have.

[let-it-ride]

Long on ICOC next week

Hi Peanuts,

Going with ICOC long next week.

[IIC]

out PRFT....in ZANE long...IIC

Doesn't look like I'm gonna win.

In real life I traded this sucker 6x today

-.20
+.03
+.13
-.04
+.05
+.02

[spikefader]

Peanuts just mentioned a stock to me in my trading room that I will play long here, so credit to him if I get back green today.

Close out PNCL and long OFI thanks peanuts! I think it's worth a couple % risk for the 5th!

[IIC]

out PRFT....in ZANE long...IIC

[riverbabe]

Su

Buy SU please.

[riverbabe]

Sell ATI now please.

[skiracer]

At the end of the week, the scorecard is sorted from best score to lowest score. During the week, the daily scorecard is sorted alphabetically, due to the ease of using Yahoo Finance to track the player's scores.

I can sort the daily scorecard by descending scores, if the player's consensus is for me to do that. I'll just let you all know now, that by doing this, I will have to spend more time each day constructing the scorecard than what I generally care to do. But I love you all and will sacrifice my time to make this contest better for you.

Having handled the game myself on a few occassions I know how much time it takes to keep track of it but everyone who ever took care of it always kept the order of finish for each day in descending order. 1st at the top and on down to last at the bottom. You are truly a martyr to sacrifice your life and time for all of us. You know that time is the only non-replenishable commodity so this would truly be a gigantic sacrifice on your part. We all own you a great debt of gratitude. Perhaps one of the POTW participants could find some woman they know who would be willing to maybe take a closer look at you and even go out with you. Someone who has some fettish for martyrs would be a good fit. Of course you would have to pay for her airfare to bring her into the Pittsburg area. But even if you decide or the participants decide that it isn't important to have any order of daily finish and it doesn't get done you are still doing a great job for just taking the responsibilty of doing it. I personally love you and if I we were both gay I would consider dating you.

[peanuts]

daily performance tracking vs end of week

At the end of the week, the scorecard is sorted from best score to lowest score. During the week, the daily scorecard is sorted alphabetically, due to the ease of using Yahoo Finance to track the player's scores.

I can sort the daily scorecard by descending scores, if the player's consensus is for me to do that. I'll just let you all know now, that by doing this, I will have to spend more time each day constructing the scorecard than what I generally care to do. But I love you all and will sacrifice my time to make this contest better for you.

[peanuts]

I can't make out the numbers and am not sure I understand the order of standings. Could you explain. Isn't there a clearer way of showing the standings in the overall positioning over the course of each successive weeks play. Is this chart an order of standings to date?

Which numbers can't you read?

"order of standings" what do you mean?

The chart is a chart, I'm not sure if I can explain it any more. Find your color, follow the line, that's where you are compared to the rest of the crowd. Your color will not change throughout the year, and as the year goes on the group should become more dispersed. Right now, its like a beginning of a marathon everyone is on top of one another.

[skiracer]

I personally think Peanuts has done a great job, and I am thankful for how he is doing it. I myself don't want to impose any changes on someone who is doing all the work, and doing it so well. The only suggestion I would make is that it would be easier to read the scoreboard if the highest gainers for the week were listed in descending order. Otherwise I am quite satisfied at the way the contest is being conducted. Thank you Peanuts!

I have to agree with you NB. Peanuts is doing a great job and his imaginative commentary keeps it interesting even moreso. But just because he has taken on the responsibility of handling the job doesn't mean he is above anyone suggesting how something might be done better or questioning why something couldn't be done to make it easier to understand. I think it would be much better to have the daily order of standing sorted in either ascending or descending numerical order rather than randomly. Also on both the yearly graph and charts the numbers are very hard to make out. It's not like someone is saying, hey Peanuts you stupid shit make the graph and charts a little easier to read please, because that would be wrong in doing so since he is doing such a great job otherwise. But posing a positive suggestion or question should never be taken in a negative vein. After all what are we a bunch of barbarians that we cannot take or appreciate positive interaction from the participants.

[New-born baby]

Great job

I personally think Peanuts has done a great job, and I am thankful for how he is doing it. I myself don't want to impose any changes on someone who is doing all the work, and doing it so well. The only suggestion I would make is that it would be easier to read the scoreboard if the highest gainers for the week were listed in descending order. Otherwise I am quite satisfied at the way the contest is being conducted. Thank you Peanuts!

[skiracer]

I can't make out the numbers and am not sure I understand the order of standings. Could you explain. Isn't there a clearer way of showing the standings in the overall positioning over the course of each successive weeks play. Is this chart an order of standings to date?

[peanuts]

so many questions, so many answers

Peanuts, I have a couple of questions/suggestions about rules and results tracking. These are just for consideration to enhance realism - I am perfectly content to play by the rules.

This is a "peoples contest." If the majority decide on a rule change, then I will abide. I realize that your absence may have excluded your ideas prior to the start of this contest at the beginning of this year, but I have already had the rules up for a vote.

When a player closes one position and opens another, and the footnote says "x.xx% gain applied to score", do you add or compound. For example, New-born baby this week has a 2.8668% gain and a 0.14% gain (so far). Adding the two gives 3.0068%. Compounding 1.028668 x 1.0014 gives 3.0108%. It's not going to make much difference, I'm just wondering.

At the end of the week, the score for each player is the sum of the fractional gains made throughout the week.

There is a separation of the yearly contest and the POTW contest. The rules state that the 2 percentage gains are added together to form the "score" for the POTW. This is as per the old rules which were passed on to me. This "score" is then converted to the weekly percentage gain for the yearly contest, which is the newly added feature for this thread.

The rule that if you don't make a pick for the week, you lose 3% seems harsh to me. Don't know about anyone else, but I occasionally travel for a few weeks at a time. Why wouldn't this be the same as being in $CASH ?

As per rule #12, you are permitted to carve your pick in stone for a set period of time if you know that you will be unable to post to the thread. This rule is not to be used unless extenuating circumstances (ie hospitalization or imprisonment) arrise which force you to not participate. dmk112 and Gary611 lose 3% this week because they didn't care enough to participate. That's harsh

We know that stocks can open up/down/etc. on any given Monday. Could there be an option to continue to hold a position and instead of "buying" it again fresh at the Monday open, the purchase price for that week is considered to be Friday's close. For example, Rob picked IMCL two weeks in a row. Last Friday, it closed just under $30, and then opened on Monday at $30.02. Not that it's going to help Rob much in this case, but there is the possibility that some more extreme example may arise sometime.

You can place your pick any time prior to the closing bell on the first day of the week, or choose CA$H and you're safe. The price you get is the first tick on the minute after your post, no matter how good or bad it turns out to be when the position is closed.

This is a weekly contest, contained within a yearly contest. I have thought about your idea in depth before you even asked it, but I decided then that the Pick Of The Week came before the yearly contest, and the preceeding rules and general theme of this thread should remain the same, as much as possible. Therefore, I chose to keep it centered around the rules which were already established. If the consensus vote of the participants is in agreement to change the method of weekly scoring, then it will switch to a compounding weekly return, rather than a simple sum of fractions. The issue is now for vote.

This player votes "no change"

I can't make out much of anything on the yearly performance chart due to the dark red background.

OK, I need a suggestion, because I have no problem seeing the different colors with my screen settings (I did not take the brown acid ) Is there anyone else who cannot see the lines on this chart:

Again, these are just for consideration. I'm very appreciative of the effort you put into this, and love the commentary.

regards ... stenz

stenzrob,

Thank you for the feedback. I really mean it. I'm glad that you like the commentary. If you (or anyone else) has ideas for the weekly theme, please send them to me. Eventually, I'll run out of ideas, and we can have only so many horse races and burning buildings before everyone gets bored. Give me your ideas, and I'll make them reality