Portfolio of the Week

[New-born baby]

CONGRATS and CA$$$$H

Ski, River, and Jiesen: mucho congrats to you all! Your green is better than my red!

CA$$H please, Mr. Peanuts!

[peanuts]

week 1, 2007 results

Skiracer was slowed this week only by the moguls of Wednesday and Thursday. Friday was like a freshly groomed trail and he raced his way right in the Gold position. Excellent pick, skiracer. You are mighty $$$HUGE$$$

Riverbabe says the heck with blue skies and paints her week green with an excellent pick of, wait, WHAT!!! United Airlines!!!!! woah, baby!!!! If you had taken the gold, I'd say that qualifies you for the mile high club!

Jiesen clandestinely remained in the shadows then mounted a miny takeover of the world by whipping AMLN into shape on Friday and scores a healthy third place!

Way to go Greenies!!!!!

[skiracer]

Ski,

Your FORG is flying, dude!!!!

I don't like to count the money while I'm still sitting at the table because whenever I do you know what happens. But it does look good right now. I'm holding a big position because it is a cheapo.

[peanuts]

Ski,

Your FORG is flying, dude!!!!

[skiracer]

Does that also come under heading of: It's-tough-to-teach-an-old-dog-new-tricks?

With a little persistence, Ski, I have little doubt that you will accomplish a great deal in learning some cool VBA tricks, and I congratulate you for your willingness to submit yourself to a little brain torture in order to achieve your goal.

Looking back on my post I wouldn't want to anyone think that the only reason I'm studying up on writing VBA code was the POTW. It is part of it because I am in awe of the way you set up your scorekeeping sheet when you were running the game. I'm also very interested in writing code for some of my own indicators, for my stock chart analysis, and setting up trigger points and stops. I'm also going to be able to put it to good work in making my Excel workbooks more accessable an easier to manipulate.
Like yourself I'm inquisitive, love a challenge, an am always looking to broaden my horizons as I move through life. I see no gain in remaining stagnant even knowing how hard it is to teach an old dog like myself new tricks. As long as my mental facilities remain intact I hope I will continue to do so. To me there is no greater satisfaction than overcoming the frustrations encountered in teaching yourself something new an then having it in your arsenal and at your disposal. Then lighting up a big spliff and relaxing in knowing that you perservered through the ordeal.

[riverbabe]

Hi Peanuts. Please sell UAUA now! Thanks! Riverbabe

[Rob]

I'm teaching myself to write VBA code in Excel and am currently in the middle of a couple of tutorials on learnig to do that. It won't be to much longer before I get the gist of setting up something similar to what Rob had written into his spreadsheet. It's much harder to do than one would imagine but it's not prohibitive.

Does that also come under heading of: It's-tough-to-teach-an-old-dog-new-tricks?

With a little persistence, Ski, I have little doubt that you will accomplish a great deal in learning some cool VBA tricks, and I congratulate you for your willingness to submit yourself to a little brain torture in order to achieve your goal.

[skiracer]

uh ski, I don't see much of a difference between what you said and what I currently do with Yahoo!

For now, the daily portfolio tracking is simply a screen shot of the Yahoo! portfolio. I save the screen shot and then just paste the imageshack link to this thread. It is really easy for me to do this, and it is the fewest steps involved to get the information posted.

Sorry that I've lowered the bar that Rob has established... keep up the suggestions and tips... I can use them!

No, it's ok with me an it's your's to do what you want to do with it. Rob spoiled us to a degree. I was just trying to help. I'm teaching myself to write VBA code in Excel and am currently in the middle of a couple of tutorials on learnig to do that. It won't be to much longer before I get the gist of setting up something similar to what Rob had written into his spreadsheet. It's much harder to do than one would imagine but it's not prohibitive. Keep plugging along in your own fashion bud you're doing a good job. No problemo.

[peanuts]

uh oh

Sell GMKT

Buy APKT

[peanuts]

Peanuts,

Thanks for taking over the contest. I appreciate all of the hard work.

I use Yahoo to track MrMarket Top 5 Stocks from the dumps.

You can "rope off" the cells in Yahoo, copy, then paste into an Excel worksheet.
From there you can sort to your hearts content.

Tim

Thanks, yes I've tried, but when I rope-off cells and paste into excel from Yahoo!, I get crazy information that I never roped off in the first place... I could never understand that. It does this with my other portfolios and it is really annoying. Also, I hate those stupid red and green arrows... what a waste of bandwidth

[peanuts]

I was thinking the same thing with Excel. He could also use MSN Money Portfolio manager to set up a portfolio of all the players and their picks and it will record everything, including the daily price changes and percentage changes, for you, and then copy and paste the results to the POTW. It takes a little time to set it up but once done it would be a big timesaver for him an everything would be in one place.

uh ski, I don't see much of a difference between what you said and what I currently do with Yahoo!

For now, the daily portfolio tracking is simply a screen shot of the Yahoo! portfolio. I save the screen shot and then just paste the imageshack link to this thread. It is really easy for me to do this, and it is the fewest steps involved to get the information posted.

Sorry that I've lowered the bar that Rob has established... keep up the suggestions and tips... I can use them!

[skiracer]

Peanuts,

Thanks for taking over the contest. I appreciate all of the hard work.

I use Yahoo to track MrMarket Top 5 Stocks from the dumps.

You can "rope off" the cells in Yahoo, copy, then paste into an Excel worksheet.
From there you can sort to your hearts content.

Tim

I was thinking the same thing with Excel. He could also use MSN Money Portfolio manager to set up a portfolio of all the players and their picks and it will record everything, including the daily price changes and percentage changes, for you, and then copy and paste the results to the POTW. It takes a little time to set it up but once done it would be a big timesaver for him an everything would be in one place.

[mimo_100]

I track the players through Yahoo! Unfortunately, no matter how many times I make the suggestion to them, there is no sorting function for the portfolios. At the end of the week, I'll do something different, but the day to day stuff is going to be like this. It's easiest this way, for now.

I really hate when my ideas are ignored when I send them to the company. I swear, they must never read the suggestions. Either that, or a Chimp is reading everything and making the decisions.

Scenes from the Yahoo! Office

Peanuts,

Thanks for taking over the contest. I appreciate all of the hard work.

I use Yahoo to track MrMarket Top 5 Stocks from the dumps.

You can "rope off" the cells in Yahoo, copy, then paste into an Excel worksheet.
From there you can sort to your hearts content.

Tim

Peanuts,
I'm going in for surgery and might not be back until Feb. Can you place me on medical leave from the contest? Thanks

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

Billy, sorry I missed this post. I wish you a speedy recovery from your surgery!!

[peanuts]

Curious as to why you don't sort in order of highest + percentage to lowest - percentage. It seems easier to get the whole picture in that order. I see that you are doing it alphabetically by nickname.

I track the players through Yahoo! Unfortunately, no matter how many times I make the suggestion to them, there is no sorting function for the portfolios. At the end of the week, I'll do something different, but the day to day stuff is going to be like this. It's easiest this way, for now.

I really hate when my ideas are ignored when I send them to the company. I swear, they must never read the suggestions. Either that, or a Chimp is reading everything and making the decisions.

Scenes from the Yahoo! Office