Portfolio of the Week

[skiracer]

Sorry, but I'm a stupid shit. Just looked at the percentages up and subtracted the negative one from the pluses and did it quickly that way last night. Never took the time to add up everything and then do the averages. You're right. It looks like Doug is the leader. I'll take the time to do all the addition and subtraction each evening. Sorry about this. Didn't mean to steal your thunder Doug. Whew, I'm glad we're not playing for that $10,000 dollar prize this week.

[Websman]

Hey Skiracer. You're not stupid, you're just crazy like the rest of us. It takes a crazy person to throw thousands of dollars into the stock market. LOL

[RL]

As long as I end up the winner [or winer] I'm happy.

[skiracer]

Ray,
Like Yogi says, "it ain't over until it's over".

Doug,
I was wondering since you said you were going to protest after the close on Friday, you must not have seen the rule stating, "all protests must be filed in writing, three copies please, and presented to the administrator no later than 3 hours after the close on the day of the disputed fact".
Just kidding and no problem at all. What's right is right and that's all there is to it. Except now Ray will be walking around in a daze saying, "I coulda been the champ".

I'm going to be a little late with the standing tonight as my wife had me planting Leyland Cypress down our property line after work today an I just finished. Also I will be doing extensive calculations on everyone's accounts just so I don't look like I can't add. Actually this type of short changing of the numbers is how I made my first couple of hundred thousand selling encyclopedias when I was a kid.

[skiracer]

Here are the results for today in order of current standings. Best at the top.
IIC - +8%
Skiracer - +4%
Drutzen - +3%
Ray Long - +1%
Drutzen - +.3%
Rickflyboy - -.3%
Coachgbw - -4%
Spike - -4%

Sorry about the mistake on the calculations from yesterdays finish. My mistake. I tried to make light of it and hope that no one took anything the wrong way. It's only a game. So to make up for it I'm going to fly all the contestants down to the Bahamas for the weekend. Now those guys that didn't play this week will be sorry.

[jiesen]

Here are the results for today in order of current standings. Best at the top.
IIC - +8%
Skiracer - +4%
Drutzen - +3%
Ray Long - +1%
Drutzen - +.3%
Rickflyboy - -.3%
Coachgbw - -4%
Spike - -4%

Sorry about the mistake on the calculations from yesterdays finish. My mistake. I tried to make light of it and hope that no one took anything the wrong way. It's only a game. So to make up for it I'm going to fly all the contestants down to the Bahamas for the weekend. Now those guys that didn't play this week will be sorry.

hey, don't forget about me!

[IIC]

Here are the results for today in order of current standings. Best at the top.
IIC - +8%
Skiracer - +4%
Drutzen - +3%
Ray Long - +1%
Drutzen - +.3%
Rickflyboy - -.3%
Coachgbw - -4%
Spike - -4%

Sorry about the mistake on the calculations from yesterdays finish. My mistake. I tried to make light of it and hope that no one took anything the wrong way. It's only a game. So to make up for it I'm going to fly all the contestants down to the Bahamas for the weekend. Now those guys that didn't play this week will be sorry.

LOL...Actually, I am hitting CoCo Cay and Nassau in September...But right now I'm waiting...Sorta reminds me of one of my favorite sayings..."One day my ship will come in...But with my luck, I'll probably be at the airport"...So here I stand at the counter at LAX at the Bahama MaMa ticket counter...And they can't find my rez...Ski...email me my tix right away...Thanks

[skiracer]

Jiesen,
Sorry about that overlook. Acutally you're in the #5 slot. I posted Drutzen twice. Something about that Drutzen I must like.

Doug,
Here's another one of my favorites, "the check and the tickets are in the mail".

[skiracer]

Here are the results after today. Sorry that I overlooked you yesterday Drutzen but I did straighten it out. Made another mistake with your account yesterday also Ray. NNI was up 1.15 yesterday an my addition and subtraction was wrong. I figured it at +.15 for the day and had you up +1% when it should have been closer to +3%. I straighted that out today also. I think there was something in those mushrooms on the pizza. Can't seem to do the quick calculations in my head anymore. So here are the results for today. Oh BABY Oh BABY. What can we say other than that. At the top of the board for the 3rd day in a row and looking more like a winner with one day left is: drum roll please for #uno.

1. IIC - up 11.2%
2. Jiensen - up 5.1%
3. Skiracer - up 4.7%
4. Drutzen - up 3.2%
5. Ray Long - up 2.5%
6. Rickflyboy - up .9%
7. Spikefader - down 5.6%
8. Coachgbw - down 9%

One more day and no one has placed a stop, sold off a position, or bought any new positions. Actually 6 out of 8 participants are up so why would anyone want to change what they had going. Good luck tomorrow. Doug is going to be hard to catch.

P.S. The tickets for the Bahamas trip are in the mail.

[jiesen]

Well, DRRA has hit my target of 4.14 (or near enough to it anyway) so I'm calling in my profits (imaginary though they may be) right here. As of right now, according to my Scottrader RTQ the price is 4.13, so I'm setting a stop of 4.10. As long as BABY closes at 10.2 or lower today, I should have this thing in the bag!

[skiracer]

Jiesen,
Nice move today with DRRA and a well placed stop and manuever on your part. Right now Doug's BABY is at 10.07 down .18 and your DRRA is at 4.36 up .48. It could be an is very close with 22 minutes to go until the close. It appears that one of you will be the winner this week unless a minor miracle of some sort takes place with one of the other entries. I love this stuff when it gets like this. Brings up the level of competition.

[jiesen]

Jiesen,
Nice move today with DRRA and a well placed stop and manuever on your part. Right now Doug's BABY is at 10.07 down .18 and your DRRA is at 4.36 up .48. It could be an is very close with 22 minutes to go until the close. It appears that one of you will be the winner this week unless a minor miracle of some sort takes place with one of the other entries. I love this stuff when it gets like this. Brings up the level of competition.

Well it seemed like a good idea at the time, but unfortunately I placed the stop either too soon or too high and it was just barely hit prior to the continued strong move later on. So that means I'm stopped out at 4.1 and it's a nail-biter right up to the finish. I'm still ahead by a hair, but BABY is now at 10.04 and it will only take it going above 10.2 to beat me.

We still have 15 minutes left and anything can happen!

[jiesen]

BABY at 10.20 now with 5 minutes left. Talk about a nail biter!!

[skiracer]

I have BABY closing at 10.12 today on Stockcharts 15 minute chart. I haven't done the numbers yet but it looks like Jiesen got stopped out at 4.10 and then DRRA went on to close at 4.49 on the 15 minute chart. Without doing the numbers and BABY closing below 10.20 it looks like Jiesen will be the winner this week. I'll do the calculations now and get back with all the results as soon as I can. Very close.

[skiracer]

Very close at the end of the day and week. A nailbiter if you tend to do that. Jiesen tried to give it back to Doug with what looked like a good move initially but almost cost him the win. Oh BABY dropped then came roaring back above 10.20, which would have given Doug the win, but in the last minutes gave back a few cents to close at 10.12 and that sealed the win for Jiesen.
Here are the final tabulations for the week in order of finish. A drum roll for this weeks winner at the wire please:

Numero Uno - Jiesen - DRRA - up 11 %
2. IIC - BABY - up 9.9 %
3. Drutzen - NVDA - up 5%
4. Skiracer - HTRN; CMTL;VTIV - up 4%
5. Ray Long - NNI;ONXX;IFSIA - up 3%
6. Rickflyboy - HAL - up 2%
7. Spikefader - IBM (short) down 4.5%
8. Coachgbw - IIJI - down 9%

I thought this was a good week and fun. It gave me a good insight into what Billyjoe goes through in keeping track of everything. It's not a prohibitive amount of work but it does take up some time everyday. I don't mind doing it and will take it again this coming week if it's ok with everyone else even if some of my math fell short on occassion. If anyone else has some idea of how to make the game more interesting or challenging please fess up with those ideas and we can implement them into next weeks game. Congratulations Jiesen. Is this your 2nd time on top of the leaders board. My only consolation is that I owned all three of those bastards I picked so I had a decent week overall.
Don't tell my wife she'll want a cut. Have a good weekend everyone.