Portfolio of the Week

[peanuts]

Mr. Rob, sir

What do you have against peanuts? I've got a different price from Ameritrade for my GROW entry. Could you confirm, please

[JohnHenry]

Next Week POTW 11-20-06

Hi Rob

Please start me out with Cs$H Money! Thanks

Everyone have a Happy Thanksgiving....

[Lyehopper]

Hi Rob

Please start me out with Cs$H Money! Thanks

Everyone have a Happy Thanksgiving....

STKY, I think ya gotta post your play for next week after the close on Friday and before the close on Monday dude.... Today is just Wednesday.

[Rob]

Housekeeping

Websman, a thousand pardons your venerable Vulcan-ness. You are quite correct. Your score has been corrected, placing you in a tie for sixth place with the Mighty Mimo. Also, should you decide to use it, you have one trade left for the week.

Peanuts, Peanuts, Peanuts, you know you cannot have two positions at the same time in this contest. When you said ...

Please sell UNIB (whenever that next trade is )

SHORT GROW

... it sounded to me as though you understood that your GROW short would not open until your UNIB trade closed.

Please look at this graphic:

Also, please refer to this post for further clarification.

Sticky "Van McCoy" Treat, Lyehopper is correct. You may not take your position for next week until the close of trading this week.

[Rob]

Rob, I think the price of the first sale sounds very fair. river

I think so too, and that's how we will handle it this time; however, I'm going to take note of how the opening price is recorded (issue price vs. first sale) before settling on how the rule is to be stated.

[riverbabe]

I think so too, and that's how we will handle it this time; however, I'm going to take note of how the opening price is recorded (issue price vs. first sale) before settling on how the rule is to be stated.

Upon thinking about this a little more, I remember watching an IPO closely one time. As I recall, the ticker debuted with one sale at the issue price. After that, there was no trading for quite a while. I had the feeling the MMs were getting their ducks in a row before the onslaught. So, if that's what happens on Friday, forget the issue price. I'll take the first tick when the fun begins, if that's agreeable to you and everyone else here. river

[New-born baby]

Out Aob

I want out of AOB, please

[jiesen]

nicely played, NBB. You are HUGE!!!

[New-born baby]

nicely played, NBB. You are HUGE!!!

Hey, Jiesen: Love that DRUG call. You know the pharms, don't ya? Thanks for sharing!

[Rob]

Sell PCP
Buy WIRE

Dang, I hope I don't regret that.

Oh, yeah. I'm regretting it now. I shoulda stuck with PCP. Would now be up about 7.5%. Oh well, maybe WIRE will spark tomorrow. Why do I always manage to sabotage myself like that? (rhetorical question)

[Rob]

I can't get the score posted right now, and I have to go somewhere. It'll be up later though. Hang in there.

[Mary]

Dark Clouds & Silver Linings

Oh, yeah. I'm regretting it now. I shoulda stuck with PCP. Would now be up about 7.5%. Oh well, maybe WIRE will spark tomorrow. Why do I always manage to sabotage myself like that? (rhetorical question)

Look at the bright side, Rob. This is a game and not your real portfolio.

As an aside, I know I can't be a winner all the time, but might I say that it really bites to have had such a nice win last week and to be hanging around in the middle of the pack this week. My bright side is that I sold VIAC, which is not doing well this week, and my HANS pick is doing better (the last time I checked anyway).

[Rob]

Week 46 (7), Day 4

Well, New-born Baby bailed on AOB and is sitting pretty with a HUUUGE 17.62%!!! Beautiful play, New!!! Shhhhh .... <whispering> nobody tell him he'd have a little more than 22% if he'd have held it. <ok, stop whispering now>

Mr. Speed Racer gave back a little of his HUGE gains today, but maybe he's just applying the clutch to shift into high gear tomorrow!! Sometimes MED means "medium," but there ain't nothin' medium about an 11.49% gain in four days!!

As Alice looks through the looking glass, things that used to be small now seem so big, and what was huge, like his lead over the One Who Hops in Caustic Soda, now appears quite small and still shrinking.

[skiracer]

Boy would I love to pull it out tomorrow and snatch what seems like a sure victory for NB and turn it into a second place finish. But I think that's going to turn out to be wishful thinking. I'm betting anything that NB sits in cash without making another pick for tomorrow. That would be the easy and safe way out. Maybe AOB goes up again tomorrow without NB and MED goes up enough to pull it off and if NB would have stayed in he would have held first place. Maybe if I .... nah I don't think so.

[New-born baby]

Boy would I love to pull it out tomorrow and snatch what seems like a sure victory for NB and turn it into a second place finish. But I think that's going to turn out to be wishful thinking. I'm betting anything that NB sits in cash without making another pick for tomorrow. That would be the easy and safe way out. Maybe AOB goes up again tomorrow without NB and MED goes up enough to pull it off and if NB would have stayed in he would have held first place. Maybe if I .... nah I don't think so.

I've already burned my first pick on CAMH, and it was disallowed. (A blessing in disguise). So I am what I am.