Portfolio of the Week

[Runner]

Seems many are not happy with the rules of this game….hhhee My personnel plan was not to win this thing guys and in all honesty I really could care less. My goal for this game was to achieve 5% per week, that’s it.

I thought I was within the boundaries or parameters of the rules. That is ok as I see the general tone of popping in and out of a position is considered poor sportsmanship. We can’t have that and so having reviewed several comments I will ban myself from the game. After all it is a game and so it really does not matter. As we all know it is what happens in our own account that matters.

Best wishes for all contestants and maybe the rules will be changed in such a manner as to please everyone evolved. Maybe the winner will be titled the huge one and gets a pat on the back.

Lye, put me in cash for the rest of the year!!

[billyjoe]

Webs,
Mr.Market may be HUGE , but you are a GIANT in the POTW. 7 victories makes you #1 of all time. There's no pressure on me since I'm not a contender, but Jiesen and Doug, get it in gear. Webs victories are adding up with increasing frequency. I'm rooting for you guys. Ray and Ski , don't just lay around drinking beer and watching the tube, lets go. Drutzen, where are you when we need you?


billyjoe

[sekto]

Lye, put me down for EMKR Long. Thanks!

[billyjoe]

Lye,
Could you look deep into the POTW rulebook and see what is written about medical leave? I'm going to be gone for I don't know how long. If it is permitted I'll enter 3 stocks in advance one for each of the next 3 weeks. If not, how about in cash until further notice?
The good news, when I return I'll be bionic: carbon chrome alloy and stainless steel, ready to battle the Vulcan. It'll be bigger than Godzilla vs. Rodan. Awaiting your ruling.

billyjoe

[Lyehopper]

Lye,
Could you look deep into the POTW rulebook and see what is written about medical leave? I'm going to be gone for I don't know how long. If it is permitted I'll enter 3 stocks in advance one for each of the next 3 weeks. If not, how about in cash until further notice?
The good news, when I return I'll be bionic: carbon chrome alloy and stainless steel, ready to battle the Vulcan. It'll be bigger than Godzilla vs. Rodan. Awaiting your ruling.

billyjoe

BillyJoe.... This is your thread and you can do anything you'd like. If you post the picks I'll enter them for you as instructed....

[Karel]

I thought I was within the boundaries or parameters of the rules. ... Lye, put me in cash for the rest of the year!!

Come on Runner, what is this! You can take a taunt like the best of us, can't you?

People should be able to play the POTW just as they like (within the rules).

Regards,

Karel

[Lyehopper]

Cash, cash, cash? What is this, the Pick Of The Wimps contest?

Regards,

Karel

Karel... Come on dude! Why are you so boring? You must see the advantage of the cash provision. It allows a player to build a strategy, much like real life investing.

If your strategy is buy and hold.... Then.... buy and hold.

If your strategy is to.... go into cash and stalk a stock on the move.... buy it then sell it four hours later.... then go back to cash for two days.... then stalk a stock short.... then move back to cash... Then you are allowed to do that!!!!

Every player has the same chance since we all have the same rules.

It's a good contest.... thus the ever increasing participation.

I've yet to have anyone offer to take over as scorekeeper yet.... How about you Karel? Will you take the contest over in February? If you do.... you can make it as boring as you'd like, and I won't complain.

~Lye

[billyjoe]

Lye,
-------Jan 30----SYNP
-------Feb. 6 ----FTHR
-------Feb 13----HOKU

I'm confident I'll be back soon, but just in case. See ya down the road, Lye.


billyjoe

[Websman]

It's time to prove how superior a Vulcan is by blowing my naysayers out of the water...jejeje.

Lye, I'm going with one pick and one pick only. I will open my position tomorrow morning and will stay with it until the market close on Friday. I will either win this contest or I will end up in the top 5.

My pick for the week is... CAL short. Yes, my friends, CAL will tank this week and I will be victorious. jejeje....

[scifos]

Give me CVX long. btw Lye, I'm curious if you've been penalizing me for the first 3 weeks of January. If you are then I protest, with the cash position rule, it should be assumed that a non-player is in cash.

[Lyehopper]

Lye,
-------Jan 30----SYNP
-------Feb. 6 ----FTHR
-------Feb 13----HOKU

I'm confident I'll be back soon, but just in case. See ya down the road, Lye.


billyjoe

Dude, you take care ok?

I'll be thinkin about you.... I'll try to keep your thread in tact in you're absence. Do I have your permission to beat up on Karel while you're gone.... Or would you rather I wait till you can watch?

[DSteckler]

<< It'll be bigger than Godzilla vs. Rodan. >>

But what about Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster?

[skiracer]

Seems many are not happy with the rules of this game….hhhee My personnel plan was not to win this thing guys and in all honesty I really could care less. My goal for this game was to achieve 5% per week, that’s it.

I thought I was within the boundaries or parameters of the rules. That is ok as I see the general tone of popping in and out of a position is considered poor sportsmanship. We can’t have that and so having reviewed several comments I will ban myself from the game. After all it is a game and so it really does not matter. As we all know it is what happens in our own account that matters.

Best wishes for all contestants and maybe the rules will be changed in such a manner as to please everyone evolved. Maybe the winner will be titled the huge one and gets a pat on the back.

Lye, put me in cash for the rest of the year!!

Runner,
If it was anything I said please don't take it to heart. You guys can stay in cash all week an it wouldn't be any big deal in my head. The rules allow the cash positions and that's it. I don't want you to think I'm down on you guys. Play it the way you want to play it and it'll be alright with me. So please stay in the POTW. Make Webs leave but you stay. He's already won 7 times and we should kidnap him and put him in a room somewhere for a couple of weeks so the rest of us have a chance. Please stay. Wasn't that a song by the Drifters. Everyone that wants Runner to stay in the POTW start humming that song Please Stay and mental telepathy it to him until he changes his mind and stays in the POTW.

[Lyehopper]

Give me CVX long. btw Lye, I'm curious if you've been penalizing me for the first 3 weeks of January. If you are then I protest, with the cash position rule, it should be assumed that a non-player is in cash.

Weeeeell Scifos.... We did not count the first week, it was a "test week", so you're safe there.... Two weeks penality is in question here.

Now.... I might (sometimes) enter a player who does not want to play.... But I'll never assume a player actually wants to play.

The cash provision was designed to show a player's "intent to play".... A player MUST make "some sort of" effort to be entered into ca$h or a stock each week. If he does so.... he will avoid the 5% points race penality.

Here's what I'll do.... You give me a very GOOD reason why you have missed the contest for the past three weeks and I'll make a ruling. NOW....If it was because you were off protesting gun laws down in Florida?.... you're screwed dude!....LOL

[Lyehopper]

Runner,
If it was anything I said please don't take it to heart. You guys can stay in cash all week an it wouldn't be any big deal in my head. The rules allow the cash positions and that's it. I don't want you to think I'm down on you guys. Play it the way you want to play it and it'll be alright with me. So please stay in the POTW. Make Webs leave but you stay. He's already won 7 times and we should kidnap him and put him in a room somewhere for a couple of weeks so the rest of us have a chance. Please stay. Wasn't that a song by the Drifters. Everyone that wants Runner to stay in the POTW start humming that song Please Stay and mental telepathy it to him until he changes his mind and stays in the POTW.

Ski.... I think Runner's kidding. He enjoys winning just like the rest of us. The old "If you don't like my style I won't play" routine, is a strategy in it's self.lol