Portfolio of the Week

[billyjoe]

Rob,
I'd pay up to a dollar a bottle for goji , well maybe a little more to find out the taste and benefits. Lye , how about some special samples for the Mr.Market folks? You could get us hooked then charge whatever you want.

----------billyjoe

[Runner]

Rob, ATRX long please

[Rob]

Rob, ATRX long please

[Rob]

Week 32 (6), Day 4

[IIC]

I believe a 5% penalty is in order for picking a fake ticker...IIC

[Websman]

Oh look....I'm still only down 5%! jejeje....

[Runner]

Sorry Rob, that's what I get for staying up all night...Tic was ATRS

[JohnHenry]

Wnr???

Hey what the heck happen???? Why the analyst downgraded my stock, without a reason? Those people that listen to them are idiots...heheh don’t they know they are screwing with my POTW average! Hehhehe I’m never going to get within the top three. This SUCKS!

Um Hey, I notice the past few weeks, the stocks that posted great earnings. The price goes up the day before and that same day; then drops in price the next day or within a few days after earnings. Is this normal? I think so for profit taking.

From example, EZPW, the day earning came out. After hour trading was light. I was curious because if the number were good so why don’t people buy instead the next day it dropped like a rock.

[billyjoe]

Stky,
I was monitoring about 50 stocks with the best earnings a year ago and they maintained a more steady performance. Sure, they'd bounce up with the earnings, but they wouldn't crash back down like they've been lately. This is abnormal if you ask me. I guess the market is always abnormal. As soon as you think you've got it figured out, it changes it's behaviour.

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

[Rob]

I notice the past few weeks, the stocks that posted great earnings. The price goes up the day before and that same day; then drops in price the next day or within a few days after earnings. Is this normal? I think so for profit taking.

This is a frequent pattern. If you own a stock, and it jumps 15% on earnings, 99% of the time, *sell it*! Note: as with so many things in life, this is much easier said than done. Every once in a great while, there may be some extenuating circumstances warranting your holding on.

[Rob]

Week 32 (6), Final Results

Well, boys and girls, another week has passed, and here we are, still plodding our way through a dodgy market. It was an eventful week that saw yet another of our freedoms jerked away due to the activity of extreme, religious zealots. I tell you, it's this never-ending enmity between the progenies of Ishmael and Isaac that will eventually lead the kings of the earth to the Mountain of Megiddo (Armageddon). But I digress.

As for the POTW this week, the Ice Man captures his first gold medal since week 26 with a beauty of play on ECHO! Ice, Ice, baby!

Biff Clemens, Samuel's distant cousin, a.k.a. ParkTwain, raked in some o' that Russian dough this week with a 12.15% gain on CTC Media, television for babushkas. CTCM opened monday for 561 rubles and closed today at 629.1 rubles. Easy on that vodka, Biff!

Well, that li'l hustler himself, Van McCoy, done hustled us again. Only this time he's walking away with his first medal, the bronze. Congratulations on going 2 for 2 this week, Van!

Oh, and in case any of you are wondering, yes, Lyehopper is now the official record-holder for lowest weekly score in the 2006 POTW contest. Sorry, Billyjoe, but your -46.02% on week 19 has just been eclipsed.

[IIC]

Isn't it ironic?...I win the contest the same week I finally ended up getting whacked out on WITS?

[New-born baby]

Congrats, LYE!

Lye,

Hearty congrats to you with the new low score. I thought I was going to earn it last week with my lousy short of EXM. I had an ugly chart and shorted it, and it turned full bull right in my face. I just rejoice that I actually didn't trade the thing.

I hope you have a better run next week.

And hearty congrats to Doug, Park and Sky! Great work!!

[Rob]

Whatever Happened to Scifos?

Hey, whatever happened to Scifos? Come on, nobody's honeymoon is *that* good!

[RL]

Great win Doug