8/6/10 Update Despite Friday’s lousy employment report, Wall Street’s Bulls did not fall down on the job and stocks managed to finish the week with a gain. At Friday’s close, the Nasdaq Composite Index moved back in the black for the year and is now up .85% YTD (vs. down -.64% YTD a week ago). Biotechs had an even better week than the broad market and the Nasdaq Biotech Index closed up 2.89% YTD (vs. down -.90% YTD a week ago), while the Contest median closed up an impressive 6.95% YTD (vs. up 4.41% YTD a week ago). ROCKY's portfolio (up 49.93% YTD) held on to the Contest lead, but barely, with No. 2 DEWDIL’s portfolio (up 49.56% YTD), just a smidgen behind. FILO's portfolio (up 33.04% YTD) remained in third place. At Friday's close, 20 of the 32 Contest portfolios were in the black with 18 of the 32 beating the NBI. Below is the Top Ten list. Also below are the Top 5 & Bottom 5 Stocks ranked by % Gained and % Lost for the week (foreign stock prices are not converted to US$ in these two tables). Enjoy the weekend folks! (All corrections, especially adjustments for splits, greatly appreciated.)
8/6/10 Rank Name Profit/Loss 1 ROCKY 49,933 2 DEWDIL 49,561 3 FILO 33,044 4 GHMM 22,100 5 WILDER 21,279 6 JACKH 20,902 7 FRED 19,818 8 SCARAM 18,064 9 ENZYME 15,849 10 WYD 12,852
Week's Top 5 Gainers Symbol 7/30 8/6 % change HLCS 0.54 0.74 36.11% AFFY 6.43 8.44 31.26% PPCO 3.38 4.20 24.26% NZYM.OB 0.50 0.60 20.00% DNDN 32.91 39.05 18.66% Week's Top 5 Losers Symbol 7/30 8/6 % change CYTK 2.75 2.26 -17.82% MNTA 21.34 18.00 -15.65% SNMX 4.46 3.93 -11.88% ALXA 2.77 2.45 -11.55% ARNA 7.95 7.16 -9.94% |