8/13/10 Update
Friday the 13th passed without giant vampire squids wreaking mass destruction on Wall Street. And although on scary Wednesday the stock market Armageddon forecast by financial astrologist Arch Crawford seemed a real possibility, the planets managed to realign without chaos. So the week ended with stocks down about five percent, but the Bears failed to score a knockout.
At Friday’s close, the Nasdaq Composite Index fell back into the red for the year and is now down -4.22% YTD (vs. up .85% YTD a week ago). Biotechs also slipped into negative territory with the Nasdaq Biotech Index closing down -.24% YTD (vs. up 2.89% YTD a week ago), while the Contest median managed to stay in the black, up 2.24% YTD (vs. up 6.95% YTD a week ago).
DEWDIL's portfolio (up 43.69% YTD) reclaimed the Contest lead, with No. 2 ROCKY’s portfolio (up 41.84% YTD), not far behind. FILO's portfolio (up 26.25% YTD) held on to third place. At Friday's close, 17 of the 32 Contest portfolios were in the black with the same 17 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.)
8/13/10
Rank Name Profit/Loss
1 DEWDIL 43,692
2 ROCKY 41,837
3 FILO 26,247
4 JACKH 13,489
5 WILDER 13,367
6 SCARAM 12,081
7 GHMM 11,685
8 ENZYME 11,195
9 FRED 10,545
10 GEORGIA 5,794
Week's Top 5 Gainers
Symbol 8/6 8/13 % change
ZGEN 4.06 4.81 18.47%
PPCO 4.20 4.97 18.33%
RVX.TO 2.65 3.00 13.21%
JAZZ 9.50 10.38 9.22%
MYG.TO 0.17 0.19 8.82%
Week's Top 5 Losers
Symbol 8/6 8/13 % change
AFFY 8.44 6.71 -20.50%
CRIS 1.74 1.41 -18.97%
APPY 0.63 0.52 -17.46%
VITA 1.98 1.64 -17.17%
NZYM.OB 0.60 0.50 -16.67% |
