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Biotech / Medical : A biotech stock picking contest for 2000 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RCMac who wrote (8)	1/4/2000 8:29:00 AM
From: LLCF	Respond to of 54

Wait a sec RC.... did you take INCY today or yesterdays open?? Nyuk, Nyuk.... DAK PS... I've got to get my team together... sorry been busy. Soon hopefully.

To: RCMac who wrote (8)	1/4/2000 10:48:00 AM
From: Mike McFarland	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54

Weightings is fine if, like you and Mikjenko, a person wants to go to all that trouble I am not against it. The only other rule I implied was no less than five picks, no more than ten. Folks should probably make an effort to establish their starting prices, for instance your Incyte had quite a run yesterday, so we should probably give you the opening price today--that probably goes without saying. I planned on simply using the final quotes off my 12/31/99 statement--folks who enter later, up until jan 10th, will have a little more to do for chasing down their start points--honor system, I wont be doing it. If at the end of the year somebody has a huge gain, I'll just eyeball the picks and do a quick calculation--so long as his gain goes unchallenged, that will be good enuf for me. I suppose if two people are real close together I can track down times and quotes, no big deal. Probably at the end of the year there will be a couple people who don't like the winning charity as much as their own. But so long as we have some fun and a bunch of checks go out to worthy causes, it will have been worthwhile. Once you've pledged it is very hard to back out and not address an envelope. Keep those pledges coming in! If biotech soars this year--feel free to lock some of those gains in in your real accounts and raise those pledges.