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To: Elroy who wrote (2755)	2/25/2007 2:05:30 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20435

Putting the cash to work is easy, but subtracting $5 from two holdings and recalulating new share counts took me a little longer than I want to put into this. What is the amount its over and I will subtract it from one of the stocks? Let's keep it simple.....its a game after all.

To: Elroy who wrote (2755)	2/25/2007 7:59:52 PM
From: Mike McFarland	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 20435

Here I have done the calculations for you: First off, I clearly sold everything on Thursday: Message 23309043 I sold... 2.457 shares of Curagen @ $3.87=$9.509 13.245 shares of Gene Logic @ $1.90=$25.167 4.566 shares of Anadys @ 4.12=$18.812 1.462 shares of Infinity @ 13.68=$20.000 That raises $73.488--from which you take 1% or a buck, or something? I let you do that part... Thanks! Maybe that helps, or at the least you can check your work. If I go further... So, let's assume the commission is a buck, add the cash I had which was $37.685 +73.488 -$1.000 =$110.173 So I do not move in the rankings, but there is $3.20 gained for me based on the actual trades versus getting the Friday closing prices. I'll take it! I guessed that selling everyting at once was cheaper, that must be true, because if you charged a buck for each trade that would wipe out the three dollar gain I get by selling everything all at once on Thursday. An awful lot of work for an asterix. Happily in the real world I sold just over 80k shares of Gene Logic for a gain of something like $30k. But now comes the hard part, redeploying. I did buy a little ANDS on Friday, but in the near term, I have no strong picks--I don't follow the sector closely enough. Hence going all cash in the contest and shooting just for the star.