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Biotech / Medical : 2008 Biotech Stock Picking for Charity -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: BulbaMan who wrote (213)	10/3/2008 5:39:10 PM
From: BulbaMan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 322

10/3/08 update It's been three weeks since my last update and the Bears had quite a party while I was out of the country. And it doesn't look like they were much intimidated by my return - or the U.S. Congress. At Friday's close, the Nasdaq Composite Index was down -26.58% YTD (vs. -14.74% YTD 3 weeks ago), while the Nasdaq Biotech Index was down -4.95% YTD (vs. up 3.53% YTD 3 weeks ago). The Contest portfolios were also trashed, with the median closing down -25.65% YTD (vs. down -12.94% YTD 3 weeks ago). At week's end, a mere 4 of the 33 Contest portfolios were in the black YTD with just 5 of the portfolios beating the NBI. Not surprisingly, GENE's portfolio remained in the lead, with a 87.2% YTD gain. ROBERT's portfolio held on to second place with a 9.6% YTD gain. Forget your market woes and enjoy the weekend folks! Below is the Top Ten list on 10/3/08: 10/3/08 Rank Name Total 1 GENE 87,152 2 ROBERT 9,597 3 JACK 2,317 4 CASA 1,197 5 ROCKY9 -4,194 6 SJEMM -7,559 7 BULBA -9,288 8 HAMMER -13,244 9 LJM -14,773 10 ASHLEY -16,147 There were a number of portfolio adjustments over the past three weeks: >> IVPH was bought by CYTR with each IVPH share exchanged for a .1762 share of CYTR >> ILMN split 2-1 >> ARI.TO was bought for US$2.322. I allocated the proceeds to the other stocks in my portfolio using 10/1/08 closing prices. (All corrections, especially adjustments for splits, greatly appreciated.)