This board is dedicated to our little contest on best picks of listed stock for a $100 fictive portfolio, no real cash involved.
Our first competition took place 11/14/2005 through 02/28/2006 and since then we have had 28 back-to-back races with our most recent 28th game ending Friday, May05, with Bearcatbob taking "The Price" and thus his first Star after having been close once, but back then went into "safe" cash - too early and missed it. Learning a lesson and aggressively pursuing the Star, he made it this time :)
Our hearty congrats, Bob!
Our new round, now our 29th game, kick-off will be on Monday June 13th and it will run through and end on Friday, Nov. 10th. Get your picks in before the market closes on this Friday, June 10th, and you'll be up running with those closing prices from our Monday kick-off and on. Anybody including Newcomers can join, but no later than Monday June 13th, by posting "I am in for $100" before the market closes on next Monday! Sorry, latecomers can no longer join during a running game, so please get your bets or your $100 cash message entered no later than by Monday market closing!
List of Winners by Rounds:
28.-Bearcatbob
27.-Elroy
26.-Frank Folupa
25.-Jatin Kadakia
24.-Glenn Petersen
23.-Peace
22.-KaiserSosze
21.-Sultan
20.-epicure
19.-richardred
18.-jmiller099
17.-Custer
16.-SARMAN
15.-Elroy
14.-Custer
13.-jmiller099
12.-Peter van Steenis
11.-Arthur Radley
10.-Sultan
09.-Asymmetric
08.-mjfdl
07.-John Fowler
06.-J. Chris Parsons
05.-Bonefish
04.-Iktomi
03.-Peace
02.-Jatin Kadakia
01.-Taro
1. Trading days are any one weekday, (Changes to that including other or additional trading days optional. Such changes, if any, will be announced no later than the previous trading day the week before.).
2. Hold max 5 positions picks at any time, each of the 5 positions being long, short or cash, no more than 50% value of any long or short position.
PLEASE NOTE THAT ANY WEEKDAY, BUT NO MORE THAN ONE SINGLE DAY ANY WEEK AND PLAYER, ARE GOOD FOR YOUR TRADING!!
(OPTIONALLY BUT ONLY IF SO ANNOUNCED AS PER TOP 1. ABOVE, TRADING DAY(S) MAY BE ADDED OR MOVED DURING THE GAME).
Let me repeat that again, no more trading than any weekday of your choice, once a week, for each player!
- Sorry, but newcomers can no longer join in the middle of our game -
Portfolio Rules:
1- Our new round and 29th competition kick-off date is next Monday June 13th. Get your bets in by markets closing time this Friday June 10th or either your picks or the $100 cash announcement no later than by Monday markets closing to join. More details in the header and right here below.
2- You start out with $100 fictive money, no real cash required.
Initiate your position by buying or shorting*) a stock, or by announcing your cash position, max 5 items - long, short or cash - , to Elroy as usual before closing hours on the Friday before a competition kick off. If no picks as yet, your "I'm in for $ 100" by same time will suffice, and further on any 'tradingday' (currently any single weekday, see header above) of your choice, as long as you get your order in before the trading closure that day.
Same day's - or first Monday kick off - closing price for your transaction applies.
*) Shorting stocks of PP 5$ value or higher only!
You can also sell or cover a short on same trading weekdays, again as long as you get your orders in before the market close of that day.
Sales and short covers pay a 1% commission on the amount as a trading cost. No trading costs for buys.
Sorry guys, but for technical reasons we cannot account for dividends in this competition, so just carry them to your bank with that smile ;)
3- "Stocks" mean US listed stock and traded on either Nasdaq, NYSE, incl. NYSE Alternext U.S. or NYSE MKT (former NYSE Amex).
No BBs, OBs, PKs, ETFs, PIZZAs or similar please!
If a stock gets delisted during the game, however, the owner must sell the shares or cover the shorts of said stock and will get the closing value of the next regular trading day within the contest period only.
In clear language, no purchases of or holding on to bulletin board or pinko sheet stocks!
4- You can invest long or short (shorting stock: PP min $5 min as is mostly the rule in the real investment world) but you can also start out or sit in (all) cash if so preferred.
Shorts will be valued as PP+(PP-DP).
PP=Purchasing Price, DP=Price of the Day.
5- Max 50% of the total portfolio at most in any single stock, long or short, initially and upon buying or shorting on your trading date of choice, which is one trading day only your choice every month.
No partial sales of a position and no additions to an existing position.
But you can always - on a trading day - liquidate all your holdings, long or short, and buy/short any stock including your previous holdings at the closing price of same or any later trading day of choice.
Your buy orders must be in no later than before same day's market close.
Initializing, holding or closing out your portfolio in all cash is allowed.
6- Post your picks - (long and/or short) or cash - during your choice of trading day, and you get your picks at their closing prices that same day.
Remember: max. 5 items in total incl cash positions if any.
7- Each participant is responsible for following the rules above and we expect same rules to be followed without any need for board cops.
Also make sure getting the symbols right or your whole transaction of that time may be declared void.
Should someone, however, by mistake enter an illegal order which is refused, then he will be allowed to put in a new order the next day.
No cheating please, such action will be punished by deduction of 2$ from the cheater's portfolio.
Ringmaster and 2 times winner Elroy exclusively rules in such cases - unless out-ruled by a majority of our board - or a hurricane!!! |
