Weekly Stock Challenge (with trading DVD prize) - 10/2/09

[Thierry Martin]

OnlineTradersForum.com Stock Picking Challenge

Pick the highest percentage mover and your win will be recorded next to your name in the forum.

Choose any stock that trades in the US market that closed at $2.00 or over with at least 100,000 share volume as of the Friday close before the contest starts on Monday.

Your entry price will be the market open price on Monday.

A brief rationale for your pick makes the contest more fun.

This week we are awarding a prize for first place - the winner gets a trading course on CDRom from our sponsor at Ino TV (http://www.ino.com/info/260/CD28/&dp=0&l=0&campaignid=9) - "Market Wizards" by Jack Schwager. Good luck!

[jlcnuke]

Going away from my tradition of picking leveraged ETF's this week.. ALU long.

[RedStripe]

Emge short

[okrobie]

FAS long please

[rkahn]

syna long

[Wonder]

DRAM Short

[1960vw]

IMAX long, king of pop film, MJ, will make this puppy run! :wink:

[Florida]

CPLP long

[gsavli]

LUNA long

[intowin]

ABAT long

[dtk]

ADES long plz

[stockguru77]

dto short

[gferrets]

ETFC

[two_iron]

STEC long

[HooctAwnFonix]

GMCR long

[doublereed]

Lets go short AMR again, just for the sake of I haven't looked at anything else yet.

[DJ5]

med short

[Bama Nation]

HERO Long

[richmondsatellite]

GNW short

[Willw11747]

UDN Long

[freakscene]

NVAX short

[Ragewizard]

Yamana Gold Inc. (AUY) long

[Thierry Martin]

ETFC is disqualified because it closed below $2 on Friday.

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[brightcreek]

NVAX short

[Thierry Martin]

NVAX short


I don't know if you are late for this week or early for next week. The picks should come in between Friday market close and Monday market open.

[AlienJedi]

I don't know if you are late for this week or early for next week. The picks should come in between Friday market close and Monday market open.
Look at your list...you got "reakscene"- should be freakscene listed as short for NVAX...or maybe he is just a little bit special :).

[Thierry Martin]

Look at your list...you got "reakscene"- should be freakscene listed as short for NVAX...or maybe he is just a little bit special :).

Thanks, fixed.

[Thierry Martin]

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[yoyomama]

I'm curious, is a stock in the contest that is suspended from trading by the SEC count? Enquiring minds...

[RedStripe]

noting in the rules that says it doesn't :)

[Thierry Martin]

I'm curious, is a stock in the contest that is suspended from trading by the SEC count? Enquiring minds...

I don't remember this ever happening before. There is no rule concerning it.

[yoyomama]

I figured the challenge was for stocks that traded for the entire specified week, not the first two days of the week only.

[Thierry Martin]

I figured the challenge was for stocks that traded for the entire specified week, not the first two days of the week only.

That wouldn't be something you could predict. However, in the real world, what would happen? You wouldn't be able to sell the stock at the end of the week. So no profit could be made.

Perhaps the stock will resume trading today or tomorrow. They usually only halt trading for a short time.

[Thierry Martin]

Here is an interesting blog post (http://timothysykes.com/blog/2009/09/30/how-timalert-subscribers-i-made-10000-short-selling-this-penny-stock/) about the shorting of this penny stock pump-and-dump and the halting of trading.

[Thierry Martin]

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[Thierry Martin]

Since we don't have a rule for what happened this week with Redstripe's pick halted, I will declare two winners, Redstripe and Wonder. Congratulations to both of you!

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