Monthly Stock Pickers Challenge February 2006

Starting price

Luc1Grunt
GW - 8.54
KMB - 57.12
PD - 160.86

 

Sorry.

 

Lots of Red on the ol' spreadsheet thus far. Only real stocks that have made significant gains (>5%) on the first 3 days of this challenge are :

PAL
+13.16% (xboilermaker)

SEED
+8.27% (TripleBuy)

PRLS
+7.04% (TheChartGuru)

I'll post the weekly stats after the closing bell.

Good Luck to all!

 

Weekly Standings as of 2/3:

xboilermaker
+3.79%

TheChartGuru
+2.83%

Booyahoo
+.96%

BuyOnDips
+.16%

TripleBuy
+.01%

Luc1Grunt
-1.13%

englishman26
-1.31%

Stockviper
-1.54%

Investing Moron
-1.66%

wqcustom
-1.67%

2 Worldz
-1.88%

beatthestreet
-2.08%

ChronicDDL
-3.33%

Will
-3.48%


Early Gainers include:

PAL
+13.06% (xboilermaker)

PRLS
+9.19% (TheChartGuru)

SEED
+5.97% (TripleBuy)


Early Losers include:

SIRI
-5.66% (ChronicDDL)

LSS
-4.34% (Investing Moron)

PTR
-4.23% (Will)

 

Where's TripleBuy?

Leading in the monthly challenge seems like a distant memory now, and I have been wondering what happened to TripleBuy. I miss his weekly updates. Maybe vacationing in Bimini or some other exotic tropical paradise with his winnings?

 

Can we have an update on the monthly please? I would appreciate it, thanks!

 

Thanks TCG - I took a look at PRLS early this week, bought in and picked up 10% gain Monday to Friday (planned and pre-programmed exit point) and it's appearing to still be going higher.
Good job.

 

I'm in PRLS for the second time. Copped a profit and got back in a little early this time, day before valentines day @ 6.75, so back in the green finally.

 

I just adapted the spreadsheet I was using for the weekly thing and I'll post the monthly results tomorrow night!

 

Investingmoron is currently winning with a gain of 3.4% for the month. CHIC really pulled through for him.

Buyondips is second with 1.5%

Everyone else is negative, with an investment average of -3.1% Oh dear!

Well maybe tomorrow everything will change!!

 

My problem with the contest is that I rarely look at stocks above $25.00. I spent about 1 minute picking UBS and INTU using MSN's stock screener. The way things are going today, my overall % might be 0.00. Hopefully March will be better.

 

A bad month!

Investingmoron is the monthly stockpicking winner! Congrats! The best of a bad bunch though really. I think we were all investing morons in the month of february! I hope march brings better things!

 

Yes, we didn't do well last month. But at least I'm glad I actually purchased a few shares of TIBX. Congrats to InvestingMoron!

 

The entry for my pick, PGR was wrong. PGR has never been at $141.40. The entry price for PGR should be $104.60. That's a 2.7% gain

The Guru has spoken

 

Thanks Englishman!

I didn't mind losing a little for the challenge. The bad part is I decided to put my money where my mouth was and actually own some BTU & FIZ. I feel confident that these companies will do OK in the long run, but we did have a bad month. I sold my WFMI a few weeks ago but may get back in.

 

Sorry TCG - I just took Triplebuy's entry prices that he posted a month ago. You're right - it never got anywhere near $141! It does indeed look like it was $104.60.

This would mean you had an overall gain of 8.4% for the month making you the winner by a mile!


CORRECTION: 1st place: Thechartguru 8.4%



I'l run the monthly challenge this month I'll make sure I get the entry prices right!

 

Thank you. I would like to receive this award in honor of all my friends, family members and all my fans. I couldn't have done it without you.

The Guru has spoken

 

*concedes title to TCG*

 

I'm closing this thread - the March thread is here:
http://www.cramersmadmoney.com/showthread.php?t=2283

Congratulations TheChartGuru - send me your address and I will send you a copy of Conquer the Crash by Robert Prechter Jr. - next month's winner gets one also.