intheblack lets play, page-2

Hi glotch. Thanks for your message and the challenge contained therein. I hereby accept the challenge and invite all other HotCopper users to join us in taking part. Perhaps to add to the educational value, users could provide reasons for their stock choices.

I should mention, however, that vulgar language should be avoided as it is offensive and adds nothing to the quality of the discussion.

Before I list my five stocks of choice, we must first negotiate the terms of the challenge. You suggested that the winner should be the person with the greatest percentage increase in the share price aggregate of the five stocks. This is an unreliable indicator of performance, as it weights companies according to their share prices. Instead, we should assume an EQUAL investment in all five companies. That is, we each start with $2,000 invested in each of five companies. Going by this method, my picks are:

37 STW @ 54.67 = 2022.79
272 ARG @ 7.35 = 1999.20
380 CHO @ 5.25 = 1995.00
99 MLT @ 20.06 = 1985.94
557 DUI @ 3.59 = 1999.63

TOTAL VALUE = $10002.56

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Your picks are:

6667 ARR @ 0.30 = 2000.10
9524 NAN @ 0.21 = 2000.04
4494 SEA @ 0.445 = 1999.83
5333 SLA @ 0.375 = 1999.88
80000 SSC @ 0.025 = 2000.00

TOTAL VALUE = $9999.85