2015 Investment Contest - FINAL Results Posted
Wingsrule
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Post your picks for the best investment ideas for 2015!
Post your picks for standard, trackable, fungible securities with published prices before the calendar changes to 2015, and let them run throughout the year. The goal is highest % increase in one calendar year. One entry per person. Post them here or send a PM. For those of you who pick something where a quote isn’t readily available on Yahoo! Finance, please post a link or website where it can be tracked. Examples from the 2013 or 2014 contests would include Greek 10 year bonds, bitcoins and ammo, as I am assuming at least one person will include that in their portfolio.
Same rules as last year. We'll start with a $9,000 portfolio (since it is evenly divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, etc.).
To keep the list manageable, try to limit yourself to 3 or at most 4 picks (naturally, performance of both good and bad picks will be "diluted" by diversification from more than one pick).
We'll assume even division among the assets, if more than one is chosen, unless some other proportion is specified before the deadline.
You need to advise me when a split or dividend happens.
We'll track the picks periodically throughout the year. I will commit to at least one update per calendar month. I would like to do it more often, but can’t guarantee that.
At the end of the contest, I will donate a 1 oz silver bar, ASE, etc. to the person with the lowest portfolio balance.
Here's to a profitable year, Have fun!
*NO naked puts.
Notes to all: 3stars has replaced CMGO with FCEL. Renman95 has also pointed out I had him listed twice, with one of his choices of "TTT" being deleted as I misinterpreted it as his entry.
Post your picks for standard, trackable, fungible securities with published prices before the calendar changes to 2015, and let them run throughout the year. The goal is highest % increase in one calendar year. One entry per person. Post them here or send a PM. For those of you who pick something where a quote isn’t readily available on Yahoo! Finance, please post a link or website where it can be tracked. Examples from the 2013 or 2014 contests would include Greek 10 year bonds, bitcoins and ammo, as I am assuming at least one person will include that in their portfolio.
Same rules as last year. We'll start with a $9,000 portfolio (since it is evenly divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, etc.).
To keep the list manageable, try to limit yourself to 3 or at most 4 picks (naturally, performance of both good and bad picks will be "diluted" by diversification from more than one pick).
We'll assume even division among the assets, if more than one is chosen, unless some other proportion is specified before the deadline.
You need to advise me when a split or dividend happens.
We'll track the picks periodically throughout the year. I will commit to at least one update per calendar month. I would like to do it more often, but can’t guarantee that.
At the end of the contest, I will donate a 1 oz silver bar, ASE, etc. to the person with the lowest portfolio balance.
Here's to a profitable year, Have fun!
*NO naked puts.
Notes to all: 3stars has replaced CMGO with FCEL. Renman95 has also pointed out I had him listed twice, with one of his choices of "TTT" being deleted as I misinterpreted it as his entry.
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LM-ANA3242-CSNS308-MSNS226-ICTA
RAD 20%
GE 40%
INTC 40%
Thanks for another year of the contest, WR!
Silver 50%
Too many positive BST transactions with too many members to list.
Thanks!
50% PLUG
Glad its not real money...
Let it ride!
RVM 50% (year end closing price 73.67c)
edit - added yr end closing prices
I knew it would happen.
<< <i>What's the deadline? I'm still thinkin'. >>
Ditto
Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry
<< <i>I'll guess it's midnight, 12/31/14, but what timezone? >>
Zulu!
Edit: That is a time zone, not a pick.
50% gold
Matt
UGAZ - 30%
FCX - 40%
Thanks Wingsrule!!!
Charles III Album
Charles III Portrait Set
Charles IV Album
Charles IV Portrait Set
Spanish Colonial Pillar Set
BABA: 33%
TRQ: 33%
When is the entry deadline? 31st? Or limited to a certain number of participants?
FNMA 30%
RDWD 5%
Call Option SLV, Exp. 2016-01-15, Strike Price $14. (SLV160115C00014000) 15%
My Adolph A. Weinman signature
Especially when they buy Amazon, precipitating WWIII (ok, only 1/2 serious about the war).
BP
GDXJ
Even amounts.
Thanks for all your effort.
Got quoins?
I'm thinking sun screen. With that said, I'm going 100% with CSIQ for 2015.
FAS 50%
SPXL 50%
Thanks for the fun.
50% FAZ
Thanks!
BST Transactions (as the seller): Collectall, GRANDAM, epcjimi1, wondercoin, jmski52, wheathoarder, jay1187, jdsueu, grote15, airplanenut, bigole
$3,000 on TNX.TO
$3,000 short TSLA
I knew it would happen.
50% REDF
50% SIFY
Knowledge is the enemy of fear
1/3: USO
1/3: SPY
TTT
50% NYMEX WTI Crude
Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry
25% AFMD
25% ARRY
Danke
50% CNAT
50% CTAS
Same thing this year . 100% greek 10 year bonds symbol GGB10yr .
Menomonee Falls Wisconsin USA
http://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistr...dset.aspx?s=68269&ac=1">Musky 1861 Mint Set
BABA 25%
AAPL 25%
FB 25%
TNH
KIQ
ACAD
GILD
Cheers,
Surf
Collecting:
- Post War baseball HOF RC's
- 1980's unopened baseball
- All Mutoscope and American Beauties
<< <i>Hey wings. Thx for doing this again!
TNH
KIQ
ACAD
GILD
Cheers,
Surf >>
Oh no you didn't.
XOM $3000
SVM $3000
ZOES $1000
BABA $2000
30% CLCT
thanks and good luck to all~
Partner @Gold Hill Coin
$2000 short EUR/USD
1/4 discover financial services (dfs)
1/4 northrop grumman (noc)
1/4 vanguard reit index fund reit shares (vnq)
I am playing the trend of continuing growth in healthcare, banks/consumer finance improving with rising interest rates, an uptick in defense spending due to the recent elections, and I am sticking with what works in real estate, along with the dividends-which are being added to our YTD gains, no?
1. GSV
2. KMI
3. NSRPF
4. OHI
Thanks for setting this up.
Mesquite
–John Adams, 1826
<< <i>You should post the results of the 2014 investment contest after the financial markets close today at 4...I want to see how everybody did. >>
....or Wingsrule can enjoy the holiday and all the football action and post the results at his convenience.
Thanks again to Wingsrule for the work in this free and fun environment.
Happy New Year all.
… Now, if PCGS would do the World Series of Trading again…. that was a fun contest.