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2017 Investment Contest - December 1st update posted!

WingsruleWingsrule Posts: 3,011 ✭✭✭✭
edited December 3, 2017 1:50PM in Precious Metals




Against my better judgement, let's do this one more time...

Post your picks for the best investment ideas for 2017!

Post your picks for standard, trackable, fungible securities with published prices before the calendar changes to 2017 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 previous contests would include Greek 10 year bonds and bitcoins.

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, there is a maximum of 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.

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Comments

  • CuKevinCuKevin Posts: 1,723 ✭✭✭✭

    1/4 each
    TMO
    AMN
    UA.C
    BAC

    Thank you for hosting this again! Sure to be another interesting year.

    Zircon Cases - Protect Your Vintage Slabs www.ZirconCases.com
    Choice Numismatics www.ChoiceCoin.com

    CN eBay

    All of my collection is in a safe deposit box!
  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 33,087 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 4, 2016 7:17AM

    https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/DUST180119C00020000?p=DUST180119C00020000

    DUST $20 Call - Jan 19th of 2018

    Ask is $34.50 today. Hit the ask on your first day of trading.

    Anything left put in a gift certificate.

    Oh, and value at the Bid, but on the last day, let me know and allow me to check the "real" bid at 5 seconds before close just in case the bid "falls open" to a stub order, thus undervaluing them. I expect these to be thinly traded unless right near the strike, so the only fair way to value them is to use the Bid. My only consolation for the Bid use is to allow me to get the "real" Bid on the last day.

    Current maintainer of Stone's Master List of Favorite Websites // My BST transactions
  • MesquiteMesquite Posts: 4,075 ✭✭✭

    Do an even split between these four. Thanks.

    FFMGF, GSV, MGPHF, LIXXF

    There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.
    –John Adams, 1826
  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,121 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "I'm all in" with: AGQ

    "Bongo drive 1984 Lincoln that looks like old coin dug from ground."
  • SmallTownCoinsSmallTownCoins Posts: 688 ✭✭

    Same as last year, 100% Silver Bullion.. Sooner or later it's gonna hit :-)

    Support your local Coin Shop
    LM-ANA3242-CSNS308-MSNS226-ICTA
  • derrybderryb Posts: 36,823 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 5, 2016 9:17AM

    All in with NUGT.

    thanx for your years of effort on this.

    "Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey

  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,762 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 17, 2016 9:18AM

    rxii 2/4 RXi Pharmicuticals
    bac 1/4 Bank of America
    elio 1/4 Elio motors

    I actually bought all. Did okay in this year's contest with a 15% gain.
    bob

    Registry: CC lowballs (boblindstrom), bobinvegas1989@yahoo.com
  • renman95renman95 Posts: 7,037 ✭✭✭✭✭

    CLD, KIQ, NUGT

  • bluelobsterbluelobster Posts: 1,220 ✭✭✭

    Thanks for doing this again, I'm going to go with the the 100x uranium ETF. URNADS .

  • pragmaticgoatpragmaticgoat Posts: 853 ✭✭✭

    Same JNUG all in. Thank You Wings!

    BST references:
    jdimmick;Gerard;wondercoin;claychaser;agentjim007;CCC2010;guitarwes;TAMU15;Zubie;mariner67;segoja;Smittys;kaz;CARDSANDCOINS;FadeToBlack;
    jrt103;tizofthe;bronze6827;mkman;Scootersdad;AllCoinsRule;coindeuce;dmarks;piecesofme; and many more
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  • joefrojoefro Posts: 1,872 ✭✭

    100% in GWPH. Thanks for offering to do this again!

    Lincoln Cent & Libertad Collector
  • jmski52jmski52 Posts: 22,850 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 8, 2016 3:23PM

    Same as 2016,

    1/3 TTT
    1/3 USLV
    1/3 (short) TSLA

    Thanks, Wings!

    Q: Are You Printing Money? Bernanke: Not Literally

    I knew it would happen.
  • cohodkcohodk Posts: 19,125 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Jmski52 has one good pick.

    Excuses are tools of the ignorant

    Knowledge is the enemy of fear

  • SNMANSNMAN Posts: 1,407 ✭✭✭

    ETRM
    CHK
    VRX

    Thank you

    Positive Transactions with: justindan; Drunner; Segoja, Dragon, fivecents, Connecticoin, WTCG, gsa1fan, abitofthisabitofthat; commoncents05;Broadstruck; and ......more
  • WingsruleWingsrule Posts: 3,011 ✭✭✭✭

    Captured up to here

  • 3stars3stars Posts: 2,287 ✭✭✭✭✭

    PLUG 100% - cant do any worse than 2016.

    Previous transactions: Wondercoin, goldman86, dmarks, Type2
  • jmski52jmski52 Posts: 22,850 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'd like to see cohodk's picks. Is he going to go out on a limb and actually play this year?

    Q: Are You Printing Money? Bernanke: Not Literally

    I knew it would happen.
  • aj2525raj2525r Posts: 120 ✭✭

    Thank you for doing this!

    Common stock split evenly between
    FTR - Frontier Communications (2017 should be better than 2016)
    JNJ - Johnson & Johnson

    I own a small amount of each.

    I still call my accumulation my collection!
  • mhammermanmhammerman Posts: 3,769 ✭✭✭

    OK, one more time. Two pics for 2017...IBM 50% and XOM 50%.

  • cohodkcohodk Posts: 19,125 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @jmski52 said:
    I'd like to see cohodk's picks. Is he going to go out on a limb and actually play this year?

    Prohibited.

    Excuses are tools of the ignorant

    Knowledge is the enemy of fear

  • BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,381 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'm in a quandary....I sucked with my 2016 picks, but am ending up in the middle of the pack.

    For 2017, I would WANT to win, as I usually post stock that I actually have or am buying....so I want it to succeed. But, in this case, it states that the WORST portfolio wins the price......argh

    I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment

  • s4nys4ny Posts: 1,569 ✭✭✭

    100% short LINN Energy LINEQ

  • SurfinxHISurfinxHI Posts: 2,457 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Tsla
    Sq
    Nvda
    Acad

    Dead people tell interesting tales.
  • EagleEyeEagleEye Posts: 7,677 ✭✭✭✭✭

    25% GLD (short)
    25% BOA
    25% GS
    25% XOM

    Doubt these will go to zero like my last pick.

    Rick Snow, Eagle Eye Rare Coins, Inc.Check out my new web site:
  • CoulportCoulport Posts: 1,087 ✭✭✭
    edited December 21, 2016 5:40AM

    Deutsche Bank (DB)
    Trying for the other end of the scale.

    Thanks for your efforts.

    The most money I made are on coins I haven't sold.

    Got quoins?
  • bluelobsterbluelobster Posts: 1,220 ✭✭✭

    @bluelobster said:
    Thanks for doing this again, I'm going to go with the the 100x uranium ETF. URNADS .

    Dang, apparently URNADS is not trading anymore ;~

    Ok, here are my real picks... 50% call option TBT Jan. 19 2018 strike 45, 50% CASC.

    Danke

  • ZubieZubie Posts: 1,160 ✭✭✭✭

    50% JNUG 3x Gold Miners
    50% USLV 3x Silver Miners

    Positive BST Transactions with:
    Overdate, BestMR, Weather11AM, TDEC1000, Carew4me, BigMarty58, Coinsarefun, Golfer72, UnknownComic, DMarks, JFoot13, ElKevvo, Truthteller, Duxbutt, TwoSides2aCoin, PerryHall, mhammerman, Papabear, Wingsrule, WTCG, MillerJW, Ciccio, zrlevin, dantheman984, tee135, jdimmick, gsa1fan, jmski52, SUMORADA, guitarwes, bstat1020, pitboss, meltdown, Schmitz7, 30AnvZ28, pragmaticgoat, wondercoin & MkMan123
    image
  • WingsruleWingsrule Posts: 3,011 ✭✭✭✭

    Captured to here.

  • 66Tbird66Tbird Posts: 2,858 ✭✭✭

    BOSCHLTD
    TTT
    TSLA

    Thank you for overseeing this again.

    Need something designed and 3D printed?
  • Musky1011Musky1011 Posts: 3,899 ✭✭✭✭

    50% KO
    50% HOG

    Pilgrim Clock and Gift Shop.. Expert clock repair since 1844

    Menomonee Falls Wisconsin USA

    http://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistr...dset.aspx?s=68269&ac=1">Musky 1861 Mint Set
  • WingsruleWingsrule Posts: 3,011 ✭✭✭✭

    Just a few days remaining to enter your picks.

  • hopsinhopsin Posts: 212 ✭

    100% short tvix

    Positive BST transactions with Timbuk3, coindeuce, charlottedude.
  • carew4mecarew4me Posts: 3,471 ✭✭✭✭

    %90 DUST
    %10 FB


    Loves me some shiny!
  • BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,381 ✭✭✭✭✭

    40% FSENX
    30% BAC
    30% GPRO

    I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment

  • DrBusterDrBuster Posts: 5,379 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I will once again donate a 1/2oz something or another for the middle spot portfolio.

  • jesseboxingcardguyjesseboxingcardguy Posts: 128 ✭✭

    NDEV MJNA 50/50

    jesse6131414
  • JohnnyCacheJohnnyCache Posts: 1,761 ✭✭✭✭✭

    100% DRYS

    Charles III Album

    Charles III Portrait Set

    Charles IV Album

    Charles IV Portrait Set

    Spanish Colonial Pillar Set

  • DrBusterDrBuster Posts: 5,379 ✭✭✭✭✭

    50/50
    SDRL
    XXII

  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,660 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Since it has done better in odd years than even ones, optimistic for 2017

    HALO

    Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry

  • OperationButterOperationButter Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭

    navi

    Gold is for savings. Fiat is for transactions.



    BST Transactions (as the seller): Collectall, GRANDAM, epcjimi1, wondercoin, jmski52, wheathoarder, jay1187, jdsueu, grote15, airplanenut, bigole
  • OverdateOverdate Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭✭✭

    100% WMIH

    My Adolph A. Weinman signature :)

  • bronco2078bronco2078 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭✭✭✭

    100% Greek 10 year bonds again GGB10YR its been a bad pick 3 years running so this year could be the charm if the idea is to come in dead last

  • piecesofmepiecesofme Posts: 6,669 ✭✭✭

    1/3 each please.
    $3k for VR Validus Holdings
    $3k for NUE Nucor Corp.
    $3k for OIH Jan. 2018 $45 Call, Ask is currently .79.
    thanks for doing this.

    To forgive is to free a prisoner, and to discover that prisoner was you.
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,293 ✭✭✭✭✭

    20% APT
    30% OMER
    50% P

  • WingsruleWingsrule Posts: 3,011 ✭✭✭✭

    Initial picks shown in the first post. Please review your choices to make sure I captured them properly. The yellow indicates a short position and is only there to make sure I have the calculations correct.

    For those of you who picked options, the price shown is the midpoint between bid / ask. That is how it will be recorded during the occasional updates as well.

  • piecesofmepiecesofme Posts: 6,669 ✭✭✭

    @Wingsrule said:
    Initial picks shown in the first post. Please review your choices to make sure I captured them properly. The yellow indicates a short position and is only there to make sure I have the calculations correct.

    For those of you who picked options, the price shown is the midpoint between bid / ask. That is how it will be recorded during the occasional updates as well.

    Looks very good, thanks again for putting it together.

    To forgive is to free a prisoner, and to discover that prisoner was you.
  • renman95renman95 Posts: 7,037 ✭✭✭✭✭

    How am I doing so far?

  • OverdateOverdate Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Woo-hoo! I'm tied for first place (for another six hours).

    My Adolph A. Weinman signature :)

  • cohodkcohodk Posts: 19,125 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Baley is strong out of the gates

    Excuses are tools of the ignorant

    Knowledge is the enemy of fear

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