[Uglyowl]

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Good challenge. I don't want to deal with the hassles of betting real money with a stranger on the internet, but here are my picks to outperform the appropriate indices:
PRAA
MMM
STX
RSTI
CREE
SIRF
MIK

We'll use the closing price today as the basis cost. No trading. In 6 months, if I'm ahead, I'll bump the thread to brag. If you're ahead, you can bump it. [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

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Nice work so far. Assuming you have equally weighted investments, you are up 10.0% so far (vs. S&P 1.6% and NASDAQ 0.1%):

PRAA +27.4%
MMM +1.1%
STX +19.7%
RSTI +7.4%
CREE <font color="red">-2.5% </font>
SIRF +12.0%
MIK +4.5%