JEast Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 In the spirit of determining how potentially hard investing can be, and more importantly, to have a little fun with board member cohorts, I put forward a friendly contest. The goal is set for a bogey of negative 10% alpha against our global benchmark of MSCI ACWI since we are a global board. If you care to join the party in our intellectual contest, your list must contain a portfolio of at least 10 positions (no more than 20) and for you crafters out there, the positions must be available for trading. The list is to be presented in alphabetical order with equal weighting. Portfolio entries accepted up until January 4th 2014. A tally of the entries will be conducted as of November 30th 2014 to see how many contestants’ portfolios actually exceeded the MSCI ACWI just to spite us. A portfolio from contestant #1 follows below: Contestant #1 AMZN ANF AZO BBBY CPA CRM EVEP FMD LULU MNST NFLX PHI PNRA STRA UAN WSM 6.25% Each Position Let the games commence! As this is primarily an intellectual exercise, one should invert caveat emptor heavily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frommi Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 ALXN AMAVF ASOMY DDD DSNY FB FNGN GENT GILD ILMN LGND LNKD SSTK TSLA TWTR ULTI WETF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hielko Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 CRM VEEV TXTR STPFQ DDD TWTR NQ VVUS QCOR VJET Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blainehodder Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 In the spirit of determining how potentially hard investing can be, and more importantly, to have a little fun with board member cohorts, I put forward a friendly contest. The goal is set for a bogey of negative 10% alpha against our global benchmark of MSCI ACWI since we are a global board. If you care to join the party in our intellectual contest, your list must contain a portfolio of at least 10 positions (no more than 20) and for you crafters out there, the positions must be available for trading. The list is to be presented in alphabetical order with equal weighting. Portfolio entries accepted up until January 4th 2014. A tally of the entries will be conducted as of November 30th 2014 to see how many contestants’ portfolios actually exceeded the MSCI ACWI just to spite us. A portfolio from contestant #1 follows below: Contestant #1 AMZN ANF AZO BBBY CPA CRM EVEP FMD LULU MNST NFLX PHI PNRA STRA UAN WSM 6.25% Each Position Let the games commence! As this is primarily an intellectual exercise, one should invert caveat emptor heavily. I'm curious JEast, why AZO? Financials are amazing. Not even a blip in the recession. What do you see in AZO as a short candidate? http://www.gurufocus.com/financials/AZO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orange Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 CSI.TO CWTR DXM GNI OSTK ;) TGRO THEGQ USU VISN WHX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otsog Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 SPSC GWRE HT MLNX LNKD NMRX SYUT CXP PLD MIC INXN MNK LOCK KMP AVIV DOOR CCOI ENV VOYA NTRI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorrofan Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 this should be fun!! amzn bbby lnkd lulu mnst nflx tlt tmf tsla twtr cheers Zorro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
constructive Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 1. FNMA 2. FMCC 3. GRPN 4. ANGI 5. RSOL 6. PRTS 7. VNCE 8. USU 9. NEWL 10. GSI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkbabang Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 BBRY BBY BH CBRL FB GME HLF MJNA NFLX TWTR EDIT: I thought it was up to ten, not at least ten positions. I added 3 more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racemize Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 I'm just going to go mostly IPOs I think: TWTR LNKD P GRPN ZNGA YELP FB and I'll throw in TSLA Alternatively, what if the answer is 100% cash? Perhaps that is much better, it would certainly work over the long haul... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orange Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Nobody else has GNI? Y'all aren't on your game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
constructive Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Nobody else has GNI? Y'all aren't on your game. Considering the ultra high borrow, didn't think it really met the spirit of the challenge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orange Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Nobody else has GNI? Y'all aren't on your game. Considering the ultra high borrow, didn't think it really met the spirit of the challenge. I was under the impression that this was a contest for who could pick the worst longs, as OP never mentioned short selling. If the borrow is to be considered, a very large % of the picks submitted would have to be reconsidered. As far as I can tell, everyone who posted so far has at least one pick that either impossible, or too expensive to borrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItsAValueTrap Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 CGA FU EBIX CHLN LLEN HGSH NQ TTS RVLT JRCC I guess choosing stocks like STPFQ would go against the spirit of this contest? If you choose 10 bankrupt stocks (especially the ones that are the most flawed), then you will have a really good chance at being #1 because you need an extreme result to be #1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wachtwoord Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 1. DDD 2. CZR 3. CSGP 4. JASO 5. MU 6. NFLX 7. SHLD 8. SPWR 9. TWTR 10. UA 11. YGE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watsa_is_a_randian_hero Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 ALGN CAMP GNI OZRK QUMO SHW TLT TVIX UG UVXY WHX Equal Weighted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest deepValue Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Edit: now sorted alphabetically BRLI CYBX KEYW OLED PHMD PSSI QCOR SGMO TWTR WRLD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest longinvestor Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 AAPL AKAM CMSCA DISH FB GOOG LNKD NFLX SFW T TSLA TWTR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enoch01 Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 EBIX RY CRM Equal weighted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
txitxo Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 Cobalt International Energy Theravance MannKind Opko Health Qlik Technologies Sprouts Farmers Market Advanced Micro Devices Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wachtwoord Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 Everyone: at least 10 positions are required. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edward Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 I'll give it a go: Veeva Systems Inc (NYSE:VEEV) Textura Corp (NYSE:TXTR) Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) salesforce.com, inc. (NYSE:CRM) Pandora Media Inc (NYSE:P) Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF) Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT) Fortescue Metals Group Limited (ASX:FMG) Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
compoundinglife Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 Equal weight: ARR CMG CRM DDD GMCR HLF N NFLX SBH TSLA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JEast Posted January 4, 2014 Author Share Posted January 4, 2014 Looks like we have fifteen (15) brave souls meeting the minimum requirements. Brave souls that were tempted to play fate with Mr. Market. Also looks like a few repeat names, so for you contrarians, your signal to buy plenty of calls. Cheers JEast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
compoundinglife Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 I just figured out that I did not follow directions on my original post. It is now sorted alphabetically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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