{"id":802,"date":"2010-04-01T08:42:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T13:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=802"},"modified":"2013-09-23T00:26:04","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T05:26:04","slug":"2010-blogger-stock-picking-contest-q1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=802","title":{"rendered":"2010 Blogger Stock Picking Contest &#8211; Q1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I look to be in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.four-pillars.ca\/2010\/03\/31\/best-stock-picks-for-2010-competition\/\">dead last<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p>HBU is up, but I had shorted it (-0.6%)<br \/>\nFRE-W is down a bit, but the more liquid -Z preferred issue is up (-11.6%)<br \/>\nIM is up to $6.64 (+25.3%)<br \/>\nAONE is down to $13.74 (-38.8%)<\/p>\n<p>If my math is right, these picks are down 25.7% overall on the quarter (note that my real-life investments are not this risky and have not been as terrible!)<\/p>\n<p>Note that this is a game with a set end-date so looking for value is not necessarily the way to go \u00e2\u20ac\u201d often a shoot-the-moon approach works well in these kind of games. So bear that in mind, and don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t consider any of these as recommendations for you to actually buy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I look to be in dead last: HBU is up, but I had shorted it (-0.6%) FRE-W is down a bit, but the more liquid -Z preferred issue is up (-11.6%) IM is up to $6.64 (+25.3%) AONE is down to $13.74 (-38.8%) If my math is right, these picks are down 25.7% overall on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}