{"id":849,"date":"2010-07-02T23:54:22","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T04:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=849"},"modified":"2013-10-11T23:48:32","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T04:48:32","slug":"2010-blogger-stock-picking-contest-q2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=849","title":{"rendered":"2010 Blogger Stock Picking Contest &#8211; Q2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My picks look even worse over the last 3 months. <\/p>\n<p>HBU is up, but I had shorted it (-23.6%)<br \/>\nFRE-W was doing ok for a while there, then in June the political risk reared its head, and the government decided to delist the shares, sending it spiralling down (-65%)<br \/>\nIM reversed its gains to be basically flat (-7%)<br \/>\nAONE is down even more (-59%)<\/p>\n<p>If my math is right, these picks are down 38.6% overall since the beginning of the contest, putting me squarely in last place (note that my real-life investments are not this risky and have not been as terrible!)<\/p>\n<p>Remember 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>My picks look even worse over the last 3 months. HBU is up, but I had shorted it (-23.6%) FRE-W was doing ok for a while there, then in June the political risk reared its head, and the government decided to delist the shares, sending it spiralling down (-65%) IM reversed its gains to be [&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\/849"}],"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=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}