Stockopedia Seasonal Challenge - win £200

ok rankings are now live... we are still tweaking the back end, so let us know if there are any valuation anomalies... good to see yours truly and murakami right up there in the leading pack!

This Week's Challenge Leader is one of our Money Show entrants, A Singh, up over 20% after only 4 days of competition (the picks were Serabi Mining, Cryptologic Ltd and Medic Vision Ltd). Of our non-Money Show regulars, the current leader is ohisay (Tower Resources, Horizonte Minerals, Kryso Resources), followed some way behind by Stockhound.

But it's very early days!!

Two weeks in and salty64 has stormed into the lead, up 45.7% after a massive spike due to the outperformance last week of Range Resources

RRL - down 46% today - sic transit etc

Congratulations to Alano20 - currently leading the Challenge, up 51% but closely tailed by salty64, tacheman and doverbeach amongst others.

What a smart community we have here... Aminex picked by 26 people and putting all the familiar names at the top of the chart!

Hi murakami,

I have a couple of questions:

1. Is there any way of seeing the details of an entry easily, i.e. starting prices, current prices?
2. Do the prices used take dividends into account? In particular, one of my entries, Carpathian, has gone ex- a significant special dividend?

TIA,

Mark

In reply to marben100 (post #80)

Sorry for delayed reply.

1) That should be possible - we need to spend a bit of time adding it but happy to do that in due course. We are working on some big changes to the site at the end of this month (you might call it Stockopedia 3.0. Watch this space, we will be showing a preview soon) but once those changes are out of the way, we should be able to address this.

2) Afraid not. We want to keep this type of game very simple - just like an automated version of the 20% up Oil & Gas competition. Once any bugs are ironed out, the idea is that Top Contributors can email us if they would like to set up a special competition and we will run it on the site, so we are keen to keep it relatively low maintenance from our perspective.

Dividends, right issues and anything complex will of course be factored into the 2010 Fund Challenge, which will start again for this year on March 31st, so we'd encourage people to sign up for that by creating a Fund.

All the best,

M

...mmmm......the 45 day halfway mark! 

Some very impressive performances, with the top three running at over 7% per week....

...question is, will anyone hit 100% gain by the end of February? That would be a stellar outcome for a three stock pick over three months!

ee

I am still holding all three of my picks and whilst showing at present 19% average on AEX and RRL I am still hovering at -5% on COP.  Even so if I could maintain that % profit each month  for the remainder of the year I would be very pleased to say the least.

Salty

What's happening with the price/performance updates - they haven't changed in days (and I know my picks have gone backwards!) ?

Thanks for pointing it out SM - all is back as it should be! You are at 23% overall... with AEX +50% and the other two up 12% and 7% approximately.

Congrats to all our AEX holders.

Only two weeks left to run for the Seasonal Challenge - as they are coming to the home straight, it's Alano leading the pack by quite a margin, with ohisay  and alihaouas chasing behind.

In reply to Murakami (post #86)

This is developing into the East African Derby.!

AEX ,TRP,GBP,COV,DPL ,TLW  - did I miss any ?

[As it happens I'm in the fortunate position of having real world investments in all the above]

All in all a great contest these past few months.

In reply to Murakami (post #86)

... as they are coming to the home straight, it's now the professional jockey well to the front.  He's seven lengths ahead with only five furlongs to run.  Over to you....

Hi All, we have corrected for the Brit Insurance 4 for 1 share consolidation that some of you pointed out, which was wildly throwing off the results on Friday but we are still checking the remaining results, so nothing's official until we finish this. Watch this space!

And the winner is... DJ Preston! Many congratulations on a magnificent run in the closing phase of the Challenge and thanks to everyone for participating in the Game. Very impressive that so many frequent Contributors to Stockopedia ranked in the top quartile and, indeed, in the top 10, so hopefully that demonstrates the value of sharing investing ideas on social media sites like Stockopedia! We hope you enjoyed it - we will be running further Challenges like this, so if you have any thoughts on how they could be improved or made more fun, please do let us know by email (the address is admin @ stockopedia.co.uk). One thought is adding some sector-specific Challenges but other ideas very welcome!

Well done, Darron - you leapt clear at the end!

Sector-specific comps would be good (such as the monthly oily-one), or particular index constituent-based perhaps, such as FTSE 100, AIM, etc...

Need.....another.....comp......! :o|

SM

In reply to StrollingMolby (post #91)

Well done Darron!

I disagree about having one more sector specific comp though: to me the value of this was to show how choices made outside the narrow world of oils or mines or whatever  fared.  If it opens our eyes to other possibilities for sucessful  investment, and also shows in some cases that what you may have been vaguely considering is not such a good idea after all, these are surely valuable lessons.  I would prefer to keep it as is for a bit.

I think a variety of competitions would be a good idea. All short-term (1 - 3 months) to keep up the interest - an annual competition with a big prize only has value as a marketing tool for the launch period - after that its a Yawn. Better to have 12 competitions with small prizes.

Sector ones - might struggle apart from oil&gas and mining. But those would be fun, and appealing to many of the current members.

I think that FTSE 100 or 250 competitions would also be good and might be of more interest to potential new users, or existing users who don't actively post? An ETFs or ITs competition would also be interesting. But a way needs to be found of allowing for dividends.

There needs to be an automatic way of rejecting out duplicate entries - I had the same entry as tacheman in the comp that has just finished :(

db