I am not sure where KoalaBear33 is, but he has not posted our contest rankings since February. Until he returns, I hope that y'all will be interested in keeping everyone current by posting each of our portfolio's share balances and total value every month. This post is for our portfolio values for cob 5/30/08.

It would be really great if one of our more computer-literate contestants could create a list or chart showing our current ranks --better than the one I have below. Even if you enrolled in the contest at the end of 2007, your ranking can't be included if you don't post your portfolio stuff here. None of us has this data collated for the entire group.

Ranks for the 7 contestants that reported for cob 5/2/08 are reported as follows... 5/2/08, 2/29/08 & 1/28/08 ranks and YTD returns:

1, 5, 19		JohnDough	+22.40%		$122,400
2, 17, 31		frogfan	+10.62%		$110,620
3, 12, 7		EagleTed	+1.33%		$101,330
4, 3, 11		HerbDeno	-1.25%		$98,750
5, 14, 8		Santa Cruz	-3.34%		$96,663
6, 19, 17		rascfw	-12.64%		$87,357
7, 28, 38		Munchkin Man	-38.36%		$61,640

For reference, here's links to our three previous 2008 rankings....

for January, SP # 2483046 for cob 1/28/08

for February, SP # 2493314 for cob 2/29/08

for April, SP # 2514320 for cob 5/3/08

After the market closes tomorrow, I will post the YTD returns for various indexes.

Make life simple and round up or down to a full dollar, then report your 5/30/08 YTD total portfolio value and also your positive or negative YTD % return.

I strongly suggest that we each recap each of our personal positions for the benefit of the other contestants... the share balance and ticker for each of our stock picks for the StockPickers 2008 contest. 

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Regards,

Susan

(aka rascfw)