DAILY NEWS STOCK PICKING CONTEST.THE GAME: Five investors from aound the region are managing fictitious Based upon a fabrication or pretense. A fictitious name is an assumed name that differs from an individual's actual name. A fictitious action is a lawsuit brought not for the adjudication of an actual controversy between the parties but merely for the purpose of portfolios that stood at $100,000 today. Contestants can buy and sell daily, but each transaction costs Transaction Costs Costs incurred when buying or selling securities. These include brokers' commissions and spreads (the difference between the price the dealer paid for a security and the price they can sell it). $50. The portfolios are limited to stocks traded on the nation's major exchanges THE PAYOFF: Whoever has the largest portfolio at the end of February February: see month. stands tallest. FIRST PLACE NAME: Leona Leona is a female variant of the name Leo or Leon. Places Leona may refer to:
Leona is the name of:
STOCK PORTFOLIO: BitWise Dealing with bits rather than larger structures such as a byte. For example, each of the eight bits in a byte can be used as an individual flag to signal yes/no, on/off (1 or 0) about some condition. The Boolean operators AND, OR and NOT also deal with individual bits rather than bytes. Designs, 28,500 shares; Perle Systems Perle Systems is a Canadian company based in Markham, Ontario that develops and manufactures serial communications products. Product lines include terminal servers, device servers, serial console servers, serial cards, USB to serial adapters and remote access products. , 13,000 shares; Corel (Corel Corporation, Ottawa, Ontario, www.corel.com) A leading Canadian software company, founded in 1985 by Dr. Michael Cowpland. For many years, it has been widely known for its award-winning CorelDRAW graphics programs for Windows, Mac and Unix. Corp., 7,650 shares. TRANSACTIONS LAST WEEK: Bought 3,000 shares of MindSpring Enterprises at $32.3125, bought 20,000 shares of Individual Investor Group at $4.50, bought 1,250 shares of BigStar Entertainment Inc. at $7.50, sold 500 shares of Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the Holders Trust at $153.9375, sold 1,000 shares of Sun MicroSystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. Inc. at $146.50, sold 3,000 shares of MindSpring at $36, sold 20,000 shares of Individual Investor Group at $3.75, sold 1,250 shares of BigStar Entertainment Inc. at $6.6875, bought 8,645 shares of Digital Island at $69.625, sold 8,650 shares of Digital Island at $114.9375, bought 35,000 shares of Vertel Corp. at $3.21875, bought 2,000 shares of CostCo Wholesale Corp. at $94.50, sold 35,000 shares of Vertel Corp. at $9, sold 2,000 shares of CostCo at $91.9375, bought 28,500 shares of BitWise Designs at $10.50, bought 13,000 shares of Perle Systems at $22.875, bought 7,650 shares of Corel Corp. at $39.25. VALUE THIS MORNING: $1,198,230.625 (including $293,593.125 in cash) VALUE ON DEC. 6: $599,932.25 (including $383,869.75 in cash) SECOND PLACE NAME: Thelma Lyden STOCK PORTFOLIO: BitWise Designs, 19,048 shares. TRANSACTIONS LAST WEEK: Bought 712 shares of Yahoo! Inc. at $280.8125, bought 770 shares of China.Com Inc. at $129.875, sold 712 shares of Yahoo! at $348, sold 770 shares of China.Com at $126.50, bought 2,783 shares of Digital Island at $69.625, sold 2,783 shares of Digital Island at $114.9375, bought 19,048 shares of BitWise Designs at $10.50. VALUE THIS MORNING: $1,076,434.4375 (including $802,619.4375 cash) VALUE ON DEC. 6: $831,585 (all cash) THIRD PLACE NAME: Fred Fowlks STOCK PORTFOLIO: BitWise Designs, 70,258 shares. TRANSACTIONS LAST WEEK: Sold 27,000 shares of Osicom Technologies Inc. at $26.8125, bought 5,000 shares of AutoZone Inc. at $27.9375, bought 2,000 shares of Yahoo! Inc. at $280.9375, bought 1,800 shares of Autoweb.com Inc. at $12.625, sold 5,000 shares of AutoZone Inc. at $29.6875, sold 2,000 shares of Yahoo! Inc. at $348, sold 1,800 shares of Autoweb.com Inc. at $12.5625, bought 60,000 shares of Laser Vision Centers at $12.375, sold 60,000 shares of Laser Vision Centers at $12.5625, bought 502,342 shares of Saf T Lok at $1.75, sold 502,342 shares of Saf T Lok at $1.46875, bought 70,258 shares of BitWise Designs at $10.50. VALUE THIS MORNING: $1,009,965.4375 (including $6.6875 in cash) VALUE ON DEC. 6 $725,586.875 (including $1,649.375 in cash) FOURTH PLACE NAME: Bernard Ber·nard , Claude 1813-1878. French physiologist noted for his study of the digestive and nervous systems. Yoo STOCK PORTFOLIO: Apple Computers Inc., 200 shares; Applix Inc., 800 shares; Corel Corp., 1,650 shares; Red Hat Inc., 125 shares; Unify 1. (database, product) Unify - A relational database produced by Unify Corporation. 2. (algorithm) unify - To perform unification. Corp., 395 shares; China.Com Corp., 76 shares; Silicon Graphics Inc., 1,850 shares. TRANSACTIONS LAST WEEK: None VALUE THIS MORNING: $203,855.1875 (including $20,406.1875 in cash) VALUE ON DEC. 6: $157,628.9375 (including $20,406.1875 in cash) FIFTH PLACE NAME: Jonathan Martinez STOCK PORTFOLIO: All cash TRANSACTIONS LAST WEEK: Sold 930 shares of MicroStrategy IT at $214.625. VALUE THIS MORNING: $199,596 (all cash) VALUE ON DEC. 6: $135,825.75 (including $45.75 in cash) SIXTH PLACE NAME: Sean Williams
Sean Llewellyn Williams (born 1967) is a New York Times best selling science fiction author who lives in Adelaide, Australia. STOCK PORTFOLIO: Ion Networks Inc., 8,792 shares. TRANSACTIONS LAST WEEK: None VALUE THIS MORNING: $129,682.125 (including 12.5 cents in cash) VALUE ON DEC. 6: $119,791.125 (including 12.5 cents in cash) CAPTION(S): 6 Photos Photo:(1) Leona Lott (2) Thelma Lyden (3) Fred Fowlks (4) Bernard Yoo (5) Jonathan Martinez (6) Sean Williams |
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