Stock Pick of the Week - W.E. 30 Sept. 2011

[ModE98]

My horse took ill and is fading fast... poor TPI. Big at close... red flags are up and flying. Look out below.

[Bluerobin]

Mod, you were not supposed to let him eat all of those speshul oats!

[ModE98]

Ole' Blue, I didn't, he ate too much when my back was turned. He was sneaky and now has a bellyache.
If he does not show any sign of improvement after the race and over the weekend, may just have to shoot him and send his carcass to the glue factory.

[kadee79]

I think mine has colic! I don't want to stay up all night walking him either! Think I'll try adding more molasses to the feed to see if that will help with some energy!

[ModE98]

TPI caught a horse virus this morning and is down on the track. Please look out below for a fast falling horse. Could be dangerous to block the way. Vet says very sick now... may have to put him down. Duh.

[clarkrl2]

I think TXT is still grossly undervalued so this afternoon I bought the stock and sold an Oct 2011 call for a debit of 16.83. If its called in 3 weeks I'll get 18 per share which is almost 7% in three weeks. If it's not called I'll have the shares at a discount to today's close. With the VIX so high it's a good oportunity to use covered calls or sell cash covered puts on stocks you like. Congrats to whoever this week's winner is.

[rovo]

Only the top three had positive results this week. At least someone figured it out.

Value Buy held off a last minute charge by D.I. to win for the week with a very impressive 24% gain.

Player

L or S

Symbol

$ Open

$ Close

% Close

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[tr][td] Value Buy [/td][td] S [/td][td] MU [/td][td] $6.68 [/td][td] $5.04 [/td][td] 24.55% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] D.I. [/td][td] L [/td][td] TVIX [/td][td] $77.21 [/td][td] $89.43 [/td][td] 15.83% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] clarkrl2 [/td][td] L [/td][td] TXT [/td][td] $17.22 [/td][td] $17.64 [/td][td] 2.44% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] architecto25 [/td][td] L [/td][td] PCYC [/td][td] $12.25 [/td][td] $11.83 [/td][td] -3.43% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] BenchMark [/td][td] L [/td][td] QQQ [/td][td] $54.42 [/td][td] $52.48 [/td][td] -3.56% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] rovo [/td][td] L [/td][td] AAPL [/td][td] $399.86 [/td][td] $381.32 [/td][td] -4.64% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] burger [/td][td] L [/td][td] CSTR [/td][td] $41.98 [/td][td] $40.00 [/td][td] -4.72% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] tyfighter3 [/td][td] L [/td][td] NOG [/td][td] $20.36 [/td][td] $19.39 [/td][td] -4.76% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] ModE [/td][td] L [/td][td] TPI [/td][td] $1.27 [/td][td] $1.20 [/td][td] -5.51% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] 2kids10horses [/td][td] L [/td][td] URTY [/td][td] $39.54 [/td][td] $36.37 [/td][td] -8.02% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] kadee66 [/td][td] L [/td][td] ASIA [/td][td] $8.13 [/td][td] $7.38 [/td][td] -9.23% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] uncle.23 [/td][td] L [/td][td] DRYS [/td][td] $2.70 [/td][td] $2.34 [/td][td] -13.33% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] 0.00% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] 0.00% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] 0.00% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] 0.00% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] 0.00% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] 0.00% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] 0.00% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] 0.00% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] 0.00% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] 0.00% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] 0.00% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] 0.00% [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] 0 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] $0.00 [/td][td] 0.00% [/td][/tr][/table]

[ModE98]

Hmmm. Better than expected. Thought TPI would end up on bottom rung.

Congratulations on winning the roses, VB.

[Value Buy]

Thanks, ModE!

Now I'm thinking I should play MU long next week..... will have to think about that one......it is still a really bad stock.
This was truely, a terrible investing week, culminating in Kodak crashing today.