Stock Pick of the Week: W. E. 20 Oct. 2023

[clarkrl2]

Rules:

1. Selection must be made prior to the opening bell on the first trading day of the week.
2. Selection may be changed up to the opening bell.
3. Starting price is the opening price on first trading day of week.
4. Ending price is closing price on last trading day of week.
5. No options or other trading vehicles. Only stocks and ETFs are allowed.
6. Opening prices will be those found at Yahoo Finance. Any disputed opening price will be resolved using the price listed at Yahoo Finance historical quotes

To enter the game:

List your stock's symbol, Long or Short, Company name, what the company does and why you like the selection.

Congratulations to last week's winner "benchmark". 

[clarkrl2]

Long RDN (Radian Group - Insurance)
The chart still looks OK. weekly bars

[djAdvocate]

i will take an old ValueBuy pick, MRO, long

[uncle23]

WMT …… long

[kadee79]

Something new...no idea how it will do...

VITL, long


Vital Farms, Inc., a food company, provides pasture-raised products in the United States. It offers shell eggs, butter, hard-boiled eggs, ghee, and liquid whole eggs. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

[clarkrl2]

kadee78 takes the early lead in this week's championship. The benchmark is second and clarkrl2 third. A length and a quarter separate first and last.

Player	L or S	Symbol	$ Open	$ Close	% Close
kadee78	L	VITL	$10.8100	$10.9900	1.67%
BenchMark	L	QQQ	$366.6200	$369.4100	0.76%
clarkrl2	L	RDN	$26.5300	$26.7000	0.64%
djAdvocate	L	MRO	$28.2800	$28.4500	0.60%
uncle.23	L	WMT	$160.5400	$161.2100	0.42%

 

[kadee79]

This company is totally new to me.   My son had sent me an article about them...getting back to the basics like we farmed when I was a kid in the 50's! 

[clarkrl2]

kadee78 still leads the way as the race approaches halfway. djAdvocate is second and uncle23 third. Less than two lengths separate the field. 

Player	L or S	Symbol	$ Open	$ Close	% Close
kadee78	L	VITL	$10.8100	$10.9900	1.67%
djAdvocate	L	MRO	$28.2800	$28.6300	1.24%
uncle.23	L	WMT	$160.5400	$161.4200	0.55%
BenchMark	L	QQQ	$366.6200	$368.2000	0.43%
clarkrl2	L	RDN	$26.5300	$26.4800	-0.19%

[clarkrl2]

djAdvocate sticks his head out front with only two days to go. kadee78 is second and uncle23 third. One and a half lengths separate the top three.

Player	L or S	Symbol	$ Open	$ Close	% Close
djAdvocate	L	MRO	$28.2800	$28.8500	2.02%
kadee78	L	VITL	$10.8100	$11.0200	1.94%
uncle.23	L	WMT	$160.5400	$161.5400	0.62%
BenchMark	L	QQQ	$366.6200	$363.3700	-0.89%
clarkrl2	L	RDN	$26.5300	$25.9200	-2.30%

[clarkrl2]

djAdvocate widened his lead to a length and a half with the only gain of the day. kadee78 is second and uncle23 third.

Player	L or S	Symbol	$ Open	$ Close	% Close
djAdvocate	L	MRO	$28.2800	$29.1900	3.22%
kadee78	L	VITL	$10.8100	$10.9900	1.67%
uncle.23	L	WMT	$160.5400	$160.7700	0.14%
BenchMark	L	QQQ	$366.6200	$359.9700	-1.81%
clarkrl2	L	RDN	$26.5300	$25.1800	-5.09%

[clarkrl2]

djAdvocate wins this week's championship and is the only player with a gain. uncle23 is second and kadee78 third.

Player	L or S	Symbol	$ Open	$ Close	% Close
djAdvocate	L	MRO	$28.2800	$28.4900	0.74%
uncle.23	L	WMT	$160.5400	$158.7600	-1.11%
kadee78	L	VITL	$10.8100	$10.5700	-2.22%
BenchMark	L	QQQ	$366.6200	$354.6000	-3.28%
clarkrl2	L	RDN	$26.5300	$24.9500	-5.96%

 

[clarkrl2]

2023	results
Name	Return	Games	Win	Place	Show	>Bench	points	ppg
BenchMark	0.70	42	6	17	13	0	65	1.55
kadee78	-0.46	41	6	6	7	12	49	1.20
clarkrl2	-0.60	42	5	11	13	14	64	1.52
djADVOCATE	-0.94	40	9	2	5	12	48	1.20
uncle.23	-1.55	42	14	6	5	19	78	1.86

Lifetime	results
Name	Return	Games	Win	Place	Show	>Bench	points	ppg
bimetalaupt	2.78	4	1	0	0	1	4	1.00
m2w	1.15	8	2	1	0	3	11	1.38
damnotagain	0.83	20	2	3	3	10	25	1.25
Value Buy	0.57	226	45	21	22	104	303	1.34
BenchMark	0.33	512	29	79	119	0	620	1.21
2kids10horses	0.33	10	0	2	1	4	9	0.90
Mod E	0.31	429	58	73	64	214	598	1.39
Ombud	0.24	120	12	13	18	61	141	1.18
djADVOCATE	0.22	147	25	18	21	54	186	1.27
kadee78	0.13	494	91	70	46	208	667	1.35
clarkrl2	-0.03	512	64	80	88	239	679	1.33
architecto25	-0.36	406	83	46	39	177	557	1.37
tyfighter3	-0.53	108	11	4	17	40	98	0.91
Bluerobin	-0.66	6	2	0	0	3	9	1.50
uncle.23	-1.13	511	80	92	59	225	708	1.39
D. I.	-1.84	102	4	11	11	51	96	0.94
alliesmom	-6.82	2	0	0	0	1	1	0.50

[djAdvocate]

if you guys had all gone short, i would have come in dead last.

this is such a shitty market.  wow.

congrats to Uncle and KD for beating the bench!