Erika's Initial Buy

Here is my initial buy - we'll see how it does:

PD (Phelps Dodge) - 200 shares
MDRX (Allscripts Healthcare Solutions) - 800 shares
MCD (McDonald's Corporation) - 450 shares
GME (Gamestop) - 400 shares
GOOG (Google) - 20 shares

Chris' Initial Buy

Chris will be buying the following:

ACC (American Campus Communities)	748 shares
CBON (Community Bancorp)	670 shares
PNRA (Panera Bread Company)	308 shares
ALGN (Align Technology)	1415 shares
WFMI (Whole Foods Market, Inc)	308 shares

Two final competitors

Folks, we will be accepting two late entries to the competition - Alan, Todd's son, and Justin a friend of myself and Chris. Their entries will be in tonight and posted (or if late, they will simply have to live with the penalty of not being able to make any money on their picks Monday. )

All picks will be up and visible tomorrow morning - good luck to everyone!

Todd's buys

DCX - 50 SHARES
BUD - 50 SHARES
KR - 50 SHARES
GME - 50 SHARES
BBI - 50 SHARES

Dad's Friday Order (10/20)

Buy:
300 (CHK) (Chesapeake Energy)
300 (GG) (Goldcorp)
300 (OII) (Oceaneering International)
300 (SWN) (Southwestern Energy Company)
300 (AA) (Alcoa)

Participant Notification

Hi everyone!

Just a quick heads up - I will need your portfolio by the end of the week (Friday at market close) if you will be participating in this year's challenge. I will enter all buy orders at that time, so that noone has an unfair advantage (for example, if I bought now, I'd have a leg up on anyone who hasn't yet submitted their order. Well unless my stocks went down, but they're not going to do that!)

Get your ticker symbol list posted here by Friday at Market close. Please enclose all ticker symbols in parenthesis, like this:

(WM) - 100 shares
(CSCO) - 50 shares

and so on. That's so the automagic (intentionally misspelled) feed burner can give me links right to your purchase - making the workload easier on yours truly.

Best of luck to all participants!

Elynn