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The worlds best stock pickers
01-20-2006, 12:44 PM
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The worlds best stock pickers
Well, for two weeks running now.
http://biz.yahoo.com/tm/060117/13793.html
Four of ten playboy bunnies are beating 99% of the US equity fund managers and 9 of 10 are beating the s&p 500.
Personally, I'd rather have miss december rather than weiland d. tarpley as my advisor.
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Re: The worlds best stock pickers
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01-20-2006, 01:15 PM
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Re: The worlds best stock pickers
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Personally, I'd rather have miss december rather than weiland d. tarpley as my advisor.
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Might be cheaper to rent miss december by the hour and stick with ole' Weiland the third for your investments. 
I got in a little stock picking contest this past summer. The other guy had some fancy way to pick stocks - some stockpicker's newsletter or something, maybe Valueline. I used excel to generate 10 random numbers between 1 and 500, and then picked the stocks from the SP500 that corresponded to those numbers (proverbial monkey throwing darts). Of course I won by a long shot (still up +15%). The other guy lost a few percent. I think I hurt my competitor's feelings when I told him about my hi-tech stock picking strategy 
This proves that monkeys, random number generators and playboy bunnies are great at picking stocks.
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01-20-2006, 02:51 PM
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Re: The worlds best stock pickers
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playboy bunnies are great at picking stocks.
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"...and you might even have fun doing it".
Anyone who has watched Bloomberg over the last 8 years is thinking "where have I heard that before...?"
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01-20-2006, 03:02 PM
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Re: The worlds best stock pickers
Playboy bunnies beat the heck out of the old saw:
The monkey throwing darts.
Especially for a dirty old phart like myself. I knew there was a reason I liked index funds when they first came out.
Playboy bunnies vs index funds - tough, tough choice -alas probably never get the chance.
Rats! heh heh heh heh
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01-20-2006, 05:00 PM
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Re: The worlds best stock pickers
Alas, playboy bunnies have a higher expense ratio than index funds.
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01-20-2006, 05:32 PM
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Re: The worlds best stock pickers
I think the article may be referring to the performance of last year. Over a long period, the return of should revert to the mean.
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01-20-2006, 06:37 PM
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Re: The worlds best stock pickers
I'm tempted to say something about a poster named "spanky" in relation to a post about playboy bunnies.
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01-20-2006, 06:41 PM
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Re: The worlds best stock pickers
mmmmmmmmmmmmmm......Miss December. I like the way she allocates her ass-ets.
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01-20-2006, 06:59 PM
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http://www.tradingmarkets.com/stock_...=dailystanding
The winning bunny's reasons for picking her stocks:
Law Enforcement Association (AID) - TASER's are a great way to catch a guy.
Third Wave Technologies (TWTI) - RNA and DNA sound really cool.
Terax Energy (TERX) - Girls' gotta have a lot of energy!
StemCELLS, INC (STEM) - To help disease and sickness.
Sky Petroleum (SKPI) - If the gas prices get any higher we might have to go back to riding horses -- ooh riding is fun!
I did not make any of this up.
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01-20-2006, 07:13 PM
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Re: The worlds best stock pickers
Those are very good reasons to me. 
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01-20-2006, 08:54 PM
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Re: The worlds best stock pickers
Jenny McCarthy's sister. Jenny's pretty smart...maybe some of it rubbed off on the sis.
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01-22-2006, 09:56 PM
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Hmmm ... a news story about Playboy bunnies picking stocks, and no photos? Those guys at Yahoo! Finance really are sticks in the mud.
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01-23-2006, 08:10 AM
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Re: The worlds best stock pickers
Well jeez louise, I left you guys two clicks away from naughty pictures...
And I noticed a 94% dropoff in male posting to the board for a day or so after that.
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