Stock Market Game – Yalicoo
Another quarter of Yalicoo exciting competitions has just begun

By Yinon Arieli | October 8, 2007

The last quarter of 2007 was launched last week. Let us focus first on the monthly and quarterly competitions. The monthly competition is very interesting this time as we see many familiar faces among the players. genibus currently is leading the pack with return of 4.4%. genibus opened the competition buying few of the top NASDAQ gainers of last week such as Baidu.com, Inc. (BIDU), the Chinese language Internet search services provider, and Immucor Inc. (BLUD), the blood-testing equipment maker, which soared last Thursday after announcing that its quarterly profits rose 39% compared to a year ago and surpassed analysts' expectations.

The quarterly competition is even more thrilling as wOrStCaSe lead with an impressive return of 5.5%. Among his most interesting and profitable stocks last week are CIENA Corp. (CIEN), the supplier of communications networking equipment and software to telecommunications service providers worldwide, and Lamar Advertising Co. (LAMR) which provides outdoor advertising space. CIEN soared last week after being upgraded by UBS, and LAMR climbed last Thursday after a Morgan Stanley analyst suggested that the company may top his revenues forecast for next year.

Both monthly and quarterly competitions have just begun, so many rotations on the score board are expected during next weeks. We will continue to watch these rotations and the moves of the leaders and analyze the reason for their success.

5 days of competitions

More players are joining Yalicoo community each week, adding diversity to the daily score board. Last week we already had known winners join us such as gold, chanon and Fred, together with new players such as agent, ahknaten and wOrStCaSe (who also leads the quarterly competition).

Iverson, who won a previous weekly competition, did it again last week with a return of 4.94%. His largest gainer last week was the maker of wireless solutions for worldwide mobile communications market, Research In Motion Limited (RIMM), which gained 13% on last Friday after doubling its second quarter profit and sales, and reported a better-than-expected third-quarter outlook.

The October-November rally in the stock market might have already started, and Yalicoo daily and weekly competitors of last week knew how to take advantage of these developments. Every one of you can ride this rally, by joining Yalicoo competitions and be the trader who collects the cash prizes. I hope this time it will be you, so that I can quote your story and give you the deserved glory in one of our next newsletters.