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2018 Hedge Fund contest

Post by BackOfTheNet »

Again, I meant to get this up earlier, but this is the thread for the 2018 hedge fund contest. You can find the previous year's contest (2017) here:

viewtopic.php?f=10&t=206778

  1. Pick a fancy name for your hedge fund.
  2. Before 9:30 am EST on 8 Jan 2018, in this thread, pick up to three stocks to go long and up to three to short. Equal dollar amounts are placed on each position, long or short.
  3. Opening prices will be based on Jan 8th close.
  4. No trades during the year, except that you can elect at any time during normal exchange business hours to "freeze" a price for any individual position at that day's closing price, i.e. liquidate any position. (Each position carries this option; you can choose to freeze different positions on different days.) Other than that, you're stuck with what you choose for the year.
  5. If a stock is taken out in a merger or a bankruptcy during 2018, I will do my best to do the right thing. An all cash offer will result in a freeze at the takeout price. An all stock offer will result in the conversion of the position to the acquiring company's shares. Mixed cash and stock offers, you'll just have to trust me to saw things off fairly.
  6. The universe from which to choose is the Russell 3000 http://www.ftserussell.com/files/suppor ... rship-list. If you pick shares not on this list and it's not caught and corrected before the deadline, your portfolio will be disqualified.
  7. Dividends will not be counted.
EDIT. Here is the corrected link to the Russell. I have corrected it above as well. Thanks to those who pointed this out. http://www.ftserussell.com/files/suppor ... rship-list

Like last year, Tanelorn will be providing fixes and commentary as the year goes on.

Edit: Contest is live here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing
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Name: The Lowest Rated Fund (cfs is founding manager)

Long
Amazon (AMZN)
Facebook (FB)
Alphabet CL A (GOOGL)

Short
None because 2018 will be an awesome UP market year!

Good luck to all guessers and thanks for reading!
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Name: It's not a Scam, People, It's a Sure Thing


Long
Spirit Airlines (SAVE)
Dollar Tree (DLTR)
Tesla (TSLA)

Short
Disney (DIS)
Walmart (WMT)
Regal (RGC)
GibsonL6s
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Name: 2 + 20% Seems Fair

Long 2 names

United Rentals - URI
Amazon - AMZN

Short 1 name

Apple - AAPL

Thanks for running this
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Thanks for getting this set up. Good luck everyone!
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Mr. Smartypants' Smart Stuff Stocks

Long on Netflix (NFLX)

Short on YELP
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Name: Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe Fund

Long:
Shopify (SHOP)
Roku (ROKU)

No shorts
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Not Cheap & Not Good

Long: XOM, F, VSLR

Short: INTC, TSLA
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Name: Upside Tiger-blood

Longs: Devon Energy Corp (DVN)
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)

Shorts: Twitter Inc. (TWTR)
Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG)
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Fund Name: Deep State Investments

Longs:
Altaba-AABA
Freeport McMoran- FCX
EncaNA- ECA

Shorts:
Tesla-TSLA
American Express-AXP
Chipotle Mexican Grill- CMG
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NAME: Sticky Wonder Fund

Long: ACET, FB, ZAYO

Short: ASH

Thank you BackOfTheNet and Tanelorn !!!
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LONG:
F
T
VALE



SHORT:

CHK
GE
TGT
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Name: Retirement Fund

Long:
CNX
CTL
MAT

Short: prefer not to short, but free money.
TSLA
SQ
F
B3GINN3R
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NAME: Goin' for broke

Long: FB, SNAP, AMZN
Short: SHLD, FENX, BABA
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Name: UnoSimian (30/65 in last year's contest, up 5.63%, not counting my compensation of course)

Long: Cambrex Corp CBM
Essendant Inc ESND
Chemung Finl Corpo. CHMG

Short: Contango Oil & Gas Co. MCF
Stamps.com Inc. STMP
Tronc Inc. TRNC
Core Four w/ nominal bonds & TIPS. Refi Rampage: Purchase: 3.875% 30 -> R1 3% 20 -> R2 2.375% 15 -> R3 1.99% 15 -> R4 1.875% 15
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After a decisively average year in 2017 (finishing smack in the middle: 32nd out of 64 funds), the Snobby Hipster Fund series has decided to rebrand itself as it can no longer justify such an ostentatious sounding name.

Therefore, in 2018, we are proud to present the Hornet Capital Pairs Trading Fund

Long

YUM - YUM! Brands
AMZN - Amazon
TGTX - TG Therapeutics

Short

CMG - Chipotle
TCO - Taubman Centers
OPK - Opko Health
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The Middle Branch Multiflora Rose Capital Thorn Fund shall continue operations into 2018, after a narrow majority of the Board Of Directors voted to retain the name, even as they parted ways with the fund managers who showed such startling malpractice in selecting their 2017 short positions.

Our Long-Only portfolio:
UTX - United Technologies
GD - General Dynamics
WFC - Wells Fargo Corp

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Blockchain Technologies
^ Included "Blockchain" in the name in order to justify my high fees!

Long:
AAPL
AMZN
XOM

Short:
NVDA
AMD
TSLA
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The kids' initials.

Three tall kids (long):
AMZN - Amazon
SAGE - Sage Therapeutics
HD - Home Depot

Three short kids (short):
ELGX - Endologix
KFRC - Kforce
JMBA - Jamba

For my own convenience, a performance chart
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Commonwealth of Buckaroo Dough Holdings

Long: ESPR - Esperion
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consternatio partners

longs
tnet
cnc
xpo

shorts
CIM
NLY
MFA
RIP Mr. Bogle.
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Everything Is Awesome Hedge Fund

Long:
XIV
YINN
TQQQ

Short:
None!
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Name:
NeXtGen Partners

Long:
Bank of New York Mellon - BK
Stamps.com - STMP
Raytheon - RTN

Short:
Caterpillar - CAT
Ocular Therapeutix - OCUL
jmg229
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Name: Bravo PP Holdings

Long:
DG
VSTO
NFLX

Short:
KSS
TWTR
CME
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jmg229 wrote: Tue Jan 02, 2018 9:25 pm Name: Bravo PP Holdings
Short:
RIOT
I appreciate the sentiment with your short RIOT pick, but neither RIOT nor BIOP, their precursor ticker before their name change, are listed as Russell 3000 members and so are not eligible for the contest. Feel free to edit your picks, post a replacement short or just remove RIOT before the final Monday deadline.

More generally, It's worth double checking your picks against the link in OP since even big companies are sometimes foreign based or aren't eligible for the indexes for some reason even if you think they "ought" to be.
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BackOfTheNet wrote: Tue Jan 02, 2018 9:31 am Again, I meant to get this up earlier, but this is the thread for the 2018 hedge fund contest. You can find the previous year's contest (2017) here:

viewtopic.php?f=10&t=206778

  1. Pick a fancy name for your hedge fund.
  2. Before 9:30 am EST on 8 Jan 2018, in this thread, pick up to three stocks to go long and up to three to short. Equal dollar amounts are placed on each position, long or short.
  3. Opening prices will be based on Jan 8th close.
  4. No trades during the year, except that you can elect at any time during normal exchange business hours to "freeze" a price for any individual position at that day's closing price, i.e. liquidate any position. (Each position carries this option; you can choose to freeze different positions on different days.) Other than that, you're stuck with what you choose for the year.
  5. If a stock is taken out in a merger or a bankruptcy during 2018, I will do my best to do the right thing. An all cash offer will result in a freeze at the takeout price. An all stock offer will result in the conversion of the position to the acquiring company's shares. Mixed cash and stock offers, you'll just have to trust me to saw things off fairly.
  6. The universe from which to choose is the Russell 3000 http://www.ftserussell.com/files/suppor ... ssell-3000. If you pick shares not on this list and it's not caught and corrected before the deadline, your portfolio will be disqualified.
  7. Dividends will not be counted.
Like last year, Tanelorn will be providing fixes and commentary as the year goes on.
If I am not mistaken this Russell 3000 list is the one from the end of 2016 -- a number of stocks on this list do not exist??

Are we to choose from this older list and verify or can we choose from the current Russell 3000?

Dave
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McScrooge's blockchain capital management

Long:
NVidia

Short:
JCPenny
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The Bet Against Eddie Fund
Short -- SHLD
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FinancialDave wrote: Tue Jan 02, 2018 10:02 pm
BackOfTheNet wrote: Tue Jan 02, 2018 9:31 am Again, I meant to get this up earlier, but this is the thread for the 2018 hedge fund contest. You can find the previous year's contest (2017) here:

viewtopic.php?f=10&t=206778

  1. Pick a fancy name for your hedge fund.
  2. Before 9:30 am EST on 8 Jan 2018, in this thread, pick up to three stocks to go long and up to three to short. Equal dollar amounts are placed on each position, long or short.
  3. Opening prices will be based on Jan 8th close.
  4. No trades during the year, except that you can elect at any time during normal exchange business hours to "freeze" a price for any individual position at that day's closing price, i.e. liquidate any position. (Each position carries this option; you can choose to freeze different positions on different days.) Other than that, you're stuck with what you choose for the year.
  5. If a stock is taken out in a merger or a bankruptcy during 2018, I will do my best to do the right thing. An all cash offer will result in a freeze at the takeout price. An all stock offer will result in the conversion of the position to the acquiring company's shares. Mixed cash and stock offers, you'll just have to trust me to saw things off fairly.
  6. The universe from which to choose is the Russell 3000 http://www.ftserussell.com/files/suppor ... ssell-3000. If you pick shares not on this list and it's not caught and corrected before the deadline, your portfolio will be disqualified.
  7. Dividends will not be counted.
Like last year, Tanelorn will be providing fixes and commentary as the year goes on.
If I am not mistaken this Russell 3000 list is the one from the end of 2016 -- a number of stocks on this list do not exist??

Are we to choose from this older list and verify or can we choose from the current Russell 3000?

Is the Vanguard russell 3000 index VTHR a valid source of stocks?

Dave
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Re: 2018 Hedge Fund contest

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Name: "I Know Better!" Fund

Long:
1. IPGP

Short:
1.TSLA
I save and invest my money, so money can make money for me, so I don't have to make money eventually.
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Animal Spirits are Alive Fund:

Long: AMD, TMUS, TEVA


Short: TSLA, SHLD, CMG


I'm doing some research on additional positions before the deadline of the 7th/8th. I have not been doing well the last few years w/my equity speculation.
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FinancialDave wrote: Tue Jan 02, 2018 11:27 pm Is the Vanguard russell 3000 index VTHR a valid source of stocks?
Vanguard's fund seeks to match the composition and returns of Russell 3000, but does not guarantee an exact match. The link given in the rules is directly to FTSE Russell, which maintains the official Russell 3000 index.

However, the OP did accidentally link to the 2016 list because FTSE Russell changed their naming scheme for the files on the website. They used to just update the given link with each year's list, but it appears that the link for the 2017 list is actually https://www.ftserussell.com/files/suppo ... rship-list

And here is the page that lists the additions and deletions to the list for June 2017, as well as the final membership list for June 2017: https://www.ftserussell.com/index-serie ... nstitution
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Name: Cartel Oaks Capital

Long:
Invitae (NVTA)
Incyte Corp. (INCY)
Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc. (ALXN)

Short:
Tesla (TSLA)
Sears Holdings Corp. (SHLD)
GameStop Corp. (GME)
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B3GINN3R wrote: Tue Jan 02, 2018 3:26 pm NAME: Goin' for broke

Long: FB, SNAP, AMZN
Short: SHLD, FENX, BABA
I do not think BABA is the Russell 3000 list.
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Re: 2018 Hedge Fund contest

Post by Engineer250 »

Financial Engines

Long-
Insys Therapeutics Inc (INSY)
United Technologies (UTX)

Short-
Sears (SHLD)
Electronic Arts Inc (EA)
Where the tides of fortune take us, no man can know.
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Penny Stock

Short - JCP
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The Play It Again, Sam Fund
My portfolio manager prefers product research, enjoys driving his Teslas and listening to music on Alexa (I think she is his secret AI girlfriend) and drinking craft beer from Whole Foods and browsing internet on Google platform. So with an almost 37 percent return last year hard for me to tell him not to try a repeat performance. He especially thanks all the shorts in Tesla which helped make his investors happy to pay the ridiculous 2 and 20 last year. But I did my own market research by going to a Sears mall store and realizing I could roll a bowling ball down aisle without hitting anyone other than occasional salesperson.
Long:
Tesla
Amazon
Alphabet
Short:
Sears Holding

Good luck everyone and Happy New Year.
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Willpon and Maddoff Investments

Long:
Xylem XYL
Nvidia NVDA

Short:
Occidental Petroleum OXY
Centurylink CTL
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Name: Incipient Watermelon LLC

Long:
- Amazon (AMZN)
- Apple (AAPL)
- Netflix (NFLX)

Short:
- Tesla (TSLA)
- Snap On Inc (SNA)
- Twitter (TWTR)

Edited: had to remove Snapchat (SNAP) because it is not on the Russell 3000. Doh! I have substituted it for the closest ticker symbol I could find, SNA (Snap On Inc), because that seems as good a reason as any to short a stock.
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Name: Gold City Advantage (created with the hedge fund name generator http://www.hedgefundnamegenerator.com/ )

Long:
-Conoco Phillips (COP)
-Anadarko Petroleum (APC)
-Amazon (AMZN)

Short:
-Sears Holdings (SHLD)
-JC Penny (JCP)
-United Air Lines (UAL)
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stickman731 wrote: Wed Jan 03, 2018 4:58 am
B3GINN3R wrote: Tue Jan 02, 2018 3:26 pm NAME: Goin' for broke

Long: FB, SNAP, AMZN
Short: SHLD, FENX, UA
I do not think BABA is the Russell 3000 list.
You are correct. Sorry about that. I have changed mine.
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B3GINN3R wrote: Wed Jan 03, 2018 1:05 pm
stickman731 wrote: Wed Jan 03, 2018 4:58 am
B3GINN3R wrote: Tue Jan 02, 2018 3:26 pm NAME: Goin' for broke

Long: FB, SNAP, AMZN
Short: SHLD, FENX, UA
I do not think BABA is the Russell 3000 list.
You are correct. Sorry about that. I have changed mine.
Neither is SNAP. I wanted to short it in my fund.

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Alas, the "Rogue Won" fund ended 2017 without achieving a final definitive victory and, as a result, will find itself meeting a cruel end...

This year's entry however is intended to bring new life--and a smattering of robo-investing--to investors looking for a brighter future. Trade Blunder 20/49 will provide superior portfolio results through real-time replications of the markets and synthesize only the best results for use in our active trading process. Because of the high cost of this (obviously!) superior investing paradigm, Trade Blunder will retain 20% of profits and 49% of assets under management.

LONG: DECK, K, RCL

SHORT: RGEN, TYL, BBY
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Name: To Infinity and Beyond!

Long: INFI (Infinity Pharmaceuticals)

Short: BBBY (Bed Bath & Beyond Inc)
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Gandalf Or Gollum

Long:
AMZN
SPB (could have done without the 8+% jump today, though my Roth is happy)
GOOGL

Short
SHLD (again)
SVU

EDIT to add SVU
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Bitqueen Advantage Trust Co

Shorts: MDGL, SGMO, STRP
Longs: FTR, EPE, RAD
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Lexicographic Advisers

Long:
ABCD
BLUE
CUBE

Short:
XOXO
YHOO
ZNGA
Domestic 42%, Int'l 21%, REIT 7%, Fixed 30%
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BackOfTheNet wrote: Tue Jan 02, 2018 9:31 am ...
6. The universe from which to choose is the Russell 3000 http://www.ftserussell.com/files/suppor ... ssell-3000. If you pick shares not on this list and it's not caught and corrected before the deadline, your portfolio will be disqualified.
Please double-check. The file I downloaded is for 2016, as it was named: ru3000_membershiplist_20160627.pdf (2016-06-27)

The master copy is here: Russell Reconstitution | FTSE Russell

Near the bottom of the page, under "Recon resources and materials" --> Click on "2017 Index membership lists (PDFs)", then Russell 3000 which will download as ru3000_membershiplist_20170626.pdf (2017-06-26)

I think you want the 2017 list.

Update: I missed mudpuppy's earlier post which had already flagged the 2016 membership list.
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Re: 2018 Hedge Fund contest

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Tanelorn wrote: Tue Jan 02, 2018 9:59 pm
jmg229 wrote: Tue Jan 02, 2018 9:25 pm Name: Bravo PP Holdings
Short:
RIOT
I appreciate the sentiment with your short RIOT pick, but neither RIOT nor BIOP, their precursor ticker before their name change, are listed as Russell 3000 members and so are not eligible for the contest. Feel free to edit your picks, post a replacement short or just remove RIOT before the final Monday deadline.

More generally, It's worth double checking your picks against the link in OP since even big companies are sometimes foreign based or aren't eligible for the indexes for some reason even if you think they "ought" to be.
Thanks for the catch. Edited
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Re: 2018 Hedge Fund contest

Post by Agggm »

Name: Luna

Long:
Facebook
Apple
Amazon
Netflix
Google

Short:
Ford
Snapchat
Tesla
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