The $500 Experiment

Please Post This Statement and These Rules with Updates! Thanks.
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THE RULES- YES YOU CAN STILL JOIN
1. If you are just joining, your start date is the current date of your post, and you start at ZERO gain.
2. When posting your update, you MUST include in the post, or in separate post right after it, the stock symbol, entry/exit dates, and entry/exit prices, so ppl can check it. Otherwise your update will be deleted. Would be nice to hear the war story too.
3. You MUST make and report a ROUNDTRIP trade AT LEAST every two weeks. Otherwise, you aren't really in the Experiment and will be dropped and have to start over. Serious illness is an exception, but you must post this fact BEFORE the two weeks runs out. If you're posting elsewhere on the board then you're assumed to be well enough to do an Experiment trade.
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trader: orange start date: 1/3/07...start balance: $500 , current balance: $749...up 50%
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trader: Klipper22 start date: 12/27/06...start balance: $700 , current balance: $2308...up 229.7 %.
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trader: scmfinance start date: 12/13/07...start balance: $1000 , current balance: $2982.96...up 198.30%
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trader: TNTrader start date: 1/4/07...start balance: $500 , current balance: $883.01...up 76.6%
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trader: Aufan 1983 start date: 1/3/07...start balance: $1716.40 , current balance: $2057.95...up 19.9%.
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trader: taterbug23 start date: 1/11/07...start balance: $1000 , current balance: $1234...up 22.2%.
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trader: Disqplay start date: 1/12/07...start balance: $1000 , current balance $2379.00...up 230%
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trader: Guthrie start date: 1/18/07...Start balance: $1395, current balance: $1558.32...up 10.4%
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trader: johnfields20 start date: 1/19/07...start balance: $500 , current balance: $542.00...up 8.40%
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trader: grizzums start date: 1/30/07...start balance: $1000 , current balance: $1000...up 00.0%
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trader: Soliman, start date 01/01/07 ... start balance $1000, current balance: $1,254.60 ... up 25.46%
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trader: CactusPowered, start date 02/26/07 ... start balance $689, current balance: $689.60... up 0.1%, up .7% last trade
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bought avan @ 1.17
sold @ 1.18
after com loss of about 1%

Man my picks for the experiment not doing so good... but my other positions are rocking!!!