August 2012 Stock Competition Entries!

[Joe Blow]

Good morning everyone, and welcome to the August 2012 stock tipping competition! My apologies for the late start this month.

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Could all qualifying entrants please check their entries and entry price and report any errors to me in this thread.

If you entered, but were not included in the competition this month, it is because you didn't meet the qualifying criteria for some reason.

Keep track of the results here: ASF Stock Competition Leaderboard

Feel free to discuss the competition in this thread as the month progresses.

[tigerboi]

joe can you fix up my pick this month which is BCT

you have me down as BLT...thx mate...tb

[Joe Blow]

joe can you fix up my pick this month which is BCT

you have me down as BLT...thx mate...tb

Hi TB, this has now been fixed. Everything should update as usual tomorrow afternoon.

[tigerboi]

BLT will probably now smoke everyone coz i broke a golden rule...never swap a bet coz it always wins

maybe take it next month...thx mate...tb

[drillinto]

Joe: Please consider the possibility of opening now the registration for September Stock Competition. Thank you.

[Joe Blow]

Joe: Please consider the possibility of opening now the registration for September Stock Competition. Thank you.

The September competition entry thread will be started sometime next week. Keep an eye out for it!

[Joe Blow]

Congratulations to Buckfont, Agentm and Miner for taking out the top three places in the August 2012 stock tipping competition!

Buckfont finished the month with an exceptional 173.79% return with SIR, beating second placegetter Agentm, whose selection SBR returned an impressive 110%. Rounding out the top three for August was Miner with IGR, which returned a very respectable 49.21%.

Can Buckfont, Agentm and Miner please contact me via PM regarding their prizes.

Best of luck to all for the September competition!

Here are the final results for August: