Excellent trading, Reno! Sadly, I just found it on a scan from IBD this weekend, far too late to join the party, I feel. I usually don't scan for stocks of that nature but I thought I'd do a different scan structure this weekend. Oh, well. I always like to show perfect patterns or "wow!" situations on the blog for people to review.

I know! If we all were given virtual millions in the stock market, what a wonderful change some of our lives would be! Alas, when it's real money, we often play mental games with ourselves and sabotage the gains that we could have had if it were pretend money.

They say the way to win those virtual contests is to plunge the whole account into one or two stocks under $5 or so and hope they double, or go in on a low-priced stock right before earnings and hope you get lucky. It may win virtual challenges, but I don't think I've heard of anyone doing that in real life (or at least not part of the social circles I'm in).

I just looked at ATW and it did exceptionally well, though not as impressive as NOV.

Thanks Reno!

NOV is definately a beauty. I got in and out of it a few times and made some nice coin on it this year. I also had it in my portfolio when NBC was doing the 1 million dollar stock contest thing earlier this year and was tracking it on my Yahoo virtual portfolio. I just looked at the portfolio and it's up 60% (~ $600,000 on the 1 million) so far with most of the holdings in NOV and ATW holding it from around March till now. Too bad my real life portfolio isn't even positive at the moment and if only I had a million bucks to invest sigh... lol :)