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November 10, 2008 – Comments (9) | RELATED TICKERS: SKF , MTH , JRCC

FYI - I created an updown portfolio back in April 08. Some Fool (Lordz?) complained that CAPS did not show the allocation of money and that many CAPS Allstars suck with real money, which is an important part of investing. 

updown.com and CAPS both have flaws. In updown, I keep earning more money in my account, as it performs well. I started with a $1,000,000 now I have $4,335,606 to manage, not sure why.

CAPS is kind of silly, because they do not punish or support Fools for staying in cash. 

Example: If you give a company a green thumb and it falls 20%, but the market is down 40%, you are given +20 points, but you would be far better off in Cash, then loosing 20%.

So you can be an "Outperforming the market, but broke Allstar". 

Many "ALLSTARS" with Green thumbs, would be signifantly down in the market. 

I am UpDown ranking: #40 of 101823 (-19) Return Since Start:152.56%
Annualized Return:253.11%
Portfolio Start Date04/02/08
In CAPS abitarePERFECT is #7In CAPS aresFinancial id #1 here in points

I have earned about $3.00 from my updown performance.

Also my Fool portfolio is primarily a watch list of companies. My real portfolio usually contains only 2-5 positions.

updown does not let you see others stocks, but they created an embed link called:

Brag about your UpDown Profile



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9 Comments – Post Your Own

#1) On November 10, 2008 at 2:30 PM, abitare (99.44) wrote:

Sorry, I am trying to embed my portfolio, but it is not allowing me.

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#2) On November 10, 2008 at 3:08 PM, LordZ wrote:

SHHHHHHHHHH becareful about pride ARES........

The market sure loves to make someone kneel ..... especially those too proudful...

I really wasnt complaining as stating fact.....

Got some nice threats of deletion for some of my opinions...

I'm so broke  LMAO.....

I could only afford to stay in Europe for one month....

 

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#3) On November 10, 2008 at 4:54 PM, dangerfairy (< 20) wrote:

2-5!

 

I have at least 25 in my portfolio.

 

And yes CAPS is flawed. I wish they would update it every once in a while. 

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#4) On November 10, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Tastylunch (29.96) wrote:

3 dollars? wow they sure are generous....

at any rate I agree CAPS scoring has some pretty serious flaws.  To be honest I stay playing here cause I like a good portion of the community. 

That's weird they don't let you see other people's stocks. 

I would think covestor would be where I'd go if I ever left CAPS. That's def more realistic than marketocracy, CAPS, or updown from what I can tell.I dunno investopedia's games look fun though.

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#5) On November 10, 2008 at 8:37 PM, abitare (99.44) wrote:

I am sorry, this blog post, stinks. I was trying to post the updown portfolio. A fool asked to see it. I thought the link would allow access to see it. I tried to take a snap shot and post here, but it did not work.

It is important when investing to follow ideas and people, who ideas are working, you can then match them to what will work for you.

It appears in this moment in time, my ideas and concepts are working. No reason for me to not try and pass the information here.

 

 

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#6) On November 10, 2008 at 10:04 PM, mgiv (99.57) wrote:

likewise it understates underperforms that fall worse than the S&P.  If S&P falls 20% and your pick falls 30% you're given a mere 10, but in money terms you gained 30%.  I wrote a python script that calculates my real return compounding all of my transactions and it's about 45% return from start which is far better than my score would reveal.  I gained 45% and the S&P is down 30% for that same stretch. I outperformed the S&P by 75% compared to a buy and hold which would yield a caps score of about 15000.

I'm glad your racking up points cause pretty soon, accuracy wont matter that much if more guys like you sacrifice accuracy for score.

I earned a total of 25 dollar on updown.  I haven't claimed it yet.

 

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#7) On November 10, 2008 at 10:20 PM, Tastylunch (29.96) wrote:

AresFinancial

no worries man, you are a blogging machine. You don;t need to apologize. I'm sure other readers didn't know you were doing so well on updown (I did already). If nothing else it's decent validation that your CAPS performance is translatable to real trading success.

mgiv

yup. I hear ya exactly. CAPS punishes greens in bulls and reds in bears. I was too lazy to type all that out myself.

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#8) On November 11, 2008 at 12:12 AM, abitare (99.44) wrote:

ALCON,

Thanks for the replies. 

Lordz, 

I hope you are doing well. Becareful in the market. I care more about my job and the dollar then my current portrtfolio.

mgiv,

Good reply, becasue CAPS goes crazy for accuracy, I created abitarePERFECT and ares is a point chaser. 

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#9) On November 12, 2008 at 2:38 AM, LordZ wrote:

I'm screwed... soon will have to sell my body.... to maintain my lifestyle of wanting to eat everyday.....

What JOB.... LORD Z has no job .... booo wooo hew....

 Can someone buy me a drink or maybe a whole bottle...

MO LI tov cocktail.... is the local drink...

and all caps wants to do is dance dance dance..

mix em up in the local sink....

and dance dance...

Dont come back here yankees....

 

But If I ever do....

 

I'll bring more money..................

 

 

Because all she wants to do is dance dance dance....

 

DANCES to the purring of the local wet cats....

 

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