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Jun.03
8:44 AM ET
Tuesday, 3 Jun 2008
Million Dollar Portfolio Challenge:  Trades of the Day
Posted By:Ariel Nelson | Gina Francolla

Nearly 1.9 billion shares and $33 billion traded yesterday in CNBC's Million Dollar Portfolio Challenge.  Additionally, the top currency trader has made over $80 thousand since currency trading opened.  Adding a few thousand dollars could make the difference in the contest leaderboard.  Check out Sue Herrera's currency tips here.

Contest Widely Helds:

  • Ivanhoe Energy [IVAN  Loading...      ()   ] has moved up into the 10th spot in the widely helds ranks

  • JetBlue [JBLU  Loading...      ()   ] continues to move up in the widely held ranks and is now in the 14th spot

  • The most widely held stock today remains Sirius [SIRI  Loading...      ()   ], with over 1.7B shares held and 139M shares traded today

  • Financials & Industrials each comprise 25% of the top widely helds

Sample of Top Trades in the Leaderboard: Energy and Mining

  • Alon USA Energy [ALJ  Loading...      ()   ] – if you bought on Friday before 4pET and held/sold on Monday, you made 12.61%

  • Patriot Coal Corp [PCX  Loading...      ()   ] – if you bought on Friday before 4pET and held/sold on Monday, you made 10.85%

  • Polymet Mining [PLM  Loading...      ()   ] – if you bought on Friday before 4pET and held/sold on Monday, you made 5.87%

  • Ivanhoe Energy [IVAN  Loading...      ()   ] – if you bought on Friday before 4pET and held/sold on Monday, you made 3.57%

Sample of Losing Trades from the Leaderboard: 

  • Medarex [MEDX  Loading...      ()   ] if you bought on Friday before 4pET and held/sold on Monday, you lost -7.23%

  • Global Sources [GSOL  Loading...      ()   ] if you bought on Friday before 4pET and held/sold on Monday, you lost -5.56%

  • Solarfun [SOLF  Loading...      ()   ] if you bought on Friday before 4pET and held/sold on Monday, you lost -3.11%

  • Circuit City [CC  Loading...      ()   ] if you bought on Friday before 4pET and held/sold on Monday, you lost -2.24%

  • Evergreen Solar [ESLR  Loading...      ()   ] if you bought on Friday before 4pET and held/sold on Monday, you lost -2.21%

Bets being made for today (June 3):

  • Lululemon Athletics [LULU  Loading...      ()   ]
  • Guess [GES  Loading...      ()   ]
  • Rosetta Resources [ROSE  Loading...      ()   ]
  • Callon Petroleum [CPE  Loading...      ()   ]
  • Ivanhoe Energy [IVAN  Loading...