Nearly 1.5 billion shares and $23 billion traded on yesterday in CNBC's Million Dollar Portfolio Challenge.  The top currency trader has more than doubled his money making over $150 thousand since currency trading opened and has held his lead for four straight days.  Many of our overall and weekly leader contenders have made more than $40 thousand dollars in currency trading which is helping keep them on the Leaderboard.  Check out Sue Herrera's currency tips here and for daily currency updates, go to http://www.cnbc.com/id/22618039.

Contest Widely Helds and Actives:

• National City [NCC  Loading...      ()   ] moved into the most widely held in the contest list, displacing RF Micro Devices (RFMD) and moving ahead of Advance Micro Devices (AMD)

• AMR Corp [AMR  Loading...      ()   ] moved up two notches to become the 8th most widely held with nearly 280M shares held

• The most widely held stock and the most active stock today remains Sirius [SIRI  Loading...      ()   ], with almost 1.95B shares held and 94.4M shares traded today as they wait for regulatory approval for their proposed merger

• Financials took sole possession of most widely helds, at 30%, followed by Industrials at 25%

Sample of Top Trades in the Leaderboard: 

• National City [NCC  Loading...      ()   ] if you bought on Wednesday before 4pET and held/sold on Thursday, you made 20.51%

• EnerSys [ENS  Loading...      ()   ] if you bought on Wednesday before 4pET and held/sold on Thursday, you made 15.47%

• School Specialty [SCHS  Loading...      ()   ] if you bought on Wednesday before 4pET and held/sold on Thursday, you made 2.40%

Sample of Losing Trades from the Leaderboard: 

• Continental Resources [CLR  Loading...      ()   ] if you bought on Wednesday before 4pET and held/sold on Thursday, you lost -4.28%

• Arch Coal [ACI  Loading...      ()   ] if you bought on Wednesday before 4pET and held/sold on Thursday, you lost -3.76%

• Walter Industries [WLT  Loading...      ()   ] if you bought on Wednesday before 4pET and held/sold on Thursday, you lost -2.45%

Bets for today (June 13):

• Massey Energy [MEE  Loading...      ()   ]
• Central European Distribution Corp [CEDC  Loading...      ()   ]
• Sadia SA [SDA  Loading...      ()   ]
• Palm Inc [PALM  Loading...      ()   ]
• North American Energy Ptrs [NOA  Loading...      ()   ]
• Lehman [LEH  Loading...      ()   ]
• Adobe [ADBE  Loading...      ()   ]
• Alon USA [ALJ  Loading...      ()   ]
• EnerSys [ENS  Loading...      ()   ]

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