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Nearly 8.2 million shares and over $10 billion traded Thursday in CNBC's Million Dollar Portfolio Challenge. The top currency trader has more than doubled his money making over $289,000 since currency trading began. Check out Sue Herrera's currency tips here and for daily currency analysis, go to Currency Updates.
Contest Widely Helds and Actives:
- Among the top currency traders, our scalper continues to be profitable making another $30,000 in fast trades on the EUR/USD and GBP/USD, holding onto a positions for three minutes or less
- Another leader also favors the EUR/USD, but in long positions measured at hours rather than minutes or seconds
- AUD/JPY [$$AUDJPY
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]continues to be popular amongst the top traders and one of our leaders got in just before the Australian Trade Balance numbers and and held his position until after the US payroll data where the Aussie dollar fell against the greenback - The top most active currency trades in the continued to be the EUR/USD [$$EURUSD
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] with the NZD/JPY [$$NZDJPY
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] pair climbing to the third spot in the currency actives for the past two trading days
- The GBP/USD [$$GBPUSD
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] has held the third spot throughout the majority of the contest
Ambac Financial [ABK Loading... ()
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] moved ahead of Sirius in Thursday's Contest Most Actives trading more than 70M and 60M shares respectivelySirius Satellite Radio [SIRI Loading... ()
] holds the top spot in the Widely Helds with almost 2.5B shares owned in the contest - Industrials step it up with UAL [UAUA Loading... ()] rejoining the top Widely Helds giving Industrials 35% of the top 20. RF Micro Devices [RFMD
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] lost its position in the Widely Helds with UAL's addition
Sample of Top Trades in the Leaderboard:
- Allscripts Healthcare [MDRX
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] if you bought on Wednesday before 4pET and held/sold on Monday, you made 5.40%
- WD-40 Co. [WDFC
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] if you bought on Wednesday before 4pET and held/sold on Thursday, you made 4.58%
- American Public Education [APEI
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] if you bought on Wednesday before 4pET and held/sold on Thursday, you made 3.17%
Sample of Losing Trades from the Leaderboard:
Whiting Petroleum [WLL Loading... ()
] if you bought on Wednesday before 4pET and held/sold on Thursday, you lost 6.72%
Bets for today (July 7th):
- Lehman Brothers [LEH
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Ambac Financial [ABK Loading... ()
] E*Trade [ETFC Loading... ()
] XM Satellite [XMSR Loading... ()
]Aracruz Celulose [ARA Loading... ()
] Sandridge Energy [SD Loading... ()
]Yahoo [YHOO Loading... ()
]Comstock Resources [CRK Loading... ()
]Tesoro [TSO Loading... ()
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