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Nearly 1.3 billion shares and $14 billion traded yesterday in CNBC's Million Dollar Portfolio Challenge. The top currency trader has more over $295,000 since currency trading began. 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:
Currency Traders have lost the most on shorting AUD/USD [$$AUDUSD Loading... ()
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] as Australian dollar strengthen on positive job data, with employment rate falling to 4.2% from 4.3%.
Top currency trades are in EUR/USD [$$EURUSD Loading... ()
] as it has been the preferred currency pair for contestant number three, which has been long on EUR/USD since July 3, and has made over $184,000 since the start of the contest. Federal Reserves' regulatory concerns over U.S. financial institutions compliment EUR/USD trades, as the Fed's commentary have a bearish impact on the dollar.
Ambac Financial [ABK Loading... ()
] was the Most Active stock in the constest by far with 183 million shares traded, followed by Sirius Satellite Radio
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] at over 88 million shares traded. Sirius Satellite Radio [SIRI Loading... ()
] continues to hold the top spot in the Widely Helds with a little under 2.5 billion held shares, and Evergreen Solar
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] moved up one spot with about 320 million held shares over US Airways [LCC
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], and MBIA Inc.[MBI
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] finished second to last, with roughly 184 million held shares, pushing UAL Corp. [UAUA
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] one spot down.
- Industrials continue to represent 30% of the top widely helds followed by Financials at 25%.
Sample of Top Trades in the Leaderboard:
- Shaw Group
[SGR
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] if you bought on Wednesday before 4pET and held/sold on Thursday, you made 9.9%
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Alcoa [AA
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] if you bought on Wednesday before 4pET and held/sold on Thursday, you made 9.7%
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Petrohawk Energy [HK
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] if you bought on Wednesday before 4pET and held/sold on Thursday, you made 8.7%
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OSI Pharmaceuticals [OSIP
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] if you bought on Wednesday before 4pET and held/sold on Thursday, you made 4.7%
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XTO Energy[XTO
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] if you bought on Wednesday before 4pET and held/sold on Thursday, you made 4.2%
Sample of Losing Trades from the Leaderboard: Dominated by Airlines & Financials
- FCStone Group
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] if you bought on Wednesday before 4pET and held/sold on Thursday, you lost -41%
Ambac Financial [ABK Loading... ()
] if you bought on Wednesday before 4pET and held/sold on Thursday, you lost -20.8% AMR Corp. [AMR Loading... ()
] if you bought on Wednesday before 4pET and held/sold on Thursday, you lost -8.8% US Airways [LCC Loading... ()
] if you bought on Wednesday before 4pET and held/sold on Thursday, you lost -7.3% Marriott International [MAR Loading... ()
] if you bought on Wednesday before 4pET and held/sold on Thursday, you lost -7.2%
Bets for today (July 11th):
- Rockwell Collins [COL
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- Fastenal
[FAST
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- Apple
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- EXCO Resources [XCO
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- Comstock Resources [CRK
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