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Jul.11

10:57 AM ET

Friday, 11 Jul 2008

Million Dollar Portfolio Challenge: Trades of the Day

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 [$$AUDUSD Loading... () ], AUD/JPY [$$AUDJPY Loading... () ] 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 [SIRI Loading... () ] 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 [ESLR Loading... () ] moved up one spot with about 320 million held shares over US Airways [LCC Loading... () ], and MBIA Inc.[MBI Loading... () ] finished second to last, with roughly 184 million held shares, pushing UAL Corp. [UAUA Loading... () ] 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 Loading... () ] if you bought on Wednesday before 4pET and held/sold on Thursday, you made 9.9%
Alcoa [AA Loading... () ] if you bought on Wednesday before 4pET and held/sold on Thursday, you made 9.7%
Petrohawk Energy [HK Loading... () ] if you bought on Wednesday before 4pET and held/sold on Thursday, you made 8.7%
OSI Pharmaceuticals [OSIP Loading... () ] if you bought on Wednesday before 4pET and held/sold on Thursday, you made 4.7%
XTO Energy[XTO Loading... () ] 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 [FCSX Loading... () ] 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 Loading... () ]
Fastenal [FAST Loading... () ]
Apple [AAPL Loading... () ]
EXCO Resources [XCO Loading... () ]
Comstock Resources [CRK Loading... () ]

It's not too late to get started. You can still get in the game to win the grand prize or one of these great weekly prizes.
Click here to play.

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