By the Numbers

Million Dollar Portfolio Challenge:  Trades for the Week

Over 11 billion stock shares were traded during the second week of the contest, and the most active currency pair, the euro/dollar, traded almost 16B units.  Check out the week's winning trades...

Currency trading is giving contestants the edge.  The current contestant in the top spot on the overall leaderboard has been trading currency in his winning portfolio, while the current second place contestant has not. 
-The current first place contestant has made almost $9,000 trading currency, and only $4,519.51 separates the first two leaders.  
    **Therefore, the #1 contestant's currency balance was enough to propel him past yesterday's leader into first place in the overall leaderboard.  

The top currency trader has made almost $40K or 40% since currency trading opened on Wed at 9:30a
-The Most actively traded currency was the Euro/Dollar pair trading 16B units for the week, followed by the Dollar/Yen at 7.2B units.

Top Stock Trades of the Week:

Western Refining was up almost 5% Friday, and 28.45% for the week.
LDK Solar was up almost 9% Friday, and 28.02% for the week.
(Most leaders held these stocks for the majority of the week, benefiting from most of the positive move)

Top Stock Trades on Friday:

Foot Locker if you bought on Thursday before 4pET and held/sold on Friday, you made 12.09%.
Solarfun if you bought on Thursday before 4pET and held/sold on Friday, you made 9.35%.

LDK Solar if you bought on Thursday before 4pET and held/sold on Friday, you made 8.84%.

JA Solar if you bought on Thursday before 4pET and held/sold on Friday, you made 4.83%.

Bets for Monday in the Leaderboard:   
Medarex
SunPower
Rite Aid
Sirius
Canadian Solar
LDK Solar

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