Our 2021 Challenge Is Off To A Blistering Start

Summary

• In a curious twist to the capitalistic spirit that fills the halls of our subscription service, a collective self-organized towards the end of last year.
• No community parsnip farm this, instead, a stock picking challenge, at the instigation of a longstanding subscriber.
• Simple rules: buy 31 December 2020 and be judged on 31 December 2021.  No horse trading, averaging up or down, or fancy options talk.  One regular equity buy and sell.
• We ourselves bought in, with actual money.  And we track performance daily.  The picks are off to an awesome start!

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Hopefully This Collective Won't End The Way Collectives Usually End

Committed capitalists, us here at Cestrian Towers.  You know this from our many posts on the topic.  Capitalism being the worst form of economic organization, apart from all the other forms of economic organization.

Now a curious thing happened in our subscription service right at the end of last year.  Be it a result of excess holiday conviviality, the binding effect of a global pandemic, or simply the opportunity to both show off and humiliate fellow subscribers, many of our group leapt at the opportunity to join the 2021 Challenge, a clarion call issued by one of our longstanding members.

The rules were simple.  Pick a stock or an ETF.  Has to be a regular equity, no options or other complex instruments.  Has to be traded on a US main market.  Has to have a stock price of over $3.  (Yes that was arbitrary).  You can buy the stock once, on 31 December 2020 ... and sell the stock once, on 31 December 2021.  Make your best pick.  Biggest gain percentage over the year wins. Winner gets 6 months free access to our Seeking Alpha subscription service (that's about $1k at our current prices).  Also ... because we're always picking stuff ... we bowed out and made no house picks. 

Which is just as well because we definitely would not be top right now, and that would be plain embarrassing!

Here's how subscriber picks have fared since 31 December.  We show this in two charts else it gets messy, but they are the same measurement - stock price change from inception.

Group 1 - Stock Price Change Since 31 Dec 2020

Group 2 - Stock Price Change Since 31 Dec 2020

So far PowerREIT (PW) leads the pack followed by Resonant (RESN) at 47%.  Save for the ADRs we have ourselves either bought all the above names as they were included in the Challenge, or will shortly do so.  We trust our subscribers' judgment and don't mind putting personal account money behind that judgment.  And so far ... that's working out pretty well.

We'll run another such challenge soon, likely something involving more frequent opportunities to trade in and out of your pick.  Want to join in?  Take a free trial to our service, see if you like it, stick around if so.  We're growing well and getting great reviews, so we assume we're doing something right.  But that's for you to judge, not us.  You can sign up here for that free trial.  We look forward to seeing you in chat soon!  (Of course, by the time you sign up, you could find the collective has turned inward on itself, some members making unilateral declarations of independence, and the parsnip harvest failing.  You never know). 

Cestrian Capital Research, Inc - 7 January 2020

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