re: Final standings are on page 10: Predict the 12/31/2014 market prices.

Yeah, right.....

Nah, I don't care who has whose number. I just figured the way you two coordinated your posts in his crybaby Help Board thread you are bosom buddies. Frankly, I still do think that.....

thanks again for doing this. I'm really enjoying following this in spite of my poor performance. It's interesting to see how wrong I was about interest rates rising this year, but don't think I"ll be too far off on areas that really matter (stocks).

ETA: btw, it's very easy to convert the posted pile of numbers back to a spreadsheet
* use Word to find/replace spaces with tabs
* copy and paste to Excel sheet
puts all data in cells, you'll have to move them around a bit, but only takes a minute or 2

For others whose numbers you may post.

I knew yours were fine.

The % is the percent average deviation of each poster's predictions from the actual prices as of 9/30/14. There were a few differences in the standings in just the 2 trading days after the last update because of the market volatility especially in the interest rates on the bonds.

1 Jed Zeppelin 10.140%
2 Walking the Earth 10.664%
3 SmackoverHawg 10.897%
4 Lookin4Par 11.149%
5 jerryc436 11.386%
6 HtownTiger 12.399%
7 Kill Switch 12.925%
8 C 13.064%
9 LSURussian 13.349%
10 Lsut81 13.432%
11 thebrowns 14.069%
12 ColKilgore 14.309%
13 rmc 14.347%
14 overbrook 14.391%
15 Sho Nuff 14.629%
16 white perch 14.690%
17 BigBoyTiger 14.775%
18 RickAstley 15.012%
19 PlanoPrivateer 15.114%
20 Hoodatt 15.304%
21 ITNEVERRAINS 17.223%
22 kennypowers816 17.244%
23 LSU0358 18.482%
24 threeputt 18.538%
25 djmicrobe 18.620%
26 Ole War Skule 18.928%
27 OnTheBrink 20.891%
28 ProjectPat 23.118%
29 TheBigHurt 25.537%
30 reb13 25.626%


Year to Date Deviation from 12/31/13 9.425%

I actually thought of this yesterday and figured we could count on an update today.

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It's interesting to see how wrong I was about interest rates rising this year,

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I'm in the same boat. I don't remember anyone on the national scene projecting a drop in rates this year. I arrived at my guess for this year based on the increase in 2013 from 2012. I guessed that it would at least as much.

Edited to change 2014 to 2012.

I'm primed to feast on a #1 ranking this Thanksgiving, followed by having the victory for the year put in my stocking at Christmas.

I'm still in the lead I see.