January Forum Contest Top Poster and Top Thread Winners

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Feb 04, 2008
To encourage users to have quality discussions and share their investment ideas and strategies, GuruFocus will be hosting monthly contests for “#1 Rated Poster” and “#1 Rated Thread”. The winners who have the most number of points at the end of the month for their post or thread will receive a book of their choice from the list below:


Joel Greenblatt: The little Book that Beats the Market


Benjamin Graham: The Intelligent Investor


Martin Whitman: The Aggressive Conservative Investor


Peter Lynch: Beating the Street


Peter Lynch: One Up on Wall Street


David Dreman: Contrarian Investment Strategies in the Next Generation


Mohnish Pabrai: Dhandho Investor





For full details of this contest, you can see our contest rules.


Now to announce the winners of January’s contest, starting with the top posters. These were the top four contestants:


Top-Rated Posters, Jan. 08





climb1212





344





stockdocx99





285





DaveinHackensack





239





John Krantz





218





The winner was climb1212 , with 344 points. He had a lot of posts which are highly rated by others. Congratulations, climb1212 !


For the top thread. The top four contestants were:


Top-Rated Threads, Jan. 08





kfh227





171





stockdocx99





131





ccyork





94





buffetteer17





87





The winner for Top Thread is kfh227, with 171 points. His winning thread was: LOW and HD, which was followed by more than 50 replies.


Congratulations to both winners! Please contact us with your book selection and address!


Feburary’s contest will be sponsored by Charles Mizrihi. The winners will receive a signed copy of his latest book, Getting started in value investing. For a review of his book, go to: http://www.gurufocus.com/news.php?id=21715, Good luck!