The $50,000 investment I distributed among five stocks at the start of the year isn't a bankroll I struggled to save. It's not even real money. Still, I feel drawn to the possibility that what choices ...

Energy, precious metals, the Far East. My opponent's recent shift to a portfolio with more heat has lifted him to the lead in our competition. My original selection of five environmentally sensitive ...

David Molnar, my opponent, roared back in a week of what traders call a bear-market rally. He did it by ditching a five-stock portfolio that the economy had dragged down. Molnar replaced it with five ...

David Molnar, my professional opponent in this stock-picking competition, applies such sound reasoning to his choices that I'm embarrassed to have more money in my pile this week. But even a blind pig ...