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INVESTMENT CHALLENGE 
            Team Strategy
OVERVIEW 

• Our Trading Strategy 
• Canadian Winners 
• Canadian Losers 
• U.S. Winners 
• U.S. Losers 
• The $12,000 Mistake
Our Trading Strategy 

• Our first trade 
  •  Gildan Activewear 

• Short term, high 
  probable return 
• “Hype” stocks 
  •  CommScope 
  •  Evertz 
  •  ASTI 

• Hot sectors 
  •  Energy 
  •  Materials
CANADIAN WINNERS
THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA provides personal and commercial banking, wealth 
management and corporate and investment banking services and products to individual and 
business customers in Canada and around the world. 




• Bought 1,000 @ $43.59 
• Bought 1,000 @ $43.57 
    • Average holding price of $43.58 
• (6.15% Gain on $46.26 market price) 
EVERTZ TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED designs, manufactures and markets video and audio 
infrastructure equipment for the production, postproduction broadcast and Internet protocol 
television industry. 


• Bought 2,000 @ $13.40 
• Current Market Price $16.56 
     • (Gain of 23.58%)
AUR RESOURCES INC. is a mining and metal production company which has interests in 
and operates the Andacollo mine and the Quebrada Blanca mine in Chile, and the Duck Pond 
Mine in Newfoundland, Canada. 




  • 15 March: Bought 2000 @ $20.00 
       • Current Market Price: $23.66 (+18.30%)
Why did we buy AUR? 
• AUR’s Last press release 
  •  1: Aur Resources Inc. Reports Net Earnings of US$68.5 
     Million for the Fourth Quarter and US$293.7 Million for 
     Fiscal 2006 
     CCNMatthews, February 9, 2007 06:00 AM 

• Continued drop after the Shanghai Butterfly
CANADIAN LOSERS

PLEXMAR RESOURCES INC. is involved in the acquisition, exploration and development of 
mineral properties. 



• Bought 70,000 @ $.58 
• Current Market Price $.45 
    • (Loss of 23.28% or $9,100) 
U.S. WINNERS
Ascent Solar Technologies is a developer of state­of­the­art, thin­film photovoltaic materials 
and modules and is located in Littleton, Colorado.  Extremely thin, pliable, and very heat 
resistant solar­energy­capturing film and infrastructure 

                                                     •  Ascent Solar To Present At SRA's 
                                                        3rd Annual Winter Technology & 
                                                        Healthcare Conference 
                                                        02/26/2007 1:40PM ­ RTT News 
                                                     •  NHY: Acquires Minority Stake in 
                                                        Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. 
                                                        03/13/2007 4:01PM – Knobias 
                                                     •  Norsk Hydro Acquires 1.6 Mln 
                                                        Common Shares Of Ascent Solar 
                                                        Through Private Placement 
                                                        03/13/2007 10:30PM ­ RTT News 

                                                     •  2/26/2007: Bought 7200 @ $4.24 
                                                     •  2/28/2007: Trade Failed  (2000 
                                                        Shares @ $4.23 – no liquid!) 
                                                     •  3/20/2007: Sold 7200 @ $7.57 
                                                     •  Gain of 78.5% or $24,000 
CommScope Inc. is a world leader in the design and manufacture of cable and connectivity 
 solutions for communications networks. They focus on the ‘last mile’ in communications 
 networks, which is the distribution access, or final link to the customer. We believe we are a 
 global leader in structured cabling and broadband coaxial cables. 


•  Why CommScope? 
   •  Momentum 
   •  Hype 
   •  Solid Stock 
•  Now – Short term sell 
   •  Low volume below 50day 
   •  Unsustainable upward trend 
   •  Very overbought 
•  Bought 700 @ $40.00 
•  Bought 1300 @ $38.42 
   •  Post Shanghai Butterfly 
•  Average Price $38.973 
•  10.46% Gain on current market 
   price of $43.05
U.S. Losers 

                    Just Kidding! 

We didn’t choose any losers, but we ended up with some anyway!
The $12,000 Mistake 

What Actually Happened 


• URE ­ ULTRA REAL ESTATE PR 
  (URE) 
    • Bought 1000 shares at $72.47/share on 
      February 22nd 
    • Current price: 60.72/share 
    • Loss: $11,750
The $12,000 Mistake

What was Supposed to Happen 


• UR­ENERGY INC (URE.TO) 
    • Would have bought 13,589 shares at 
      5.30/share 
    • Current price:  4.71/share 
    • The loss that should have happened: 
      ~$8,000 
      • Alan’s mess­up: ($3,750) 
The $12,000 Mistake 

What Actually Happened 

• ETRC – E*TRADE Financial 
  • Purchased 1000 shares at $24.5/share 
  • Sold at $22.32/share for a loss of 
    ~$1,300.
The $12,000 Mistake 

What was Supposed to Happen 

• ET.TO 
  • 1000 shares at $13.17/share. 
  • Current: 16.00/share. 
  • Gain that was suppose to happen: 
    $2,830
Greed when fear is abundant, fear when greed surrounds you


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