Ainkurn - $274 on 400 shares
Timmay - $30 on 1,600 shares
Wincity - No Trades
Retardo - No Trades
Denarii - No Trades
OBAT - $147 on 9,800 shares
Sanglucci - $214 on 33,800 shares
Dehtrader - $1,624 on 6,820 shares

Today is my last post as host of the VO. I have had a good run of it, but it is time to pass the torch back to Dinosaur Trader, the originator of the world famous Virtual Office. During my tenure as VO Chairman I put up 24 posts about the VO and received 72 comments on those posts. My site traffic went from 115 average daily visits in February to 260 in March, a 125% increase. Total visits in March (at the time of this post) comes in at 8,381 versus only 3,213 in February.

However, all was not well during my reign. Under my ruling we had one VOer quit, and another has gone AWOL after being attacked by a fellow office member. I was lax on the members turning in their numbers and this caused the VO posts to come a little later than DT normally posted them. In March, the members of the VO went through a staggering 2,650,268 shares with some great results.

I want to tank DT for entrusting me with the VO for a month, and I want to be the first to say that it will be great to have him back in the blogosphere. I am happy to relinquish my duties back to trader that has been a “timeless inspiration” and is the “true force” behind my “quest for success”. DinosaurTrader, you will always be my greatest inspiration in trading.

So, starting tomorrow everyone that wants to know how the VO is doing needs to check with DT. I hope I have earned a few faithful followers over the course of the month. Maybe my traffic won’t drop back down to pre-VO numbers. Again, thanks for stopping by and thanks for all the comments.

What a trading day. It seems that the VO has been turned on its head, with all the usual leaders getting kicked around. Retardo came back with a vengeance after several days away from trading. Timmay had one of his best days since being in the VO, although I am convinced he must have included some DVD and book sales in his numbers. Come on Timmay, be honest.

We were light on volume and choppy most of the morning with no clear direction. After lunch things picked up and the market sold off in a nice orderly fashion. The NYSE most active list was dominated by the financials, and the indexes were not able to hold above their 50 day SMAs. Looks like more selling to come next week.

Sorry for the late post, but I had a date with the golf course and forgot to mention that the VO would be delayed. Maybe I am just slacking since I only have one more trading day to host the VO. Have a great weekend.

Evolution - $442 on 34,200 shares
Timmay - $65 on 2,000 shares
Wincity - $36 on 100 shares
Retardo - No Trades
Ainkurn - $70 on 1,000 shares
Denarii - $90 on 2,800 shares
OBAT - $120 on 11,000 shares
Dehtrader - $579 on 6,390 shares
Sanglucci - $1,163 on 37,600 shares

Evolution - $2,491 on 115,000 shares
Timmay - $329 on 4,000 shares
Dehtrader - $146 on 3,790 shares
Wincity - $46 on 200 shares
Retardo - No Trades
Ainkurn - $22 on 50 shares
Sanglucci - $38 on 43,200 shares
OBAT - $120 on 11,000 shares

Today was a very difficult market to trade. Luckily, I only took one trade in AAPL with 50 shares and called it a day. I was up about $40 but I just set a limit and a stop and left it alone. I had software and data feed problems for the better part of the day which contributed greatly to my lack of trading. Another factor is that I have been awake since 3:00 AM and at the office since 5:00 so I was a bit out of whack.

Denarii had to leave early today so I don’t have his results for today. I might update them later tonight or tomorrow. Equine emailed me this afternoon to say that she is taking a break from blogging because of time constraints. Therefore, she is on VO probation until she is ready to come back or until DT kicks her out whichever comes first.

Wincity - $46 on 300 shares
Timmay - $0 on 1,000 shares
Sanglucci - No Trades
Equine - No Trades
Retardo - No Trades
OBAT - $12 on 10,400 shares
Denarii - $122 on 3,200 shares
Dehtrader - $167 on 6,840 shares
Ainkurn - $515 on 1,200 shares
Evolution - $2,596 on 4,000 shares

Apparently Evolution, Dehtrader and I didn’t get the memo telling us not to trade today. Sanglucci, Equine and Retardo need to start sharing information inside the VO a little more freely. Had I gotten the memo, I would not have traded and kept my $500. Someone owes me a few steak dinners. This is the lowest volume trading day for the VO I have seen in a while. We normally average somewhere between 100k and 200k shares traded between the nine of us that trade stocks. Only 27k shares traded today, come on guys.

The market was stuck in a slow grind, and the low consumer confidence numbers didn’t really help matters any. We ended up 1.92 on the S&P closing at 1,351 and down 28 on the INDU closing at 12,518. It seems that the NASDAQ was the place to be closing at 2,341 up 14.30 points or a .61% gain.

Oh yea, congrats to Wincity for taking the top spot in the VO today….