Beat the Street: Friendly Skies for Shorts

The top three players so far in Week 7 are all short the airlines.
By TSC Staff ,

The players in TheStreet.com's Beat the Street stock-picking game are spending a lot of time in the sun this week -- in solar stocks. But it's a short-airline play that is paying off so far.

Of the five most popular stocks in players' portfolios, four are solar-related companies. But the top three players at midweek are all short airlines.

In Week 7 so far, Energy46 and GrimesJr each have $324,054.32 in their portfolios, and they each are short

AMR

(AMR)

,

Delta

(DAL) - Get Report

,

US Airways

(LCC)

,

Northwest

( NWA) and

UAL

( UAUA).

Amor13 follows with $311,828.40, and the only difference in this portfolio is that the player was also short

Continental

(CAL) - Get Report

.

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The most popular stocks in portfolios this week are

Solarfun Power Holdings

( SOLF),

China Sunenergy

(CSUN)

,

DryShips

(DRYS) - Get Report

,

First Solar

(FSLR) - Get Report

and

Canadian Solar

(CSIQ) - Get Report

.

Here's a look at some more stats from Week 7 action:

  • There were 7,507 players.
  • The number of long stock picks was 33,391.
  • The number of short picks was 5,657.
  • The number of people deciding to change one stock between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning: 1,523.

Registered players can go to the Beat the Street

Web site

and see what stocks the other players have chosen, and all players can keep abreast of the game in the

Stockpickr forum

.

The next Beat the Street game will be held next week, so if you missed this week, you can sign up this evening, and also be sure to keep an eye for our announcement of this week's winner.

This article was written by a staff member of TheStreet.com.

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