Beat the Street: Solar Leads the Way

The top players have cruised on solar stocks' heat, looking beyond First Solar.
By TSC Staff ,

TheStreet.com'sBeat the Street contest continued to be dominated by solar stock plays this week, although solar favorite First Solar (FSLR) - Get Report was not part of any leading portfolios.

GolfScout8 holds the lead at $304,989 with a portfolio comprised of

Solarfun Power

( SOLF),

Canadian Solar

(CSIQ) - Get Report

,

Sunpower

(SPWR) - Get Report

,

China Sunergy

(CSUN)

and

Trina Solar

(TSL)

.

Trailing the leader are RKnapton3 at $298,774, Juanita at $297,661, Mukh63 at $297,304and SDWCheney at $296,623. It's interesting to note that SDWCheney is the only top five contestant holding one of the five most popular stocks this week, as they switched into

Deere

(DE) - Get Report

on Tuesday night.

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The other most popular tickers among this week's 7695 players were

Visa

(V) - Get Report

,

Apple

(AAPL) - Get Report

,

Wal-Mart

(WMT) - Get Report

and the aforementioned First Solar. There were 33,367 long picks this week, 7489 short selections and 2381 contestants swapped out one stock on Tuesday evening.

Registered players can go to the Beat the Street

Web site

and see what stocks the other players have chosen, and all players should 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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