The WSJ Stock Picking Contest

Don’t you hate it when a financial pundit makes a prediction, but fails to mention both a time and a number in the same sentence? And then, if he or she gets it wrong, it’s on to the next bright idea.

Heard on the Street does things a bit differently. Our stock picking contest, now in its sixth year, will run for a full year with our wins and losses updated constantly. Over the last three weeks of August our 15 columnists based in six global cities will give you our best ideas in the form of a column in which we lay out our argument for or, in the case of a “short” idea, against a stock.