One more thought:
Some may be concerned that a particular stock is untradeable and therefore, it skews the PSL results. I'm sure everyone knows by now what I think about that. However, this is just to put it in perspective.
The top two stocks are PASW (+400%) and WSHE (+345%). If it were a simple matter of a few thousand shares that traded during the entire 3.5 month contest, then of course that might be an issue. But, that is not even close to being the case - in fact, light years from it.
PASW has had a 700,000 share day and WSHE has had an over 100,000 share day just in the last week! At a dollar and change each, there has been several million dollars traded in a little over a month - since the contest began.
Unless someone is a bazillionaire or only has a 1 stock portfolio, these stocks have provided more than enough legitimate liquidity for the average VMC'er. We are, after all, NOT a bunch of mutual funds. This is MICRO CAP land, the board is Value MICRO CAP and the contest is a Value MICRO CAP contest.
But, regardless of any of that, the 15% rule prohibits anyone from manipulation and all the contest average is .... is an average of all of us individually - thus the average return is 100% legitimately reflective of our real life individual portfolios.
Len