Replies to post #60478 on China Growth Stocks

[Michael Anderson]

Top 10 - A private message to Rames would be a good idea and then he can release the final results and that way there would be a little bit more of a surprise and discussion after the fact.

[Rames]

Nah - in my opinion we need the best possible transparency for this. All the submissions should be public, that's why I post the full list of submissions. This board is quite popular and read by many more people than we have boardmarks or contributing members. Even if there is a slight chance that a final index might influence the price of a stock, I wouldn't be comfortable with private submissions, or some flash revelation of the final picks. What we are doing here should be fully transparent, at all times, throughout the process from the first day on.

It worked just fine for the previous four revisions, no need to change anything now.

[rru2s]

IMHO, I think the most frequent Top 10 candidate stocks have all had many different posts with in-depth discussions of DD, and since we are all investors who believe in researching stocks before buying, these discussion posts should greatly outweigh any potential influence of allowing public notice of each investor's top 10 favorites list. I understand why votes should be confidential based in principle, but this is not politics. For me personally, I read all the posts here and follow up with other references such as Reuter's reports, SEC filings, and corporate news announcements, and study past price history before making any decision, and all of my Top 10 are long positions I currently hold. So my feeling is it probably won't affect anything if during the week of the voting we allow our votes to be posted for the public to read.