Here is the latest list of the stocks bought and sold most by the top 100 investors on UpDown from market close on Friday, August 15th, through market close on Friday, August 22nd.

Stocks Bought Most:

ABK - Ambac Financial Group Inc. (NYSE)

UAUA - UAL Corp. (NASDAQ)

GOOG - Google, Inc. (NASDAQ)

AMR - AMR Corporation (NYSE)

FRE - Freddie Mac (NYSE)

Stocks Sold Most:

WM - Washington Mutual, Inc. (NYSE)

RDN - Radian Group Inc. (NYSE)

TWM - Ultrashort Russell2000 Proshares (AMEX)

ELN - Elan Corporation (NYSE)

CSIQ - Canadian Solar Inc. (NASDAQ)

Invest well this week!

The UpDown Team

Check out this excellent analysis by LEGMAKER on the recent pullback of oil service companies and how to play oil stocks going forward. (It has also been published and praised on Seeking Alpha.)

Brendan, UpDown Team

UpDown Widgets are here! You can now display your UpDown Profile and post your UpDown Contest rankings on your blog. We have put the code for the widgets on the right side of your Home Page, right where the “Refer Friends to Earn More” box usually is. If you don’t see the code you want right away, just refresh the page. Try pasting the code into your blog and let us know what you think! I just tried it to show off the top 10 investors in the Official Q3 Contest below.

Also, post your blog here so we can link to it under our “Member Blogs” section. It would be great to connect all UpDown Bloggers!

Brendan, UpDown Team

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Here is a list of the stocks bought and sold most by the top 100 investors on UpDown.com from market close on Friday, August 8th, through market close on Friday, August 15th.

Top 5 Stocks Bought:

1. BNI - Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. (NYSE)

2. SCA - Syncora Holdings Ltd. (NYSE)

3. WM - Washington Mutual Inc. (NYSE)

4. AAPL - Apple Inc. (NASDAQ)

5. FCX - Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. (NYSE)

Top 5 Stocks Sold:

1. MBI - MBIA Inc. (NYSE)

2. FRE - Freddie Mac (NYSE)

3. C - Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE)

4. UAUA - UAL Corp. (NASDAQ)

5. X - US Steel Corp. (NYSE)

Invest well this week!

The UpDown Team

All of you have seen and heard about “The Pickens Plan” in the news, but do you know how to profit from it? Check out this interesting Seeking Alpha article on the work of Mr. Pickens and the following discussion on if it really will “save America.”

Brendan, UpDown Team

Unfortunately for all of the long LCC holders in the Community, the stock’s jump from about $9 to $999.99 this afternoon was just a data glitch, not a miraculous breakthrough for UAL Corp.

We’re fixing the problem now!

Brendan, UpDown Team

Congratulations to the winners of a $50 iTunes Gift Certificate for completing our UpDown.com Member Survey!

The 10 Lucky Members (out of 1089 responses):

bulldog115, E. Rick, Jared, jaybo914, pilzner, Razzle Dazzle, sbs687, shootthetrey03, stjo93, Visionblu

Thanks again to everyone who participated!

The UpDown Team

We have found a bug in our system that prevents you from receiving email notifications when you ask for them. We are working on it now.

If you continue to have problems, please let us know!

Brendan, UpDown Team

Check out this useful Seeking Alpha article to learn about real estate investment trusts (REIT’s) and how you can actually profit from something having to do with real estate in this market.

Brendan, UpDown Team

For the gamers in the Community, check out this Seeking Alpha article on the tremendous growth of the video game industry. Now, if anyone ever makes fun of you for playing video games, you can tell them that you are an important contributor to an explosive business that’s now worth over $18 billion.

Brendan, UpDown Team