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About InvestorPlace Blogs

InvestorPlaceblogs has created a community of bloggers dedicated to bringing investors like you in-depth, actionable and rated coverage and insights on individual stocks, sectors, and investing in general. Our proprietary ratings and rankings, powered by Marketocracy, allow you to rate – and gauge – how valuable a particular piece of research, post or stock pick are to you.

About Strategy Lab Open

Strategy Lab Open (SLO) is a joint venture among InvestorPlaceblogs, Marketocracy and MSN’s Strategy Lab. We want to identify the best stock pickers and bloggers and give them a chance to showcase their talent and compete for prizes. The winner of each round, as determined by both overall portfolio performance as well as ratings of blog posts, will then go on to compete with well-known Wall Street pros in MSN’s popular Strategy Lab.

Strategy Lab Open is the new MSN Strategy Lab Qualifying Tournament. You see, we’re looking for the next great undiscovered investing guru. Someone who doesn’t just pick hot stocks but who invests well, makes money and can teach others to do the same.

The rules are a little different than in the Lab itself. Open contestants run a stock portfolio on Marketocracy.com and post journal entries in a special blog set up for them at InvestorPlaceblogs.com.

At the end of the competition, a panel from MSN Money, Marketocracy and InvestorPlaceBlogs.com will look over the results and the posts of the top five finishers, contact each of them and then select one to join the pros in the next round of Strategy Lab, where as many as a million people every month will watch their every move. Then the next round of Strategy Lab Open will begin, and a whole new group of people will start competing for their chance to be part of MSN Strategy Lab.

InvestorPlaceblogs.com is a division of InvestorPlace Media, LLC, formerly known as Phillips Investment Resources. InvestorPlace Media has brought market-beating investment advice to individual investors for more than 30 years through award-winning newsletters, web sites, and e-mail services. The company has grown into one of the foremost multimedia publishers in America. It is headquartered in the Washington, D.C. suburb of Rockville, Maryland, with more than 100 employees.

Marketocracy Data Services is a research company whose mission is to find the best investors in the world and then track, analyze, and evaluate their trading activity. The company’s affiliate, Marketocracy Capital Management, is the investment advisor for the Marketocracy family of mutual funds and uses the research generated by Marketocracy Data Services. Marketocracy has recruited over 55,000 people to manage over 65,000 model portfolios.

MSN’s Strategy Lab is a popular feature of the MSN Money web site. Six established financial advisors compete against each other for six months to grow a mock portfolio and write about trades they make, very similar to the Strategy Lab Open. Winners are awarded bragging rights and asked to return, along with three new faces.

Strategy Lab Open offers fans of MSN Strategy Lab a chance to play along with the pros – and one lucky winner will get to take them on in the next MSN Strategy Lab. The Strategy Lab Open will run through December 28, 2007. At that time, five finalists will be chosen based on performance, and the winner picked based on overall return, their blog posts, and rating. The rating piece of the equations allows you to help determine the winner! Every Strategy Lab Open blog post has a vote feature which gives you a chance to assign a score based on how interesting and helpful you found that particular entry. Every vote, positive or negative, counts toward the final standings in the competition. Think you’ve got what it takes to be a great stock picker? Register for our Strategy Lab Open/InvestorPlace blogs e-letter and get the inside scoop on the contest each week, including tips for good posts, the chance to set up an InvestorPlace blog and Marketocracy portfolio and start practice blogging, and advance notification of when registration for the next round of Strategy Lab Open will start.