Temple B’nai Israel of White Oak

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Thank you for supporting our Temple!

The StockGame is a fun game and a way to test your stock market savvy. We hope that you will join us with this important fundraising project. Help us to preserve our treasured history…and have some great fun along the way.

AWARDS
First Prize
Second Prize
Third Prize
Greatest Weekly Value
AWARDS
$1000.00
$500.00
$250.00
$30.00

Here is how our StockGame fundraiser works:

  • The cost to invest is $30/certificate.
  • Select 5 of the 50 stocks listed (a random pick option is also available).
  • The Game will run for 8 consecutive weeks, from January 13 to March 7, 2025.
  • At the beginning of the Game each portfolio is valued at an imaginary $100,000 ($20,000/stock).
  • At the close of the market each Friday during the contest each purchased certificate will be revalued based on the closing prices. The certificate with the greatest weekly value each Friday (except the last) will receive $30.
  • At the end of the final week of the contest, the 3 portfolios that have the largest values will win $1,000, $500, and $250, respectively.
Dear TBI StockGame Participant,
Many thanks for your support of our fabulous, fun and exciting fundraiser. As most of you know, this sadly will be our final StockGame. This endeavor would not have gone forward this year without chairman Ron Kendal and the 2025 TBI StockGame Committee, Karen Mann, Gary Gaal, Lindi Kendal along with a technical support crew consisting of Dick Leffel, Rabbi Howard Stein and Debbie Iszauk who stepped up to make the fun happen.
Let’s first take a look at some trivial and nearly useless data that I so enjoy sharing. As of the moment there are 307 entrants and all of the available stocks on the portfolio have been selected by some of you. Some of the available selections were more popular and some were less chosen.
Block SQ was selected by only 6 of you
Harley Davidson HOG was selected by 8 of you
On the upper end of the scale… 
Nvidia NVDA was selected by 129 of you 
Merck MRK was selected by 61 of you
The remaining stocks were spread throughout the range between those extremes. To the best of my knowledge we have only two identically picked portfolios. If you can identify them, perhaps you will get a shout out in a subsequent weekly report as an ace data detective. Unfortunately, that shout out will not get you any money, but you will have my admiration for closely examining the data that I painstakingly generate.
41 of our available 50 stocks increased in value and 9 stocks ended the week lower than their initial valuation.
At the extremes…
Applied Materials AMAT increased in value by 11.9%
PVH Corp PVH decreased in value by 7.1%
$9,513.00  separates our leading portfolio from the portfolio not doing so well. 
Had you picked the following portfolio
Applied Materials AMAT
Howmet Aerospace HWM
Paypal PYPL
Alcoa AA
Zillow Z
Your portfolio would be worth an astounding 
$110, 529.88 and we would be writing about you. Alas, no one did…
Let’s say congratulations to Len Young, whose portfolio on certificate #1950 consisting of Applied Materials, Baker Hughes, Helmerich and Payne, Howmet Aerospace and Magnolia Oil and Gas was worth an imaginary $108,705.18 and performed better than all of our entries for the week. 
As is said often, but not as frequently as it used to be, “The check is in the mail. ” Congrats Len! 
A report detailing our standings  is attached. The left side of the report is ranked by performance. The right side of the report is sorted alphabetically so that you can find your holding/s easily.
As we have seen so many times before, a lot can happen
in the remaining 7 weeks of the contest.
Wishing you all good luck in the weeks to come and hoping that we have generated a few smiles!

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Official TBI StockGame Rules

The StockGame begins when the Stock Market opens Monday, January 13, 2025, and ends when the Market closes on Friday, March 7, 2025.

Your object is to select a portfolio of five (5) different stocks listed on the front of this certificate which will appreciate as much as possible during the course of the StockGame. The 3 portfolios having the greatest value at market close on Friday, March 7, 2025 will be the winners.

Your donation of $30.00 entitles you to a (fictitious) $100,000 to invest in the common stock issue of exactly five (no more, no fewer ) of the 50 corporations listed. $20,000 will automatically be “invested” for you in each of the five stocks whose names or numbers you have checked from the official certificate form. The number of shares to be “purchased” of each of the checked stocks will be calculated based on the closing price of the issue on Friday, January 10, 2025. Fractional shares will be calculated in the purchase. On the opening day of the contest each portfolio will be valued at $100,000.

The 3 Certificates with the highest final values will win final prizes of $1000, $500, and $250. In addition, the Certificate which has the greatest value each Friday (except the last) will win a weekly prize of $30. In case of ties, prizes will be shared.

If fewer than 200 certificates are entered, Temple B’nai Israel reserves the right to award 20%, 10%, and 2% respectively of the gross receipts.

If any number but 5 stocks are checked, TBI will adjust the total to 5 selections at random. By checking the Random Select Box you instruct Temple B’nai Israel to check 5 stocks for you at random. You can wait until the Stock Market closes on Friday, January 10, 2025, to select your stocks, but if your entry is postmarked after the deadline of 11:59 pm, Sunday, January 12, 2025, TBI will ignore your choices and instead select five (5) stocks for you at random. Temple B’nai Israel is the sole computer and judge of the Stock Game and all of these rules.

DIRECTIONS: Please print your name, address, phone number and e-mail clearly on each of the Certificates you are entering and indicate the TBI Representative who sold it to you. Select 5 stocks by placing a check mark (✓) between the stock number and the stock symbol. Select your method of payment on the form. If you write a check, please make it payable to Temple B’nai Israel and identify your certificate number/s on the check. Send in the original certificate/s (white) and retain the copy (yellow) for your records. Weekly standings of all certificates will be posted on the Temple B’nai Israel website (http://www.tbiwhiteoak.org).