Amateur Guru: T.J. White
2005 Return: 77%
Age: 37
Hometown: Allen, Tex.
Day Job: forklift operator who recently quit to invest full-time
Fund: Auminer's Energy
Specialty: "blue collar" stocks with low PEGs
Web site: www.Marketocracy.com
Recommendations: White likes four energy stocks, all with PEGs under 0.35--Unit Corp (nyse: UNT), PetroChina (nyse: PTR), Pioneer Drilling (nyse: PDC) and China Petroleum and Chemical (nyse: SNP).

Amateur Guru: Gary Franklin
2005 Return: 59.6%
Age: 28
Hometown: San Francisco, Calif.
Online Fund: Resurrection Fund
Specialty: technicals, fundamentals and volatility
Web site: www.Marketocracy.com
Recommendations: Franklin is bullish on Kos Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: KOSP), which makes a drug that helps raise HDL-cholesterol levels. He also likes Canadian agricultural-chemicals company Agrium (nyse: AGU), which he claims has an "absurdly low operating cash-flow multiple and low net debt."

Amateur Guru: Alan Baginski
2005 Return: 49.3%
Age: 44
Hometown: North Andover, Mass.
Day Job: software developer
Online Fund: NoTek Value Fund
Specialty: value stocks; avoids tech and biotech
Web site: www.Marketocracy.com
Recommendations: Baginski is bullish on Japanese automakers. He likes Toyota Motor (nyse: TM), which has a forward P/E of 14, and Honda Motor (nyse: HMC), with a P/E of 10.

Amateur Guru: Brett Platt
Age: 34
2005 Return: 41%
Hometown: Cedar Park, Tex.
Day Job: semiconductor tester
Specialty: investor, discounted cash-flow analysis
Web site: www.ValueForum.com
Recommendations: Chicago-based railroad FreightCar America (nasdaq: RAIL) and Ontario, Canada-based beer-unit trust Lakeport Brewing Income Fund (toronto: TFR.UN).

Amateur Guru: James Robert White
2005 Return: 36%
Age: 59
Hometown: Islamorada, Fla.
Day Job: retired nuclear engineer
Specialty: technical trading--stocks above their 28-day moving average.
Web site: www.ValueForum.com
Recommendations: Energy-investment company Prospect (nasdaq: PSEC), which is yielding 7.3%, Southern Peru Copper (nyse: PCU), which is yielding 9%, and closed-end funds investing in Korea (nyse: KF) and Mexico (nyse: MXF).

Amateur Guru: Bryant Bloedorn
2005 Return: 35.4%
Age: 35
Hometown: Palatine, Ill.
Day Job: former telecom salesman, now investing full time
Online Fund: Babloedorn's Mutual Fund
Specialty: small-cap and micro-cap stocks, fundamentals and technicals
Web site: www.Marketocracy.com
Recommendations: Bloedorn likes wireless-handset company Infosonice (nyse: IFO) and cable-television-equipment company ADDVantage Technologies (nyse: AEY).

Amateur Guru: Bill Marcus
2005 Return: 31%
Age: 52
Hometown: Woodland, Calif.
Day Job: utilities consultant
Specialty: socially conscious small-cap stocks with low P/Es
Web site: www.ValueForum.com
Recommendations: Marcus likes are mortgage-investment companies. He owns Kansas City-based NovaStar Financial (nyse: NFI) and the mortgage REIT Impac Mortgage Holdings (nyse: IMH).

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