61.   This site tracks the records of professional stock pickers and pundits, assigning ratings based on performance.

62.   To most financial investors, a Wall Street analyst is a respected stock picker.

63.   To be sure, Cooperman is a top stock picker in his own right.

64.   Until now though, many investors assumed that the fledgling nature and lack of transparency in many emerging markets spelled opportunity for smart stock pickers.

65.   While Robertson is a traditional stock picker, Gerstenhaber specializes in picking out broad economic and interest rate trends around the world.

66.   When the broad stock market is treading water, a gifted stock picker rises to the occasion.

67.   With litigation fears depressing the stocks, some stock pickers now consider them undervalued.

68.   Word of the adolescent stock picker quickly spread from the schoolyard to the pages of The Chronicle and beyond.

69.   Yet Peter Jeffreys, chief executive officer of Fund Research, doubts such clear-cut distinctions can be drawn between stock pickers in emerging markets.

70.   For decades, stock pickers and pundits have counted on small stocks to rally in January, and they are usually not disappointed.