Haven't had a chance to do my research for the new year - so it helps to have this thread to give me the motivation to try and get going sooner rather than later
That's an interesting idea to try and include shorts - have given shorting a try in the past, and they went terrible due to lack of research. Will maybe have to give it another try, and will do things differently this time around.
One possible short that came to mind is New York and Company (NYC) - they're supposed to be a perennial underperformer, and their clothes aren't very cute. There's been talk of them possibly filing for bankruptcy for years, but they seem to keep hobbling along
Possible long - Amazon ... also maybe Microsoft? Saw Toothsayer mention in the AAPL thread that he mentioned it 5 years, and that it had outperformed AAPL after 5 years. Is it still expected to continue to do well?