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I wonder how many contestants in the competition would actually buy the stocks for real.
I do as I am managing other peoples money. Taking a gamble will send you either to the top or the bottom. But as I said, it is a gamble for shear desperation of winning the competition and no consideration of money management for clients.
Perhaps I got it wrong and misread the whole intention as stated.

 

You should have bought yesterday. Up nearly 6% today.

The Turkey Lira has made an about turn for 2 months from it's decline and the outright win of the AK party making it a stable one party state had the Lira jump the highest since 2008.
This is great for Metair's Mutlu flagship and is already reflecting in it's share price.
The conflict in it's neighbor, Syria is now on the backbench.

Total BS.
Fortress is the best but I have a problem with some.

MTA on the list but here is the performance. (never paid a divi)
1 YR....-15%
2 YR....-21%
3 YR....  0%
5 YR....+173%

ADI NOT on the list and no divies included here.
1 YR....+58%
2 YR....+201%
3 YR....+664%
5 YR....+2 032%

An investment of R50k invested 5 years ago would give you R1M today yet is not listed.
EOH is listed as number 3 but ADI beats it by a long shot.

ADI...my star stock goes stratospheric!

I found it very simple to buy a six figure sum of DIVTRX in minutes. If the spread is ridiculously high or there are no sellers then the robot will place a 5 000 share batch automatically. This equates to R137k at a time. You just need to wait a few minutes for the robot to place the sale.

Here is a 5 year chart of STXIND (shaded) compared to PTXSPY and PTXTEN. I could not include DIVTRX due to it being only 1.5 years old.
The STXIND has gained twice more than the other 2.

Living off dividends is not as tax efficient as living off the occasional sale of high growth stocks. Patrick with his clever calculator has proven it on this thread already.
For the next 4 months you pay 15% withholding tax on divies. Thereafter it could be 25% putting it in line with the rest of the western world.
Normal tax on Capital Gains would be under 13% but very likely closer to zero.

Our living standards differ but if I were in Ron's shoes, I would pay off any debt asap then sell both properties. This would give him R2,7m in cash. Owning primary property is not an investment but a standard of living expense.

With R2,7m invested in no more than 2 ETF's, you could live very comfortably. The 4% rule is in my view a figure applicable to investments in cash and bonds or for people living in emerged market countries. I would raise that figure to 7% for emerging markets with no holdings in cash and bonds.

I have been retired for close on 2 years and despite the expense of setting up a new home in a different country plus 1 flat market year, my portfolio has grown by R400k.
Ron is alone and I have a wife and we both have private medical insurance.