I don't necessarily concur that we should exclude penny stocks. Also if Patrick can look at his system in the sense that if someone buys/sells penny stocks and there are no physical trades on the real market then the buyer/seller would not be permitted to buy/sell that particulate counter. Similarly if you have a large holding of one of the penny stocks you can't dump your holdings in Patrick's system until there is a physical sale and your sale would be limited to the physical sale. Similarly if someone on day 1 of the competition places an order for a 1 cent stock with the first allocation of R 100,000 and the physical sales are not there then the order to purchase is limited to the physical volumes of the day. Some penny stocks can give good returns and can be a company of tomorrow - in the '90's I bought Tiger Wheels for R.57 cents and sold them 8 years later at around R 21.00 before they expanded to rapidly and got into financial difficulties. Maybe Patrick can create an exception report and each of the cases is looked at on its merits rather than using a blanket approach, after all why penalize a person who buys a penny stock early in the year and then sits the ride out to end of year and the tax aspect may well prove to be a great leveler