< Student Analysts Win Big on Oil and Gas Plays Short AlphaJoshua Kohler of Drexel University in Philadelphia is this year's undisputed champion of shorting. His portfolio trumped the Russell 3000 by an eye-popping 467 basis points, thanks to big bets against GoPro, Annaly Capital Management, Wal-Mart and Tesla Motors. Among students whose portfolios beat the Russell 3000 over the contest period, those who shorted stocks enjoyed far greater outperformance than those who did not. Shorting had a more modest impact on the portfolios that lagged the benchmark.

Rank	Average Daily BPS	Student	School	Overall Rank
1	467	Joshua Kohler	Drexel University	192
2	148	Mohamed Moawad	University of Texas at Austin	319
3	144	Zhiyan Chen	Fairfield University	23
4	100	Travis Salinas	University of Texas at Austin	70
5	96	Xiudan Wang	Carnegie Mellon University	192
6	89	Katherine Cramer	University of Texas at Austin	29
7	89	Stefan Modic	Xavier University	75
8	86	Joncarlo Callea	Canisius College	418
9	85	Benjamin Peng	University of Texas at Austin	25
10	78	Xiang Ren	Drexel University	—
11	72	Xirui Tang	Fordham University	454
12	67	Eric Lee	Cornell University	20
13	66	Jason Ayat	Fordham University	5
14	65	Adam Petras	University of Texas at Austin	170
15	64	Harris Holley	University of Texas at Austin	392
16	61	Shuo Zhang	University of California, Berkeley	—
17	61	Rohit Dc	University of Texas at Dallas	17
18	58	Qi Pan	Fordham University	—
19	58	Tyler J. Isgro	Quinnipiac University	427
20	58	Nicholas Compogiannis	University of Texas at Austin	292