They have other options for picking that reward the most accurate. My complete conjecture is that they are looking at the difference between picks incentivized by prizes for the best with our random/gut picks.I get that, but all those picks come from unconscious gut decisions. Picking correctly whether a stock goes up or down in a single day is pretty much impossible even for financial firms, unless there's concrete news about something that will affect the stock.
If all they want is how people feel about companies they might get more useful info from trawling Twitter, which I believe is a thing financial firms are already doing.
Anyway, that's enough on wallstreets from me. Back to the grind.