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The stock market has been on a roller coaster this year. The S&P 500 (INDEX:^GSPC - News) followed up its 30 percent 2013 gain by tanking in January. The index fought its way back through February before moving sideways in March.
This month started out dismally, but Wednesday saw the S&P 500 (INDEX:^GSPC - News) and the Dow Jones Industrial Average (Dow Jones Global Indexes: .DJI) start to dig themselves out with 1 percent-plus gains each.
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So how do you navigate this volatility? Many market watchers have characterized the current environment as a stock picker's year.
Ten leading money men and women have agreed to give investors access to their three best ideas this week. They're part of what CNBC's " Squawk Box " is calling the Platinum Portfolio.
Here are the participants so far and their picks, which they all own.
Matrix Asset Advisors' David Katz cautioned investors Wednesday that stocks won't repeat last year's 30 percent gains. So he's looking to buy shares in companiers with solid business strategies such as medical diagnostic manufacture Hologic (NASDAQ:HOLX - News), industrial company Eaton (NYSE:ETN - News), and Capital One (NYSE:COF - News).
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Saturna Capital portfolio manager Paul Meeks told CNBC Wednesday likes three tech stocks: Facebook (NASDAQ:FB - News), semiconductor maker Microchip Techology (NASDAQ:MCHP - News), and digital media software-maker Adobe Systems (NASDAQ:ADBE - News).
Firsthand Capital Management's Kevin Landis said on Tuesday he liked three stocks that could see renewed momentum-sapphire glass maker GT Advanced Technologies (NASDAQ:GTAT - News), semiconductor provider LAM Research (NASDAQ:LRCX - News), and-like Meeks-favors Adobe Systems (NASDAQ:ADBE - News).
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Oscar Schafer, chairman of Rivulet Capital, also provided his stock picks Tuesday-naming home health-care provider BioScrip (NASDAQ:BIOS - News), European data center Interxion (NYSE:INXN - News) and 3-D movie tech firm RealD (NYSE:RLD - News) as his strongest plays.
Louis Navellier, founder of Reno, Nev.-based Navellier & Associates, kicked off the Platinum Portfolio week. He likes lesser-known momentum names such as Chinese online retailer Vipshop (NYSE:VIPS - News), oil and gas producer Matador Resources (NYSE:MTDR - News) and pharmaceutical company Actavis (NYSE:ACT - News).
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Jim O'Shaughnessy, founder of Stamford, Conn.-based O'Shaughnessy Asset Management, told CNBC on Monday that he's chasing dividend plays such as Canadian Oil Sands (Toronto Stock Exchange: COS-CA), telecom company Telefonica Brasil (Sao Paulo Stock Exchange: VIVT-BR) and Colombian oil and gas company Ecopetrol (:ECO-CO).
-By CNBC's Matthew J. Belvedere
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