Join the investopedia challenge

[Airhog]

http://www.investopedia.com/

Link to our competition http://simulator.investopedia.com/Join.aspx?G=24527&PW=colossaltrout

This is a stock market simulation challenge. The basic goal of this challenge will be to earn as much money before the new year. Everyone will start with 100k dollars. All of the options have been enabled. Margin, Short Selling, and Options.

The Group name is FOFC December challenge
The password is colossaltrout


I urge everyone to take a look at it.

The only rule I have is play with honor. Since there is a 15 minute delay from the real stock market, and the game, do not use that to cheat. It would not be fun if you did.

[MacroGuru]

It's rejecting the password,

[Airhog]

I added a link up there to click on to join

[Ryan S]

I am in.

I have no idea what I am doing, so I should be easy to beat.

[Airhog]

Hopefully tonight I can create a dynasty about this game.

[Radii]

I'm in.

[oliegirl]

I'm in, but I don't like the website...it's very slow!!!

Does anyone have a strategy or are you just randomly picking stocks?

[Sublime 2]

I'm in...but this prob. won't turn out well for me

[Radii]

My strategy is to buy the company i work for, and work extra hard for the next month to see if I can single handedly drive the stock price up. :D

[MacroGuru]

I have several strategies I will be using...

[bbor]

I will throw a dart at company names and buy those.:)

[MacroGuru]

And the final rankings

<TABLE id=tblRank border=0><TBODY><TR><TD align=right>Rank</TD><TD align=middle>User</TD><TD align=middle>Today</TD><TD align=middle>Week</TD><TD align=middle>Month</TD><TD align=middle>Overall</TD><TD align=middle>Equity</TD></TR><TR style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"><TD align=right>1.</TD><TD align=left>kamacdonald (http://simulator.investopedia.com/Trade/TradeOverview.aspx?UserID=381517&UserName=kamacdonald&GameID=24527)</TD><TD align=right>0.00%</TD><TD align=right>0.00%</TD><TD align=right>0.00%</TD><TD align=right>3.51%</TD><TD align=right>$103,507.10</TD></TR><TR style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #eeeeee"><TD align=right>2.</TD><TD align=left>macroguru (http://simulator.investopedia.com/Trade/TradeOverview.aspx?UserID=381217&UserName=macroguru&GameID=24527)</TD><TD align=right>0.00%</TD><TD align=right>0.00%</TD><TD align=right>0.00%</TD><TD align=right>2.35%</TD><TD align=right>$102,352.20</TD></TR><TR style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"><TD align=right>3.</TD><TD align=left>oliegirl (http://simulator.investopedia.com/Trade/TradeOverview.aspx?UserID=381643&UserName=oliegirl&GameID=24527)</TD><TD align=right>0.00%</TD><TD align=right>0.00%</TD><TD align=right>0.00%</TD><TD align=right>1.07%</TD><TD align=right>$101,070.10</TD></TR><TR style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #eeeeee"><TD align=right>4.</TD><TD align=left>expenseroso (http://simulator.investopedia.com/Trade/TradeOverview.aspx?UserID=381244&UserName=expenseroso&GameID=24527)</TD><TD align=right>0.00%</TD><TD align=right>0.00%</TD><TD align=right>0.00%</TD><TD align=right>0.00%</TD><TD align=right>$100,000.00</TD></TR><TR style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"><TD align=right>5.</TD><TD align=left>ryanstev (http://simulator.investopedia.com/Trade/TradeOverview.aspx?UserID=381232&UserName=ryanstev&GameID=24527)</TD><TD align=right>0.00%</TD><TD align=right>0.00%</TD><TD align=right>0.00%</TD><TD align=right>-0.07%</TD><TD align=right>$99,929.08</TD></TR><TR style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #eeeeee"><TD align=right>6.</TD><TD align=left>Sublime2 (http://simulator.investopedia.com/Trade/TradeOverview.aspx?UserID=381708&UserName=Sublime2&GameID=24527)</TD><TD align=right>0.00%</TD><TD align=right>0.00%</TD><TD align=right>0.00%</TD><TD align=right>-0.64%</TD><TD align=right>$99,364.68</TD></TR><TR style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"><TD align=right>7.</TD><TD align=left>Wasabiak (http://simulator.investopedia.com/Trade/TradeOverview.aspx?UserID=381426&UserName=Wasabiak&GameID=24527)</TD><TD align=right>0.00%</TD><TD align=right>0.00%</TD><TD align=right>0.00%</TD><TD align=right>-0.72%</TD><TD align=right>$99,279.92</TD></TR><TR style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #eeeeee"><TD align=right>8.</TD><TD align=left>airhogg (http://simulator.investopedia.com/Trade/TradeOverview.aspx?UserID=381205&UserName=airhogg&GameID=24527)</TD><TD align=right>0.00%</TD><TD align=right>0.00%</TD><TD align=right>0.00%</TD><TD align=right>-1.52%</TD><TD align=right>$98,481.07</TD></TR><TR style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"><TD align=right>9.</TD><TD align=left>radii (http://simulator.investopedia.com/Trade/TradeOverview.aspx?UserID=381682&UserName=radii&GameID=24527)</TD><TD align=right>0.00%</TD><TD align=right>0.00%</TD><TD align=right>0.00%</TD><TD align=right>-2.50%</TD><TD align=right>$97,502.66</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

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<TABLE id=tblRank border=0><TBODY><TR style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"><TD align=right>5.</TD><TD align=left>ryanstev (http://simulator.investopedia.com/Trade/TradeOverview.aspx?UserID=381232&UserName=ryanstev&GameID=24527)</TD><TD align=right>0.00%</TD><TD align=right>0.00%</TD><TD align=right>0.00%</TD><TD align=right>-0.07%</TD><TD align=right>$99,929.08</TD></TR><TR style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #eeeeee"><TD align=right>6.</TD><TD align=left>Sublime2 (http://simulator.investopedia.com/Trade/TradeOverview.aspx?UserID=381708&UserName=Sublime2&GameID=24527)</TD><TD align=right>0.00%</TD><TD align=right>0.00%</TD><TD align=right>0.00%</TD><TD align=right>-0.64%</TD><TD align=right>$99,364.68</TD></TR><TR style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"><TD align=right>7.</TD><TD align=left>Wasabiak (http://simulator.investopedia.com/Trade/TradeOverview.aspx?UserID=381426&UserName=Wasabiak&GameID=24527)</TD><TD align=right>0.00%</TD><TD align=right>0.00%</TD><TD align=right>0.00%</TD><TD align=right>-0.72%</TD><TD align=right>$99,279.92</TD></TR><TR style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #eeeeee"><TD align=right>8.</TD><TD align=left>airhogg (http://simulator.investopedia.com/Trade/TradeOverview.aspx?UserID=381205&UserName=airhogg&GameID=24527)</TD><TD align=right>0.00%</TD><TD align=right>0.00%</TD><TD align=right>0.00%</TD><TD align=right>-1.52%</TD><TD align=right>$98,481.07</TD></TR><TR style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"><TD align=right>9.</TD><TD align=left>radii (http://simulator.investopedia.com/Trade/TradeOverview.aspx?UserID=381682&UserName=radii&GameID=24527)</TD><TD align=right>0.00%</TD><TD align=right>0.00%</TD><TD align=right>0.00%</TD><TD align=right>-2.50%</TD><TD align=right>$97,502.66</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

These people, you keep your hands off my money :D

[oliegirl]

radii and I liked this - I started a year long investment challenge so we could see how things progress and gain/lose over the course of an entire year. If anyone is interested in joining, PM me your email and I'll send you an invite.

[QuikSand]

I'm curious -- those swings seem awfully tepid. Are you limits to only blue chip stocks or somethign along those lines?

I would have expected some enterprising high roller to plunge in with a portfolio of high risk penny stocks, hoping to either hit the jackpot and win or else go broke -- who cares whether you finsih fifth or fiftieth in something like this, right?

Seeing swings of only a couple percent seems... rather boring to me. Am I missing something?

[oliegirl]

You can't buy penny stocks, minimum of $1 per share...

I think the swings are so small b/c it was only a 30 day thing. Not much the market will do in 30 days, but over the course of a year it will be different.

[MacroGuru]

Basically, the company I work for is a Stock investing training company, and our website has several strategy searches for finding stocks.

I used a pre-built search for the 3 green arrows....I just followed the green and reds, in my buying and selling.

However, with everything going on, I wasn't able to focus as much as a I wanted to on this...in fact, I know at one point in time I was above 4% on my return, but me not focusing on it, I wasn't able to act, and get out of a few options I was in.

[Kam]

And the final rankings

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Yeah me http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/images/smilies/smile.gif

[oliegirl]

Yeah me http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/images/smilies/smile.gif


I was wondering who that was! Seemed like the 3 of us were fighting for first for a while, then you pulled ahead...nice job! :)

[Airhog]

I sold short one stock QS, of the company I work for. It is trading around 67, which is about 7 dollars higher than it has been most of the year.