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Rear Admiral Lower Half
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Just thought that I'd see if anyone was interested in having a little gotapex investment game.
http://game.marketwatch.com (if you sign up, seems to take like 3 days to get approved for an account) I thought that maybe we could have a month-long (or longer, if we want) game with $500,000 or so. Anyone interested in this or have any thoughts? |
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Chief of Naval Operations
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oooh, fantasy stock market!
I'll kick ALL your butts!!! ![]() |
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i'm game. i can try some new investment strategies with fake monies
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Chief of Naval Operations
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sure I'm in...let me know what to do
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Rear Admiral Lower Half
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Anyone interested should sign up at http://game.marketwatch.com It took me about four days for them to activate my account, so might want to sign up early. We can start in a week or so to give everyone time to sign up.
Perhaps we should create another user who's stocks will be picked by throwing darts? ![]() Also, any ideas as to how long we want the game to go? A month? Maybe more? |
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I agree with everyone that this idea is great. Will be fun to get the competitive spirit going. I just signed up and my account was activated within minutes. As for the competition, I would say that we keep it to a month or two. Maybe something like Monday Jan 19 to Friday Mar 19. Everyone provide their thoughts and we can get this thing setup and going.
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Rear Admiral Lower Half
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Sounds good. I'll set it up tonight and then post the name/password.
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let's rock
just let me know the definite start date so i can prepare my transactions the night before. Last edited by ray : 01-05-2004 at 11:01 AM. |
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Rear Admiral Lower Half
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Ok, here's what you need to do:
1) Go to http://game.marketwatch.com 2) Register 3) Once your account has been activated, click on "Competitions" 4) Click on "Find or create a VSE Competition" 5) Enter Competition ID "gotapex" 6) Click "Click Here" to join 7) Password is "gotapex" I went with mostly the default options, with dates of 1/20-3/20. Let me know if any of the options don't seem right. |
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lilbigblue
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locked and loaded. thanks for settin' it up cubsfan
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I am all set up.
LK |
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Rear Admiral Lower Half
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I'll be trying a different approach to my investing style, so I don't expect to outperform anybody. I figure this is a good way to try new things with fake money and if it goes well, perhaps I will incorporate it somehow into my personal investing strategy.
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I think that I am going to do something similar...since it is less painful to do with fake money than the real stuff. Quote:
I think going the 19th through the 19th would make more sense....but that is only because they only allow things to start and end on regular open market days. |
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just joined =)
is there a way to track biggest day gain? biggest week gain? etc etc etc? I think those subcategories would be cool to check out too =) |
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that would be quite interesting..... i bet i have the biggest day loss. |
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registered
i think this will be a great learning experience before i decide to try out the real deal. |
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Arrrhh!
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I'm in as well. This should be a good time. Good luck all!
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i just hope you don't perform as poorly as you did in fantasy football ![]() |
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Chief of Naval Operations
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I wanna try.
I just finished registering.. ![]() edited /me looks at whose playing... well at least it's not real money... i'm gonna lose so quickly.. ![]() And i got my conf. notice within a few minutes. Maybe they don't like you? ![]() Last edited by Nija : 01-13-2004 at 11:12 PM. |
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Don't forget that this begins on Tuesday, which is actually the first trading day of the week since the markets are closed on MLK day.
I was just looking at the people registered. I'm surprised the game lets you view somebody else's portfolio as well. Very interesting. |
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Rear Admiral Lower Half
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Nah, actually, I just placed about 5 advanced orders so come tuesday morning at the open of the market (i live on the west coast) I should have 5 stocks in my possession. |
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Chief of Naval Operations
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Location: woah... why is welfareloser here with me so early in the morning and more importantly why am I wearing her clothes?!?
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I'm just going to do nothing and just let you all lose money
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Rear Admiral Lower Half
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1 hour in and I'm already $4k in the hole. At this rate I'll lose all of my money in about a week! We're scoring this like golf, right?
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