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Someone told me about this site earlier today and I've been checking it out.  Seems like it might be good.  Ever wanted to chance yer arm with the stock market?  Reckon you've got what it takes to double yer money, but don't have the money to prove it?  I've set up a stock market challenge for Blonde.  Test your skills as a stock broker with play money.  It runs until October 2nd, but I can sort a longer one if there's interest after that.  Top Blonde has bragging rights at the end of the month. 

You can find it here:

http://www.howthemarketworks.com/stock-market-game/contest-status.php?cid=285

Password to join the group is chiprich. 

Now then  ;slavedriver; and  ;goodluck;

:)

Blimey...you were quick!   rotflmfao

In but aint got a danny what to do ;dingdell;

When you've signed up and you're in the 'Blonde Contest' section, click on the wee 'my account' box to the right.  There you'll see a 'trade now' tab.  Go there and start picking the stocks you'd like to buy.  You have 100,000 to spend, so happy shopping!

All my eggs are in one basket, what could possibly go wrong?

+1

I've only 1 company so far.  Been searching the web all night for ideas on what to buy.   Trying to steer clear of the obvious ones as we're only in this for a month to start and those types of stocks don't move much in such a short time...usually.

+2

Random dart throw FTW..

If I buy 4 Al Murray tickets for a £5 each I should be able to sell them for multiples of this within a month

who needs the stockmarket? (sorry Rooks, go get your money back)

$22.45 left enough for 4 1/2 price Al murray tickets

btw thanks for setting this up Laxie

LOL  Have picked a couple of them using that...out of frustration/desperation.


No problem. ;D Thought it might be a bit of fun once we get our picks sorted.   

I did consider keeping $100k in cash as this may have a good chance of winnning but lump it all on a bankrupt mortgage insurer FTW.

i just signed up :) it seems i only have $10k to spend, any ideas?

You have to sign up to our private group for the 100k deal. 

http://www.howthemarketworks.com/stock-market-game/contest-status.php?cid=285

password is chiprich

Looks good fun for a month......

You better send the Blonde investment group over here for a trial run.......

Good Luck
Steve

Just done.  Cheers!   :D

We have 15 Blondes signed up so far.  Good luck everyone!

sigh - looks like the blonde quiz imposter is back in this one as well.  Just for the record, the Claire that is actually me is Claire84465

I'm in. And I was even briefly in under my real name.

Which isn't Claire, BTW :D.

is there an easy way to change it?

You can edit your profile and change your display name, i am AcidMouse :) traded 99k worth of shares see what happens.

Thanks for that.  Just changed me profile name to Laxie. 

My tips are:

China Natural Resources Inc Com (NSDQ:CHNR)
Mercadolibre Inc (NSDQ:MELI)
Appliance Recycling Ctrs Ame Com New (NSDQ:ARCI)
Digital Ally Inc (NSDQ:DGLY)
Hdfc Bank Ltd ADR Reps 3 Shs (NYSE:HDB)

Not that I did that much more than the throw darts option.

Tighty wins, gg all...

lol, just seen this.

LOL@password.

 rotflmfao  Thought you'd like that. 

Tighty won't be playing as he's too busy coaching me on what to buy.  We're in negotiations regarding his fee and should have an agreement reached before the day is out.   ;whistle;

If I play this, I say goodbye to my remaining life

I can't just throw darts, it means research and company visits and forensic examination of accounts

If I do that I might get tempted to get a City job again

If I do that I'll be dead in a year


Forgive me, but someone else can win this

Does that mean our negotiations are closed?    :dontask:  rotflmfao

no, it just means I get to laugh at your "selections" in private.

Yeah it was pretty world. I was like wtf but LOL.

when is the list updated?? weekly?

Supposedly daily - at the end of each trading day.  As it was a holiday in America yesterday, we have to wait until today's end of session trading.  I think.  Pretty sure anyway.  Where's Dingdell when I need help with something?!

Market has officially opened and you will start to see your picks rise or fall.  Good luck everyone!!!

lol, as long as i beating acidmouse

30 minutes in and these are the kick off leaders and losers...but there's a long day to go and all month to get it right.

1     Jon Mw (Jon84471)     $101,017.50     +1.0%
2    Grant (Grant84397)    $100,842.49    +0.8%
3    Terry (Terry84375)    $100,563.68    +0.6%
4    Grier (Grier84378)    $100,340.00    +0.3%
5    Claire (Claire84388)    $100,031.66    +0.0%
6    Ross (Ross84383)    $100,029.00    +0.0%
7    Laxie (Dawn84371)    $100,016.70    +0.0%
8    Mike (Mike84468)    $100,011.01    +0.0%
9    Dewi (Dewi84473)    $100,000.00    +0.0%
10    J (Trader84410)    $100,000.00    +0.0%
11    Daniel (Daniel84477)    $100,000.00    +0.0%
12    Neeko (Nick84398)    $100,000.00    +0.0%
13    Ben (Ben84373)    $100,000.00    +0.0%
14    Robert (Robert84391)    $100,000.00    +0.0%
15    Andrew (Andrew84472)    $99,990.00    -0.0%
16    Claire (Claire84465)    $99,980.00    -0.0%
17    George (George84454)    $99,970.00    -0.0%
18    Steve (Steve84405)    $99,694.32    -0.3%
19    Colin (Colin84412)    $99,272.88    -0.7%
20    Rex (Rex008)    $99,069.72    -0.9%
21    Bolt (Bolt84376)    $98,824.00    -1.2%
22    Acidmouse (Matt84466)    $97,637.00    -2.4%

Yeah I bought any shares to test its working! they will come good :)

im grant on it btw

I am on the up from -2.4% to -1.8% Bolt bottom :)

Flippin heck.  Yer flying into the lead now!

Im 9th and going steady.

can i still join ? i fancy spunking away 100k

buy blonde's card-room

online stockmarket competitions are so rigged! ::)

LOL how complex is this ... How do I actually buy shares ?

I'm now 'therealClaire' :)

I think I'd be better off playing celebdaq - anyone fancy a blonde league on that?

Anyone can join at any point in the month.  


When you're at the Blonde Poker Contest page, go to 'My Account' listed on the right hand side.  

Once you're in your account, click on 'Trade Now' and in that window is a wee box that says Symbol over it.  Click on the (? Look up) next to that and it will take you here  http://www.howthemarketworks.com/trading/symbol-lookup.php  

Enter the name of any company you're interested in to get their stock market trading symbol.  You can see a chart of their performance over the past 6 months, check out the latest news regarding the company...all kinds of things.  

And if it's still too much to deal with, just go to 'Throw Darts' and they'll pick some random ones for you.

LOL I think my time is safe, I cant see myself getting addicted to this ... i am just going to spend all the 100k randomly and see what happens at the end of the month.

ok - I've not bothered waiting for replies - set one up anyway - will play on my own if I have too ;D  New thread coming!

It looks daunting at first, but trust me, once you get the hang of it you'll be grand.

Available Cash
         
$474.60



I am saving that for a Colt45 and a bullet to top myself when i go busto :)

Cheapo Saturday night special and drink the rest ftw.

They even do one in your colour...

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im liking this man, quite interesting

Oh hush you!  Just because yer crushing the field.  Sigh. 

lol itl be all gone by tommorrow  :D

DOW is up on the day yet only 2/28 of us are up.

[ ] we're good a this :)

I blame Steve Jobs.

rotflmfao  At least most of us aren't alone.  

-7.4% in a half day

last is good?

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It's got you at -8.6 now.  Brilliant going altogether!!!   ;applause; ;hattip; rotflmfao

f3rt4%T$%T$%G$%35gt5hyh45H"$^HY^H!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

my stock picks are a little volitile - intraday.

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I'm anticipating a good day today, big swing ::)

You and me both.  On the plus side...at least we've not lost real money.

i need yhoo and exxon to have a good day.

ship, we're starting to buzz now

Sigh, bolts above me now too! wtf

In and losing -- standard

As soon as my shares are up by even a cent then they are getting sold FACT!!!

FYP

bad day at the virtual office for me today, on to tommorrows picks now :)

 ;ashamed;

My experiment with short selling didn't go too well.

I'm obviously better at trivia than at stock picking.

Thing is, most of my portfolio is of an actual stock I actually own a bit of (employee during IPO about 8 years ago). So my -4% in one day is almost real. FML :).

Going from bad to worse today.  Sigh. 

anyone got any good websites that talk you though how to make educated decisions on what stocks to buy and not just going on a feeling?

cough, temporarily top of the pile

good purchases of Emerging market bear funds helping to date

Shorting the market has helped too

Am in.

Do all shares have to be sold at the end of the day? 

no, when you wish

What time does the market open? 

In about 40 minutes I think

I'm really wishing I hadn't bought any of this stock

(http://htmw.redinews.com/tools/C04?queryid=QH32041&symbol=DGLY&periods=1d)

 :'(

the days trading hasnt started exactly how i'd anticipated ::)

ffs tighty, couldnt you have put me on a winner?

Hey I'm in profit -- result

sigh

(http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll276/punaniland/APAT%20Screenshots/ffsyousaiduwerenotplaying.jpg)

ive sold all my shares and have gone another way, a lot of thought went into this ::)

the 15 min delay is stupid man, sold at 2.5% for a $1200 profit then in 15mins i ended up like $500 down

Beware Alex HM has joined the fray.

tightys killing it

That he is.  And he never gave me any tips before he signed up.  Sigh.  Meanwhile, my stocks are dropping faster than should be allowed by law.  Will have bottom spot in no time.   rotflmfao

Who on here is 'G' in the contest?

me :hello:

Ahhhhhhhh, ty.  Was sat here for ages trying to guess.  Hadn't got to the 'S' list yet.   rotflmfao

You'll have to try pretty hard to beat me. 1/3 of my portfolio has dropped 17%. In three days ffs. I only picked it cos it was the most popular stock being traded on there at the time. Shows what the herd knows. Baaa.

AND I've just had my worst ever trivia result. FML. Karma will pay me back with 92m in the lottery tonight though obv.  rotflmfao

did dewi buy shares in Guinness then just double his daily intake?

Neeko!!! wtf!!!

this is comedy

pmfslllll

 ;whistle; will accept stockmarket staking commissions....

wtf has happened to the bottom 4?

brutal

Don't complain!  They're doing worse than us...lol

cant i find out what tighty bought?

I set it up and even I can't see what anyone has bought.  Bad beat.

Sold...not bought....you can sell short!

"sold", "bought", "short"....I'm looking for advice, stop baffling me with your advanced financial terminology!

the game has an option where, if you think a particular share is going down, or indeed the whole market is going down, you can sell shares you do not own and profit that way

I sold 3 market vehicles (2 in emerging markets) to profit from this

I think markets are going down

when I stop thinking this I'll close the position and use the money+profits to buy stocks

yeah? i threw darts

I rest my case.

He thinks the market is going down?!  Plenty of us can confirm that.   rotflmfao

I tried a similar trick, except they've all gone up :(
I'm hoping they come crashing down any minute now.

If you've got that good an insight is it really that stressfull to do a little bit on the side and not get back into it fully and keep earning?

Or do you still drop in and out of it from time to time?

* Stress

* My Personality (if you do it you can't do it half-hearted)

* I drop in and out occasionally but ONLY when I have real risk capital spare (ie if I lose it all, I can walk away relaxed)

just out my bed so a late start for me, lets gogogogogogogogogo. btw tighty how do u sell the shares if u think theyre gona drop?

there is an option on the game

"sell short"

still within the $100,0000 limit lets say you want to sell $10,000 worth of Bank of America at $20 per share you put in an order to "sell short" 500 shares and that accounts for $10k of your portfolio

When the shares fall, buy (BUY) at a profit

beware though, if the shares go up your profits will fall dramatically

So its more a short term traders technique

I also threw darts.   ;djinn;

Just chanced me arm on something.  Will see if it's helped in about 30 minutes.

These are the stats now 

28     Laxie (Dawn84371)     $93,728.00     -6.3%

Start the countdown!

nice one cheers, will give it a go!

did you used to do this? sure know your stuff?

any chance you would be able to give me a few pointers sometime on msn when uve got a spare 15 minutes?
would like to get into it after i finish my last year of uni this year

I think you'd need a bigger bankroll to do this properly than you would for poker

lol im talking about becoming a trainee trader or something not doing it myself ;djinn;

I was scared off the idea in university because I thought that if I did it I was bound to end up bankrupting the company like happened to Barings.

i was going alright until i started buying shares.

Murphy's Law.  I sell and they suddenly start their climb.  Sigh.

lol the only share of mine that has risen is the one that I've shorted :D

what are the quick ROI markets, really volatile, i want a big swing either way, high risk stuff, I'm bored of languishing 6/7th from the bottom!

I need a new aggressive trading strategy!!

I have fears for my portfolio when the US market opens on Mon pm.

Is there a prize for last?

Not for you.  Either Bolt or meself will be taking that one down. 

don't put us in the same group please, there's a whole 1% difference between our shares currently!! ::)

For now.  I made the brilliant decision to try that whole 'short' thing with some of mine that were falling fast when I just plain owed them.  Now they're rising to beat the band.  FML.  Sigh.

Tighty's giving everyone bad advice so he can win!!!

ive sold all mine now, new tactic, i'm - about -5k so instead of throwing darts i'm gonna do a bit of investigation......

I tried the 'investigation' theory.  Thrown right out the window now.   rotflmfao

There's going to be a big bounce in bank stocks today.

In a word: SHHHHHHIIIIIIPPPPPP :D

Ups

(http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/7164/ups2lf2.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)

So how's your nerve - when do we start selling and cashing in the profit?

LOL only 5 are in profit, though its improving!

give it 72 hours and reassess

those traders that buy today will trade out in that timeframe

yah endless ribbing

ship,
result, we're on a lttile buzz now, be in +ROI% soon!

Hloding my nerve my shares are in for the long haul -- watch them rise when the party of the first part attempts to buy the party of the second part resulting in a black hole in switzerland on Wednesday .....

tighty got greedy!!!! ::)

i'm going in the right direction, woooooohhhhhhhoooooooooo,

If i had done my "serious financial investigation" at the start i'd be +ROI

though i do have to say throwing the darts was more fun

tighty didn't, he sold his shorts on Friday..leaving long positions in place

haven't been able to log onto it since.(just as well)

can anyone confirm tighty's sold his shorts and something long's been left in place?

My whole strategy so far has been to use all my money to buy Apple shares which will soar in value when they launch all of their really good new products yesterday.

Unforunatly the sum total of their new products are a taller Ipod Nano and a slightly thinner Ipod touch, obviously investors are not impressed and the share price has now dipped even further leaving me $10k out of pocket. GG me WP not.

My "strategy" was to buy some random US shares and leave them to fester/grow ala most unit trust managers. I'm not too amazed to see I'm 3rd :)

ZZZZRope is my hero :D

I'm just so glad I never thought about taking this up for a living!   rotflmfao

LOL What happened Zzzzz?

rofl this is mental 3 people in slight profit. Now not the time to seek out $ in the markets i guess.

 :D ended up buying some shares that dropped down to 90k so i thought id let them ride and wait untill they got back to even. obv i choose the company that has gone busto lol

This games easy!

RHM and Son Traders FTW

Would anyone be interested in a FTSE trading challenge aswell? I can set up a league on another site if there's interest.

At one point yesterday I was nearly $10,000 down and after cleaning out all my stock just now I'm $1600 up.

That was quite tiring I think I'm going to just rest with this cash for a while.

If you could set up a FTSE one that would be cool as I would actually know some of the companies on there rather than the blind guesses I am making on the NYSE.

*dumb question alert*

would a FTSE one include AIM listed companies?

Yea i haven't really got a clue about the NYSE either.

No gatso i don't think they have AIM companies. I could be wrong but i think its just the FTSE.

I'm away out for the day but will set it up later.

I suspect there are going to be some big gainers today. About 2/3 of my portfolio was Goldman Sachs, which had lost 35% of its value in 2 weeks. Yesterday I decided that it was ridiculously undervalued (I keep an eye, as I've got some for real having worked for them 8 years ago), and traded in the remaining 1/3 (random pick that also worked very badly) for GS.. In premarket trading today it's up 33% :D. Wish I'd done that for real yesterday now...

Question is, is the rally going to last longer than a day? Have the naked-short-sellers given up?

lol

Just had a look, considerably more people over their starting stack now

Congratulations to our winner!! Georgerelaedgc (George84454) had a 5.6% gain.

1     Georgerelaedgc (Profile: George84454)     $105,625.09     +5.6%
2    Jon Mw (Profile: Jon84471)                      $101,514.25    +1.5%
3    Colchester (Profile: Colchester84511)            $100,768.90    +0.8%
4    J (Profile: Trader84410)                            $100,000.00    +0.0%
5    Kieran (Profile: Kieran84724)                    $100,000.00    +0.0%
6    Alex Hm (Profile: Alex85014)                    $98,617.85    -1.4%
7    Tighty.no Don't (Profile: Tighty84514)            $97,892.50    -2.1%
8    Robert Hm (Profile: Robert84391)                    $97,548.46    -2.5%
9    Maccol (Profile: Colin84412)                            $95,607.60    -4.4%
10    Mike (Profile: Mike84468)                            $94,296.87    -5.7%
11    Rodparadise (Profile: Rodparadise84507)    $92,320.83    -7.7%
12    Mrs Boldie (Profile: Wendy84513)                    $91,981.90    -8.0%
13    Terry (Profile: Terry84375)                            $91,222.61    -8.8%
14    Gerard (Profile: Gerard84590)                    $91,143.56    -8.9%
15    Claire (Profile: Claire84388)                            $90,845.63    -9.2%
16    Dan 'mariners' (Profile: Daniel84477)            $90,699.90    -9.3%
17    Bolt (Profile: Bolt84376)                            $89,965.40    -10.0%
18    G (Profile: Trader84823)                            $89,335.19    -10.7%
19    Grier (Profile: Grier84378)                            $89,007.64    -11.0%
20    Andrew (Profile: Andrew84472)                    $87,355.95    -12.6%
21    Claire (Profile: TherealClaire)                            $87,009.70    -13.0%
22    Steve (Profile: Steve84405)                            $86,800.32    -13.2%
23    ********* (Profile: David85005)                    $86,773.84    -13.2%
24    Rupert (Profile: Rupert84643)                    $86,184.40    -13.8%
25    Dewi (Profile: Dewi84473)                            $85,506.60    -14.5%
26    Dafydd (Profile: Dafydd84518)                    $84,620.69    -15.4%
27    Fkyrlives (Profile: Fkyrlives85236)                    $84,257.34    -15.7%
28    Rex (Profile: Rex008)                                    $82,432.04    -17.6%
29    Acidmouse (Profile: Matt84466)                    $80,599.55    -19.4%
30    Redsimon (Profile: redsimon)                    $80,174.85    -19.8%
31    Laxie (Profile: Dawn84371)                            $77,264.85    -22.7%
32    Ben (Profile: Ben84373)                            $74,173.00    -25.8%
33    Wardonkey (Profile: Patrick84722)            $49,758.28    -50.2%
34    Ross (Profile: Ross84383)                            $36,274.00    -63.7%
35    Neeko (Profile: Nick84398)                            $24,207.30    -75.8%
36    Zzzzzzzzrope (Profile: Grant84397)             $4,941.95            -95.1%

An impressive reflection on blonde's financial acumen I'm sure you'll agree :D

 rotflmfao  Well done everyone!!!   ;applause; rotflmfao

Nearly a 23% loss.  Hmmmmm.  Stick to the day job, or in my case...the house work.

-8.9% -- oh well standard

Clearly I am wasted on dealing cards. :P

collectively how much did we all lose?

I made $768.90 in a month ... Tighty I QUIT, i can make more on the stock market ;)

Accepted.

Now then, where's The Crow's email address?

CrowTheCEO@secureUNIT.com I think

tried that, said he had escaped. Gave me the number of Interpol in case I found him

did i win or what?

Ummmmmmmmmm...not so much.  But GG, WP, FYL and welcome back.

ty ;hattip;