I sat down earlier today with winnerinwashington17, the winner of our recent stock competition (he beat my poor butt by more than 400,000$).
How do you feel after your victory?
After a couple of stress-free weeks into the competition, I had to battle it out with the runner-up in the final week of the competition. Now, [...]
Here are the top ten (and bottom one) contestants in the Stock Competition:
Rank
Username
Net Worth
% Return
# Trans
1
Winnerinwashington17
$614,149.86
22.83 %
6
2
indiana_trelawney
$608,153.54
21.63 %
20
3
jeremywright
$575,868.48
15.17 %
31
4
alexmoskalyuk
$556,105.55
11.22 %
21
5
Squeebee
$551,695.23
10.34 %
10
6
pfblueprint
$550,280.15
10.06 %
15
7
nichenet
$549,640.87
9.93 %
14
8
mmeds1228
$536,354.62
7.27 %
17
9
mgroves84
$535,201.32
7.04 %
29
10
joseanes
$532,778.32
6.56 %
4
24
irregular
$413,568.53
-17.29 %
9
I thought I would throw in the bottom position to show that not all forays into the stock market are so glamourous. I’m just amazed I’m in the top [...]
Let me continue the tale of my foolish investing in the Stock Competition:
After buying the first stock I could find listed in a spam email, I needed a way to spend more of my cash. I decided to go to RagingBull.com, a popular message board for stock traders, and just buy the two stocks that [...]
Well you may have noticed that Jeremy started a stock competition. It looks like fun so I decided to give it a whirl.
The first thing I had to decide was how I was going to go about managing my portfolio. Jeremy is going with a balanced approach of holding some reliable stocks and taking a [...]
Okay, there’s 12 people in the Stock Competition so far. If you’re interested, sign up. It’s never too late to beat me
I’m fairly new to the stocks game, mainly because this is the first time I’ve had any money to play with. So, I thought I’d do a few different things at once.
First, [...]
Here are the competition’s trading rules:
Start Date 5/25/2005
Ending Date 6/30/2005
Starting Cash $500,000.00
Show Real Name In Ranking? Yes
Allow User to Reset Portfolio? Yes
Keep all member portfolios public? Yes
Allow Selling Short? Yes
Allow Limit Orders? Yes
Allow Stop Orders? Yes
Allow Margin? [...]
The first of perhaps many of these begins tomorrow.
The concept is simple. Using MarketWatch’s Fantasy Stock Exchange, sign up and join the “Bloggers” / “Wealthy Blogger Stock Competition” group. Then, the one who has the highest portfolio value by the end of June wins. There is a bonus prize for the first person to get [...]
