Trading Matters Challenge

mikat · 18 January 2008

how are they making the gain?
if its cheating they will get wiped from the game, but i would like to know just for my own info, and to make sure im not doing some thing i shouldnt be...
i can see how you could make up to 40% this week, but the 80+% that cool trader has i cant see how it was done, considering he started the week on about $300k

tigerboi said:
cool trader 81% on 9 red days in a row,please hes having a massive tug!

if he dont get lifted this game is not worth 2 bob,i know how its being done

but wont do it as it is not the go,lets see what happens,you got the answer

mouse,thx...

tigerboi · 18 January 2008

your porftolio showed -750 as mouse asked you,do you know why that was???

RamPage · 18 January 2008

Spider61 said:
I'm guessing he is either Cool Trader or Flame. A question RamPage, if you've already been evicted for trading in this manner, don't you think there's a fair chance you'll get evicted again? And if they have suggested it's against the spirit of the game, why continue in the same way.

I gather you don't need morals driving a Maserati.

I don't need the car, I need the Challenge.
I get bored easily & what are morals, in law they change from year to year.
Wasn't that many years ago they hung homosexuals, now they hang you if your not.

RamPage.

RamPage · 18 January 2008

mikat said:
i would have to say that 10 out of 10 of the top ten players are scalping the market.
there isnt any "loophole" the only reason it works in this game is because you dont have to get in a que to buy and sell.
, i consistly make gains of several cents in mid cap stocks, and make gains, and losses of $1000 to $20000, so its not lways scalping, its just picking stocks that are going up at different times in the day
the other difference is that in real life you wouldnt bet $170,000 on CNP to go up a couple of cents, but in this game if you lose $20000 you can make it back . or not and not lose any sleep.
the rules come the finals are the same for every body, and every one goes back to $100,000, which for the scalpers makes it hard to make any profits,on such low equity

I am not sure what that is all about, but I'll have you know I often put 20k-30k to make $500.00, like daily. Then pickup the interest for having the money in a cah management account.

RamPage.

mikat · 18 January 2008

i never saw my account at -750, but i have seen some accounts at -$ sometimes, and i couldnt tell you why.
any that do go - get corrected pretty quickly it seems, and it must be a glitch in the trading system.

tigerboi said:
your porftolio showed -750 as mouse asked you,do you know why that was???

mr camouflage · 19 January 2008

mikat said:
i never saw my account at -750, but i have seen some accounts at -$ sometimes, and i couldnt tell you why.
any that do go - get corrected pretty quickly it seems, and it must be a glitch in the trading system.

Yeah, if I look at my trading history it says I had $10,000,000 on the 1/1/1970.
I want my 10 million back

Mouse · 19 January 2008

mr camouflage said:
Yeah, if I look at my trading history it says I had $10,000,000 on the 1/1/1970.
I want my 10 million back

Me too!

I think I figured out the negative balances. If people are scalping and making quick trades, maybe the way the computer is processing the information in a way that the buys are processed before the sells or something. Maybe it just can't keep up with them

cheers
Mouse

RamPage · 19 January 2008

Mouse said:
Me too!

I think I figured out the negative balances. If people are scalping and making quick trades, maybe the way the computer is processing the information in a way that the buys are processed before the sells or something. Maybe it just can't keep up with them

cheers
Mouse

We are all scalping, just some are greedier than others.
I scalp 0.01 cent, greedy people scalp 0.03 cents.
It is really funny how people think, I just stick to the rules no matter how stupid they are.

RamPage.

tigerboi · 19 January 2008

hi mousette at 205 & wysiwyg at 196,im up to 184 with tjcheb & tigerboi

coming home hard at 354th,2 in the top 360 not bad hey?here is the top 15

at the restart of the game & how they are going now for all to compare...

1.alphacom $597,054.72...................$823,439.23.......3rd

2.mikat $572,050.54.........................$884,561.56......2nd

3.ozy $560,868.50.......................... lifted

4.rampage $522,358.66....................lifted

5.ritchierich $515,732.19...................lifted

6.leidy b $498,673.15.......................lifted

7.dash $490,889.09.........................$949,436.98......1st

8.siwakj $477,057.81.......................lifted

9.warren buffet $468,757.82..............$449,085.67.....200th

10.za dom $467,858.34.....................$522,855.41.....11th

11.alanmcg2 $467,202.85..................$551,805.03......9th

12.danr $466,618.29.........................$856,539.82......8th

13.keyser_soze $461,371.62...............$602,650.33......6th

14. mcjames $455,814.......................$488,953.03.....38th

15.rehctah $448,719.55.....................$512,486.84......13th

130.ron brown $401,000.54.................$559,035.84.......7th

mr camouflage 24th to 63rd hanging in there,missed a Q, ouch...

mouse 149th to 205th good battle with henry at 196

tjcheb 370th to 184 within striking distance of the top 10 with 9 trading days

left to go,expecting more to get lifted this week.

tigerboi $429,840.78, 851st to 354th,$111,000 from 10th but just keeps on

putting the big strides in, 5 good specs will put him there.

interesting how this week will go with the market down 10 days in a row &

with the dow off again it looks likely we could see up to 12-14 in a row,

good for the front runners & hard for the ones chasing the leaders...tb

RamPage · 19 January 2008

I had no idea 6.leidy b lifted was ejected.
I do find that odd, playing style was the same as mikat's.
Now I am puzzled.

RamPage.

trillionaire#1 · 19 January 2008

tigerboi said:
hi mousette at 205 & wysiwyg at 196,im up to 184 with tjcheb & tigerboi

coming home hard at 354th,2 in the top 360 not bad hey?here is the top 15

at the restart of the game & how they are going now for all to compare...

1.alphacom $597,054.72...................$823,439.23.......3rd

2.mikat $572,050.54.........................$884,561.56......2nd

3.ozy $560,868.50.......................... lifted

4.rampage $522,358.66....................lifted

5.ritchierich $515,732.19...................lifted

6.leidy b $498,673.15.......................lifted

7.dash $490,889.09.........................$949,436.98......1st

8.siwakj $477,057.81.......................lifted

9.warren buffet $468,757.82..............$449,085.67.....200th

10.za dom $467,858.34.....................$522,855.41.....11th

11.alanmcg2 $467,202.85..................$551,805.03......9th

12.danr $466,618.29.........................$856,539.82......8th

13.keyser_soze $461,371.62...............$602,650.33......6th

14. mcjames $455,814.......................$488,953.03.....38th

15.rehctah $448,719.55.....................$512,486.84......13th

130.ron brown $401,000.54.................$559,035.84.......7th

mr camouflage 24th to 63rd hanging in there,missed a Q, ouch...

mouse 149th to 205th good battle with henry at 196

tjcheb 370th to 184 within striking distance of the top 10 with 9 trading days

left to go,expecting more to get lifted this week.

tigerboi $429,840.78, 851st to 354th,$111,000 from 10th but just keeps on

putting the big strides in, 5 good specs will put him there.

interesting how this week will go with the market down 10 days in a row &

with the dow off again it looks likely we could see up to 12-14 in a row,

good for the front runners & hard for the ones chasing the leaders...tb

19.jock $443,248.42......................$407,627.47......600th

mr camouflage · 20 January 2008

What is scalping? I thought the whole idea of the game is to buy shares and sell them for a profit. Shouldn't matter how frequently or infrequently you buy and sell. If it did the game developers should have thought of it and programmed the system to set a maximum number of trades per stock per day or something similar, and put it in the rules.

mr camouflage · 20 January 2008

The Bottom 10 for anyone thats interested:

PHP:

 25995...johnbarnett...........$0.63......$67,829.28......$67,829.91
 25996...samb8145..........$1,525.87......$66,073.50......$67,599.37
 25997...springwood.......$16,059.35......$51,170.00......$67,229.35
 25998...Damman..............$736.71......$66,084.64......$66,821.35
 25999...ekol................$626.13......$65,158.64......$65,784.77
 26000...jowankho............$301.98......$64,019.18......$64,321.16
 26001...RonG.................$22.67......$64,262.44......$64,285.11
 26002...Stanislav Matic.....$123.64......$63,573.51......$63,697.15
 26003...jannepro..............$1.18......$62,418.53......$62,419.71
 26004...Carl85..............$537.65......$61,766.27......$62,303.92

Mouse · 20 January 2008

mr camouflage said:

The Bottom 10 for anyone thats interested:

PHP:

 25995...johnbarnett...........$0.63......$67,829.28......$67,829.91
 25996...samb8145..........$1,525.87......$66,073.50......$67,599.37
 25997...springwood.......$16,059.35......$51,170.00......$67,229.35
 25998...Damman..............$736.71......$66,084.64......$66,821.35
 25999...ekol................$626.13......$65,158.64......$65,784.77
 26000...jowankho............$301.98......$64,019.18......$64,321.16
 26001...RonG.................$22.67......$64,262.44......$64,285.11
 26002...Stanislav Matic.....$123.64......$63,573.51......$63,697.15
 26003...jannepro..............$1.18......$62,418.53......$62,419.71
 26004...Carl85..............$537.65......$61,766.27......$62,303.92

Oh that's mean!!

I wonder if they haven't had access to the answers?

cheers
Mouse

Wysiwyg · 20 January 2008

Mouse said:
Oh that's mean!!

I wonder if they haven't had access to the answers?

cheers
Mouse

Mousee,

i see you haven`t made that list (giggle giggle) and still struggling to advance beyond wysiwyg "the mighty" lol .I set up last week for a barnstorming final 2 weeks.What will you do i wonder?? I know, scurry when you hear the wysiwyg roar.

p.s. thanks for that commentary tigerboi,tjcheb and good luck.

Mouse · 20 January 2008

Wysiwyg said:
Mousee, i see you haven`t made that list (giggle giggle) and still struggling to advance beyond wysiwyg "the mighty" lol .I set up last week for a barnstorming final 2 weeks.What will you do i wonder?? I know, scurry when you hear the wysiwyg roar.

p.s. thanks for that commentary tigerboi,tjcheb and good luck.

Oh the mighty wysiwyg,

How willst the mighty fall when thou spotest the teeny little mouse scurrying tween thy feet to sport a victory over thee.

Keep in mind, i'm only behind you because one of my shares had a thingy (that's the technical term) and fell 40%. If that hadn't happened i would be well ahead of you.

cheers
Mouse

tigerboi · 20 January 2008

yep its all good fun,iam setting tjcheb up for a bernborough finish in the final

5 or so days to go right over the top of the ones going up & down in the 1

spot,ive finally got tigerboi in the top 500 but with a few more red days on

the cards i am going to have to go for a real punt with him,reckon tjcheb has

gone real good since i started a day late around 13000th place & missed 4 qs

that may be the telling factor in the end,i would be around the top 50

otherwise so for the others around the top 200 or so,just keep plugging away

as i reckon as we get closer several more will get lifted & they know who they

are & what they are doing,you only have to look at the list i put up,5 of the

top 8 got lifted & others with outrageous % gains on 10 red days in a row

coming from nowhere to see they will get rubbed out,so mousette,wysiwyg

keep on ducking & weaving ,see you at the finish line,have you seen the

january tipping comp.?forgot i even entered lol!cheers tb

blind freddie · 21 January 2008

Watch for the early rally this morning especially in the bigger mining stocks, then by lunch all of the puff will have gone, and we will be back in negative territory! I'm just hopiong to stagger up into the top 500 this week which will make me happy!

tigerboi · 21 January 2008

correct if you look carefully any gains are on open which sucks some in who

then get caught out,sit on the sidelines & wait for the buyers to return...

floppys_mum · 21 January 2008

mr camouflage said:

The Bottom 10 for anyone thats interested:

PHP:

 25995...johnbarnett...........$0.63......$67,829.28......$67,829.91
 25996...samb8145..........$1,525.87......$66,073.50......$67,599.37
 25997...springwood.......$16,059.35......$51,170.00......$67,229.35
 25998...Damman..............$736.71......$66,084.64......$66,821.35
 25999...ekol................$626.13......$65,158.64......$65,784.77
 26000...jowankho............$301.98......$64,019.18......$64,321.16
 26001...RonG.................$22.67......$64,262.44......$64,285.11
 26002...Stanislav Matic.....$123.64......$63,573.51......$63,697.15
 26003...jannepro..............$1.18......$62,418.53......$62,419.71
 26004...Carl85..............$537.65......$61,766.27......$62,303.92

How could you possibly have access to the bottom 10 Mr Camouflage???

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