Author Topic: Aces High Stock Market Game... (Read 9612 times)

SaburoS · « **Reply #450 on:** June 30, 2006, 11:09:09 AM »

XING, for the most part has been very, very good to me

Curval · « **Reply #451 on:** June 30, 2006, 01:19:28 PM »

Yea, really nice job Saburo. Well done man! You can basically buy to cover and then make no trades for a while. It was a short sell that made you that if I recall. Not sure anyone's gonna be able to catch you.

The mighty Oct has slipped a bit. Still, being no.1 for so long is tough to maintain.

I must say this whole thing has been quite educational for everyone actively involved...myself included.

Thanks to laser for finding it and setting up the game...it has been really fun so far.

AWMac · « **Reply #452 on:** June 30, 2006, 03:32:46 PM »

Dammmm RPM isn't catching up to me... I'm dropping to his level. Sux!

and in the first days I was near the Dirty Dozen....

Mac

Nilsen · « **Reply #453 on:** June 30, 2006, 03:37:25 PM »

woops.... forgot to check in today. doesnt matter, ill be away for the rest of the "tour"

Leaving tomorrow for 2 weeks of sailing

midnight Target · « **Reply #454 on:** June 30, 2006, 03:37:53 PM »

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Originally posted by rpm
MT are you talking about Cramer? I've become hooked on Mad Money and started using some of his picks with good results. BOOYAH! Unfortunately most of his picks are going to take more than 30 days to show significant return.

Too bad this freakin game takes so long to put orders thru or I'd be sitting pretty after today. I put in a sell short order on NWRE before the market opened. It dropped $8 a share but I only caught the last dollar because it didn't put the trade thru for an hour after the open.

I'll catch ya Mac! If anything, this has been a real learning experience on trading.

I think that was him.

Basically he said to look for stocks on a 52 week high and buy em. I did just that, but I still had about a dozen to choose from. I picked the ones that looked like the upward momentum was strong...

might as well throw darts.

wojo71 · « **Reply #455 on:** June 30, 2006, 06:56:21 PM »

Holy crap! GM saved my butt. sold it at 29 and made a buck or two:D

Reschke · « **Reply #456 on:** June 30, 2006, 07:06:19 PM »

Wish we could trade in currencies in this game. I would have bought plenty of USD this past week with the interest rate going up it allows people to dump Euro's and make some money with USD. Especially against the Yen and other currencies. Also metals futures would be a good part of this one to have on your plate as well.

Reschke · « **Reply #457 on:** June 30, 2006, 07:07:34 PM »

My sell order on Garmin and Palm, Inc never went through from yesterday when both were up a little and they crashed on me today and I am still sitting there with those crappy stocks now.

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #458 on:** June 30, 2006, 09:30:40 PM »

I can extend the end of the game if you guys would like. I think we have less then 2 weeks left.

Curval · « **Reply #459 on:** June 30, 2006, 10:24:51 PM »

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Originally posted by lasersailor184
I can extend the end of the game if you guys would like. I think we have less then 2 weeks left.

Nah. I think everyone in the game who has participated has done so on the basis that it was a 30 day game (or 31, can't remember) and bought and sold accordingly. I know I did.

I say we do another one after this if people still want to.

Meatwad · « **Reply #460 on:** June 30, 2006, 10:31:51 PM »

Id be up for another round

rpm · « **Reply #461 on:** June 30, 2006, 11:13:06 PM »

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Originally posted by AWMac
Dammmm RPM isn't catching up to me... I'm dropping to his level. Sux!

and in the first days I was near the Dirty Dozen....

Mac

Bwahaha, my voodoo doll is working!

I'm up for a second round when this one ends. Lord knows I won't make the same $40,000 mistake again!

Reschke · « **Reply #462 on:** June 30, 2006, 11:30:08 PM »

I'd love to but another round just isn't something I have the time for after this one. Yeah I know it only takes a little while daily but with football season kicking up and needing to get things ordered ASAP I don't have the time at all.

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #463 on:** June 30, 2006, 11:48:11 PM »

Reschke, you could try the long term investment strategy. Most of the guys here are buying and selling stock daily.

But you could research for 3-5 days and come up with something that'll do decent if you just sit on it.

rpm · « **Reply #464 on:** July 01, 2006, 01:00:02 AM »

Want to see something insane? Here's the portfolio of a guy in the VSE Kickoff Game. Forgive me for texting this, but I couldn't get a screenshot.

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Players & Rankings: diexia
Rank: 1 (of 3671)

Days Remaining: 13

Today's Return +123.44%

Total Return +1,431.12%

Week's Return +0.00%

Total Equity $1,531,120.95

Month's Return +0.00%

Cash $1,293,760.95
Interest Earned: $694.64

Interest Paid: $167.55

Status: N/A

Margin: $0.00

Long Positions: $0.00

Short Positions: $484,880.00

Holdings

Symbol WOC

Qty 83,600
Type S
Change +0.09
Mkt Value $484,880.00
Last $5.80
Cost $8.64
Gain/Loss $237,360.00
%Equity +31.67

As of 7/1/2006

Date Long Value Short Value Cash Total Equity Return

5/26/06 $232,400.00 $0.00 $0.00 $133,983.87 +33.98%

6/30/06 $0.00 $1,253,120.00 $715,340.38 $685,238.80 +585.24%

This guy has the touch! I just wish I knew where he gets his intel. He started short selling WOC a few days ago. I waited 1 day too late to mirror him and missed out on most of the drop (again thanks to the slow assed website).