3rd Annual Aces High Stock Market Game!

[AKIron]

XOM has been following the cost of oil very closely. Oil goes up, XOM goes up and vice versa. Too bad our gas prices don't mirror oil prices.

[midnight Target]

Woo Hooo! I'm not last!

[crockett]

Damn crockett, you were the one that planted the seed of lowering the minimum stock price in laser's head.  He did it and now you are going play down trading the .000's and take the "high road" by only trading bid board stocks? 

lol I know that's the sad part.. (it was all a evil trick to make u guys lose ur monies  )  Na man when I suggested it, it was before I realized how the game actually worked. Playing pennies is fun IRL so I figured it would be fun in this game, but now I see how the game works they aren't very realistic.

[ROX]

EXTREMELY funky:  MarketWatch shows all of my picks for today are up...Virtual shows that all of my picks are up, yet I am taking it in the shorts--to the tune of about 7 Grand....

That's bizzarre!     




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[crockett]

EXTREMELY funky:  MarketWatch shows all of my picks for today are up...Virtual shows that all of my picks are up, yet I am taking it in the shorts--to the tune of about 7 Grand....

That's bizzarre!     




ROX

Well up means higher than the close the day before.. Take FRE for example, it closed yesterday @ $9.7  at open today it was at $10.96 then had a high of $11.44 but as long as it closes above $9.7 it's considered up. If you buy at the high of the day then it's not nessesarely gonna be up for you but the stock it's self is up.

[ROX]

CC

Thank you!  I Thought it meant how much up in my portfolio.

 




ROX

[crockett]

If we do this again, I suggest we look for a different stock market game. This one seems to crash far too much. This is the 3rd time I've been screwed over by the game crashing and not being able to sell while the stock I'm in takes a big run. It happened a few other times as well, but wasn't at times I needed to sell or buy but it seems to be a consistent problem.

btw still can't log in over a hour and a half after the market opened.. Who needs another $45k virtual money right.....   

[Reschke]

Yep I agree with crockett here. Last year I couldn't sell any stocks on this stuff.

[crockett]

Yep I agree with crockett here. Last year I couldn't sell any stocks on this stuff.

Well if the game is up I have no problems selling them as long as I'm at a price they would sell at, you just have to deal with the lag time.. What I'm talking about is the game is down and you can't log in. I wanted to sell my FRE that I bought @ 9.9. The stock was up to 11.40 this morning, I wanted to sell at anything above $11.. Would have been a $30k to 45k gain. In stead the game is crashed all morning and now it's dipped back below the price I bought it.. Which is a bunch of BS.

Granted it's just a game but that was a hell of a gain that I had planned on making because I knew the stock would jump with the news then drop back once people sold for their profits. I had planed to sell on the high and buy back at the dip which would have put me in the $100k profit range for the month. Now it's likely gonna dip into the low to mid 9's making me lose money and Im' not sure it will get back to $11 this week.

[crockett]

Well unless it makes some miracle run tomorrow or Monday which I doubght will happen, then I'm out of this game. Not worth the hassle of building back up from the losses when I should have been at a major gain today.

Had I been able to log in, I would have ended up with right about $195k in my account and been able to make more trades today... Instead I get screwed and I'm down $30k and end up with about a 130k and a 50k loss overall.  What a bunch of bull cocky..

There has to be another site out there that doesnt have these down time issues that we can play on..

[Donzo]

Crockett,

Did you put in a limit sell order?  If you wanted to sell anything above $11 you should have put in a sell order yesterday with an $11 limit and change the type to "Untill I cancel".  This would have insured that you sold when it went above $11 this morning without you having to login.

[Reschke]

It would not have done anything since the site was down all morning and we couldn't log in to cancel. Last year I got in on some other stocks and was trying to dump them and the system never let the sell orders go through at all.

[crockett]

Crockett,

Did you put in a limit sell order?  If you wanted to sell anything above $11 you should have put in a sell order yesterday with an $11 limit and change the type to "Untill I cancel".  This would have insured that you sold when it went above $11 this morning without you having to login.

The game was crashed the first 3 hours after market opened, so it wouldn't have sold reguardless if there was a limit set or not. I couldn't sell when I needed to because I couldn't log in. Because of this I went from $190k range down to 120K at this point so it's not worth playing unless the stock has some great run tomorrow which I'm pretty certian it wont.

[Donzo]

The game was crashed the first 3 hours after market opened, so it wouldn't have sold reguardless if there was a limit set or not. I couldn't sell when I needed to because I couldn't log in. Because of this I went from $190k range down to 120K at this point so it's not worth playing unless the stock has some great run tomorrow which I'm pretty certian it wont.

You're in 3rd place, why quit?

[lasersailor184]

Sorry I haven't been trading myself. 


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