Since people seem to want to play and no one wants to make the game I took the liberty of creating my own. I didn't know what settings people wanted so I went for a pretty standard $500K starting budget and a six month run time.

If you have a different nick name on MarketWatch please post it here so we can make fun of you when you crash and burn .For some reason I'm known as Pallson on the site.

Name: DLPStocks
Password: notnetflix

Lets see if anyone can top Psychotic Cat

 

I had similar troubles, but when I logged in from another computer a few hours later it worked and has been working since.

 

I don't think the budget is working. I hit 200 shares for Samsung and my worth went up by 1.5 billion. :v

Stopped adding shares once I hit 499.8k. Have gained 600 bucks in a few seconds. ^_^

 

Anyone know what's up with Berkshire A?
I can trade it fine when it shows up on my trading home screen but I can't search for it and trade it. Suggestions?

Also, partial trading doesn't seem to work.

For the guy who started this game I'm definately not very knowledgeable about it xD.

 

It's strange, everyone talks about how buggy the system is but I haven't had any problems so far. Lucky me I guess.

Frankly, you only need to know what the extra buy/sell options are if you start to trade stock with real money. If you're curious anyway, you can go here.

 

I would love the answer to this question, trying to short the wrong company left me in the crapper.

But tbh, the links at the bottom are your best friend.It's where I got the tip that a company called Dynergy (DYN) had filed bankruptcy and that it's share price had risen as a result, one of my few successful purchases.

And that a pharmaceutical company's stock whose name I cbf'd to remember (code:TRTG), was in freefall. Seriously, the graph looks like a drawing of a cliff face. So short it, or buy it while it's cheap and hope it rises.

Activision is doing well on the release of MW3, who knows how long that will last though.

But seriously World and Xantam need to get in here and share the love .

 

Well, if you want a stock that is really undervalued check out Alcoa (AA). At one point, it was trading above $40. Now it's hovering around $11. Also, unless something completely unexpected happens you are pretty safe going with a big oil company like Chevron (CVX).

 

Haha honestly, I have no idea what I'm doing. I just bought a lot of stock in a few companies that I knew a little bit about and I thought could see gains in the near future. That's why I have like 100 less transactions than pretty much anyone else.

Edit:Which is why I dropped like 30k today.

 

I'm just playing around, trying to make some short-term gains.

Which left me with a loss of about 7k yesterday because I shorted at the wrong time ... and I haven't thrown the stuff out yet. Let's see if patience pays off ...

Edit: It did

Edit 2: I just noticed it paid off even more than I expected - I shorted XOM at about 79, and it closed at 79.5 - put a limit of 78.9 on it, and it opened today at 77.90. Boom, 18k profit

 

Holy shit. I'm glad that I restrained myself from just selling everything and huddling up in a corner crying. The slump these last two days were scary, if I hadn't seen that everyone was doing as badly I probably would have bailed, as it is everything is finally trending up again :awesome... except Activision

 

I was about ready to call it quits too... But things are looking up again

 

Yeah, the market does stuff like that a lot recently. If I bothered to learn how to short stocks I bet I could make some cash on the downturns.

 

God damn it Apple stop failing. Everything else is doing fine.


/Never give in, trust your instincts!

 

lol, dodging Apple is the only good decision I made. I looked at the $400 share price and went "Yeah, there's nowhere for this stock to go but down".

If only I had the good sense to do the same to Dyncorp...

 

I buy into stocks for the long term. No monthly buying and selling for me.