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I just joined a virtual stockmarket game

I had to do the same type of thing. Since it's for such a short time, as was mine, you have to speculate a lot. Obviously when you see something happen for the better in a company, Jump on it! Also, don't hold on to stocks for long when they are turning bad. Unlike in the real world, you don't have the time to sit back and let it recover. This is why I don't like the simulations since they force you to trade in a riskier manor than you would in the real world. Also, to hopefully enlargen my e-penis, I happened to get 1st in my class for the competition, and 2nd in the state out of 250+ students from across the state.
 
Just buy everything in Google, buy when its at $400, sell at $415 or higher, buy again at $400. It been in that range for 6 months now and have accumulated quite a virtual portfolio doing that.
 
The last time ATOT did a stock game, I kicked butt with GOOG. Go GOOG! 🙂

That stock is overvalued now, but I doubled my money in 3 months with that sucker.

Anyway, if you want to "cheat" to win, just short sell a bunch of a stock that's about to post a big dividend, and then cover your short when the dividend is posted and the stock drops. MarketWatch's system isn't smart enough to catch it, so it's a good way to get ahead with little risk.
 
Originally posted by: F22 Raptor
Just buy everything in Google, buy when its at $400, sell at $415 or higher, buy again at $400. It been in that range for 6 months now and have accumulated quite a virtual portfolio doing that.
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Absolutely! I made a lot in my simulation from this!
 
Originally posted by: her209
Penny stocks!!!
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QFT! In a non-real world game, penny stocks are the best. Buy @ around 3cents, sell at 5 or 6! double your profit almost imediately.

EDIT: Well since you cant buy stocks under $2.00, goto etrade.com, and look up what the hotest stocks under $20 were for today, and see which have potential to level off tommrow, buy those. I made 200% doing that in about 3 weeks in my virtual game.
 
Originally posted by: ultimatebob
The last time ATOT did a stock game, I kicked butt with GOOG. Go GOOG! 🙂

That stock is overvalued now, but I doubled my money in 3 months with that sucker.

Anyway, if you want to "cheat" to win, just short sell a bunch of a stock that's about to post a big dividend, and then cover your short when the dividend is posted and the stock drops. MarketWatch's system isn't smart enough to catch it, so it's a good way to get ahead with little risk.
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Ahh, so were you the guy (with the private portfolio) that had like $200,000 more than everyone else in the ATOT game?
 
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