re: 2015 TDMTFSS (SECOND Standings Update, 3/20/2015)

Brink, I said in order to not use the pricing disparity between my Schwab screen and the game's pricing I was going to hold positions for at least an hour. I think that is too long. Some of the trades I want to make, like for DGAZ and UGAZ, holding for one hour is too risky and takes them off the table for possible buys/shorts for me.

The pricing advantage only lasts about a minute, sometimes a minute and a half, so I'm going to amend my voluntary trading sanction to not trade something I've bought/shorted for 15 minutes. This morning I bought 300,000 shares of DGAZ and within 5 minutes I was down over $10,000. So I bought 100,000 more. Then I was watching the clock in order to be able to sell the 400,000 shares somewhere close to the one hour. It was killing me!

I think a 15 wait is very fair and completely eliminates any pricing disparity advantage. I have no advantage over anyone if I wait 15 minutes to close a position.