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

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But lets be honest, 99.99% of us here are not playing with $1,000,000 in our real accounts. Noticed I left 0.01% out.

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True, but it still makes the game a little unrealistic from a trading standpoint.

My StreetSmartPro trading screen shows the volume of shares traded in FGEN for each transaction. The most shares I've seen traded in one transaction this morning is 600 shares.

But I traded 40,000 shares in one transaction and jlu03 traded 66,000 shares...TWICE in two buy orders.

I made almost $34,000 in my game account's short trade of FGEN, but IRL that would have been impossible even with my $1 million+ to trade with.

The game only looks at the prices and if the market hits those prices, the trade is executed. IRL, there would not be enough shares available to trade, not only at the price limits we entered, but at ANY price, most likely.

Still it's fun to play with bitcoins...er....I mean, fake money.

My lesson learned 4 days into the game- There's no way in hell I could be a day trader with real money. Fake $500,000 stresses me out enough when I start losing on a short. I'd probably jump off a building if it was real money.

I believe it is not possible. I thought it was earlier, but Russian corrected me.

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My lesson learned 4 days into the game- There's no way in hell I could be a day trader with real money. Fake $500,000 stresses me out enough when I start losing on a short. I'd probably jump off a building if it was real money.

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It looks like dividends are ignored by the game. No additional shares and no cash inflow into the account from dividends. Bummer.

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It looks like dividends are ignored by the game. No additional shares and no cash inflow into the account from dividends. Bummer

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Are you for real?? I picked up several high yielding dividend stocks. Was going to hold on to them for a bit. We don't get dividend payouts???

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It looks like dividends are ignored by the game. No additional shares and no cash inflow into the account from dividends. Bummer.

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Well, that will change my strategy a little bit.

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As a previous poster stated, this is not good news for dividend plays.

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To be honest, someone playing this with the intent of building a portfolio for 30 years down the road was not going to win anyways, but the game could have helped them to see how things like that were handled. I am trying to branch out from my real account and take chances I would not normally take. Granted, I did plan on having some dividend plays in my portfolio, but oh well.

I'm with you on that.

So I just executed my first short trade. Is it essentially like going long, except you want to see the price go the other way? Whenever you feel comfortable with an amount you sell?