Well, the challenge is over.
The game was fun and rather challenging during a very volatile time in the market. Many stocks saw a 52 week low and the market fell below 1999 levels.
We saw the almost collapse of the Euro and the beginnings of a double dip recession. It was a challenging time to do anything with the markets.
I was thinking that I just didn’t do very well this time. I was super busy at work with a HUGE project underway so I couldn’t do much from work and had to plan my attacks at night when the markets were down.
So I looked and my main board of 3, which would be what I would do if I really had the money to spend ended up in the best shape. Today my best game was titled “Milkman Mainly” was up 17.76% with 1,177,591.47 in the account at the end. I was up 24K in currency trading an 90K in bonus funds which really only puts me at 63K in stock market trades. I was bowing my head in shame as this just didn’t seem all that great.
Then I went over to see the leaderboards to see how badly I must have gotten trounced this game.
Holly Molly… WTF!!!
I was ranked in the top 99.25% of all contestants. That’s my highest ranking ever.
I was 5057th out of some 4 million boards.
I actually did do very very well, and competing against people that do this sort of thing for a living and have all day to research stuff or possibly inside trade all they want because it’s a game.
I’m feeling much better about myself and my stock market skills.
I just wanted to share with the people I know that would understand the accomplishment.
Mike
