MarketWatch Investing Game anyone?

Yes, also the riskiest way.

I'm in 3rd/4th with no day trading. 80%+ of my portfolio is VTI.

This is the same way my real money is invested, only I have a Fidelity account, so its FSTMX.

(Both are a total-market index)

A coworker of mine is invested IRL in a company that is "looking into using graphene for 3D printing applications." I didn't have the heart to tell him that their business plan is a bullE36 M3 buzzword soup because:

1. He was so very excited about it
2. He'll probably do better than I've been doing in this game regardless.

I got busy at work and completely forgot to keep tabs on this for nearly a month

Still in 2nd (even though Tesla is sucking and GoPro TANKED )

I've had consistently top 3 gains all week. I like this.

The guy who is whooping all of our butts is a 13 year old kid who is really not trying that hard.

Not that I'm trying to rub it in.

Well, OK. I AM trying to rub it in.

I doubled down on some of my more aggressive stocks, should have bigger swings but in the end hopefully bigger gains. Unless they tank...

Anyone else considering shorting oil stocks?

I think now is a bad time to do that, so you should probably do that

Little late for that, methinks. It'd be nice if i was wrong, though.

I'm not sure what to do from here. I'm kindof forced to stay in two of my holdings for the long haul because they're what dumped me way in the back.

Then i had two holdings that clawed me back up to the front page. One i had set for an auto-sell like a moron. The other, i'm starting to feel a bit uneasy about, though i've cleared almost $200k from it. Not sure if i should dump more into it, or pull out while i'm good.

Arg.

I see in the news headlines that oil has been going down again, if you'd shorted it you would have made money!

I'm starting to think that I'm actually a genius at making money in the stock market, I just have to invert my outputs!

Nah, I shorted 2 biggies. It didn't work.

Nevermind....it's working now

'Sup?

I can't get logged in to see it

You're in 15th with $992k.

'Sup, dudes?

woah

Buwahaha, I just checked. I guess I picked some decent long term investments that I won't need to change much.

Near as i can tell, i've had over a $400k swing up in the last few weeks.

Choo Choo!!! Gravy train coming in!

Damn dude, 28% overall returns!?!?

Well....I berkleyed up and shorted Apple day before yesterday. Yeah, everything I touch stinks lately.

Looks like oil prices are going back to normal now, prices are rising against an increase in supply, as you might normally expect:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/03/us-markets-oil-idUSKBN0L704K20150203

Edit: BTW I just logged in, and although I'm a Viper-deep in the hole, everything in my portfolio is moving in the right direction today.

I wish my real life investments were doing as well as my fantasy ones.

This is all really weird.