http://game.marketwatch.com/Competitions/CompetitionRules.asp?ShortName=PublicButRealistic5K

Well, this probably is the wrong place to post such thing. I'm not sure there are too many people here interested in the stock market. Anyway, I hope this won't be considered annoying spam.

Basically you start out with a fake $5,000.00 and play the stock market. The prices are real, of course, and trades can be executed through even shorts, stops, limits, and market open orders. So far there are 4 people in this competition, and I'm simply trying to at least double the number just so that it'd be more comptetitive.

Note: If you don't know anything about the stock market, it wouldn't make sense for you to join.

On the other hand, you can use this competition to see how well you'd perform on the stock market if you used real money.

open first DEMO with BUY without stop-loss,
open second DEMO with SELL without stop-loss;

some time after on one of them you will winner;
then you will show successfull account to your parents,wife,boss,
& you will get money for real-account.

Hehe, spoken like a true reverser.

There's the attack where you send out 1024 different letters to random people and make predictions about who wins the next ten football games. Then you contact the 55 people that got letters predicting eight or more of the games correctly and say, "Send me some money for my next prediction" (purely for recreational purposes, of course).

You can double the number of people for the last step if you mark one group blue and the other green, without specifying beforehand which one means winner & which means loser--that way you can claim the most convenient color meant "winner" when you contact them the second time.

Hehe, spoken like a true evil mathematician/cryptographer.

Now all we have to "reverse" is whether "football" means "football" or "soccer." And then why we bloody Americans can't tell the difference. And if it's "football" is it Aussi Rules?

Regards,

Aussie Rules Football is the the Rightful owner of the title Football.

Soccer is not football. Bunch of pansies and actors that hollywood could actually use.
Pay people millions of dollars for single score. And games without any result.

American Football is not Football but Gridiron. A bunch of morons that have to wear padding to crash into each other. Then when defence gets the ball they stop and swap with the offence team. Bloody Slow Game.

If anyone is interested in a real game have a look at the website afl.com.au

Peterg70

Actually, it's just another issue of context sensitive breakpoints. If you break in the context of Europe, football = soccer, if you break in the context of US it means american football, and if you break in the context of Australia, football = some other manly activity where they make a point out of not wearing any protection.

And I suppose we would have to throw Rugby into the mix. Of course they are all "ladies" games to the ancient game of South America Indian which was sort of a combination of football and basketball. One team won by putting the "ball" in a hoop at the end of the field. The "losing" team was sacrificed to their gods. A strong incentive to be on the winning team. But before this digresses into a "heated" debate over which version of the current games is the "better," perhaps we ought to leave that discussion to the hundreds of boards already devoted to the fans of each.

Regards,

Yep, for anyone feeling that they get all too little hate mail, please go here:

http://www.standingsplus.com/discuss/index.cfm

and say that soccer is for ladies, and then go here:

http://pub13.ezboard.com/fnorthwesternwildcatfanboardfrm2

and say that football is for morons (and especially the Wildcats).


Tada, your loneliness and lack of mail will only be a memory.

dELTA, on the other hand, already gets his fair share of hate mail, by crackie.

Regards,

I'm an American living in New Zealand who spent two years in Guatemala, so I'm well aware of all the variants. I chose football as a catch-all sport, since some game with the name "football" is popular everywhere.

this 'problem' can be easily unpacked.

Wich of sport was founded firstly, that is owner of name.

From Encarta:


So Euro Football wins

Howdy,

What do you call NFL Europe in Europe ????
After all, it is sanctioned by the NFL, you know,
the National Football League.

Woodmann

Just what the hell is "NFL Europe"? That's about what we call it...