Fantasy Stock Picking

Idu

Dunno if this has been tried before but would there be any interest in getting one of these going as a bit of craic? Force some of us the put our fake money where our mouths are. I'll keep track of everyone's score and we can have a little mini league.

We can iron out the details later just seeing if there'd be any interest. Reckon we'd need 10 to make it worthwhile. This is the website I was thinking of using:
http://www.bullbearings.co.uk/

Edit: I registered and found this out so should be even easier for everyone to stay involved:
Don’t forget that in addition to participating in the main BullBearings stock and spread betting leagues you are able to set up your own private leagues and invite friends and colleagues to join in. You can choose your own league name and you’ll get access to a free private league table where all your league members can view their performance. It’s a great way to get some friendly competition going!

pocketdooz

Great idea - I'm in.

Should a bit of craic alright

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( Why not make it simpler and anyone who is interested picks 10 stocks from January 1st 2009 and we run it until December 31st 2009.

All stocks from anywhere in the world, with returns held at constant currency. Winner is the person whose portfolio has the best return over the year. There should be some incentive involved tho imo )


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Bullbearings looks better though

imalegend

id be up for this janet.

by the way did i meet you playing poker in a little pub about 6 months 8 days ago in kilcoole???

kincsem

I'm in.

But we should also have the real investor - the sh1t throwing monkey.
I could supply his picks from a random number generated pick of the S&P 500.

daveirl

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stepbar

Ditto. How about sending around a PM when this is up and ready?

blocparty

id be up for it, not sure if id be able to give it a great deal of attention as i trade my own money as well as having to do a fantasy portfolio as part of my masters

Jivin Turkey

I'm up for it and I'm going to win - 100% BOI stock, they are just so cheap they must go up.

georgem25

Yeah count me in

Thomas_S_Hunterson

Anyone with realtime data will have a serious advantage:(

Idu

So far we have:

Myself
Pocketdooz
imalegend
kincsem
daveirl
stepbar
blocparty
Jivin Turkey
georgem25
Sean_K
Phantom Lord

I'll give it to the end of today and then I'll send around the login details to people for the bullbearings league. Would be looking for everyone to have their details in by the new year and get going the first or second week of Jan when people are back from holidays

phantom_lord

i'd be up for this too. think i still have a bullbearings account

Thomas_S_Hunterson

I can't seem to get onto bullbearings at the moment, is anyone else having problems?

PeakOutput

ill be up for it as a complete novice i had a bull bearings account a few years ago but ill give it another try

Idu

Cant login to Bullbearings for some reason so I'll save that PM till I can get access. Hopefully should be ok tomorrow

PeakOutput

hey im signed up to the league using my old account so my name on it dark1 ill reset my portfolio when things get under way

Time Magazine

Sorry I've not been around an awful lot lately, but would ye be interested in placing a wager on this in support of charity? Something like 25% of the pot to the winner and the rest to the Boards-supported Santa Strike Force?

pocketdooz

The Economist wrote: »

Sorry I've not been around an awful lot lately, but would ye be interested in placing a wager on this in support of charity? Something like 25% of the pot to the winner and the rest to the Boards-supported Santa Strike Force?

Give it all to charity IMO

Although I didn't know there was money on it at all.

But if there is give it all to charity

Thomas_S_Hunterson

pocketdooz wrote: »

Give it all to charity IMO

Although I didn't know there was money on it at all.

But if there is give it all to charity

Kind of defeats the purpose of a competition

PeakOutput

im a student living on an overdraft i cant afford an entry fee but if you choose to go that way i dont mind not being eligible for any prize obviously i just want to see how i do

Time Magazine

PeakOutput wrote: »

im a student living on an overdraft i cant afford an entry fee but if you choose to go that way i dont mind not being eligible for any prize obviously i just want to see how i do

Yup if it were to happen, I'd recommend you donate what you can (that can be €0) and the winner gets e.g. 25% of the pot (to encourage everyone to be generous with the donations!)

Idu

Sean_K wrote: »

Kind of defeats the purpose of a competition

How so? I didnt think we'd have money involved at all but if we do I'm happy to give a percentage (1-100, I dont mind) to charity. It'll be the bragging rights I'm interested in!!

pocketdooz

janets_on_clubs wrote: »

How so? I didnt think we'd have money involved at all but if we do I'm happy to give a percentage (1-100, I dont mind) to charity. It'll be the bragging rights I'm interested in!!

Yeah, I'm the same to be honest. I don't have to time to concentrate too much on this and if there's a ton of money on it I will end up doing that.

Thomas_S_Hunterson

janets_on_clubs wrote: »

How so? I didnt think we'd have money involved at all but if we do I'm happy to give a percentage (1-100, I dont mind) to charity. It'll be the bragging rights I'm interested in!!

pocketdooz wrote: »

Yeah, I'm the same to be honest. I don't have to time to concentrate too much on this and if there's a ton of money on it I will end up doing that.

Peronally I don't mind playing if there's a prize fund or not, however I do think that if we're paying to play, then there should definitely be some sort of prize fund.

pocketdooz, I'm guessing from your sig that you play a fair bit of poker. Surely if you entered a tournie in which there were no prized then you wouldn't really care if you won or not.

25% of a pot or whatever might encourage things to be a bit less haphazard than just gearing up to max and buying the most volatile CFDs.

pocketdooz

Sean_K wrote: »

Peronally I don't mind playing if there's a prize fund or not, however I do think that if we're paying to play, then there should definitely be some sort of prize fund.

pocketdooz, I'm guessing from your sig that you play a fair bit of poker. Surely if you entered a tournie in which there were no prized then you wouldn't really care if you won or not.

25% of a pot or whatever might encourage things to be a bit less haphazard than just gearing up to max and buying the most volatile CFDs.

Yeah, I get your point. I'll let you all decide - just let me know what it is and I'm in




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Bytheway

Great, id love to be involved too. I'll register. When do we have to have out 10 companies by....31/12 I guess

phantom_lord

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i hope i can do a bit better this time around!

D-Generate

Might be too late but any chance you could throw me down for this too!

pocketdooz

I'm in - how do soem people have a big return (positive and negative) already ?

JOC - can you send the details around to everyone - I think we should have tomorrow morning as the start time

Harpy

hey i wouldn't mind joining either if its possible.

stepbar

Would it not be better to run the competition alongside the 09' calender year? i.e put work into picking your stocks and then start on the 2nd of Jan 2009.

who007

tOTAL NEWBIE ON THIS HERE - CAN i PLay too??

Idu

Sorry had no internet access over the weekend.

For all those who want to jump in and join the login details for the league are as follows:

League Name: Boards Fantasy Stocks
Password: boardsie

Also I'm with Stepbar with starting this in Jan and running it for the year.

Anyone who has had a bulbearings demo account previously can you make sure that you have reset your starting cash to 100,000 like everyone else

pocketdooz

I agree - let's start it Jan1 so

georgem25

Jan 1 seems to be the best date to start!

Glacier

Is there anyone who WON'T put all their money into AIB/Boi?

Idu

I've reported your post as trolling Glacier. We're sick of it

who007

janets_on_clubs wrote: »

I've reported your post as trolling Glacier. We're sick of it

Is it not a valid question? If it's not real money there would be a temptation to throw it all into those and see what happens/.. big money could be made (virtual money)

Idu

This argument has been done to death be it real/fake money. There's plenty of other threads he can bring it up. Leave it out of here and anyway look at his post history - just looking to stir things up

pocketdooz

janets_on_clubs wrote: »

This argument has been done to death be it real/fake money. There's plenty of other threads he can bring it up. Leave it out of here and anyway look at his post history - just looking to stir things up

I agree 100% with you JOC,

Absolute trolling IMO - keep it out of this thread

Jivin Turkey

So we start 1 Jan - 31 Dec 2009. And I assume we can trade all other products as per the BB site (currencies, CFDs etc) not just stocks?

Idu

Jivin Turkey wrote: »

So we start 1 Jan - 31 Dec 2009. And I assume we can trade all other products as per the BB site (currencies, CFDs etc) not just stocks?

I'll have to investigate this because I think that each variety is stored in a different league table so I guess we would be just sticking to stocks.

I'll send around a PM to everyone who has expressed interest a few days before we are due to start on Jan 1st outlining rules etc etc etc

Idu

PM sent to all who have set up their accounts.

Still time for anyone else to join if they like

ixus

Just joined, only saw this thread today.

Idu

Welcome aboard Ixus

Just a note to anyone who wants to join in the start date is officially Jan 1st now and its stock picking only. The spread betting, CFD's and FX are a seperate thing.

Good luck

Time Magazine

Sorry for not having organised us throwing a few quid on this, guys. Real life, etc.

I don't think I'll partake this round. Why? Because I don't have time to do proper research at the moment, would thus do crap, and I don't want ye laughing at me . I hear Anglo-Irish Bank are a bargain at the mo, though.

Best of luck, and keep us updated

georgem25

Is anyone else having problems getting into the website? I havent been able to access it for the last few days

Bytheway

Ya can't access the site either. I was on the site on Tuesday without any problems.

stepbar

Still a lot of people who haven't placed a trade yet. Thankfully I'm not one (as of tomorrow I'll be up and running!).

Shiny

Just joined up this afternoon and have a few "trades?" underway.

Complete beginner btw.:)

daveirl

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