The Boards.ie Fantasy Share League thingy

nesf

We now have a fantasy share trading league

It's on Bull Bearings.co.uk. It's free to join the site and it's pretty straightforward to join the league.

The league is called "Boards" and the password to enter it is "apple".


This thread is for people to post their usernames on the site on so we know who each other are etc. I'm nesf, unsuprisingly. We can also use this thread to talk about what we're doing etc and about why we chose different shares etc. It would be nice if people started new accounts so that we're all starting on the same amount.

I look forward to seeing you on there. Cheers to everyone who helped with ideas

nesf

I'll post up the league standings each week in a seperate thread btw. There will be fame etc for those who are winning

If there's enough interest we could see about giving away some form of prize or something. We'll have to see.

Dub13

I am in

me too

CCOVICH

Registered as CCOVICH

Vokes

I too have joined :cool:

as "sofaking".

kippy

Looks interesting,I am in as Kippy

simu

I am Mooha.

fintan

Right Im in, user name is Rogue Trader

Im assuming we are competing across Stocks, Spreadbetting and CFD's?

nesf

fintan wrote:

Right Im in, user name is Rogue Trader

Im assuming we are competing across Stocks, Spreadbetting and CFD's?

yup

Timans

I dont really understand what this is about...excuse my ignorance..but could someone please explain as iwould like to do stocks and shares...

1) Is any real money involved?

nesf

Sound Barrier wrote:

I dont really understand what this is about...excuse my ignorance..but could someone please explain as iwould like to do stocks and shares...

1) Is any real money involved?

There is zero real money involved.

By joining that site you get 100,000 pounds sterling of "play" money that you can pretend to invest with. You're limited to the UK markets, but apart from that it's your's to invest.

It's fun/a challenge and it's a good way to see what's involved in trading.

Timans

cool..thanks for the help..i have registered..just about to join the league now.
I have always wanted to enter the world of stocks and shares..but things have held me back(Age,Money,etc)

Name - Sound Barrier.

Neuro

I'm in under Neuro.

ARGINITE

Joined. as arginite.

Spiritus

Spiritus

Stoner

Some english swine already called stoner,
had to be original and take Stonerrrr.
Next step, learn

joe.

I'm in as joe1888

nesf

Here are the league standings as of today

Stock Trading wrote:

1 Rogue_Trader
2 sofaking
3 foxcorp
4 CCOVICH
5 Dub13
6 Neuro
7 waz
8 waldo
9 Spiritus
10 robo Ireland
11 Marty Farty
12 Sound Barrier
13 kippy
14 ARGINITE
15 Clyngfilm
16 Emmet O'Donoghue
17 Nurgle
18 PowerHouseDan

Spread Betting wrote:

1 kippy
2 Emmet O'Donoghue
3 PowerHouseDan
4 Rogue_Trader
5 ARGINITE

CFD Trading wrote:

1 Rogue_Trader
2 PowerHouseDan
3 Emmet O'Donoghue
4 kippy
5 ARGINITE

Fantasy FX wrote:

1 ARGINITE
2 CCOVICH
3 Emmet O'Donoghue
4 PowerHouseDan
5 kippy
6 Nurgle

I don't really have the time to research stocks and participate atm so I'm just going to admin the league atm. Hopefully I'll find more time later, the fantasy fx league is really tempting me The take up on this has been excellent. I'm very happy with the interest and I'm hoping people are having fun

billy the squid

billythesquid

heard this mentioned in the podcast and it caught my interest, thats my account name anyway.

dunkamania

Dunkamania

Jesper

Jesper.

nesf

Jesper wrote:

Jesper.
NESF you seem to know your stuf. Who's the best for online trading of Irish/English shares. Infrequent and not high amounts by standards.
Sound

Wrong thread to ask in mate and tbh I don't have the experience to answer the question. I'm sure if you start a new thread on it though people will get talking about it.

ionapaul

Joined as: ionapaul

Won't be buying any of the stocks I hold in real life, just for a bit of diversity! Is there a way to view each league member's holdings?

dunkamania

Go to edit your details then go to edit your portfolio and tick the
box that says you allow others to see your portfolio.

I will probably do it as soon as I get back above 100k. :rolleyes:

nesf

Yeah it would be a lot more interesting if people made their portfolios visible.

Then people could discuss each other's trades.

regi

regi - I've been messing with bull bearings for some time, I'm afraid

Your portfolio has increased by 37.95% since you joined. Year high: £139,143, low: £98,776. God Bless Imperial Tobacco and Tullow Oil.

Should I really start again?

regi

Sold Diageo and ARM, bought BAE instead

Done: http://www.bullbearings.co.uk/trader/b04c387c8384ca083a71b8da516f65f6

dunkamania

Go to blog content in the bullbearings menu and setup link to your portfolio from there

nesf

Regi wrote:

regi - I've been messing with bull bearings for some time, I'm afraid

Your portfolio has increased by 37.95% since you joined. Year high: £139,143, low: £98,776. God Bless Imperial Tobacco and Tullow Oil.

Should I really start again?

Nah, no need. This isn't so much a competition as it is a good chance for people to trade beside each other and learn from each other.

garred

Yep just joined. Hav'nt a clue what I'm doing and don't understand some of the stuff but a good place to learn.

hamster

Joined as Hamster -

Nice to Pick some stocks if I had £100,000 to invest! Let's see how they do. As for the real world....

My real stocks is generally limited to Irish shares...

CRH (excellent)
AIB (excellent)
Ryan Air (excellent)
Kerry Group (v good)
National Instruments (good ...U$)
Irish Life & Permament (good)
Elan (good)
Vodafone (ok)
Waterford Crystal (rotten)

WW is a stinker in the pile... always one... Vodafone came from... give a us guess? Reinvesting the dividends are starting to make a real difference. I'm generally a Buy and Hold type. I like to invest in shares that have an International exposure.

Like to hear if what kind of real mix anyone else went for here?

blondie83

I'm in as blondie83

Ajnag

In as Ajnag

Now all I need is a fantasy porshe, house in kinsington, expensive suit etc etc


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Pighead

Pigheads in too.Username is Pighead.

Culchie

"Culchie's Acorns" have been sown .

besty

registered and trading as besty...

Culchie

Regi wrote:

regi - I've been messing with bull bearings for some time, I'm afraid

Your portfolio has increased by 37.95% since you joined. Year high: £139,143, low: £98,776. God Bless Imperial Tobacco and Tullow Oil.

Should I really start again?

a ha ! and there was me thinking we had Nick Leeson in our midst !

You should start again for the craic and join us plebs so that we can all start out on this mission together

I love Rogue Traders strategy as well since July 2004, all money in Kingspan, one share, up 20%, happy days.

Blackjack

Registered as Blackjack

Ajnag

Just wondering do's anyone know of any good free software for tracking shares and forex in realtime.

cianr

I've joined (instead of studying!) - expect me to demonstrate how not to do it!

besty

cianr wrote:

I've joined (instead of studying!) - expect me to demonstrate how not to do it!

just checked my portfolio there. god im not great at this. all my shares have gone down except one - vodafone!

Culchie

oh dear, oh dear

I know why I prefer property !

Down 6.28 % in 12 Days...1 share out of 10 in the black, showing a superb profit of £16.29

Dub13

Culchie,
Your jinxed...stick to the poker

dunkamania

Doing OK in the FX trading.

blondie83

If it wasn't for Virgin doing suprisingly well lately I'd be sunk

Culchie

Dub13 wrote:

Culchie,
Your jinxed...stick to the poker

It's bloody Party Gaming that is down 25% that has me by the short and curly's !!

And after me giving PPP Pit Boss the whole spiel about the industry, I still picked it ... lol.

I have gone for a somewhat speculative portfolio though , another one of my wee gems is Trans Siberian Gold which is down (only for the moment though, it will rocket soon :rolleyes: ).

And of course lets not forget BP and Tullow Oil, UK Coal and British American Tobacco. Everyone knows they are the 'future'.

I'm a Contrarian Investor !

Ajnag

Doing so well on fx till the gbp decided to curl up and die.

Best investment so far has been Roll's Royce on the spread bets(lost 30 k on the first day ). Other then that, Dragon Oil(going cheap atm) and avn are my favourites. Gonna be hard to make a comeback tho.

Fx is so fast its fun. The markets are a bit sluggish in comparison.

Dub13

Culchie wrote:

It's bloody Party Gaming that is down 25% that has me by the short and curly's !!

And after me giving PPP Pit Boss the whole spiel about the industry, I still picked it ... lol.

I was kind of joking about being jinxed but maybe you are...talk about the wrong time to buy into Party Gaming :eek: you are lucky this is not real cash.

I have some Paddy Power shares and they have made me a whooping £8.17,abit like in real life.I also have abit of Hilton Group owners of Ladbrokes as well as...Allied Irish Bank,BSkyB,Diageo,Jurys Hotel,Ocean Power Technologies,Renewable Energy Generati,Royal Bank of Scotland,Ryanair Holdings,Tesco and Ulster TV

So something for everybody there.

Trotter

Im in! Registered as RJD

Culchie

Dub13 wrote:

I was kind of joking about being jinxed but maybe you are...talk about the wrong time to buy into Party Gaming :eek: you are lucky this is not real cash.

I have some Paddy Power shares and they have made me a whooping £8.17,abit like in real life.I also have abit of Hilton Group owners of Ladbrokes as well as...Allied Irish Bank,BSkyB,Diageo,Jurys Hotel,Ocean Power Technologies,Renewable Energy Generati,Royal Bank of Scotland,Ryanair Holdings,Tesco and Ulster TV

So something for everybody there.

tbh, I picked a load of shares in 10 mins. I am one of the people that got stung 4 or 5 years ago with Morrogh Stockbrokers going under, lost all interest in the markets since, and have wrote that off. We halso had a share investment club (which would be great here) which also had about €30K of shares with them as well.

Have some property though.