Creating wealth...
...at least on an imaginary basis...
My little experiment on blogshares seems to be going pretty well...when I joined, my user ID was in the 29,000s (29,922 to be exact). I'm fairly certain that there are well over 30K users now. When you sign up there, you're given an imaginary $500 to "invest" in stocks of various blogs. I don't have all the subtle nuances figured out yet, but in a couple weeks of earnest scrutiny and attempts to learn the system, I've managed to increase my imaginary net worth from $500 to just under $25 million. yep, a 5,000,000% increase. My standing for the month as of August 1 was 4209 with a bit under $4 million in net worth (up from 29922 the previous month, and in the first three days, have bumped it up to where it should be right around 2500 or so. By the end of the month, I should be in the ballpark of the top 1000-1500ish. It's interesting in a geeky sort of way, and I'm not sure if it teaches any kind of real-world investment and/or speculation skills, but I know I do wish the actual stock market worked with such predictability...if so, I'd even get over my bad experiences and move back into day trading, then really dig into my planned life of leisure. Alas...
Anyone want to sign on and challenge me/give me a run for my fake money? Heck, we could even do some real-world betting...cash, meals, humiliating acts, sexually gratifying things for the women...the possibilities are limitless! In fact, with enough interest and we could even get a league of sorts going (though I don't realistically expect to be anywhere near that much interest, I _am_ geekier than most at heart)...It might make it more interesting...in fact, if anyone does, let me know what your ID is on there via the comments here, and I'll gift you a million blogshares dollars worth of stock to get you started (Well, let's say $999,500, so you can start out with an even million)...how's that for sweetening the pot? Amy, I'm looking at you here...this is a great chance to rekindle our PimpWar days! (A story for another day, if I haven't already relayed it here.) Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? It's also not a hugely time-consuimg affair, as you're limited to 20 stock transactions per day (they move you to unlimited trades per day as a paying member, ($15/yr), but I find this way to be more challenging; I'm already outperforming people who have paid and played longer.) I'd say I spend no more than 5-10 minutes on it per day actually executing transactions...I'll even help y'all out a little with pointers to start.
In real world/real life news, my musings of a plan to obtain a real estate broker's license are starting to gel into a semblance of an actual plan (as opposed to one of the numerous things I talk about doing for 6-7 months, then take another 18 months to get moving on,) with some findings today, and possible brain-picking of a hottie friend in the business over a late afternoon/early evening date tomorrow. Here's to hoping that I can make a go of it and not have to find a real job...On the other hand, picking of said (hot) friend's brain could also theoretically be while naked...the mind boggles...
T-minus around 42 hours to the big 33... [gulp]
My little experiment on blogshares seems to be going pretty well...when I joined, my user ID was in the 29,000s (29,922 to be exact). I'm fairly certain that there are well over 30K users now. When you sign up there, you're given an imaginary $500 to "invest" in stocks of various blogs. I don't have all the subtle nuances figured out yet, but in a couple weeks of earnest scrutiny and attempts to learn the system, I've managed to increase my imaginary net worth from $500 to just under $25 million. yep, a 5,000,000% increase. My standing for the month as of August 1 was 4209 with a bit under $4 million in net worth (up from 29922 the previous month, and in the first three days, have bumped it up to where it should be right around 2500 or so. By the end of the month, I should be in the ballpark of the top 1000-1500ish. It's interesting in a geeky sort of way, and I'm not sure if it teaches any kind of real-world investment and/or speculation skills, but I know I do wish the actual stock market worked with such predictability...if so, I'd even get over my bad experiences and move back into day trading, then really dig into my planned life of leisure. Alas...
Anyone want to sign on and challenge me/give me a run for my fake money? Heck, we could even do some real-world betting...cash, meals, humiliating acts, sexually gratifying things for the women...the possibilities are limitless! In fact, with enough interest and we could even get a league of sorts going (though I don't realistically expect to be anywhere near that much interest, I _am_ geekier than most at heart)...It might make it more interesting...in fact, if anyone does, let me know what your ID is on there via the comments here, and I'll gift you a million blogshares dollars worth of stock to get you started (Well, let's say $999,500, so you can start out with an even million)...how's that for sweetening the pot? Amy, I'm looking at you here...this is a great chance to rekindle our PimpWar days! (A story for another day, if I haven't already relayed it here.) Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? It's also not a hugely time-consuimg affair, as you're limited to 20 stock transactions per day (they move you to unlimited trades per day as a paying member, ($15/yr), but I find this way to be more challenging; I'm already outperforming people who have paid and played longer.) I'd say I spend no more than 5-10 minutes on it per day actually executing transactions...I'll even help y'all out a little with pointers to start.
In real world/real life news, my musings of a plan to obtain a real estate broker's license are starting to gel into a semblance of an actual plan (as opposed to one of the numerous things I talk about doing for 6-7 months, then take another 18 months to get moving on,) with some findings today, and possible brain-picking of a hottie friend in the business over a late afternoon/early evening date tomorrow. Here's to hoping that I can make a go of it and not have to find a real job...On the other hand, picking of said (hot) friend's brain could also theoretically be while naked...the mind boggles...
T-minus around 42 hours to the big 33... [gulp]
posted by Gene at 3:42 AM
1 Comments:
happy birthday sweetie!! here's to lots of birthday dances, kisses, licks, and smacks this weekend.
love,
L
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