# Stock Market Game - The Teeming Millionaires **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 6, 2000, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stock-market-game-the-teeming-millionaires/35932 "2000-10-06T05:56:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![beakerxf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc79bd/32.png) [@beakerxf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beakerxf)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stock-market-game-the-teeming-millionaires/35932/161 "2000-10-20T15:18:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by sdimbert \* > PS - the old game will not let me end it, so I am just going to let it peter out. If anyone wants, I can delete your participation - just let me know. \*\* Ah, but I’m taking such a pounding at the new site, that I went over to the old site, sold some stocks. It did my ego good to make a profit again. So I don’t mind if the old game stays around. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![sdimbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sdimbert/32/20204_2.png) [@sdimbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sdimbert)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stock-market-game-the-teeming-millionaires/35932/162 "2000-10-20T15:29:37Z")
I am still learning how the new site works and I will post new features as I discover them. Try this out: **Portfolio To Go** View your portfolio then click the “Portolio to Go” hypertext above the right side of your portfolio. A small Javascript window will open that will show your holdings and automatically update them every 5 minutes so you can stay at the SDMB while staying on top of your stocks in (almost) real time! Very cool. ---
**Author:** ![Modian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Modian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Modian)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stock-market-game-the-teeming-millionaires/35932/163 "2000-10-20T15:49:03Z")
Arggggggg. Can’t start over now, I bought some major stocks right when they were at the bottom and was making a hefty profit on it. _sighs_ At least I bought the same one for my real portfolio. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Silo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Silo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silo)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stock-market-game-the-teeming-millionaires/35932/164 "2000-10-20T16:19:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Scylla \* > \*\* > If I can make a suggestion: > > Maybe we should start a new thread. \*\* I second that suggestion. ---
**Author:** ![sdimbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sdimbert/32/20204_2.png) [@sdimbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sdimbert)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stock-market-game-the-teeming-millionaires/35932/165 "2000-10-20T16:25:14Z")
I don’t have anything against starting a new thread… I just don’t see a compelling reason _to_ do it. Anyone have one? ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stock-market-game-the-teeming-millionaires/35932/166 "2000-10-20T16:35:08Z")
The new site seems to be fucked as well, at least for the moment. It keeps giving me “Internal Server Error” when I try to join the SDMB game. I guess I’ll try again later. ---
**Author:** ![pantom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/34f0e0/32.png) [@pantom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pantom)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stock-market-game-the-teeming-millionaires/35932/167 "2000-10-20T16:38:36Z")
Neatness? No confusion? ---
**Author:** ![sdimbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sdimbert/32/20204_2.png) [@sdimbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sdimbert)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stock-market-game-the-teeming-millionaires/35932/168 "2000-10-20T16:54:38Z")
**Unca-Brew** , I am getting the same errors. I have already fired off some letters to the webmaster. I will see what has happened when I get back from lunch. So you can’t join, big deal. I have been trying to sell to cover a loss I’m taking on a short! :eek: _Grrrrrrrr…_ ---
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stock-market-game-the-teeming-millionaires/35932/169 "2000-10-20T17:05:06Z")
JFTR- I was trying to say above that I had found a major flaw in the program after I responded to **puglvr’s** post. Before then, I was caught up in trying to beat the market with any edge I found. I was planning on dropping out after I found the flaw, but didn’t know how to brouch the topic. Anyway, I’m glad it’s moving and will try again over there. Hope there are no hard feelings, no Tom-foolery was intended on my part. ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stock-market-game-the-teeming-millionaires/35932/170 "2000-10-20T17:11:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CnoteChris \* > **Before then, I was caught up in trying to beat the market with any edge I found.** Don’t worry about it, I doubt the SEC investigators will give you a maximum jail term. The reason I think a new thread might be a good idea is that after 5 pages or so, threads get laggy and slow. Also, if we start a Teemin Millionaires Stock market Game Mark II with a brand new thread, maybe that will attract some new people. Either way is fine with me. I’m kicking ass at the new site, up over $14,000 at the moment with mostly the same stocks I had at the old site! ---
**Author:** ![oldscratch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@oldscratch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oldscratch)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stock-market-game-the-teeming-millionaires/35932/171 "2000-10-20T18:55:53Z")
Interesting. I didn’t even realise that could be going on. I was buying most of my stocks after hours, as I generally don’t get up until 12pm PST. ☹ I like to think that had nothing to do with my performance however. 🙂 Meanwhile, I can’t see rankings on the new game yet, but I’m currently holding a 2.01% gain. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![LazarusLong42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@LazarusLong42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LazarusLong42)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stock-market-game-the-teeming-millionaires/35932/172 "2000-10-20T20:35:22Z")
OK, all… if you want a site I think we can guarantee isn’t going to screw up: [This](http://www.investorscup.com) is the home of Ameritrade’s “play” side. You only start with 50K, but still, I _think_ they play by normal rules, and I think they also don’t fall down as easily–so no internal server errors. FTR, I haven’t been playing much, because I’ve been playing over on Ameritrade’s _real_ side. MSFT went up 15 points in the last couple days. I’m two hundred dollars richer. I could get accustomed to this 🙂 LL ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stock-market-game-the-teeming-millionaires/35932/173 "2000-10-20T20:44:40Z")
It’s OK, CNoteChris, this is the stock market! Playing by the rules is for wimps! Greed is good! Didn’t Captain Kirk, in one of the Star Trek movies, relate how he beat the training computer back at the Academy by reprogramming it? It still counted as ingenuity. I just wish we could apply your loophole, whatever it is, to real-life stocks. ---
**Author:** ![beakerxf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc79bd/32.png) [@beakerxf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beakerxf)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stock-market-game-the-teeming-millionaires/35932/174 "2000-10-20T21:53:17Z")
Personally, I think that if we were to ever try to find yet another site (I haven’t had problems with this one yet), we need one that allows after-hour trades. It frustrating as all hell to see stocks peak before the market even opens. That’s how I got burned on EBay today. Or maybe I just need to join ETrade and do after hour trading for real. So… anyone got $10,000 I can borrow? ---
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stock-market-game-the-teeming-millionaires/35932/175 "2000-10-20T23:04:25Z")
Is there a simulator out there that supports real-time trading? This waiting around is frustrating. ---
**Author:** ![sdimbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sdimbert/32/20204_2.png) [@sdimbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sdimbert)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2000, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stock-market-game-the-teeming-millionaires/35932/176 "2000-10-23T03:58:40Z")
**Chris** , what do you mean by “real-time” trading"? Most of the stock info from the net is delayed. This “20 Minute Rule” is the only way to set up a simulation fairly, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2000, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stock-market-game-the-teeming-millionaires/35932/177 "2000-10-24T02:50:42Z")
I’m in; away we go… ---
**Author:** ![sdimbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sdimbert/32/20204_2.png) [@sdimbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sdimbert)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2000, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stock-market-game-the-teeming-millionaires/35932/178 "2000-10-24T05:24:36Z")
Not to brag or anything, but: _**I’M WINNING!!! I’M WINNING!!! I’M WINNING!!! I’M WINNING!!! I’M WINNING!!! I’M WINNING!!! I’M WINNING!!!I’M WINNING!!!I’M WINNING!!! I’M WINNING!!!I’M WINNING!!!I’M WINNING!!! I’M WINNING!!!I’M WINNING!!!I’M WINNING!!! I’M WINNING!!!I’M WINNING!!!I’M WINNING!!!**_ 😃 **Teeming Millionaires** _Daily Rankings_ ```auto 13 members, Last updated on 10/23/2000 - 06:30PM. Chg Username Networth %Return #Trans +11 sdimbert $107,087.04 9.77% 19 +3 oldscratch666 $105,958.74 5.04% 2 -2 Scylla $123,535.39 4.62% 11 - LamarMundane $103,761.02 2.68% 4 -3 bafaa $104,258.53 1.54% 6 +4 Saltire $100,060.33 0.93% 2 +6 pantom $91,589.18 0.75% 3 +1 CnoteChris $99,458.78 0.19% 26 -2 Silo $100,032.86 0.03% 0 -4 Omniscient $100,063.00 0.03% 2 -8 DougBowe $101,197.62 -0.07% 1 -5 QuickSilver1 $99,610.61 -0.39% 2 -2 beakerxf $97,604.36 -0.65% 1 ``` ---
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2000, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stock-market-game-the-teeming-millionaires/35932/179 "2000-10-24T12:51:03Z")
**SD** I meant real-time in the sense that I like to see things happening right away. I don’t like sitting around waiting for the buy order to go through. Not a big deal, just a preference. BTW- I’d vote for a new thread too. This one’s getting pretty unmanageable. A new thread might also get more people in on the game. ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2000, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stock-market-game-the-teeming-millionaires/35932/180 "2000-10-24T13:03:52Z")
Actually I’m winning, although you had a bigger percenage up day then I did yesterday. I’m worth $123,000 to your measly $107,000. So there! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stock-market-game-the-teeming-millionaires/35932.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stock-market-game-the-teeming-millionaires/35932.md?page=10)