CP Stock Simulator Game Thread

[Daradon]

I'm gonna set up my account tonight, was away from CP for a few days.

On the plus side though, it appears just doing nothing has put me ahead of half of you! Haha.

Don't worry, I'll catch up in short order. :/

[I-Hate-Hulse]

Doh - the volume rule Investopedia has for trading options is pretty much going to limit puts/calls to TSX60 companies.

On the bright side, at least it's possible for some Canadian companies. Lesson #1 for everyone - trading options and getting data for them is a PITA.

[Daradon]

Registered as Daradon. haven't made a trade yet. Looking at the site and tools and planning a strategy. (Let's be honest, I probably won't have one, lol) I do want to try a few different things though to learn, especially with short selling and options.

[Azure]

Man, Blackberry is killing me. So much for the company going private and not having to have quarterly results kill their stock price.

[Daradon]

Haha, I was looking to short Blackberry! It appears the sim doesn't have all the options set up for options, but I was looking for the 'put' option? Is that the one where you're betting the stock to go down?

Blackberry is a dog man, get out.

[I-Hate-Hulse]

Options are setup but they are finicky on the smaller-mid sized companies, especially Canadian ones. Watch the volume rule.

BB should have no problems with this though.

[IliketoPuck]

What a Svensational turn of events in the rankings.

[FLAMESRULE]

Originally Posted by IliketoPuck

What a Svensational turn of events in the rankings.

How does that SvenBaertschi account have $412K in CDN and $419K in USD??

[Azure]

I don't see that in his account.

[Mccree]

Do you get credit for dividends received or charged interest if you are using margin?

[Mccree]

Originally Posted by FLAMESRULE

How does that SvenBaertschi account have $412K in CDN and $419K in USD??

Is that the value NOT considering his margin?

[FLAMESRULE]

Originally Posted by Azure

I don't see that in his account.

On his portfolio page scroll down and look at the individual stocks in both the Canadian and US$ accounts. Look at the "total value" of each one...$411K $CDN and $419K $USD. There is 1 share of Berkshire Hathaway for $175K in the USD.

Can click on trade history as well.

Although maybe you can buy on margin (what Mcree said)...I'm not sure. Just surprised me. I don't care about the total dollar value, just the rate of return.

[Neeper]

Originally Posted by Azure

Netflix has been a great buy so far.

I like picking companies that I think will disrupt their respective industries.

Netflix and Telsa are two big ones.

I would love to hear your opinion on GTAT. I think it's another disrupter.

KNDI is another one for me.

[Neeper]

One of my stocks is up 28% PLUG!

[Daradon]

Seems to take a while for a trade to go through eh?

Made my first two trades after hours so no problem there. Tried to get in on a rebounding stock and I'm still waiting for it to go through 15 minutes later, meanwhile watching it go up and up.

EDIT: Ahhh, just found a message saying trades take about 20 mins to go through.

[zyzz]

Not sure what I'm doing wrong? still shows my account having no activity.. When I click on the CAD tab it shows my two stocks I've bought, with total gain of 4700, yet nothing shows in the rankings. did i not buy it correctly?

Edit: I see that I'm 2nd in the Canadian$ game.. So do we have 250K American as well?

[Azure]

Ranking are only generated once a day.

And yes we do have $250,000 USD as well to trade with.

Good day for stocks today. Especially good if you bought with the dip yesterday.

[Azure]

Do we want to make it quicker for a trade to go through? I can set it to 1 min if people want.

[zyzz]

Originally Posted by Azure

Do we want to make it quicker for a trade to go through? I can set it to 1 min if people want.

Might as well make it happen right away.

[Azure]

Okay I set it to 1 min. Lowest time I could go. Unless a bunch of people complain we'll leave it there.