Topic: [Trading Simulator] A fun & free Speculation Game - SWITCH TO BPI ON JULY 15 !!! - page 65. (Read 241399 times)

SELL @ 273.62

Sell @ 274.83

It's great to see consistent movement
Was napping for a while now I can do 8 hour plays in and out of assets with relative price movement as well
Looks like its going to dip again a bit more so positioning again

SELL at $277.34

all updated again 

buy at 267.01

FWIW, I'm anticipating a bounce to around 274.xx, followed by a decline to our true bottom on volume (whether 180, 200, 220)...then a challenge of 320.
Biggest risk here is that the bounce to 274 happens before this 8 hour window! (But I'm thinking slow climb, 6-24 hours).
Overall, I am LOVING the action in the market these days.  It feels like the actions of setting a true bottom, alongside the necessary sentiment shift of increased confidence and hope (greed).

Buy at $266.29

BUY at $266.25

Buy @ 268.79

BUY @ 270.14

BUY @ 269.87

Ah was wondering if I past you there myself but looks like it was a few pennys short this run enjoy the spot.
And technically depends on the sorting measure as noted a few posts up


Thanks for updating 

i start updating now, the colored ranks will be gone again until the next activity check

edit: all updated

Next Activity check: START 2015-03-15 00:00 UTC / END 2015-03-18 23:59:00 UTC
every post between NOW and the end of the activity check counts as "being active"

I finally made it to top 4 for now. If price keeps tanking though then down I go!

Safe 8 Hours passed
Back on the other side with some upside and downside potential
BUY @ 271.69

HOLD 

I'll start by saying, there can never be a 'best' ranking. I think the system, as you have it, works great.
Invariably, different people will look at the same data and come to different conclusions. The metric you have - total value (normalized for variable entry times) is about as pure as you can get.

Disclaimer aside, there has been _something_ nagging at me. I went back and read oda's strikethrough, and was amused to see he was starting down the same path I'm going to propose.

The problem?
All these new guys keep coming up to the top, and in a few days, knocks us veterans down in the list.

...except that is not really a problem at all - it is the perfectly expected outcome, given the nature of trading.  Most traders lose money.  The good ones don't _typically_ go posting all their trades publicly, except when posturing.

Naturally, we are all trying to make a profit in the game. But in the long run, on the average, most traders will lose.
It naturally follows that new players will tend to be in the upper rankings, simply because they have not yet played.

One (additional, non-primary) metric that could be valuable is the average rate of change of the size of our holdings per month.

An example.
30 players start on day 1.
20 more players start on day 32.
At the end of two months, we now have 50 players, 30 have played 2 months, 20 have played 1 month.  That makes 80 months of game time.  Let us say cumulatively that 30 players make 5%, and the other 20 players lose 10%.  All told, the average rate of loss per month is -1% (+150%, -200%, net -50, divided by 50 players.)

This value would be calculated, because each individual player only needs three facts, all of which we already have: Their start date, their start value, and their current value.
This allows us to output a derived value for individual rate of change per month.
The raw data can be summed for the playerbase-as-a-whole rate of change.

And of course, just to make it hurt, we could include a few other metrics to compare against, such as:
-The Ultimate HODLER - A rate of change of 0% never doing anything.
-The Blind Squirrel - A random coin-flip decides each day whether to reverse positions or hold.
-Your own trading account's rate of change over time.

sell @ 280.05

Sell @ 282.14$

SELL @ 282.94
Looks like it's stopped around here for now