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Fall 2008 $10,000 Student Contest

Fall 2008 $10,000 Student Contest
  • Start date: 9/15/2008
  • End date: 12/15/2008

UpDown's Official $10,000 Fall Student Contest. The competition ends on December 15th. Join anytime!


winner announcement

Congratulations!

udfisher is the winner!


Leaderboard

All members (6,410) Schools (822)
Rank Rank change Member Performance Today's Change Join time
player ranking   profile image udfisher 397.65% -1.96% 3 months ago
player ranking   profile image dpanman 184.42% -0.20% 3 months ago
player ranking   profile image VintageVince 173.88% -2.59% 4 months ago
4   profile image mujeriego 173.22% 1.93% 2 months ago
5   profile image vietspeed13 170.74% 3.81% 4 months ago
6 1 slot profile image akaperne 150.33% 3.25% 4 months ago
7 1 slot profile image keoughsc 148.42% 1.88% 3 months ago
8 1 slot profile image flaming 134.46% 0.16% 4 months ago
9 1 slot profile image gotmilk 133.22% 0.12% 4 months ago
10 2 slots profile image ofekutd 133.07% -1.70% 4 months ago

Contest Message Board

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Posted 1 week, 1 day, 10 hours, 45 minutes ago

Prize UpDate: We have finished auditing winners' portfolios and I am starting to send out the prize payments right now. Congratulations to udfisher on his great performance!!!

Let me know if you

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Posted 4 days, 10 hours, 47 minutes ago

Time2Invest, If you don't have a PayPal account associated with UpDown yet, we send your prize payments to your registered email address. Also, since this prize payment is separate from the regular

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Posted 2 hours, 12 minutes ago

I've received no email about the winnings. have you received the email or message i sent you yet?



Posted 3 days, 5 hours, 11 minutes ago

I got nothing. its more thgen two weeks.

Posted 1 day, 12 hours, 56 minutes ago

Same here I havent received anything yet



Posted 4 days, 3 hours, 7 minutes ago

Thanks!!! Updown, I got paid, its pending to my paypal account as I speak. :)


Posted 1 week, 4 days, 16 hours, 16 minutes ago

Ummm.... Anyone heard anything yet?


Posted 1 week, 2 days, 11 hours, 17 minutes ago

They keep trying make it harder to collect our winnings because they may be getting their funding yanked. They now apply a margin call system that doesn't work like the real world either. I had $1M

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Posted 1 week, 1 day, 10 hours, 39 minutes ago

akaperne, We certainly should have done a better job implementing our margin call system earlier. You are right about that. We are doing our best to make things as realistic and as fair as possible to

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Posted 1 week, 2 days, 11 hours, 5 minutes ago

Hey UpDown, please study how Margin requirements work before you hastily apply margin sellouts when they're unwarranted. Please take the time to learn the difference between the 50% required up front

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Posted 1 week, 2 days, 7 hours, 11 minutes ago

UpDown's system doesn't utilize a true margin system, though, so the 50-30 doesn't matter. They are just trying to eliminate purchasing that results in negative buying power. It really is an effort

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Posted 1 week, 1 day, 14 hours, 3 minutes ago

They disqualify me too they should have told us before the contest started or in middle of the contest this is not fair.



Message to all players

Contest Rules

Awards:

  • Compete to win $10,000 in prizes for the highest portfolio returns.
  • Performance is calculated as your relative return since joining the contest

Timeline:

  • The first day of trading will be September 15th, 2008 and the contest will end as of market close on December 15th, 2008. You can enroll at any time!

Awards Breakdown:

  • 1st Place winner: $2,000
  • 2nd Place winner: $1,000
  • 3rd Place winner: $500
  • 4th-10th place winners: $250
  • 11th-50th place winners: $100
  • Monthly Prizes: $250 for the best portfolio return at the end of each month


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