July 2009 $3,000 Monthly Performance Contest Message Board

Anybody know why LEA is not available to trade on Updown??

RE: Anybody know why LEA is not available to trad...

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:42:24 EDT

By RASP

use the contact us button at the bottom of the page. They always give a quick reply to actual questions. This is just a discussion forum between users. :-)

Posted 7/27/2009 9:36AM

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:36:25 EDT

Anybody know why LEA is not available to trade on Updown??

Posted 7/27/2009 9:31AM

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:31:41 EDT

Anybody know why LEA is not available to trade on Updown??

Posted 7/27/2009 9:31AM

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:31:29 EDT

Anybody know why LEA is not available to trade on Updown??

Posted 7/21/2009 15:13PM

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:13:19 EDT

I'm done with this shitty site. All they do is mess up all my gains!

RE: I'm done with this shitty site. All they do ...

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:24:11 EDT

By sirnospam

what site are you going to?

RE: I'm done with this shitty site. All they do ...

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:04:51 EDT

By Interest Blog

True, I am in profit since yesterday, it showed -8% in morning and now I am down by -22%, though I am having profit of 10,000

RE: I'm done with this shitty site. All they do ...

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:02:21 EDT

By aww craig

The site is a giant advertisement, they don't seem to concerned with functionality - rather just cram ads any place they can.

Posted 7/21/2009 23:49PM

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:49:51 EDT

What are you guys doing? CIT closed at .98 not 1.37.

Posted 7/16/2009 20:30PM

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:30:09 EDT

By juliehix

Why is it saying not eligible for the contest?! Everytime I check it says, "you're now eligible blah blah... " but it never updates anything or gives me a ranking and it still says "not eligible'!! So Frustrating!

RE: Why is it saying not eligible for the contest...

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:40:14 EDT

By nannalou

Who cares if your eligible...They are so messed up everytime you are doing well they do something strange to your portfolio and it changes all your numbers...They sale things would dont tell them to for odd reasons ...saying you over when your not...You cant seem to win for lossing...So dont flustrate yourself by getting in the contest

RE: Why is it saying not eligible for the contest...

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:27:02 EDT

By Jckund

yeahh it says im down almost 1% when clearly I'm not... I'm just going to hope that this fixes itself.

RE: Why is it saying not eligible for the contest...

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:45:16 EDT

By Jckund

nevermind about that... i completely misinterpreted it

Posted 7/20/2009 12:02PM

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:02:39 EDT

By takemoney

UPDOWN please fix my portfolio I bought HGSI and my portfolio showed negative 1.4M and I had a Market call on CIT To sell Most of my shares. I bought CIT @ 59cent (give or take) and owned over 1.3M shares. Updown reduce my shares to a little over 100,000. Do to your mistake I had a Market Call. Please Fix it Soon. Thank YOU.

Posted 7/17/2009 11:38AM

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:38:39 EDT

If they don't fix my portfolio anytime soon and brig back to 2.7m, I'm done with this site

Posted 7/16/2009 20:30PM

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:30:09 EDT

By juliehix

Posted 7/15/2009 11:22AM

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:22:49 EDT

UPDOWN, PLEASE fix my portfolio. I can't do ANYTHING right now and haven't been able to do ANYTHING for the past 4-5 days...

RE: UPDOWN, PLEASE fix my portfolio. I can't do A...

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:57:45 EDT

As for me it's just frustrating that I shorted AIG for a 12% gain and had not affiliated my portfolio gains with FAS or FAZ yet my gains were still taken away. I should logically be up by 21%. I don't want to be demanding but in the sheer nature of being thrasonical I would like my gains to be returned.

RE: UPDOWN, PLEASE fix my portfolio. I can't do A...

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:38:27 EDT

same exact thing happened to me. they will never fix it.. i suggest leaving this sh*tty site and never coming back. I should be in first place!!!

Posted 7/15/2009 11:22AM

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:22:43 EDT

UPDOWN, PLEASE fix my portfolio. I can't do ANYTHING right now and haven't been able to do ANYTHING for the past 4-5 days...

Posted 7/10/2009 21:33PM

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:33:20 EDT

By 007player

do you all think that this site can afford to pay out that kinda $$$ in this economy? thats why they constantly screw ppl ouut thier trades.....

RE: do you all think that this site can afford to...

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:49:53 EDT

Lies there are 43,000 members and they're always gaining members. They earn they're money from advertisements. I'm sure they make enough money to give away 3,000 or so dollars.

RE: do you all think that this site can afford to...

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:25:07 EDT

By sirnospam

its called sponsors

Posted 7/13/2009 11:06AM

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:06:54 EDT

Still haven't fixed my portfolio.... down 100% today, and updown adds a buy for FAZ and also a short FAZ into my portfolio.... This is getting really annoying

RE: Still haven't fixed my portfolio.... down 100...

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:42:14 EDT

This needs to be removed from my portfolio as I never made this trade: FAZ $51.43 -$4.72 -$3,088,354.50 -1,189.18% -55,000 -$2,828,650.00

RE: Still haven't fixed my portfolio.... down 100...

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:57:24 EDT

They did the same to me!!!

RE: Still haven't fixed my portfolio.... down 100...

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:44:02 EDT

What cruel injustice has been done unto our portfolios! I demand this be fixed because I am down 12% for honestly no reason.

Posted 7/14/2009 9:47AM

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:47:50 EDT

By Interest Blog

I am running in profit from past two days still my performance is decreasing and ranking too........ Any clue?

Posted 7/13/2009 18:00PM

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:00:10 EDT

By 007player

ok abugel... tell me this how can the second place person move ( 10,088 slots) in one day on a 1.23% change? yertja 59.77% 1.23% $100.00

RE: ok abugel... tell me this how can the second...

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:35:06 EDT

it's probably because his portfolio got messed up on friday, and went down that many places. I did the same thing and went up over 8000 slots today with only 2% gain.

Posted 7/13/2009 15:46PM

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:46:44 EDT

By Interest Blog

I bought C at 2.71 and sold at 2.73, and UP down is showing no gain in earning, both buying price are equal...... Whats going on???

RE: I bought C at 2.71 and sold at 2.73, and UP d...

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:55:27 EDT

By abugel

That is correct. Check your commission.

Posted 7/13/2009 14:57PM

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:57:03 EDT

My portfolio is totally messed up!!! I went from a legitimate 2nd place to basically last in the July contest. I will no longer use UpDown; as they refuse to fix my portfolio. I advise all of you to do the same, as it is a waste of your time to attempt to make money on this site; as they will literally screw you in the end. I worked for 9 days straight to get into second place and due to a messed up website and horrible technical support, I lost 8 days of work. I've been using this site for over 1.5 years and I guess loyalty means nothing to the people that run this site.

Posted 7/10/2009 13:25PM

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:25:21 EDT

Anybody else notice that the top bunch went up several thousand slots? is that because of stock splits and stuff that they happend to be holding right? or is that just some crazy good investing?

RE: Anybody else notice that the top bunch went u...

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:10:51 EDT

By RASP

they were down to about 100,000 value and reset to a million. kind of think it is not fair. i should bomb then reset.

RE: Anybody else notice that the top bunch went u...

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:49:52 EDT

By abugel

UpDown, AFAIK, does not allow that and it might just be an error. If you reset halfway through a contest your month's gain reset's - I know because I have done so.

RE: Anybody else notice that the top bunch went u...

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:30:40 EDT

By Renlong

dun wry, it'll be fixed soon, as it has always been

Posted 7/10/2009 12:03PM

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:03:39 EDT

Somehow I'm down a million dollars today. Which makes no sense. I was going to win $100 this month, so i actually cared about the July contest. Now that I can't trade because all my positions are backwards buys are shorts, and shorts are buys; I'm down over 50%. UPDOWN SUCKS!!!!

RE: Somehow I'm down a million dollars today. Wh...

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:07:06 EDT

On top of that I can't sell because it says I have no shares. grrrrrrrrrr P.O.S

RE: Somehow I'm down a million dollars today. Wh...

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:52:40 EDT

And the second you thought updown could correctly deal with reverse splits. I am also screwed over it canceled 3 of my trades I supossedly lost 465,000 dollars when I have even bought that amount in stock, and i'm down 11,256 slots!

RE: Somehow I'm down a million dollars today. Wh...

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:21:29 EDT

Ya I am down 469,000 dollars hopefully they get it all fixed real soon.

Posted 7/10/2009 12:12PM

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:12:06 EDT

Down -155.23%,They screwed up op the price of FAZ....I am shorting FAZ, and it says that I bought FAZ at -$1.57. First of all FAZ was at $55, and how is it possible for a stock to be in negative value. Not only can I not trade right now, it also canceled one of my trades and screwed me over from making profit from that trade.... Honestly this is BS

RE: Down -155.23%,They screwed up op the price of...

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:22:17 EDT

Ya fas is what messed me up, says I am down like 119,000 with it and I just bought it the other day, they did a stock split. And today I am down 47%, and I don't think that was bad investing on my part.

Posted 7/10/2009 12:27PM

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:27:20 EDT

And apparently I now have no stocks in my portfolio (no, I didn't reset it). Updown, you seem to be having real problems lately.

Posted 7/10/2009 12:16PM

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:16:07 EDT

FROM 3RD PLACE TO 11,185 PLACE! AND A DAY OF TRADING LOST!!! F* UPDOWN FIX YOUR SHIZZZZNIT!!!! I WASTED 8 DAYS OF MY LIFE TO WIN SOME MONEY!!!

Posted 7/10/2009 11:25AM

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:25:29 EDT

By DaBoss614

Updown is soo frustrating. Too many glitches and every time i write an email (and apparently anyone else for that matter too) i am simply ignored. I, and i can guess many people use this site as a way to practice, not just to win the money, (although that is the only perk this site has) would prefer to use a site that is more consistant with real market condidtions. I found a new website that offers more realistic trading condidions, as well as more order types. If anyone else is sick of the glitches, flawwed portfolio calculations, and shitty "customer service", you may be interested in checking out, http://vse.marketwatch.com

Posted 7/10/2009 11:23AM

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:23:26 EDT

By DaBoss614

Posted 7/10/2009 8:10AM

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:10:33 EDT

By dipet227

anyone elses portfolio thats all kinds of crazy today?

RE: anyone elses portfolio thats all kinds of cra...

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:40:59 EDT

By StockManiac2005

Mine is.. it's showing a derivative of the portfolio I had at the beginning of the week.

Posted 7/6/2009 16:30PM

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:30:03 EDT

By stealth999x

UP/DOWN This Contest and All ranking are still All SCREWED Up B/C of the reverse 20-->1 Stock Split Last week!! I Should be above the S&P and instead i'm down Minus -18% I and Others have e-mailed them about it. That's More Amazing of how screwed up this contest can be.. Very upset :[

RE: UP/DOWN This Contest and All ranking are stil...

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:52:56 EDT

Despite repeated emails explaining that a pre-split short position in AIG caused Updown to wrongly liquidate my portfolio, Updown has ignored the mess. They don't give a crap about you, me, or the time we invested in their program. Sod them.

RE: UP/DOWN This Contest and All ranking are stil...

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:09:34 EDT

By Averitt

UP/DOWN where is the other 1.8 million

Posted 7/9/2009 21:03PM

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:03:11 EDT

By Mahdi Cashville

Hey, I miss you guys... How is everyone?

Posted 7/7/2009 12:53PM

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:53:08 EDT

By draco

Hi UpDown memebers. Sorry for this late response. We are aware of the portfolio performance issue in the July contest. We just wrote a post on our blog http://blog.updown.com/ about the issue. Please send us an email at contact@updown.com if you believe your portfolio still have problems.

RE: Hi UpDown memebers. Sorry for this late resp...

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:49:29 EDT

Hey can you look at my portfolio it seems to be messed up again. Thanks

Posted 7/7/2009 12:39PM

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:39:56 EDT

Can someone look at my portfolio? it says I am down 30,000 and when I added it up I was down maybe 12,000, of course thats a tiny amount for what some others peoples % have been messed up

Posted 7/2/2009 6:07AM

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:07:36 EDT

updowns system has gone haywire again,,,Im down 94% after hours! LOL I went from $60m to $3m...anyone else have the same success?

RE: updowns system has gone haywire again,,,Im do...

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:25:21 EDT

this is cuz you sold short AIG, and updown has fixed everyone's portfolio yet for the 20 to 1 split, yours should be fixed soon

RE: updowns system has gone haywire again,,,Im do...

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:27:43 EDT

ummm,,no that didnt cause me to lose 94%,,,I was shorting AIG all day yesterday ,,right up until the close.

RE: updowns system has gone haywire again,,,Im do...

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:15:16 EDT

"Bought to cover AIG for $6,580,236.16 and AIG for $37,412,775.72. " 37million? Seems to be a glitch, that could be where u lost your money. With 60m, 37m is more than 50% of your balance,and that doesn't work with the 20% rule, and btw, AIG didn't go up, AIG went down 21%, so if you were shorting, when you covered, it should have only been less than 20%, but I still think it was the error for the 20:1 split, and your portfolio hasn't been fixed yet

RE: updowns system has gone haywire again,,,Im do...

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:27:15 EDT

You may have had the same problem I did. If you were short on AIG before the 1:20 split, Updown thought your short had just lost 1500%.

RE: updowns system has gone haywire again,,,Im do...

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:34:22 EDT

By jgardner

yeah that blows man,,,,typical for this system though. They need to get hip on the reverse splits.

RE: updowns system has gone haywire again,,,Im do...

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:13:54 EDT

John Satclaire, I think you have it right. I was shorting AIG after the split though,,,so this shouldnt have happened to my portfolio at all. I was shorting it in the $20s and high teens. So they decided to slice my whole portfolio by 95%,,because I left a short AIG position open at the end of the day. Unreal.

RE: updowns system has gone haywire again,,,Im do...

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:56:06 EDT

I'm done putting any investment thinking I do to work on this site. They've had ample time to fix this, have ignored multiple emails clearly explaining what went wrong, and apparently just don't care.

Posted 7/6/2009 18:31PM

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:31:29 EDT

By BFL

well Updown did correct this mess up some what, I will no longer be anywhere close to in the lead, except I went from having 100,000 shares of AIG to none.... a bit of an over correction... but I do not play this game for measly $100 anyway...

Posted 7/6/2009 12:00PM

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:00:32 EDT

Updown guys,,how long will those of us that got the trade right on AIG,,,continue to have our porfolio values -95% of what they should be? Just curious.

RE: Updown guys,,how long will those of us that g...

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:26:06 EDT

By BFL

you should be prepared to reset your portfolio. unfortunately.

RE: Updown guys,,how long will those of us that g...

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:27:30 EDT

By BFL

forget that post, I just looked at your portfolio, you might just be screwed.

Posted 7/3/2009 23:02PM

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:02:39 EDT

By rubbermaides

This site is so screwed up its unreal..someone makes almost 300% in 2 days of trading..i don't think so..Its the same people winning who change there name every month..I bet you will never hear of the name turtle again..You know how much 300% profit is in 2 days?if you start the month at 1 million dollars,that means you made 3 million in 2 days..no way.The sad part is the owner of this site don't care..Of course he made a fortune in the last site he had..He made all the money he could then sold it for millions..He's just using this site for a tax write off.

RE: This site is so screwed up its unreal..someon...

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:21:59 EDT

By plu_van

ooh ... I thought you have left for wallstreetsurvivor. Still can't cut your love? Too fun to leave?

Posted 7/2/2009 20:30PM

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:30:24 EDT

Great job, Updown: your AIG screw up, mixed with the maintance margin call sales, has completely wrecked my portfolio. Because I was short AIG at around $1.60, Updown thought I lost about $5 million when the 1:20 split happened. Then the system automatically sold off all my AIG, AAPL and most other positions to cover these "losses." Updown hasn't fixed by unwinding the automatic sales/covers. Pure genius.

Posted 7/2/2009 11:33AM

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:33:54 EDT

I have a short position on Lear Corp. They're filing for bankruptcy which means the shareholders will get wiped out. NYSE has stopped trading. When would I expect to see the profits show in my account?

RE: I have a short position on Lear Corp. They're...

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:49:59 EDT

By House of Pain

I was just going to ask the same question... Hopefully soon should see aout a 25% gain...

RE: I have a short position on Lear Corp. They're...

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:20:59 EDT

25% just today but in total it will be 100% because if the shares are wiped out, which is very likely, the shares will be worth zero.

RE: I have a short position on Lear Corp. They're...

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:40:01 EDT

in which case,,the updown forces you to close the position at the last price it traded at on the major exchange...which sucks,,but that is how they do it.

RE: I have a short position on Lear Corp. They're...

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:17:33 EDT

do you mean at $.48?

RE: I have a short position on Lear Corp. They're...

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:18:29 EDT

By House of Pain

I dont think they will be wiped out. Should just move to pink sheets once it is delisted.

RE: I have a short position on Lear Corp. They're...

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:50:30 EDT

By StockManiac2005

I think you are SOL, just like me. I don't think updown recognizes pink sheet symbol, so when a bankrupt stock changes exchanges, updown never credits you with new shares. LEAR.PK has already been trading all day, so I doubt LEA will ever trade again and our portfolios we be stuck shorting those shares at $.48

RE: I have a short position on Lear Corp. They're...

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:09:43 EDT

By abugel

UD didn't recognize the OTC pink trading for GM.

RE: I have a short position on Lear Corp. They're...

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:22:36 EDT