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June 2009 $3,000 Monthly Performance Contest

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  • Start date: 6/1/2009
  • End date: 6/30/2009

UpDown's Official $3,000 Monthly Performance Contest. All members of the site on or before the 7th of each month are automatically entered. To earn money, you must:

  • Perform better than the S&P 500 over the contest period
  • Have at least one stock in your portfolio during the contest period
  • Log into your portfolio once during the last month before the end of the contest
  • Have an account with a verified e-mail address
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Posted 6/22/2009, 10:00 am

Anyone else have the problem of no matter what you do your port goes down? I can buy low, sell high and/or short high, sell low and whatever amount I make it counts as negative. I can do the

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plu_van
plu_van

6/22/2009, 10:51 am

black Monday, be careful :-) I see black cat too! I stopped trading!

Seriously I don't worry about those kinds of things. will be ok, matter of time. Just make sure you do make profit in your

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Averitt Phillips

6/30/2009, 4:44 pm

UP/DOWN:

What's going on with my contest portfolio? ...I have stocks, Ihad already sold!

I was up 2% yesterday and before the market opens, i'am down 9.25% with stocks which I bought and sold

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Posted 6/29/2009, 11:35 pm

so how did i got from postive 5.2 percent to negative 5.2 on the day....

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R a S p

6/30/2009, 8:26 am

They did some corrections on some dividend errors they had doubled and tripled. So they removed them from the accounts.

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Nick Rini

6/30/2009, 9:32 am

they took away too much money though...if i went up 20k after the dividend mistake they shouldnt have taken that away too...

Posted 6/26/2009, 9:34 am

Updown is so screwy with this crap

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abugel
abugel

6/26/2009, 4:10 pm

There seems to be a glitch in the system on 5/20. That same day a lot of port performance charts have a huge upward spike that reset the next day and a lot others have a downward spike that was also

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plu_van
plu_van

6/26/2009, 6:27 pm

unless you are playing a site that allows Canadian stocks! UFX.to (Domtar (Canada) Paper Inc) went up from 1.67 to 19.84 on June 11, a full 1088%. That would give port 218%. The most outrageous rise I

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Posted 6/26/2009, 9:32 am

what the heck happened to the top ten? everyone is gone....

plu_van
plu_van

6/26/2009, 10:00 am

political cleansing :-) Those who do not abide by certain political views and rules, out.

plu_van
plu_van

6/26/2009, 1:14 pm

however, Ron, if you are an American soldier stationed in Afghanistan, I'd love to donate $100 for you to buy some Afghan beer.

Posted 6/10/2009, 6:29 am

I'm #45!!! I'm too awesome. Love me, spoonfeed me, follow my lead

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Chris Richmond

6/24/2009, 4:29 pm

interesting idea! ;)

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Richard Barnett

6/25/2009, 1:40 pm

Here,let me powder that spot on ur nose.

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Contest Rules

Awards:

  • Compete to win $3,000 in prizes for the highest portfolio returns.
  • Performance is calculated as your relative return since beginning of each month, or when you joined UpDown.com, whichever is first.

Timeline:

  • The first day of trading will be June 1,2009.
  • Contest will end as of market close on June 30,2009.
  • You are automatically enrolled!

Awards Breakdown:

  • 1st Place winner: $500.00
  • 2 - 10 place winners: $100.00
  • 11 - 20 place winners: $10.00
  • 21 - 100 place winners: $1.00
  • 101 - 1,000 place winners: $0.50
  • 1,001 - 5,000 place winners: $0.10
  • All others who beat the S&P 500: $0.01
  • Total Earnings Each Month: $3,000.00



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