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Summer 2008 $10,000 Student Contest

Summer 2008 $10,000 Student Contest
  • Start date: 6/9/2008
  • End date: 8/29/2008

Updown's official $10k summer student stock competition. Contest ends on August 29th. Join anytime.


winner announcement

Congratulations!

YowcephH is the winner!


Leaderboard

All members (6,126) Schools (1,069)
Rank Rank change Member Performance Today's Change Join time
player ranking   profile image YowcephH 216.67% 5.36% 6 months ago
player ranking   profile image noliaboy2 130.32% 0.00% 7 months ago
player ranking   profile image ofekutd 116.19% 1.08% 7 months ago
4   profile image sgarman89 102.06% -1.47% 6 months ago
5   profile image michaelk 97.53% -0.47% 7 months ago
6 2 slots profile image a42321z 73.22% -0.81% 6 months ago
7 1 slot profile image lordelrond 70.18% -7.49% 7 months ago
8 3 slots profile image sebutler@fordha... 65.11% -0.70% 6 months ago
9 1 slot profile image jshipley 64.92% -1.26% 5 months ago
10 3 slots profile image obns 63.15% -8.65% 5 months ago

Contest Message Board

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Posted 4 months, 7 hours, 25 minutes ago

Dear Summer Contest Winners,

Congratulations on your great performance in the UpDown Summer Student Contest! I just wanted to let you know that we are processing your prize payments and you will

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Posted 3 months, 2 weeks, 1 day, 19 hours, 13 minutes ago

hey bredan, about the latest contest...are you guys going to check the shortselling or what? Some people are making outrageous percentage gains. Its not legitimate and fair play if such methods of

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Posted 3 months, 2 weeks, 4 days, 19 hours, 44 minutes ago

Where's my money? How do I get it? It's been quite a bit longer than a week.

Andy


Posted 3 months, 4 weeks, 1 day, 11 hours, 24 minutes ago

yay thanks updown! :-)


Posted 4 months, 4 days, 17 hours, 5 minutes ago

I believe we will all receive an email about this contest soon. I have previously gotten a message in an end of a month about the progress of this contest, give it a few days.


Posted 4 months, 5 days, 8 hours, 11 minutes ago

yeah, I haven't gotten anything either for placing top 50 in the summer contest. How does the process work anyways? I have a paypal account but I haven't seen anywhere on the site where I can add

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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 June 9th, 2008 and the contest will end as of market close on August 29th, 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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