Stock Contest FAQ

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!

Top Investors

All members (5,430) Schools (1,069)
Rank Rank change Member Contest Performance Today's Change Join time
-- profile image
rrbest
--- -- 3 years ago
player ranking   profile image
Yowceph Haddad
216.67% -- 3 years ago
player ranking   profile image
Thomas Eason
130.32% -- 3 years ago
5   profile image
Michael Koehler
97.53% -- 3 years ago
6 2 slots profile image
Daniel Zaterman
73.22% -- 3 years ago
8 3 slots profile image
Sean Butler
65.11% -- 3 years ago
9 1 slot profile image
Jameson Shipley
64.92% -- 3 years ago
10 3 slots profile image
Omer Naseer
63.15% -- 3 years ago
13 1 slot profile image
Tucker Weems
59.42% -- 3 years ago
14   profile image
Andy Cole
55.02% -- 3 years ago
Displaying 1 - 10 of 5430

Stock Contest Message Board

Posted 9/8/2008, 12:40 am

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

... More
gosutrader
Nguyen Hoang

9/22/2008, 12:52 pm

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

More

Posted 9/19/2008, 12:22 pm

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

Andy

Posted 9/8/2008, 8:41 pm

yay thanks updown! :-)

Posted 9/3/2008, 3:00 pm

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 9/2/2008, 11:54 pm

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

... More
Subscribe to Contest Discussion feed:

Brokerage Partners

Stock Contest signup

Competition sign up has ended.

Message to all investors

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



Make a suggestion for this page