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adicoleman

As one of the previous monthly winners the terms and conditions
usually require the winner to meet the staff and have a few photo's
done as for promotional reasons for the parent shares mag in which
you will receive your winning cheque.
Unfortunately for me we arranged the same day for my meeting as
for the London tube bombings and i never got for me was a exciting
chance to visit the city and meet the moneyam staff.
I would imagine the total players this time around to swell to over 3000
given the popularity of this competiton and moneyam's idea to reduce
the trading size to 3 x market size is certainly going to make it a much
more competitive game and that can already be seen with not one player
managing to break out into any reasonable lead.
No move yet from Kayak but early days yet but those who were in the hunt
in the last game will have quickly realised that not being able to buy 20 million
shares in a penny stock will mean it's going to be a lot harder to increase the
pot to anywhere near previous gains.

R33skyline/adicoleman,

We do not release the total figures of participants suffice to say, it is a very healthy number indeed.

The first Monthly prize will be awarded at the end of November,

Ian

There is a way of working it out though!

Druid2, i think you were last seen floating off Anglesey!

8-)

tadpole,glad to see you are keeping me seat warm. :-)

ttt

Haystack

Please enlighten me ..

R33

Part of the fun is working it out.

Ok i give up !

You set up another champinvest account and make lots of silly trades to lose all the money. Your position gives you the number in the competition.

Any indication of how many playing the competition, the fact that the 250
leader board apart from the top 10 has 240 places within a 7 grand range
suggest there could be many thousands playing the game.

Come on ian, give us a idea of how many are playing ?

Cheers Haystack

There was me taking percentages of the top 250 trying to work out how many players could be playing at -10k and you have just proved the simplest idea`s are often the best.

Must remember KISS.....keep it simple stupid ..

Ian, what is situation if company has a rights issue? No mention in rules for this scenario.

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Haystack,

There's a huge problem with the method you suggested above of finding how many people are in the game:

The rules state:
To be eligible for prizes, each player may only have one entry in the game.

So anyone that's created an additional account to do that will have ruled them out of winning.

J.

Using the mean average gain to date and graphing the known positions so far, then extrapolating the known results to forecast the mean average positon, thence doubling the position to give an idea of the end of the range leads me to believe I talk nonsense. But the end result is in the range of 840-860 players.
Close J?
Alan

Nowhere near, the last competition had over 2000 players
and this one seems more popular so i reckon 3000+ by the
end of it.

MPS consolidation at 125 to 1 about to happen!

TullettJ (MoneyAM)
Only a problem if you are trying to win or a friend could open another account.

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