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dave - all you do is post the number which you think the FTSE100 will finish at the end of the following month. If you are nearest - Moneyam will send you a 50 drinks voucher!

You can "guess" anytime during the previous month, and even change it. If someone else already has the same number, you get the next one up. I stop taking entries on the first day of the month, when the market opens, as when I will start taking entries for the following month.

i`ll be bold 4565,,cheers , june .

4520 for June please little woman.
Thanks for taking the time to give us a bit of fun.

Hi little woman,
I see your point.However,the way I suggest is good because one can immediately
see their position relative to others and relative to the Footsie.

Brian is - 10
Mary is + 15

Guess/fun = Frivilous.Footsie closing is a very serious issue.How can
serious investors consider it fun ?
I was prepared to give figures for July/August so had to determine all the economic data - worldwide - etc to base my projections.It also concerns me
that the figures most people give are so high as to border on the bizarre.
It is especially ridiculous if one e.g.forecasts towards the end of one month
for the end of the next.
rgds aj

Personally I find investing fun. If it wasn't I wouldn't be a investor. I know a lot of people don't invest because they find it boring.... Life is far too short to take anything too serious, because it take all the fun out of it, and if its not fun, its not worth doing.

I am NOT sarcastic but wonder :-

1.Have you more money than Warren Buffet ?
2.Should you be in a mental hospital - I suggest you re-read your
post and ask a psychiatist to read it.
rgds aj

No I've not more money - and I don't think I should be in a mental hospital!

If you do something you don't enjoy (I enjoy things that are fun) then you lose interest and personally then I feel its not worth doing.

I know lots of people who will not buy shares because they think its boring. They will play the lottery, and some will even place bets, because they find it more interesting and fun.

I think 99.999 per cent of people trade in shares to make money.
Do you disagree ?
rgds aj

Yes, I trade to make money, but I also do it for fun.

I'm a trained practice accountant, but I don't find it fun any more, so I refuse to spend more than 2 days a month doing it (To ensure I can pay my bills). I'm constantly being offered full time work, but I'm just not interested - it's just too boring.....

If I could make a lot more money trading (but I enjoy spending my profits too much, to build up a decent amount of capital) I'd never do any work at all ever again.

And my entry for some fun is 4401. If I win (no chance) the voucher goes to charity.

Lighten up everyone the competition is for fun and has been ever since it was started months and months ago. I think the lowliness of the prize we are giving points to that!!

LW: Thanks for keeping this competition going.


Mike

ajren, quote; 'It also concerns me that the figures most people give are so high as to border on the bizarre.', since i have selected the highest ftse value for june it kind of suggests to me that i am the most bizarre! Thankyou.

Hi Golddog.I apologize if I gave that impression.However,I said figure/not person/ was bizarre.rgds aj
..................
Hi Bullshare.You say FUN .That is my point.I am NOT sarcastic but I suggest
all non - serious investors open a FUN thread.I,too,like fun in my life.
post rgds aj
..................

Ajren; Surely the serious investors place trades on the FTSE in the market where they can make or lose money, people who want a bit of fun on the FTSE enter this or other similar competitions where there is no money to be made or lost.

Lets make it clear then for anyone else entering that this is a FUN thread.

Bullshare
Do you realise you made a very arrogant statement?Let us ....this is a FUN
thread.I suggest it is a VERY SERIOUS thread and you merely speak for a
small amount of people.I think people say FUN as an excuse for giving such
a bizarre figure.
rgds aj

This Arjen seems to likes to cause debate (aggressive), have noticed a few threads where he seems to cause problems. This is a FUN thread nothing serious at all about it, majority would go with this not the minority...

I see what you meant in the traders room LW, far too serious for words.

Well said, Bullshare.
It seems you've lost the plot, ajren!

lw, 4439 for June, please, and keep the flag flying!

Ajren;Perhaps as this competition has been going for many months before you joined MoneyAM you might bow to the organiser and originator of this thread,Little Woman,and accept her ethos. Perhaps you might like to start a Serious FTSE Competition 2004 and you can establish your own ethos.

Hi AdieH,

I do like debating this issue.YOU are aggressive i.e.FUN thread....
majority would go with this.

Perhaps your bizarre 4567 explains your FUN
rgds aj

3560 for me please