Were any of you part of http://www.marketplayer.com/ ? When it existed? It was such an exicting game... Unluckly I found it only one or two weeks before it got shut down (or probably went bankrupt) and got to play it only once.
It worked a little something like this. You paid a competition entrance fee ($25, I believe) which went into a pool that you could win. Depending on the number of players, a certain amout of spots were paid out from that pool. You get a bunch of virtual money (100k maybe) and then get access to a virtual portfolio which you are supposed to day trade with. The site provided real-time quotes and worked off of real-time data. The each game only lasted one week and you were free to trade as many times as you wanted. It was really fun, the ONE time that I got to play it. What made it exciting and better than any of the other games out there now was that it used real-time data and lasted only one week.
Is there anything out there like this now?
If not, I was thinking of making a site like this. Would anyone be interested? The only problem would be getting a real-time data feed which costs AT LEAST 1k a month, which I am not willing to put up... But by grabbing quotes off of some ECN, the site would be cheap (free!), but only allow for nasdaq quotes. Eh, just an idea...
It worked a little something like this. You paid a competition entrance fee ($25, I believe) which went into a pool that you could win. Depending on the number of players, a certain amout of spots were paid out from that pool. You get a bunch of virtual money (100k maybe) and then get access to a virtual portfolio which you are supposed to day trade with. The site provided real-time quotes and worked off of real-time data. The each game only lasted one week and you were free to trade as many times as you wanted. It was really fun, the ONE time that I got to play it. What made it exciting and better than any of the other games out there now was that it used real-time data and lasted only one week.
Is there anything out there like this now?
If not, I was thinking of making a site like this. Would anyone be interested? The only problem would be getting a real-time data feed which costs AT LEAST 1k a month, which I am not willing to put up... But by grabbing quotes off of some ECN, the site would be cheap (free!), but only allow for nasdaq quotes. Eh, just an idea...
