Let's face it, community wise the last event here was reestablishing and taking away the chatroom. Since then nothing is happening, unless one counts the reopening of the Surf Report Community Cesspool.
So I figured I would throw out a couple of ideas for discussion. Again, the goal would be to make ET livelier and to increase the entertainment and knowledge factor, not to mention page views:
1. Other sites have competitions and I always liked them. It is just fun. I like the "Guess the weekly close of the S&P" on T2W. I think the bragging rights is good enough for prize, but Baron or Vendors could throw in some goodies. Here are 3 categories I would have:
Valid entries have to be posted at a certain early time on Mondays. I guess Baron also has to make these posts uneditable.
A. Guess where the market (S&P) close on Friday.
B. Stock of the week. You have to post your pick for biggest gainer/loser.
C. Crazy trade of the week. This can be any trade (most likely options) with a high risk/high return, and I guess can be posted during the week anytime, but at least 1 hour before the event/movement takes place (so people could actually trade it, if they wish so)
Again, here the idea is to show of your skills or if you have a stock idea to share it in a competitive form.
2. Book discussions. Let's say every 2 weeks someone would pick a book and we could discuss either the book itself or the subject of the book.
3. AMAs. (Ask Me Anything) We have plenty interesting members who might don't mind to be interviewed by other members, or Baron could invite famous people from the industry. I recently posted one taken from Reddit, but there is no reason why we couldn't have our own.
4. Have I mentioned I like competitions? Now that C2 is a vendor here and they have monthly fees, we could have a trading competition, let's say 2 weeks every quarter, just not to make it too boring. Or we could limit the length of it to 1 week. Maybe C2 could lower the price for the competition, but I think the fee keeps out low energy entries. The extra fun could be if the systems entering can be subscribed, because some ballsy members could make money out of other ET members.
Who has the bigger balls you sim trading or me subscribing to your sim with real money?
Anyhow, these are just a couple of ideas that I came up with while drunk and bored, please feel to criticize them or add your ideas.
LET'S MAKE ET GREAT AGAIN!
So I figured I would throw out a couple of ideas for discussion. Again, the goal would be to make ET livelier and to increase the entertainment and knowledge factor, not to mention page views:
1. Other sites have competitions and I always liked them. It is just fun. I like the "Guess the weekly close of the S&P" on T2W. I think the bragging rights is good enough for prize, but Baron or Vendors could throw in some goodies. Here are 3 categories I would have:
Valid entries have to be posted at a certain early time on Mondays. I guess Baron also has to make these posts uneditable.
A. Guess where the market (S&P) close on Friday.
B. Stock of the week. You have to post your pick for biggest gainer/loser.
C. Crazy trade of the week. This can be any trade (most likely options) with a high risk/high return, and I guess can be posted during the week anytime, but at least 1 hour before the event/movement takes place (so people could actually trade it, if they wish so)
Again, here the idea is to show of your skills or if you have a stock idea to share it in a competitive form.
2. Book discussions. Let's say every 2 weeks someone would pick a book and we could discuss either the book itself or the subject of the book.
3. AMAs. (Ask Me Anything) We have plenty interesting members who might don't mind to be interviewed by other members, or Baron could invite famous people from the industry. I recently posted one taken from Reddit, but there is no reason why we couldn't have our own.
4. Have I mentioned I like competitions? Now that C2 is a vendor here and they have monthly fees, we could have a trading competition, let's say 2 weeks every quarter, just not to make it too boring. Or we could limit the length of it to 1 week. Maybe C2 could lower the price for the competition, but I think the fee keeps out low energy entries. The extra fun could be if the systems entering can be subscribed, because some ballsy members could make money out of other ET members.
Who has the bigger balls you sim trading or me subscribing to your sim with real money?
Anyhow, these are just a couple of ideas that I came up with while drunk and bored, please feel to criticize them or add your ideas.
LET'S MAKE ET GREAT AGAIN!
