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Okay so it's time to talk about the contest. This year I've launched a US based competition for a few reasons: 1) the number of players of the SA version has been shrinking every year 2) Investing globally is in my view a better idea than investing just in SA inc. 3) I'm hoping to get more people playing the new game.

The big question I have now is should I still keep the SA version or should I kill it off?

Any thoughts?

NO Don't kill it keep it up :-)

Patrick - as an age old competitor on your site, I don't think it prudent to kill the SA competition, you may however want to reconsider some of the parameters of the game i.e.:-

1) Give each participant R 1.2 million on first business day of January annually
2) Any person joining later in the year would also get R 1.2 million on entering the competition - to level the playing field
3) Only allow buying/selling once a month - i.e. kill off trading - this was never intended to be a trading competition
4) Ranking to be based on highest value of portfolio to lowest inclusive of shares purchased and the cash component unutilized

Consider

I think the numbers dropping off has a lot to do with lackluster returns on the JSE - as JSE's own volume figures would indicate. Great idea on the S&P comp. Although it's a competition, I really compete against the ETF's - GCR all you will find is that someone will put R1.2mill into ellies or something of that nature - it will still bug you! BTW 2018 link does not work. All the best for the year. Will be heading to the UK for good this year, so packing and selling the order of the day - interspersed with mountains of paperwork.

Thanks for the input so far everyone. I'll keep the SA comp running for this year then. @GCR, thanks for the input, I've already covered point 4, unless I've made a mistake somewhere it is holdings + cash - tax to get the leaderboard. I'd be happy to try the rest but maybe I should put it them to a vote in a blog post about the comp soon.

@Mr Div, 2018 ink should be fixed now.