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If I recollect correctly, the selling option idea was one of mine but that came around to enable one to realign a portfolio during the competition should circumstances
change not to trade and cheat.

Couple of examples:

I buy BTI, midyear, smokes get banned, as least I can sell and buy something else.
I buy Gold shares and the gold price goes for a loop like last year, at least I can sell and buy something else.
I buy construction and it does not perform, but the gold price goes through the roof, I can sell my construction and buy gold shares.
CML gets to high and Think it has reached its limit for the year, be able so sell and buy something with growth potential.

I don,t think it was ever meant to be a trading option, just a portfolio realign option.

Maar dan is daar altyd mense wat the dam onder se hoender se poepol uitruk.

If you can,t play the game in the spirit of things, go get your rocks off somewhere else.

Or get reported and eliminated with your ip blocked

http://www.investorchallenge.co.za/and-the-2013-investor-challenge-winner-is/

Congrats to qriffin, AMT and DGrobbs 

Comments, congratulations and how the hell did you do that's to be posted here please.

Found a loophole

Quote from: gcr on January 07, 2014, 06:43:29 pm

in the context of the competition I recommended that we split the competition into two parts those who wanted to enter the competition as investors and those who wanted to enter as traders. This recommendation was not carried

It may still be carried out. I could easily have 3 leader boards, one for traders (who sell at profit), one for investors, and the current one.

and a seperate one for those playing against the spirit of the game

Maybe buying should be restricted till after the market closes and before it opens

Looking into the share, there seems to be no reason, with their daily trade history and such taken into account.

so presume there could be rumours or a bit of manipulation in progress again.

There are guys out there that do trading for a living.

One of the reasons this game should be limited to the top 200 on capitalization.

There could be gems out there that are going to shoot the moon out, but lets be realistic.

split the game, investors challenge, gambler challenge, less in the spirit of the game players

daar wen jy  my met die voorstel

well done Griffin

I don't know about arseholes much...  Personally, I "invested" in AH-vest based on some personal connections, and the fact that it was at an attractive price point.  It recovered slowly, over 6 months, to similar levels it held a year ago.  Hardly the same as buying a 1c share and seeing it double in value in a day or two    While I concede that the volumes traded is not realistic, there is no way I could have exploited a loophole in the game way back in May.  Some of the comments here really do sound like sour grapes 

At a glance, there are several interesting shares in the sub-R1 list.  Jasco, Gijima and Cadiz come to mind.  I'd say cap it at 10c rather than R1.

I get far more upset at guys having ETFs in their portfolios.  Perhaps they didn't expect that Patrick would make it visible for all to see 

hey frikkie, het ek met jou gepraat.  moet nou nie asb frikkie van brakpan wees nie. die aandele wat jy noem het almal hulle gat gesien hiedie jaar, sowel as my  goud endevour.

So kalmeer asb bietjie chappie. Ek moet seker nou ook vir jou vra of jy bietjie pui is