Would anyone have interest in playing an investment game?

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Sounds terribly boring but it's competitive and fun??? (if you're a nerd).

We start off with £100 GBP (imaginary pounds) each, to invest as we will, and you can trade as many times a day as you wish or stick with what you have for the entire month, but the value is counted on the last Friday of every month.

We would need to limit our scope to something easily trackable. I don't buy the FT, but most stocks are listed somewhere. You can invest in commodities, stocks, bonds whatever.

Does this sound like the most boring game ever? Or would people fancy their chances?

I find the markets fascinating in that I like to spot trends. INSIDER TRADING NOT ALLOWED that's to all of you working in patents at pharma companies

Winner takes all (the imaginary money).

For the sake of interest, we need to list whenever we buy or sell.

You can list your logic behind your purchase, or you can simply say what you're buying/selling with no explanation.

Ok, I'm a nerd. Lol

Why is this in aibu

Btw, it was a film called Trading Places (80's film I think) with Eddie Murphy which prompted this. He had insights that stockbrokers didn't have. I think most people underestimate themselves.

I'd love to do it. I did papertrading several years ago and would like to get back into it!

I've asked for it to be moved.

Sorry for being so very very very unreasonable.

And btw I put it in AIBU as I didn't know that there was an 'investments' section and even if I had, I wouldn't have dared to venture there as I would have felt out of place and some people have good instincts despite their lack of education in banking or whatever the hell they need.

This sounds fun, I am also a bit geeky...

Love it! I really thought that everyone would call me a nerd or something.

Well, I suppose I've already been asked why I put it in AIBU and I'm a sensitive soul, so I'm going to whoop all your asses!

Perhaps know-it-all thread police might join us. I sure as hell would like to whoop her ass!

I'd love to do this!

I am sourcing the following info from this explanation of different things to invest in

Equity or “stock” is fractional ownership of a company.
Fixed Income includes debt securities such as bonds.
Commodities are physical—usually relatively raw—goods that come from the earth such as oil, cotton, gold and soybeans.
Alternatives include nontraditional—often esoteric—investments related to volatility, credit spreads, inflation and more.
Currency investing includes the currencies of countries around the world.

@BarbaraofSeville We're all just waiting on you now........... No pressure lol

I wonder could we leave currencies and the other things out of it?

Could we limit it to stocks (aka shares), bonds and commodities?

So stocks or shares are, as above, tiny percentage holdings in a company. You invest in a company if you feel that the share price is going to rise. Volatile. Massive range of what you can invest in. You invest in these things when you think that the price per share is going to rise.

Bonds, to my knowledge are usually fixed price investments in governments. I'm open to correction on this. They are when you invest money in a country as far as I know. They are fixed, reliable and usually stable but with very small but reliable returns.

Commodities are things like gold or platinum. They're actual physical things. So you invest in them when you think a commodity is rare or something.

If anyone wants to correct or clarify any of the above, please do so (but not with a long-winded incomprehensible explainer).

There isn't an investment thread is there? Just meant that this is a chat thread not an aibu one.

Well clearly I'm being unreasonable by your reckoning, so it's in the correct place!

Am I too late to join? 😊

I would really like to do this but I'd like to do it with real money! Anyone else fancy it?

I've just noticed this was earlier in the month. Has anyone got going on it?