so google finance is beautiful. free service lets you “deposit” money and then place transactions.

http://www.google.com/finance

Finance is where fortunes are made and lost (mostly lost). If you have a google account, it’s an easy business to deposit a fake 10k, then “buy” (using the “add a transaction” feature) stocks at their price and have that reflected in your overall balance. Using these tools it would be a very easy matter to have a forumwarz contest to see who could have their money grow the most over a set period of time, say a month.

I’d do this as a proper contest but unfortunately there’s no way to verify you were telling the truth.

Anyone interested?

Here’s a general starting image:

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Edit: if you want to join, start with a deposit of ten thousand dollars.

edit 2: fixed link