Playing & Trading Strategy

Congratulations to March 2012's Port Value League winners! (results inside) PVL Admin Apr 01, 11:20

Graduates need to apply to next level...don't forget or you will miss reset. New players welcome at all levels. {nm} PVL Admin Apr 01, 11:21

Congratulations, DOW53! I know the taste of your dust well! {nm} Ryan_Stewart Apr 01, 15:47

LOL. Don't worry, I'm going to taste yours this month. {nm} DOW53 Apr 03, 11:11

Almost finished 3rd in the 45-100. Disappointing. {nm} DOW53 Apr 03, 11:13

Thanks for the invite! {nm} warcraft86 Apr 02, 17:30

You're most welcome! The more the merrier. {nm} PVL Admin Apr 02, 17:40

Pgame4 roster inside. Pgame5 lobby has been created for those who want to play in May (link inside) PRodQuanta Apr 01, 09:43

Pgame3 results and awards inside. Congrats to Team Peeta and everybody who participated. Results are archived in HSX Pgame Lobby. PRodQuanta Apr 01, 09:39

Is it me or my team always finishes 2nd? :) thanks PQ! {nm} slappydavid Apr 01, 10:55

Hey, I was the team captain! Woot! Thanks, PRodQuanta! {nm} accountant_4_Jesus Apr 01, 15:08

As captains, must others now salute us? Also, can we marry people now? {nm} dave3626 Apr 01, 15:21

Yes and yes. {nm} PRodQuanta Apr 01, 17:50

Then I'll start by marrying the dog and cat. They've been living in sin for years. {nm} dave3626 Apr 01, 20:09

What about the lamb and the lion? They've been shameless in their laying down together. {nm} DTravel Apr 02, 16:03

It's like you're right inside in my head. {nm} dave3626 Apr 02, 19:23

Cluttered, you should clean this place out more often. {nm} DTravel Apr 03, 08:20

Hard to find a good housekeeper. I measure them all against the incomparable Mrs. Garrett. {nm} dave3626 Apr 03, 09:26

Is anyone else having problems with their port monkey, lately? It's not showing charts for 2-3 days for me. {nm} Ryan_Stewart Apr 01, 08:58

there is a discussion and information about this on the feedback board that might help you {nm} RazorHawk Apr 01, 09:12

Thanks, RazorHawk...I didn't notice there was an appropriate page for technical difficulties until you pointed it out. {nm} Ryan_Stewart Apr 01, 10:27

Top gaining funds for March 2012. Congrats to [WBROX] at #1. islander Apr 01, 08:06

back to back wins for me (sort of) {nm} WBROXFund Apr 02, 14:44

This rollercoaster for ANCH2? What's up with that? Jeco Mar 31, 08:23

I'm guessing a few dozen people also noticed that, and decided to do reset trading for easy cash as well. Just a hunch. {nm} arf Mar 31, 09:44

Your hunch is wrong....it moved at reset but not one of the top 10 movers within the 1st hour (less than half a percent when I finished up) alfpaulytd2012 Mar 31, 09:52

According to PortMonkey and un4gven's charts, it dropped from 45.43 at reset to 43.29 an hour later. A $2 drop wasn't in the top 10? Wow. {nm} Paul2k Mar 31, 09:56

I stopped 30 min. in and i mean both directions alfpaulytd2012 Mar 31, 10:56

look back 2 days and apply the standard movie fluctuations after major news. Opinion/analysis inside PVL Admin Mar 31, 11:26

Am I right to saythat reset trading is 1.) be around at reset 2.) buy into anything that's moving. 3.)make money. Is that the gist of it? dave3626 Mar 31, 13:00

Nevermind. Rifled thru old posts and found it. {nm} dave3626 Mar 31, 17:58

Pretty Much. Get the PortMonkey script for GreaseMonkey in Firefox to help out with trends and such. Invaluable! {nm} arf Apr 02, 21:03

Cleared out my entire port of 300+ long term holds. $12 million in commisions. Just going to take it easy and really investigate a movie now DASavage Mar 30, 23:54

If you can do 50 mil/wk average, let us know how you did it. That's 200 mil a month and I work my butt off for 130 mil/month. {nm} PVL Admin Mar 31, 00:40

many lo-calorie monsters later..........crazy goals.....must have something to shoot for! {nm} DASavage Mar 31, 00:54

That's an average of over $7M. You'd have to play like Paul2k to achieve that sort of gain each day. Even with my port size I haven't been accountant_4_Jesus Mar 31, 03:19

*$7M per day {nm} accountant_4_Jesus Mar 31, 03:20

Last week was a huge week with all that HGAME money, but even so, only 8 players made more than $50M and the lowest ranked one still had RogerMore Mar 31, 10:36

then I shall lower my outrageous goal to something more attainable. starting tomorrow my goal will be............................... {nm} DASavage Mar 31, 13:15

$4 million dollars or more {nm} DASavage Mar 31, 13:16

Not unrealistic alfpaulytd2012 Mar 31, 13:37

Paul2K averaged $48.79M a week last year. {nm} RogerMore Apr 01, 17:15

Slacker {nm} PVL Admin Apr 01, 22:42

Paul2k is ashamed at his slackertude. {nm} Paul2k Apr 02, 05:56

Was just pointing out you don't need multi billions to hit 50m if u know how to play alfpaulytd2012 Apr 02, 00:13

I've no doubt that he'll earn $50M in a week several times over the coming summer. But on average? That's a hard goal to hit. {nm} RogerMore Apr 02, 15:07

Well, maybe the Hungry will stop eating my a** and I'll break the 10K barrier next week. :( {nm} DTravel Mar 30, 15:54

I'm down 5 mil for the month. As soon as I give up and flip a stock, it magically starts swinging the other way. Who did I anger? {nm} arf Mar 30, 17:04

I had the same problem the other day. Decided to try reset trading. Now i'm back in the green. {nm} perply1 Mar 30, 19:00

Going 100% Star Bonds...does it make sense to play starbonds with a droi undr 0.25?? {nm} TremorChrist Mar 30, 15:21

My opinion - it depends DTravel Mar 30, 15:48

all of my port. have about 191 pos. and $50 million and all bonds over 0.30 droi {nm} TremorChrist Mar 30, 16:30

If you really are going All Starbonds All The Time, then the question isn't "Do I?", its what order you buy them in. DTravel Mar 30, 21:53

Yes, as long as that adjust is at least 10 days out, you'll cover the commission. I grab 0.1 dROI a month out and still come out good. {nm} arf Mar 30, 17:06

Another Strategy Question EthanHunt Mar 29, 20:19

That's good progress. Keep that strategy for now JohnTEQP Mar 29, 21:32

Slowly develop a solid core of StarBonds - worked for the Roto. Well done to top 10 MILL. {nm} RotoHockeyYTD2012 Mar 30, 05:12

Make good use of the helper sites listed in tools. What I make in bonds covers what I lose on movies. :D {nm} arf Mar 30, 12:40

Pgame4 lobby has been locked and the teams will be distributed in the next couple of days. Pgame3 update inside. PRodQuanta Mar 29, 20:18

yeehaa! great job Team Peeta! we killed it! {nm} Oleg Max Mar 30, 12:43

Pgame4 will be locking tonight by 8pm PST. Join the league lobby to participate (link inside). Pgame3 status to come tonight as well. {nm} PRodQuanta Mar 29, 08:46

Link PRodQuanta Mar 29, 08:46

Also, I'm thinking that this month I may switch up the format a little bit... Stay tuned. {nm} PRodQuanta Mar 29, 08:47

Bring it on! {nm} slappydavid Mar 29, 13:06

You've been playing just under a year and you have about 1/2 billion. Care to share any trading strategy? {nm} dave3626 Mar 29, 16:43

Can't say I'm an expert, or even have some set strategy... slappydavid Mar 29, 17:18

Looks like I might just sneak my way into the top 10K by the end of this week. DTravel Mar 28, 09:42

A lot of people looking at red this morning, I'm betting you'll be there sooner than you expect... Oh, and congrats! {nm} slappydavid Mar 28, 09:51

I don't often have Red Days, I'm pretty conservative and well diversified. {nm} DTravel Mar 28, 11:19

I'm only 5.6 mil behid Paul2K. The only problem is he's at +3.9 for the day, so far. {nm} PVL Admin Mar 28, 11:27

Yikes. What's dragging you down? The entertainments for people with empty bellies? {nm} Paul2k Mar 28, 11:32

Yes, it was mainly the famished contestants at the colliseum causing my malaise and impoverishment. {nm} PVL Admin Mar 28, 15:52

Interesting that you two are so close in earnings. I'm going to watch your little contest from the cheap seats. {nm} Ryan_Stewart Mar 28, 16:45

Wait a minute. What is your alias, PVL? I can't find your port. {nm} Ryan_Stewart Mar 28, 16:48

Oh...it's you, Rocket, sir! (The boss of my value leagues) {nm} Ryan_Stewart Mar 28, 16:55

:) {nm} PVL Admin Mar 28, 22:00

Me too. I've probably had 3 or 4 red days in my 10 months playing... It's a good way to keep pushing forward! :) {nm} slappydavid Mar 28, 13:49

And of course as soon as I post that a stock I had short, thinking it was a dead project, gets big news and completely erases my profits 2X {nm} DTravel Mar 28, 20:11

Yeah!!! I woke up in the red! Big stocks dropping left and right! The nocturnal traders have me feeling like a Lycan! {nm} Ryan_Stewart Mar 28, 16:44

Hunger Games 3 Questions hugsalot12 Mar 28, 08:45

There were a lot of people holding the stock long, now they're probably selling, some shorting to go with the quick profit... slappydavid Mar 28, 09:01

Don't worry - the stock is worth 400 or more {nm} Checked Out Mar 28, 09:05

Someday. :P {nm} DTravel Mar 28, 09:48

Day Traders / Reset Traders are killing me. Tried to diversify, commission slaughtered me. {nm} arf Mar 28, 16:12

A lot of us are having Love/Hate relationships with being eaten alive by Hunger Games. {nm} DTravel Mar 29, 12:33

+1 {nm} perply1 Mar 29, 13:38

Is there formula to get week box office from adjusted price? Aerin Mar 28, 07:03

I'm not aware of any 'formula' for figuring that out...stock prices are subject only to market forces until delisting. Flash Mar 28, 07:53

Yes, but there is historic data for the average internal multiplier for each genre of movie. PRodQuanta Mar 28, 08:17

Internal multiplier's yes...but it seemed he was asking about weekly vs. adjust numbers... perhaps Flash Mar 28, 14:37

Could those IM genre formulas be found on Box Office Mojo, Some other site, reading every post here, or any help finding them? {nm} arf Mar 29, 10:49

[LORAX.BW] is going to make $200 million worldwide and inevitable $200 domestic at says the-numbers.com Fredjet Mar 28, 04:37

Should I short Hunger Games or will it increase over the weekend? dremmah Mar 27, 19:34

Many of us can make educated guesses, but nobody on here knows the answer to your question with 100% certainty. {nm} PRodQuanta Mar 27, 19:50

I do. The answer is yes. {nm} Paul2k Mar 27, 19:56

Ha. Clever. {nm} PRodQuanta Mar 27, 21:28

OK guys, this is getting silly. You have a port of a billion dollars. You know better than to ask how you should hold a stock. {nm} PVL Admin Mar 27, 21:12

Heh, heh... I love it! :-) {nm} Flash Mar 28, 07:54

With velcro and glue? {nm} DTravel Mar 28, 15:21

It's too close to adjust price for my taste {nm} JohnTEQP Mar 27, 23:29

Song of the day is from Blood, Sweat, and Tears DTXbro Mar 27, 14:59

My song of the day.. dave3626 Mar 27, 18:21

No way HGAME can do 400mm in 4 weeks best short opp out there {nm} JohnnyGodard Mar 26, 19:44

Your point? {nm} PVL Admin Mar 26, 19:49

I'm shorting it for a quick buck, I think it will delist in the low 300s.. just sharing trading strategy :) {nm} JohnnyGodard Mar 27, 06:34

Thank you for your willingness to share tips and advice, however, blatantly suggesting how to hold a stock PVL Admin Mar 27, 17:26

What's the short term upside on HGAME3? JohnnyGodard Mar 26, 19:39

That's because of the "brakes". Who knows when the brakes will release. If they do, it will keep going up. If it drops, it will drop fast. {nm} PVL Admin Mar 26, 19:50

If it drops before it goes up anymore - it's the last IPO I'll ever buy. {nm} JDolphin Mar 26, 20:52

That's a silly thing to say. There are still ways to make money from IPOs. People are just really impatient and want the gains now instead accountant_4_Jesus Mar 26, 21:03

Well said {nm} blaze223 Mar 26, 22:48

I disagree - 80 millon shares and only $3 is ridiculous. The hassle and ridiculous unknown unfathomable secret rules are not worh it. {nm} JDolphin Mar 27, 00:58

Beyond ridiculous. {nm} JDolphin Mar 27, 00:59

I agree with jdolphin. Since HSX changed all people want is the quick buck and all the skill has gone from this game now. swordfish1 Mar 27, 09:55

Does it take a lot of skill to jump on a sequel/threequel to a big hit? alfpaulytd2012 Mar 27, 09:58

nope and that was my point. {nm} swordfish1 Mar 27, 12:00

so how is it agreeing with jdolphin when he thinks the brakes are a bad thing and preventing the "unskilled" quick buck? alfpaulytd2012 Mar 27, 12:05

Brakes are not a bad thing. Brakes to this extent are bad thing. If HSX doesn't want the stock jumping madly then make a 24 hr IPO {nm} JDolphin Mar 27, 15:07

Or price it higher. 170 was a no brainer buy. 250 would have made people think twice. {nm} JDolphin Mar 27, 15:18

My idea isn't to do that, it's to not have a limit at all for IPOs. Let the market forces dictate how far it goes after the first sale. {nm} accountant_4_Jesus Mar 27, 15:38

I would like to take this opportunity and go on record as preferring the brakes left in the "on" position. {nm} arf Mar 30, 17:36