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I don't rock at this game...In fact, I never did and I never said I did. (More inside)

Posted by: NeilSite (a.k.a del_JIV_NeilSite) on Apr 23, 22:05 in response to ndmaster's post Good god, you're pedantic

The only points of "success" on my part that I'ver posted on here were:
Making it into the top 10 percentile and having my percentile only ever go up.
However, that last point was broken in August of 2017 when for the first time in 10 years, it droppped several tenths of a whole percent (or hundreds in rank placement). All told, I lost millions in just a few weeks.

I know it's only a game...I literally said that in the very post you commented on. But I played this daily, spending anywhwere from 5-20 minutes max. for over 10 years when suddenly my strategy didn't work.

My strategy was to buy MovieStocks & StarBonds in 100 shares to start. For each 5% gain, I'd increase it to 500 shares. Another 5% up? Increase it to 1,000...and so on until you get to the max holdings (or what my port could afford).

I went for blockbuster hits and A-list stars & producers, directors, etc. I had about 100 different StarBonds and dozens of different MovieStocks. Longs were only considered for those with more long positions than shorts and vice-versa.

For Derivatives, I usually would buy half the limit allowed, and if it went up by 5%, then I'd buy the rest allowed. I usually held at least 10-12 different securities in this category. MovieStocks and Derivatives were all sold 1 day before the Movie was released (to avoid losses & take profit instead).

StudioFunds--I only ever bought the max allowed (10K each) of the major studios that exist in real life, as soon as they would IPO in the fall. By percentage gained, this were by far my best performing securities.

If a security was down 5%, then I decreased my holdings by similar increments: If I had 1,000 shares, then it became only 500. Sometimes it would bounce back up to being up 5% for me so I'd increase it back to 1,000 or if it lost another 5% after owning 500 shares, I'd decrease my holdings to 100.

For several years, I also kept approx. H$14.6 million in cash--this allowed me to make H$100, $200, $300, $400, $500, etc. in interest daily (based on interest rates). This money + HSX games served as seed money for future investments.

Late in August, I sold everything in my port. That alone cost me ~H$2 million. I've since held different positions, some short, and I still invest in the StudioFunds, but I'm on here almost everyday playing HSX games. Some days when I make tens of thousands from trades, I cash it all in the same day. I don't trust it overnight anymore. Other days when I trade, many thousands of H$ in small period of time on no more than 20K shares. How is something widely held up 10% then down 5% then up 5% then down 2% in 4 hours?

Also, I did something unwise: I opened multi-accounts...I didn't do it for "coordinated trading" or for referral bonuses either. I opened one up after this port was banned from Forums so I could continue posting; then that was discovered so I opened another and that too was banned. After several months, I was allowed to post in Forums again (from NeilSite) but the other two accounts still cannot post or trade. They can, however, play HSX games (which I do so their net worth only rises, even though their ranks are unlisted).

FYI: I first found HSX and joined in early 1998. This is also when I first started trading stocks at age 18. In real life, stocks seem more like long-term investments (at least 2 years holding) so I looked at other securities. In 2000 (after my HSX account went dormant), I began trading commodities in the futures market (e.g., crude oil, soybeans, gold, etc.). No, I'm not going to claim I'm some kind of millionaire (everyone loses money in commodities at some point). I've lost hundreds of dollars many times over. But each trial and error is a learning step, and the amount of experience in both trading and observing market trend has caused me to develop a strategy different from what I first sought out for in these markets but one that allows me to make at least as much money in a day from trading as I do from working.