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I thought I was the only one competing against people who don't know they're competing against me.
I used to want to see my name on the boards as well but soon learned that feeling passes. Instead I just wanted to be a better player, period.
A few months ago when I finally, FINALLY, figured out how to get my portfolio moving, I created my own trader watchlist of players who joined HSX within six months of me. (3 months before Dec 13, 2005 and 3 months after).
Every few days I would scan the pages around my new ranking to find traders who had joined about the same time I did. It seemed fair, and much more competitive to measure myself against people who joined about the same time that I did. When I created that list of 10 players two or three months ago I think we were all around 22 - 25 million. But I made sure I only added names to my list that had more money than me, so I would be forced to chase them down. Each time I got to the top of the list, I would enjoy it for a day or two and then go find more names who had more money than me.
Currently my trader watchlist has 35 players on it who don't know they're getting their **** kicked by me. Second place is behind by almost 7 million. (It's been a good week -- time to add some new names.) So like Catzan, MY "leaderboard" is my trader watchlist. I find it much more fair, fun, competitive and intriguing, despite the fact they don't know they're in a contest with me.
internally, I still say I'm competing against me. But having a few players to outwardly measure myself against who have the same amount of "experience" as me is a lot of fun.
All this makes for a nice segue into the new league I started yesterday called "Seinfeld". Since all the leagues here are based on percentage gain, it's open to any port size. So feel to join if you like.
Why should the newbies dominate the Leaderboards? Aug 10, 23:01
I find the best Leaderboard to worry about is Aug 11, 09:05
I thought I was the only one competing against people who don't know they're competing against me. Sep 11, 13:19
There are several Leaderboards Aug 11, 17:37
