Erasmus Open Investment Group

The round is finally over! In this game our leader is "Sardo" with an overall return of 8.31%, followed by "010Koen" and "VaidevutisGermanas". Together with "dhrops", our leaders are the only ones that managed to have a positive return by the end of the game. Congratulations!
The next game will start probably in February, will last until the end of the academic game, and will mostly like be hosted on wallstreetsurvivor.com.
Happy holidays to everyone!

The coming week is the last one of this trading game. Make your final investment choices and maybe you can still alter the final ranking!

This week's performance report. The leader of this week is "dhrops" with 3.23% overall return.
Note that inactive users are excluded from the top.

Google was the biggest loser on the S&P 500 this week, decreasing by 8% due to weak earnings. More info on S&P500 this week here -> http://bit.ly/ViJKuj

S&P 500 (INDEXSP:.INX) Stumbled Aimed Weak Earnings – GOOG, TRV, MS, VZ, EBAY, MSFT, AMD, SNDK, CMG. Investors were disappointed by the weak earnings in technology stocks, especially after Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) released its weak earnings. Google’s

After 4 trading weeks, here is the first performance report. Right now on the first place is "Sardo", whereas on the second place is "duegor". Also, only these two players have a positive return in the first weeks.
Bear in mind that inactive players will be excluded from the future performance reports. They were left now as a reminder to form their portfolios and start trading.
Also, from now on performance reports will be published every week.

You CAN still join the competition, so don't hesitate!

Invest, Learn, Enjoy!

Google will be the First Trillion Dollar Company Today, it sits at a $245 billion market cap and doubled it's bottom line since 2007. It is not front page news. What will it take to get there: 1. A f

Apple will become world's first $1TRILLION company, analysts predict as share price overtakes Google The technology giant's shares were worth $633.38 last week as its stock price rose above Google's for the first time.

There has been already a week since the start of this trading round. Don't forget to form your portfolio as soon as possible. You CAN STILL JOIN the game in case you didn't yet.

Warren Buffett Does Not Live On Value Alone - Forbes Whatever you want to call it--value investing, high-quality investing, low-beta investing high-quality-low-beta value investing--Buffett's impeccable track record shows that his approach is well worth following.

FYI: the simulator on Investopedia is based on NYSE, NASDAQ and AMEX stock exchanges. Hence, markets are open from 9:30 to 16:00 GMT-5, which corresponds to 15:30 to 22:00 GMT+1 (time zone in Holland).

For those who just joined the competition, or you simply want to find out more about how does the simulator work and what can you do, head to http://www.investopedia.com/university/simulator/ and find there answers to all your questions regarding the Investopedia simulator.

The game started yesterday! Hurry up to form your portfolio, or to join the investment competition if you still didn't!