I played in this last year. I never thought the oil industry would skyrocket once I posted my portfolio. I didn't win any prizes but I thought I would offer it up to the OT since I got the email yesterday. They have a lot better prizes this year. You never know....someone has to win, it might as well be someone in the OT. AND IT IS FREE!!

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what are the chances some dumbass like myself could be sucessful in this?

 

Originally Posted by cmval

what are the chances some dumbass like myself could be sucessful in this?

Someone has to win. Pick the right stocks in the moment and you're golden!

I just opened the other account to get the free $25 - FK, just looked at it closer and I can trade $9k worth of currency on that $25 - little bit scared, will probably never touch that as I don't want to fk myself.

Just got this in my email detailing the account

Note: The trading account is set to 400:1 leverage and enabled for hedging.*

who cares if you blow it? You can have 5 portfolios in the game so try out different stuff in each.

Everytime I try to opt in it say the image verification doesn't match. Even when one of them was "TT4YY2" I mean...that is not confusable and I know I typed it in correctly. Rigged.

 

Originally Posted by JustALurker

Everytime I try to opt in it say the image verification doesn't match. Even when one of them was "TT4YY2" I mean...that is not confusable and I know I typed it in correctly. Rigged.

if you fail once you need a new code even though it leaves what you typed there. Erase that and use new code! Use caps also.

espn has a million dollar challenge going on as well..if you pick 25 straight games corretly..from all different sports..before the end of the year..then you win a mill