Student Inestor

Hi
(New to this forum please forgive any mistakes I make)

So a few friends and I enlisted in the ifs student investor challenge through school, where you're given a 100k portfolio to make as much return as possible in 3 months.
We made 10% which we thought was pretty good (considering 8% a year is considered pretty decent, (am I right?).
However the the team that came first (from Eton college) made 300% return!!! In three months. Looking at their graphs it was a consistent 20 or so each fortnight so It can't have been just one lucky trade. How is this even possible?? Am I missing something big here?

Thanks in advance for any help

 

since this year ifs student investor have started using prices that are delayed. so all you do is buy before you see a rise. those at 300k are cheats. Before this year the prices were not delayed. you can tell because the market has been crap this year and 300% is a joke

 

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