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

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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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