The Stock Market Game
Hey all,
I'm a high school sophomore and completely new to this forum (I'm not some high school IB pre-cum) and was told to look into WSO by my older brother who now works at some small IB shop. I'm trying to win my regions stock market game, it started yesterday and basically, it's a competition where you invest in the stock market with fake money. I've already made a few trades based off of famous investor portfolios like Bill Ackman, but I was wondering where to go from there. If you all have any investment suggestions or ways to go about correctly analyzing some stuff for my own, I'd really appreciate it. Thank you!
I've never participated in something like that and am unfamiliar with the rules, but I would imagine you would want to shoot for high risk / high reward over a very short time period-- things like impending catalysts that might occur within the game's timeframe-- assuming that's no more than a quarter or so long, Ackman is not going to help you. This is not at all how I invest in real life, but if the goal is max returns in a short amount of time with no repercussions on the downside (you obvi must be okay with the good chance of losing), I'd plow money into 1) high spread near-term merger arb (CPRI or ACI), where the price will either shoot up soon or crash down and not recover, 2) political catalysts- think of stuff that will boost if Trump or Harris wins (honestly, DJT if you think trump will win might actually work, stuff like solar energy for harris), 3) screen for highly leveraged companies under $500m market cap. Can get more complex, but probably the best simple route for a student
Ok this is really helpful, thank you. I have a few follow-up questions. When you say CPRI or ACI do you mean the companies Capri Holdings and Albertson Companies? If so, how would you got about finding similar companies/situations? Is there any way to set a filter on google finance or something similar to find companies under the $500m market cap? How should I then research these smaller companies? Thanks, and sorry if these seem like stupid questions. All I know about finance I learned from Wall Street and Liars Poker lol.
I’ll add to this … small cap single-product biotech with impending binary data read-outs
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0DTE SPY calls. You'll either win or you won't.
I tried to find some filters to but it seems like I have to have a Robinhood or other real investing acc. How would you find these?
All in on leveraged index funds if you want a good chance at winning
Which would you recommend?
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