VDM Trading Contest 2017 now live!

As every year in November around Thanksgiving, a new trading contest for the new year: the VDM Trading 2017 contest is now live and open to anyone who wants to participate! It's free to join this game (hosted by MarketWatch) and runs until November 24th 2017. Start with a fictitious $100,000 and see how well you fare in the stock market with this advanced stock trading game! This year there are some slight modifications to the game rules: portfolio's are now public and no limit orders are allowed. Full rules below:


Your portfolio options:

Starting balance for players:

$100,000.00

Commission:

$10.00

Credit Interest Rate:

3.00%

Leverage Debt Interest Rate:

6.00%

Minimum Stock Price:

$2.00

Maximum Stock Price:

$500,000.00

Trading Volume Limit:

1.00%

Short Selling:

Enabled

Margin Trading:

Enabled

Limit Orders:

Disabled

Stop Loss Trades:

Enabled

Partial Share Trading:

Enabled

Symbols Available for Trading

All symbols can be traded

Indexes:

• S&P 500
• Dow Jones
• Nasdaq
• Nasdaq 2000

Exchanges:

• AMEX
• Nasdaq
• NYSE
• OTC-BB

Security Types:

• Public Companies
• Funds
• ETFs

The aim of the game is to learn and to have fun. Good luck to all who join!