Einstein Stock Market Simulator
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By Google SEO In Business | February 21, '09
Summary of Idea #172
Users select a famous historical personality to manage a stock portfolio.
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I like it.
Thats a great idea. It would put a personal touch on things. One would have to know their personality well. I would be interested to know if John Adams can pick them better than say, Henry Kissinger. Maybe Ronnie Reagan can pick the best stocks. The developer of the software would have a lot of data to enter. We should ask Todd to send this idea on to the right people.
Q1
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Todd suggests...
Your idea is very intriguing. I did a stock market search for the symbol TIMX and found no results. I suggest that you modify this idea from your Dashboard and hyperlink your stock symbol to your example. As in, Einstien would buy QTM (Quantum Group).
This would be a VERY fun game. We are toying with the idea to give ideapalooza users $1,000 in ideapalooza dollars to ‘buy’ stock in ideas posted on the website. I like your twist! This would be a good game for high school students in history class too as it forces people to do research on their ‘subject’ like quirky1 said. Okay, I’m already additcted to this idea. John Adams would buy AANB (Abigail Adams National Bankcorp).
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Fun and educational
Hi Todd,
TIMX is just the first thing that came up when I searched for Timex. It’s some obscure (to me) stock traded in China.
Thanks for the comments. I think that it would be fun trying to match a trading style to a personality. Each trade would require some sort of justification. And there wouldn’t be any penalty or reward for accuracy. Probably the wittier the connection, the better, i.e., Bush buying defense stock would be so predictable, but Jesus buying stock in Diageo might gain a chuckle or Lincoln buying stock in Hasbro.
I definitely see it as an educational tool. A user would need to manage a portfolio and the simulation could run for seasons. I played on the urladex.com site a while ago and it was fun. Since it deals with dynamic data, some people would definitely check their portfolio’s often (repeat visitors).
A big hurdle, though would be how to deter cheating. It happens on urladex so that’s why it lost its appeal for me.
Paul
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Domain Name Selection
I selected a domain for my idea, notabletrader.com. I’ve looked around for a trading simulation framework, but haven’t had much luck. I’m going to look into pulling quotes via some php script. I’ve done it before in Cold Fusion, but I’m not running that on my server (mostly because php coders are much easier to find). I think there is even a way to use Google docs to do it.
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