Virtual Stock Exchange Game Over! And the winner is...

The VSE game is now officially over (as the Stock Market is now closed). Today was the last day, and now we can announce the winners! Everyone started with $150,000. These are the numbers we ended up with.

#1 - Ryan (a guy from my work) with a grand total of $164,187.55 or a total gain of 9.46%!
#2 - Natalie with a grand total of $154,105.56 or a total gain of 2.74%.
#3 - May with a grand total of $154,014.91 or a total gain of 2.68%.
#4 - Peter with a grand total of $149,638.18 or a total loss of -0.24%.
#5 - Adam with a grand total of $148,041.85 or a total loss of -1.31%
#6 - legomanosu (no idea who this is) with a grand total of $145,160.44 or a total loss of -3.23%.
#7 - Aimee (May's friend) with a grand total of $142,566.15 or a total loss of -4.96%.
#8 - Patrick with a grand total of $137,215.23 or a total loss of -8.52%. (woohoo!)

Ryan was going to give me a short blurb about some of the strategies he used... but he hasn't given it to me yet. I know that my last place was a result of stupidity. I held onto Google stock that I bought for too much for way too long... and when I finally just sold it for a loss... and I tried the cheap trick of buying cheap stock that I thought would go up and I could sell off once it hit a limit. That didn't happen and I ended up taking tremendous losses on one because of some legal crap the company went through.

In short, until I learn some more, I definitely will leave my stock portfolio up to the experts. :) From the group that reads Sehti, it looks like Natalie narrowly pulled ahead of May. So congrats Natalie on being the winner at least from this group!

Next game will start on Tuesday (just look at my last post for details on how to join). This time, for those of you who were screwed by stock splits or were hurt by the high commission costs on trades (it was 29.95 instead of the more realistic prices you can get through ETrade and such) the new system should help out a lot.