Starter Stock Portfolios
What do you do when you don’t know what stocks to buy?
That question inspired us to develop starter stock portfolios: a selection of stocks pre-selected for you so you don’t have to spend a lot of time researching or asking your buddies for Hot stock tips.
For the new contest starting May 1st, everyone will have the opportunity to select one of 3 starter portfolios after registering: Safe, Balanced and Aggressive. Of course, you can still choose to select your own stocks, if you prefer.
MAY 1st. “Get Ready…for a new way to look at trading stocks!!!
We have finally did it! Combining the best of both worlds. As Rory posted earlier the ‘buddy list’ will now allow you to see what your WSS friends are trading and make comments about it on your own wall or their wall. Your profile page will be something familiar yet different. Out with the old and in with the new, our Spring/Summer game let’s you see the market in a fresh new profile page. Take a look for your self.
Buddy Lists
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Survivors often mention in the Forums how meeting other people has been one of the best parts of playing the game. Now, we’re going to make it even easier to stay find and stay connected to your Survivor friends.
Introducing Buddy Lists! Now, you can keep a list of your Survivor friends and track their portfolio performance on the Leaderboard! See the preview image to the left as an example of how a Buddy List would be incorporated into the Dashboard.
Another neat feature we included is when you invite your friends to play the game and when they join, they are automatically added to your Buddy list! How great is that?
Survivor Book Store
We’ve had some good discussion about what financial and investing books to read on our Forum. So, we got to thinking: Why don’t we start offering financial books on our site?
The good folks at Traders Library have created our own Survivor Book Store. There are hundreds of books available for prices that are often BELOW Amazon. Make sure you check out the section “Below 50% Off” for some awesome deals.
The store will slowly get integrated into the Education sections of our site like Survivor University where specific books are most relevant.
Amazon gift cards for all Daily & Weekly Winners.
We have had gift cards in the past, but do to popular demand the contest winners for the new Jan-April Contest will be seeing more Amazon gift cards in their Inbox. $100,$150,$250 gift cards will be sent to those who win Daily and Weekly prizes, making this Contest the best yet, because You get to choose the prize!
Voltage!
Video feeds are coming to Wall Street Survivor. We’re building a group of video channels to stream for free and we’re calling them Voltage!.
Traders and investing buffs notoriously are glued to the boob tube when the market is open and watch the Money Honey (aka, Maria Bartellomo) on CNBC. Besides entertainment, good video content can give investors trading ideas to make money and often provides insight on the seemingly chaotic market environment on any particular day.
That’s why we want to provide our Survivors with valuable financial and market related video content. Here’s one possible source: Bloomberg TV which is generally not available in U.S. homes via cable or satellite TV service.
The beginning…
Before starting here at Stock Trak, I had been managing I.T. for brokerage firms in Canada for 4 years. The work was great and I was learning bits and pieces about trading while working. My plan was to gain a good enough understanding of the markets and start playing with it myself. Four years later I was still on the sidelines.
When I joined Stock Trak, I figured that my learning curve would probably end since it was only a simulator, was I ever Wrong! Most of my colleagues are experienced traders and were willing to share knowledge over drinks after work. After 3 months of “lessons” with my colleagues and multiple Vodka Sodas I finally took the leap and joined the masses.
I look forward to reaping the rewards of my investments and thank Wall Street Survivor for not only giving me work, but the knowledge to further my investment opportunities. Also a BIG thank you to all my colleagues who had the patience to explain concepts, methods and theories.
New Forums, T-Shirts and Corporate Name to start the new year.
Our new Commuity Server (Survivor forums) was a joint effort from the development and production departments and the outcome was a nice looking place for Survivors, Newbies and Staff, to meet and share ideas about the game. What do you think about the forums?
The new WallStreetSurvivor T-shirts are here, and thanks to our Creative Department, we have a really cool looking shirt. What do you think of the design?
Finally, we have a new Corporate Name, Stock Trak Group, Inc. (BB:STKG), as of last Friday which better reflects our true purpose: building world-class Stock Market simulation software and games.
Do you Feel like you’re Swimming with Sharks?
We’ve noticed that many Survivors feel like they can’t win prizes* and compete with our top players like GoMaxGo and Dojimon. We see comments like, “I can’t ever beat those sharks.” That may be true, but we’re thinking of ways to make the game experience better for everyone.
So, we’re toying with the idea of breaking the contest into groups based upon past performance in the Permanent Portfolio. It would go something like this: after having played the game for 30 days, everyone would get a handicap (like in golf) and be placed into a playing group, or league, of their relative peers. That way, you would be competing for prizes against Survivors of relatively the same skill level. And the contest would never end. Prizes would be awarded on a regular basis like Monthly and Weekly.
Of course, not all groups, or leagues, would be created equally. The League for GoMaxGo and Survivor would be the top league and they would compete for the biggest prizes. But anyone, with determination and learning, could eventually move up into the top league where the big boys play.
How does that sound, Survivors?
*In the last Survivor survey, an overwhelming majority of Survivors (89%) said they preferred more prizes of lesser value rather than fewer prizes of greater value.
Welcome, Bienvenue, Aloha, Bienvenido!
Hello this is the corporate blog site, a few introductions to the guidelines to help you along the way:
Goal of Blog: the purpose of the Blog is to give dedicated and passionate Survivors a window into the world of company. To allow Survivors to see some of our thinking, playing and working moments, the idea is to generate greater brand loyalty which will ultimately lead to monetization, new members and greater page views.
Blog Topics Encouraged: writers should look at their everyday work as an opportunity to share with the Survivor community. Writing about possible new product features, new ways of interacting with customers, or new ways of building code are all possible topics. The key is to think in terms of the end-reader. Ask yourself: will a typical Survivor find your blog topic interesting, funny or notable? If not, then it’s not for the Blog.
Keep on blogging.
Thank you wallstreet survivor. Now I can actually use those weekly prizes towards paying for my tuition fees lol 
