Mancathlon 2010

….and so the legend continues, Mancathlon 2010. To get the ball rolling first up is the bonus round.

The Event: Virtual Trading

The Date: Tuesday 13th September to Friday 12th November (9 weeks)

The Time: 9:00am markets open

The Place: http://virtual.nzx.com/

The Cost: $50,000

The Mish: Buy, sell and hold your way to Mancathlon glory by having the highest account value on the close of business 12th of November 2010.

The Rules: Get on the NZX website and set up a new account.  The default setting should give you $50,000.  Once you have an account you can trade futures, options and equities on the New Zealand stock market.

At the end of 9 weeks the Mancathlete with the highest account value over $50,000 will be the winner, similar to the casino challenge whereby the $50,000 starting amount acts as a zero point. Technically you can be ultra conservative and leave your 50K as cash and you wont lose money…..but that would be for wusses….with small testicles….and not very manly.

There is an option to deposit more funds, however, Mancathlon rules do not allow this and you must only trade with your 50K starting amount.  Any deposited funds will show up in the activity summary so you will get busted.

Last allowable trade is the close of business Friday 12th November, following this send me your trading activity summary and we will determine a the winners.  There is an option to send this as an excel spreadsheet.

If everyone is keen I suggest we have a mid point check in see how the event is unfolding. Over the weekend following friday 15th October.

Theres plenty of information on the NZX site on what all the technical jargan means and numerous “help” menus. Some of it gets pretty mind boggling so you can make it as easy or as difficult as you want.  The easiest option is to “trade equities”.  This is basically where you buy and sell shares.

Well that the basic outline, any issues, spread the word.

Good luck everybody and remember its a volatile world out there.

some useful links.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/market-data/

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/01/071801.asp

Traders tip #1. buy low, sell high

- Thom

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- Conrico

Bonus Round – Virtual Stock Exchange
10 Weeks, $50,000, Purchase a portfolio of NZ shares, Highest value portfolio at the end wins. Go hard and risk it all, or sit back and play the safe money.

1 – Krypton Factor for Drunks
Coordination, reflexes, intelligence, balance; all of these are hilariously impaired by delicious alcohol beverages. The challenge that starts simple and gets harder with every lap.

2 – The Shoot Out / Ball Skills
All the cold steel nerves and raw physical prowess required for free kicks, goal conversions and other game-clinching moments condensed into one balls-out event.

3 – Life Painting
The renaissance man, his vision filled with the lithe, eternal beauty of the female form is inspired to create a work of pure emotion, joy and artistic skill. Naked chick c/ Dave.

4 – Tractor Challenge
A field, a tractor, heavy stuff, moving it from A to B. Sound simple? It won’t be once we’re done with it.

5 – Te Puke Clay Pigeon Blast-Off
Shotguns, clay pigeons flying everywhere, popping up randomly, running along the ground on rails, over your head, everywhere. You’re blasting and blasting. Screaming. They’re everywhere. It’s awesome.

6 – Vegas 100km/h Go-Karts
The Mancathlon has unfinished business in Roto-Vegas. The race track has been upgraded and now features go-karts on steroids/crack that go 100 km/hour. Is that even possible?

7 – The Fifties
Make your Granddad proud… Change a tire, Build a spice rack, Back a trailer, Pitch a tent, Split wood & stack it, Shuck & consume 6 oysters, Neck a big bot, Put your slippers and gown on. Pack a pipe & light it. Bam, you’re done.

8 – Masterbrain IV
Masterbrain returns, and this year your brains will cower beneath a twin onslaught of terrifying intelligences… Judkins and Staines, from the left, from the right, no pity, just pure merciless, intellectual destruction.

9 – Rangitoto Challenge II
Lungs will burn, shoulders will ache, water will likely be involved, Rangitoto itself may not, but it’s a catchy name in the interim.

10 – The Grand Finale
All the passion, power and performance of the Mancathlon focused into one single, blinding point of light that explodes like a galaxy across the night sky.

- Conrico

Just so youse know. Masterbrain IV is gonna break y’all. Srsly.

- Staines

Former El Presidente Conrico Juarez stumbled, dazed and shivering from the battered, hulking ruins of the Mancathlon Command Bunker. His lank hair plastered to his vaulting forehead, sweat beading on his pencil-thin moustache, narrow fingers clenching and unclenching in the the cold, swirling air. Dust storms eddied around the canyon, whipping sand into his cracked, red eyeballs and bitter ash into his charred & blackened throat. Through that terrifying, chaotic haze a dying sun struggled to cast long shadows across the ragged, ruined valley; as all the while skeletal carrion birds circled high in the air like drifting, dark motes. What had gone so horribly wrong? What act of hubris had thrown the figurehead of this once-proud dynasty torn & emasculated at the feet of ancient gods, when once he strode amongst them, shimmering and golden in the sunlight? In the distant hills a mighty, rending sound poured and rushed outwards as giant formless hulks of iron & steel erupted from the earth, numbering Ten and with one Bonus Round. What were these strange and magnificent structures that heralded a new era for The Mighty Mancathlon? The filthy kleptocracy of C. Juarez had been overthrown and now the Mancathletes were at the rudder, ready to steer this proud competition into a fresh decade… Woo-hah!

- Conrico