I Challenge You.. to join the race!

That's right.. leave the rat race and join the race to true financial freedom. We have a weekly contest to see who can pick the best stocks in the real stock market. Use our imaginary, virtual money and see if you can make it grow! It's FREE, it's FUN, and it's for CASH!

Join the Weekly Challenge Here

Total Prize Pool: $2,500 weekly. See distribution of prize money in chart above.
How to play: You start with $100,000 in Fantasy Bucks. If you have one of the 10 highest portfolios at the end of the week, you win real cash prizes.
You can register and enter the tournament any time during the week. Sometimes those who start on the last day or two win top cash prizes as easily those who started on the first day.

The first thing you should do when you join BigSmarty WallStreet is set up your personal profile. With your own screen name you can be anonymous as you wish to be. Many players want to be known because it helps them network and make new friends. It’s your choice. Just be sure you upload your picture or any image you wish the community to identify with you. It’s fun. It’s free. And it’s for cash!

Can you convince yourself that you're ready to invest a chunk of your hard-earned money in the stock market? Here's how: Set up a FREE practice portfolio in BigSmarty Wallstreet, our online virtual stock exchange where you'll trade with play money and have a lot of fun in stock trading tournaments.

Want more? - join our Shootout Tournament
Total Prize Pool: $6,125 per tournament. The top winner can accumulate up to $2,450.
How to play: Each player starts the heads-up match with $100,000 Fantasy Bucks each week. The player with the higher portfolio at the end of the week advances to the next round like the brackets of the NCAA.
Any player who fails to trade during the week cannot move forward even if his or her opponent ends the week with a negative portfolio.
Players advance until we have a “Sweet 16” going head to head and then they start winning cash prizes according to the schedule below.

Could it get any easier? Actually, yes. But you'll need to register (for free) and login to learn how!

The pleasure of being on top!

This is the way my investment tournament win was reported on BigSmarty.com:

EZ Money Wins First-Ever Shootout Tournament

After 5 exciting weeks of trading EZ Money pulled off an EZ victory against Top Leader who went down in a final flurry of trading today. EZ's portfolio ended in a modest 6% gain for the week compared with other porfolios he has shown in earlier weeks. EZ made steady gains throughout the final week ending at $106,493. Top Leader ended the tournament at $100,806 (down $222 for the day).

Each of EZ's 5 matches were strkingly different. The first week EZ ended with a portfolio of $102,701, which was less than $1k over donnyboy. In the 2nd week EZ finished at $104,756, a $6k difference with jujubee's ending portfolio of $98,663. Gidget was EZ's 3rd heads-up match, and finished the week at $89,833 against EZ's $115,820, a 26k difference.

The fourth week was an exciting contest with two apparently equally-matched players. They even traded some of the same stocks. OvertheRainbow$$$ shot ahead in the first day to $163k against EZ's $157k. Rainbow was ahead by over $6k on Tuesday, but lost her edge by a mere thousand dollars on Wednesday and never recovered her lead. By Friday EZ was at $181, and Rainbow was at $162, lower than any portfolio since Monday.

Week 5 started with Top Leader just under EZ. Both were in the red at the end of the first day. They seemed to swap trading days throughout the week, but both ended with some serious last-minute trading. Top Leader could never quite catch up.

The next Shootout starts the second week in October with impressive cash prizes.
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I'm inviting everyone to come join us for the next round of tournaments. Why would you want to? Well, one great reason is because they pay cash prizes. $1,000 for first place in most of the tournaments. And at least up to $50 for placing in the top ten of a weekly contest. Another reason is because they are great fun. It's like combining Fantasy Football with investing. One more reason is you can learn a lot about how to manage your investments without any expense.. the tournaments are FREE and you don't use any real money (you just get real money back when you win)

Join us, please.

Jim Cramer doesn't beat the market

Breaking News!!!
Cramer's picks haven't beaten the market!

An article in the August 20 edition of Barron's and sent out through reuters on Sunday reported that Jim Cramer's stock picks from his nightly CNBC show "Mad Money" have not beaten the stock market in over two years. Read the Barron's artice here

It didn't come as a surprize because I've felt for some time that his picks just aren't very well researched. I'm only a novice in the stock market but I've out-done his picks since my first few weeks of following the market. (I started in April of this year) Of course, Jim doesn't have the use of the Mentor Center like I do.

Unlike Cramers methods of using emotion to choose stocks, the Mentor Center gathers information from all of the 12000+ stocks on the market and breaks it down for me. It then rates and scores each company so that I can choose from the best. I just spend about an hour a week taking a deeper look at the top 40 to 80 stocks to determine the ones with the best "buy" or "sell" signals. My list is usual broken down to about 8 or 10 stocks that I watch during the week.

I use the website BigSmarty.com to practice making my trades. They provide FREE practice portfolios filled with $100,000 of virtual cash that I can invest in the real stock market without any risk. This is helping me build up my confidence and abilities to pick good stocks before I start putting my own money into the market. BigSmarty also has tournaments and games to play which makes it extremely interesting and fun. I invite you to join me there (it's free). Drop me an email to let me know your user ID in the tournaments.. we can go head to head sometime.

I'm not the best one there.. in fact, last week I finished in the next-to-last place after investing in a mortgage company which lost about 60% overnight. But it was fun and it wasn't my own money, so what the heck!

Register to join me on BigSmarty by clicking here.