The news of the week for the 2006 MakeYouGoHmm Virtual Stock Exchange is that Gatsby called his shot (emphasis mine):

I do have several doubts though, how will you contact the winner of the game? VSE doesn’t display player’s contact info. Furthermore, do I have to be a memeber of makeyougohmm.com to be eligble? the 100 bucks’ mine. That money shall ease the burden of my college loan.

How about that, the guy enters the game and shoots to the top spot with $112,589.93 and +12.59% with 18 transactions. See, you could do the same thing. Why not enter the game today? We’d like you to join and play too — it’s fun and free to play. We’re also ranked #12 out of 1,136 games by number of players, so by joining you can help our game get closer to being among the top 10. Doubtful we’ll ever make #1, but hey, we can always dream.

As for the answer to your first question, Gatsby, for those players who post in these weekly updates threads then we already have your email address. As the closing date draws nearer I’m going to check with the Marketwatch.com folks to see if there is some built-in way we can communicate with players directly and privately. As the person who started the game, I can leave messages to all players by editing the message area, so I probably will communicate the details you ask there as the time gets nearer. Also, if we get more prizes to add this will be a good place to update folks.

Last week was a particularly ugly time for the markets, so this week hopefully will be much better. Good luck to all current and future players, game on.

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