Stock Trading Game

This is about the real stock trading game. This is a video that introduces kids et.al. to the language of charting with candlesticks and explains the axis for time and value. Then for mom and dad there is a continuation of the technical analysis of the Gold Bug Index from the prior weeks action.

Check back each week where I will try to do a weekly wrap-up of the previous week and a probable outcome for the coming week. It’s all just math, I don’t read financial papers or listen to the news because it’s all just noise, I go by fact which is based on five pieces of data. The volume, open, high, low and close of each session. It’s that simple.

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This is a stock exchange game that mimics the wars that go on for the control of companies that trade on public stock exchanges. These are the real soldiers of fortune, but they don’t use guns or bombs. It’s all nice and legal.

These guys were called Raiders. They were always the unwelcome guests at the party. They were lawyers, accountants, investment bankers, brokers and hustlers. They were bright and they hunted in packs like Rapters.

I guess the best image people have of Raiders would be the part Richard Geer played in the movie Pretty Woman.

The big boards, when I started this project in 1971, before electronic trading, which my daughter calls the olden days and she even asked me,”did we have cars then”, were the huge chalkboards that lined the walls of the many regional stock exchanges in most cities around North America.

Guys would mark the bid and ask on these blackboards with chalk as they ran back and forth on suspended walkways, and communicated with the floor traders with a colorful array of hand signals. Every city with a stock exchange had a big board.

Ultimately, if an enterprise has significant wealth, it is inside a corporation. This is because of our tax laws and the litigeous society we live in, to name a few reasons. The really scary part is that this represents a nations best companies, our resources, our intellectual property , our ports and transporation networks and even our media networks. When the markets crash or recessions hit, the value of the shares that represent the ownership of these countless companies become cheap. This is when the Raiders come out to play.

It used to be that the raiders were indigenous to our nations but that has all changed. Today, the raiders are asian companies and governments who are gobbling up our best companies and resources. This is whether we like it or not, a silent war that is happening right under our noses and nobody seems to get it. We need to wake-up.

As a footnote, I was given a hard time about not having women portrayed on the cover. This was done on purpose, after a lot of deliberation. Raiders are gamblers, they put it all on the line today knowing they could be broke tomorrow. Women are investors, they are methodical, calculating and my observation is this is not in their nature. The prospect of sleeping in the car tomorrow, ain’t going to happen. While it is not representative, there will be those that are exceptions. This was my mindset when we designed the cover. Women are the power in the market.

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On one hand I am annoyed at the people who keep sending email comments about their great system where I won’t have to do anything but visit the bank and have this perpetual stream of income. All the while I, in the end am trying to get you to buy something, namely a board game called big board raiders that is fun and uses a virtual stock market as a backdrop, really its your weaponry to control the outcome. You and your wits are in large part responsible for the outcome. There is no computer to spit out some algorithm to make you think you’re some hot shot trader, and suggests you should run out and get yourself a real trading account. Most of the sites that are returned in search engine submissions are computer models and I think these are not games but come-ons by the financial institutions that put them there. They are baiting you for the sting.

I am not promising you anything but some old fashioned fun in a board game.

There is no system you can use, the guys on Wall Street are so sophisticated at taking your money, the more you study it the more corrupt you see it is. And it is astounding at times just how much collusion goes into these market moves. You will never hear or see anyone from the financial industry say anything bad about the markets. Its a gravy train for everyone or they would have you believe it.

They will cast this out as that which a crack-pot, a know-nothing nutbar would say. I know that my influence is infintely insignificant, like a cork in a sunami, but if you learn the language of these rogues there is room to profit. A contradiction to my previous claim. Its like you are a pilot fish traveling with this huge white shark and you take just enough of the stuff that he doesn’t consume to not piss him off. But each meal changes, there is no system.

On another note, has anyone taken notice of the hostile takeover bid by the Australian mining gaint to take a controlling position in the Potash mines of Saskatchewan. As I understand it, if this goes through, the price of Potash will then fluctuate like Oil, and this will make food prices fluctuate in tandem. Not a good thing to happen. I can see a lot of hunger coming from this consollidation of the fertilizer industry.

I went to a Rodeo with my daughter, and she noted how in the calf roping that the baby cows would get yanked off their feet when roped. She asked me if that would hurt the baby cows, and I told her that if you had a rope around your neck and ran full blast and were then yanked off your feet, I guess it does. I like Rodeo, but the way she got me to see it, it does seem cruel. 

Enough chatter for today…over and out.

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