It's a Game
In one sense GolfInvestors is for real, bringing together professional golfers with investors in a stock market trading environment. However, in another sense, GolfInvestors is a game through its simulation and fantasy version of its trading environment. In that sense GolfInvestors is a game for people who love golf and want to be involved in an interactive experience through a stock market environment. It is an exciting way to get involved with the game of golf while becoming more knowledgeable about investing techniques and competing with friends.
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Why play Gi?
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Owning fantasy shares of a pro golfer makes watching golf tournaments more exciting. You feel more a part of the golfer's team while not risking any of your money.
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On GolfInvestors, people can invest in professional golfers via fantasy golf stock markets with the purpose of increasing the net asset value of their portfolios. The purpose is to obtain a higher ranking than their friends and the rest of the investor pool, and to have the opportunity to earn prizes based upon their investment skills.
On the GolfInvestors simulated stock markets, professional golfers offer fictitious shares of themselves like companies do on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the NASDAQ. They perform PPPs (private placements), IPOs (initial public offerings) and SPOs (secondary public offerings; secondary public offerings) just like on real financial markets to get their shares traded on the GolfInvestor markets.
To purchase shares of offerings (PPPs, IPOs and SPOs) and shares trading on a GolfInvestors market, every investor begins with a certain amount of cash in their portfolio for each market. Investors can then use that cash to trade shares of golfers being traded on that specific market.
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Why play Gi?
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Play against your friends in your own group.
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Like a real securities trader, investors on GolfInvestors obtain insight in the order situation by monitoring the bid and ask price of each player's stock, as well as how the player is performing in tournaments. Each investor's bid and ask price influences the price of the shares. The prices are, as on a real stock market, a result of supply and demand. Investors estimate how much money a golfer should earn between the time the market begins and finishes. Then they compare this with the current price (last executed trade) to determine if the golfer is a buy, hold or sell. The stock market reflects the expectations of the investors. In real-time, an investor can react to new information (a player hits an errant tee shot, a player chips-in for eagle to take the lead in the final round, a player makes a 40-foot putt to win the play-off, player places 20th in a tournament and earns $25,000, etc.).
The goal of playing the GolfInvestors stock markets is to increase the net asset value (NAV = Assets - Liabilities) of a portfolio through clever trading strategies. The most successful traders win specific prizes for each market based upon their investment skills.
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Why play Gi?
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Trade strategically, win prizes based upon your portfolio's net asset value.
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There are 4 different interfaces which investors can use to trade on the GolfInvestors stock markets:
The interactive nature of the GolfInvestors stock markets make it exciting exciting to play on a regular basis. There is no real money to lose; only your pride. And everybody who has Internet access may participate.
If you are up for laying down your own money to invest in a golfer, then take a read of the real portion of GolfInvestors.
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