We're closed.

I'm here.

"...just gimme an easier life and a peaceful death..."

Because sometimes there are subjects I don't get into because they don't fit the venue. Because change is good. Because evolution happens. Because I find myself not saying and writing things because of the general character of "Vincenzo's". And just because.

Everything will be moving here in a bit. I'm seeing how I can arrange things. That other place is not officially OPEN yet.

I've brought most of the blogroll over. Update if you'd like.

No crisis or anything close, need to recharge and come back in a new unit of time. Not sure if there will be changes to the venue, but feeling a bit restless.

Spur of the moment, so no time to engage some good subs to guest post. Be back soon!

I'm boring and you aren't helping. Maybe time to change the routine? The music changed... go to the sidebar for the new one. If I disappear I'm thinking. If I don't, what?

That is all.

In fact they will give it to you up to 10 times. But you can't go out and buy iPods or comic books with it (though you could buy Apple and Marvel if you wanted). And though Marketocracy is an online game, if you are good enough, it could turn into a job. Allow me to explain...

You go to the Marketocracy website and do the free sign up. You can immediately pick the level of email involvement you want, from nothing at all to paid newsletters. No muss, no fuss. Then you can - if you want - play a little game. Using the rules as they exist in the real world, you can get $1,000,000 in virtual money and start your own virtual mutual fund. You use that million to build a collection of stocks. You can name your fund, write a description of the strategy (or not), and buy and sell within the context of your "fund" as you will. Then (still for free) they track you and everybody else who is playing and you get updates (free) every day just by logging in and seeing how your picks are doing. They use the laws that govern the running of actual mutual funds, but you don't have to know them because if you stray from the rules they just highlight it for you. You can run up to 10 separate funds.

I have 6 so far and they're doing OK but they are still new - only a few weeks old. The one I am having the most fun with is the one I'm calling the Ventnor Avenue Fund. In it I have stocks that mimic the stuff on a Monopoly board; railroads, water and electric utilities, real estate, hotels, banks - even a company that runs jails, for God's sake.

Anyway, if you are so inclined, the opportunity exists and you play when you want to.

Who knows, after watching you trounce all the big boys, they may just tap you on the shoulder one day and hire you to do it in a bigger universe.

Labels: investing