Folhainvest
As years goes on, there's always some kind of mania among Engineering students, or at least my classmates. Maybe as a way to stay sane during the couse... hehe. As Grissom said in the CSI series, you must have something to enjoy outside work, or else you break down (not exactly these words). In the first year, it was the game "Age of Empires". So it wasn't uncommon to see studants leaving classes to play. There were others, like futsal. That time some friends tried to play every week... alhtough it wasn't possible (it IS Engineering after all...), we did it plenty regularly.
The current one seems to be stock market. Weird maybe, but lately I've been wondering if our conversations are becoming too "economic related". Of couse we have "normal" conversations (like the one on the previous post ^^;), but it's not uncommon to hear someone complaining about stock fluctuations or an investment that turned bad, or good.
They're not investing in real stock market, but a simulator created by a Economy Newspaper, Folha Invest. That simulator is updated continuously with real market data from the stock exchange in Sao Paulo (Bovespa) with only a 5 minutes delay. They recieve some virtual money and shares in the beginning and have to administrate that. As it's based on real stock market, the responses will be like the real thing.
So, I was invited to join the thing. It's pretty interesting, since I want to know more about stock market. The problem is that they spend a considerable amount of time in that thing, and I don't know if I'll have that time (besides, the simulator is open to change shares only at the times the stock exchange is open). It's a good thing to practice in a simulator, though... We discover interesting things, like a friend who was investing in banks since, in Brazil, it's the kind of company unlikely to go bankrupt or something like, but he was surprised when a Ministry was dismissed and that caused that kind of shares to drop a lot...
Maybe it's worth a shot. I'll think about it and accept suggestions. For those interested, the site is here.
The current one seems to be stock market. Weird maybe, but lately I've been wondering if our conversations are becoming too "economic related". Of couse we have "normal" conversations (like the one on the previous post ^^;), but it's not uncommon to hear someone complaining about stock fluctuations or an investment that turned bad, or good.
They're not investing in real stock market, but a simulator created by a Economy Newspaper, Folha Invest. That simulator is updated continuously with real market data from the stock exchange in Sao Paulo (Bovespa) with only a 5 minutes delay. They recieve some virtual money and shares in the beginning and have to administrate that. As it's based on real stock market, the responses will be like the real thing.
So, I was invited to join the thing. It's pretty interesting, since I want to know more about stock market. The problem is that they spend a considerable amount of time in that thing, and I don't know if I'll have that time (besides, the simulator is open to change shares only at the times the stock exchange is open). It's a good thing to practice in a simulator, though... We discover interesting things, like a friend who was investing in banks since, in Brazil, it's the kind of company unlikely to go bankrupt or something like, but he was surprised when a Ministry was dismissed and that caused that kind of shares to drop a lot...
Maybe it's worth a shot. I'll think about it and accept suggestions. For those interested, the site is here.
2 comments:
Olha o Igor brincando de alto executivo agora!!! ^.^ Igor, como vc acha que vai ficar o quadro político e economico do Brasil, agora que o Palocci caiu? Vc acha que as novas diretivas de controle da taxa Selig teve influencia direta nas cotas de acoes das empresas de capital estrangeiro no que diz respeito às mudancas legislativas vindouras para o final do ano de 2006?
Aeehh!!! Parabéns clone!! Feliz Aniversário!! Muitos jogos e viagens para vc!! hahahah
Abração!
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