Online Stock Trading

To date, I have received more of the warmest, most sincere, and gracious feedback as a result of this website, than I have from almost anything I’ve done in my life. The prospect of having a site where some of the best people can come and talk about new ways to look at old and recurring themes and perspectives in the world of investment has seemed to be almost as rewarding for this site’s readers as it has been for its author.

However, as much fun as all the work has been, it is still an enormous amount of work. Work that has yielded more and more traffic, but not quite as much nor as fast as I think this website is capable of.

So, I’ve initiated a little contest to offer some incentive for people to tell all their friends. I’m going to give away a $10 Starbucks gift card to the person who receives, by month end, the most points. Points will be tallied as follows:

1 point for submitting your name to the contest,

2 points for everyone who submits their name who is someone you referred, and

3 points for everyone who submits their name who is someone who was referred by someone you referred.

Example:

Bob submits his name and gets one point. Bob tells Sue who, when submitting her name, mentions that Bob told her to come here. Bob gets two more points and Sue gets a point. Sue tells James, who, when submitting his name, mentions that Sue told him to come here. Bob gets three more points, Sue gets two more points and James gets a point. For anyone that James refers, Bob no longer gets any points so that James knows he is still quite capable of winning the gift card. I will announce all the winners in a follow up post.

At the end of September, whoever has the most points will be contacted by e-mail so that I can get their mailing address and I will mail them the card. None of the e-mail addresses will be used for any other purpose than this. Besides using them to contact the winner, I am using them for name differentiation (to accommodate the likelihood of two “John Smiths” entering).

In addition to this, I will give the winner the opportunity to take over my blog, for one post. The post can be about the blog or about investing, and must be polite. You may use the envelope at the bottom of this post to e-mail this contest to anyone you think would be interested (or just send them a link in an e-mail, etc). Good luck and I’d like to thank everyone who participates.