{"id":838,"date":"2008-08-01T02:56:31","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T06:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=838"},"modified":"2008-08-01T02:56:31","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T06:56:31","slug":"the-strategy-lab-18-is-now-openandrew-has-100k-to-spend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/01\/the-strategy-lab-18-is-now-openandrew-has-100k-to-spend\/","title":{"rendered":"The Strategy Lab #18 is Now Open&#8230;Andrew has 100k to Spend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The MSN Money Strategy Lab 18 is open for business and I am one of the participants that will be managing a portfolio. Here is the explanation from the MSN Money team:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For about a decade now, we&#8217;ve selected top investing pros with different strategies for a friendly sort of competition. It&#8217;s more an educational effort than a contest, so think of it as a demonstration sport.<\/p>\n<p>We set up the investing pros with mock $100,000 portfolios and some simple directions: Outline your strategy for our readers. Trade for six months, explaining each move to teach people how you work. Use your methods to make as much mock money as possible.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, we award bragging rights and ask the top players to return, along with three new faces.<\/p>\n<p>Over time, the average player&#8217;s average return has been about twice that of the market. But there are usually some big gains and sizable losses &#8212; because no strategy works all the time &#8212; but there&#8217;s money to be made,<br \/>\nsomehow, in any market.<\/p>\n<p>And usually, most of our players find a way. In fact, in Round 17, all of our players topped the S&amp;P 500.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Check it out and be sure to bookmark this: <a title=\"Strategy Lab\" href=\"http:\/\/articles.moneycentral.msn.com\/Investing\/StrategyLab\/Rnd18\/StratLabSummary.aspx\" target=\"_self\">MSN Strategy Lab<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Andrew&#8217;s Strategy is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.moneycentral.msn.com\/Investing\/StrategyLab\/Rnd18\/P4\/Strategy.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><\/strong> and General overview and outlook is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.moneycentral.msn.com\/Investing\/StrategyLab\/Rnd18\/P4\/Biography.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure to bookmark the <strong><a title=\"Horowitz Portfolio\" href=\"http:\/\/articles.moneycentral.msn.com\/Investing\/StrategyLab\/Rnd18\/P4\/Portfolio.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">PORTFOLIO PAGE<\/a><\/strong> though I will provide general updates here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MSN Money Strategy Lab 18 is open for business and I am one of the participants that will be managing a portfolio. Here is the explanation from the MSN Money team: For about a decade now, we&#8217;ve selected top investing pros with different strategies for a friendly sort of competition. It&#8217;s more an educational [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[3,229,244],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-msn-strategy-lab","tag-disciplines","tag-msn-money","tag-strategy-lab","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}