Yesterday was International Talk Like A Pirate day, one of my favorite days ever. I like it because of my affinity for Jimmy Buffett, Pirate movies and the uncontrollable desire to say, Yarr!.
This year I celebrated by wearing my eyepatch at work, watching the YouTube videos from the Pirate guys and sponsoring a contest on my blog The Benspark.
Allison and I are members of the Disney Movie Club and while it is pretty good for the most part we have accidentally had to buy movies. And I mean accidentally because somoene (me) doesn’t go to the website and deny the pick of the month. Well, a couple of months back Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest came to our house. We already owned it, in fact we bought it from Disney Movie Club the previous month. So it sat in our living room and it ended up staying with us. I want to give it away so I am sponsoring a contest over at The BenSpark to do that very thing.
Back when I was in college and for a while after I got out and went back to work at a college I took a course in investing. We had to pick stocks from the Wall Street Journal and track them ourselves and do things on paper. Wow, times have certainly changed. Now there are websites where you can do virtual investing. There are a ton of them but not all of them are equal. MyWallSt.net is a financial social networking site that allows users to create their own accounts for free and participate in a weekly rookie challenge for real money, $1,000.00 a week.
Sign up for the Rookie Challenge is very simple. I just signed up and you can visit my profile at http://www.mywallst.net/BenSpark. The thing I really like about MyWallSt.net and the rookie challenge is that unlike other social networking sites I may actually learn something important that could help me financially. The challenge goes like this. You sign up for MyWallSt.net, you get an account. Then once you sign in you click on the Rookies link. there you get 100,000.00 in virtual money to invest. You can buy and sell stocks. There is a great FAQ about the game. There you are going to learn the basic rules. For instance you will learn how the game is played and how the weekly $1,000.00 winer is chosen. It is pretty simple and way more fun than doing the virtual stock market with pen and paper.
While I was writing this post, directly after I signed up, within 5 minutes I was contacted by Darryl from MyWallSt.net to talk about the site and what my first impressions were. Well a personal call after sign up is a very good first impression. I am excited to play the rookie challenge and learn more about this company and website. And in about a week I’m going to get a welcome packet including a newsletter. I’m up for a challenge. How about you?