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Twitch Plays Pokémon and other such games tended to be highly disorganized and take forever to accomplish basic tasks. I wonder if that'll be the case here, an

• matty22 9y ago
  I guess it might depend on what timeline you're looking at? Generally, a more hands off approach to investing is better in the long run, so over the long run perhaps highly disorganized and taking forever to accomplish basic tasks would make for better investing?
• gipp 9y ago
  Video games require relatively long sequences of coordinated actions to accomplish anything, though. In trading, every action is fairly self-contained in a few important ways, e.g. the ordering of actions doesn't matter much.
• jmcgough 9y ago
  It's a much smaller group of people in this case, so my guess is that the people who'll stick around are people who already do trading and are somewhat knowledgable. There have been other x plays streams with a small number of viewers that did pretty well at slowly beating their games. When you have thousands of people like TPP did, you attract trolls who spam "down9" ;)
• MichaelGG 9y ago
  Pretty easy: "The game is divided into voting rounds, each lasting 5 minutes. Every 5 minutes the top buy or sell command will be executed and one share will be bought or sold. You may only vote once per round." https://www.twitch.tv/stockstream https://www.twitch.tv/stockstream Buying or selling a share is basically atomic, so there's no coordination needed apart from the overall portfolio. Looking at the portfolio, http://stockstream.live/portfolio.html http://stockstream.live/portfolio.html , most positions are just a few shares.