Launching Aktiehajarna.se

Aktiehajarna.se (Stock Sharks)

I’m a market nerd. I admit it. I couldn’t say for sure what the appeal is other than the prospect of making money, of course. If pressed, I’d boil it down to the competitive aspect.

If you think about it, the market’s almost the last place standing, where it’s good to be the best. It’s even encouraged. All other arenas have succumbed to a more PC attitude of “everyone’s equal”. Generally, I do think that’s a good thing but in sports and in the markets, you are still allowed to fight for yourself, still allowed to compete, still allowed to win.

So, it’s with this in mind I set up my latest project. In Swedish for the time being, since I’m a Swede and the Swedish market is where I do my trading. I’m calling it Aktiehajarna.se (which roughly translates into “stock sharks”) and it’s a site where you guess the market outcome, day by day, and compete against other ppl visiting the site.

Quite nerdish. Quite fun.

If it’s something that I find myself using in a couple of months from now, I may venture to translate it into English and make a version of it for S&P500. But right now, it’s tracking the Stockholm index (OMXS30) and you guess against that.

The design of the site is heavily inspired by StackOverflow, that I like a lot. It’s got a lot of logic to figure out which day is a trading day, which is not, when is the market open etc.

It hasn’t started all too well for me though. My girlfriend has beaten me to it as she became stock shark of the week for the second week of the beta test. This week has started just the same way. She’s totally in the lead. Again.

If this keeps up, I’m telling her to quit her dayjob and start making a living as an index futures trader.