The "pending trades" make no sense. At one point some calls I got for google could yield me 450 virtual dollars. "Sick" I thought. I ended up selling them and waited 20 minutes before I got a confirmation, at which point my calls were -20 virtual dollars. Same with shorts. I tried cashing out with my virtual Conagra shorts and I'm waiting ages for the trade to be confirmed, at which the shorts are going to be worth quite a bit less. Another time with stocks. I see Google stocks are going up, so I buy some virtual ones. Whoopsies, since it takes 50 years for a trade to go through, the market has closed and I have to wait till tomorrow to get my virtual stocks. I wake up the next day and Google stock goes down and now I lost more money.
I just don't get the point in a "Stock Market Simulator" if I'm forced to wait ages for trades to be confirmed while my potential yield from my stocks keep deteriorating as time passes. I've never actually traded real stocks, but I don't think you're forced to wait 15+ minutes to make a trade.
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