After a tough day, Brad Pine slipped from 1st to 5th (having been bounced from the top spot by a member of the inumerable Lewis clan), but he's still very much in the hunt. Here are the standings going into the last day of the first week of the final round. 1 Heidi Lewis Effingham, IL $1,204,003.90 ...

Well, after a couple of technological false starts, the first update to the standings in the final round has been published. It's with great delight that we note dear reader Bradford Pine is #1 with a bullet, having rocketed 19.7% today alone. Keep it up, Brad! Do that 7 more times and you're $500,0...

Welcome to post-season trading! We've dropped from a couple hundred thousand players to just 20, at least one of whom (Bradford Pine) hails from our esteemed collection of readers. Trading begins today and runs through next Friday, February 6. There are no Bonus Bucks and each trader has a single po...

[Scroll to the bottom for answers to today's Bonus Bucks trivia questions.] Welcome to the last day of regular season trading! We've got a number of readers in contention for bids to the final round and today's action will either sustain or dash their million dollar dreams. Brad Pine's in 6th place ...

[Scroll to the bottom for answers to today's Bonus Bucks trivia questions.] After two days of trading, our best-performing subgroup of participating portfolios is up a whopping 47% week-to-date (not including Bonus Bucks). We already had at least three readers on the overall leaderboard and hopefull...

[Scroll to the bottom for answers to today's Bonus Bucks trivia questions.] Today, following a very strong start for our ultrabear group, our participating portfolios are split into the two leveraged financial/real estate ETF baskets and one energy-heavy portfolio. * URE, UWM, UYG, RFL (Financial/Re...

[Scroll to the bottom for answers to today's Bonus Bucks trivia questions.] Welcome to Week 10, home of the MLB All-Star Game prize package and your last chance to secure a weekly bid (or one of the 10 overall bids) to the finals. Check back this afternoon for today's reallocations. Consider all of ...

[Scroll to the bottom for answers to today's Bonus Bucks trivia questions.] Check back this afternoon for the first reallocation for Week 10. Update: Expect our newfound volatility to continue on Tuesday - Inauguration Day and the first day of the contest's final, holiday-shortened week. Accordingly...

[Scroll to the bottom for answers to today's Bonus Bucks trivia questions.] Check back later this afternoon for today's reallocations. Update: Nice day for us to be evenly split between those two leverage financial ETF baskets. Well, nice day for half of us, anyway, but that's all we ever ask for. I...

[Scroll to the bottom for answers to today's Bonus Bucks trivia questions.] Check back later this afternoon for today's reallocations. Update: Holders of participating portfolios: kindly line up by astrological sign: * Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Virgo, Scorpio, Sagittarius: URE, UWM, UYG, RFL (Financial...