Two comments.
1) For students or people just wanting to learn more about the markets, paper trading is a nice entry point, even if your systems are not perfect. Just by watching every day, trying to make corrections, taking profits and losses, you can learn interesting things.
Not that you want to brag about your results in an interview (certainly not), but it takes you one step closer, from textbooks and ideas to practice.
We had fun with this, most of us did not take ourselves too seriously, and as flawed as it was, I did learn a few things myself.
2) Hopefully none of you will read the whole thread (surely you have better things to do on a Sunday!), but if you looked at a certain subset of interactions and wondered WTF. Yes, there was considerable tension between Russia and the US in those days. The word "vitriol" comes to mind.
The US - energetic, loquacious, sometimes entertaining, sometimes really annoying. I can see now: why don't you go outside, or clean out the attic, or something? :D
But Russia - so grim, dark, everything taken literally, always seeking true confessions of the self (on an Internet forum - really?)
What makes me a bit sad now is not that interaction per se - it was a good match and I laughed a lot. But quite a few bystanders and it was awkward that way. Hehe.
Well, don't judge too much or feel bad, it's all water under the dam now. And that would be heavy water for the Russia side. :)
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