Virtual stock trading challenge

GIVEN a new tack to reinvigorate its corporate commitment to promote and elevate the educational level of the general public, The Manila Times will be hosting a virtual stock trading contest for its readers, among others.

Needless to say, the undertaking will not only foster higher understanding of the stock market but greater awareness about the role it plays in economic growth and nation building.

The progress of the contest will be chronicled and reviewed in this column during its publication dates of Tuesday and Friday. The review will, at the same time, serve as a practical market investment advisory.

The column will also endeavor to provide highly informed opinion and intellectual appraisals of investment principles from which the general investing public may, hopefully, learn deeper insights on how to trade more gainfully.

Likewise, the column will provide timely information (both foreign and local) on market develop-

ments affecting the financial and business updates on sector. circulars It will and also memos give from the stock exchange affecting listed companies.

Here’s the dare: Join the newspaper's first virtual stock trading chal lenge, which will start on March 1 and is programmed to run through the next six months.

Contest rules

The rules are simple: First, that the entrant be a natural person and not a robot of some sort. Second, it is open to all who qualify based gender, height, weight, size or shape, status, profession and/or political color.

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