Create your own contest on the web's #1 free stock market game site.

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1 Contest Guidelines Create your own contest on the web's #1 free stock market game site. Join the 2,000+ teachers, professors, clubs, offices, and other groups that have created their own contests. Its super easy to setup! If you have any questions, don't hesitate to the WallStreetSurvivor.com Support Team.

2 To create a contest on WallStreetSurvivor.com is very easy. Simply fill out the fields explained in details below; what is acceptable and what is inappropriate. First take note of the required fields: 1

3 NOW LET S GET STARTED WITH CREATING THE CONTEST You can make the contest either private or public. What happens when you make it public? This just means that all WSS users will be able to join the contest, since it will be displayed on the JOIN CONTEST page on the site. If you don t want everyone to see your contest simply select private, this way you can personally invite friends to the contest via the Invite Friends option. Don t have a company? Just put your name for the field Company Name. The unique contest name must be a combination of letters and numbers example 'STREET-TSCM- FEB2010' not just numbers or 1 letter. If you are creating a contest for testing purposes, mention test in the description and contest name. This name appears on the tab in the portfolio for example 'STREET-TSCM-FEB2010'. Keep in mind that once you use this name you cannot use it again for a contest and it cannot be edited. The contest description is a 40 character title that appears on the contest registration page. The contest detailed description allows you 500 characters to state the reason for the contest and terms of your contest. 2

4 Uploading your Logo may be optional, but it is a good way to personalize your contest and make it easy to be found if it is public on the Join Contest page. It can be a 125x125 image of something that makes your contest identifiable. This image also appears on the dashboard page as shown below. Upload a tagline Image for the registration page. This is a 360x295 image. This gives you a chance to give more details, such as stating the prizes or reason for the contest. This is optional. Uploading a moderator's image is a 60x60 image, this is optional as well. This doesn t have to be an image of you; it can also be the same image as the logo image, but a smaller size. Again this would just make your contest more identifiable. 3

5 Uploading a Moderators message is a great way to communicate to your friends, students, and coworkers which ever group of people the contest was created for. As an administrator you can edit this message 24/7. The Prize Description can be 500 characters long. You can state all the details of the prizes, if any. 4

6 To setup the parameters for the stock market game you have to fill out the following. Here each option is explained in details. 1. Initial Cash Balance is the amount you want your traders to have in their portfolio. 2. Position Limit on security: This means let s say, if you have a $100K in your portfolio, you may purchase no more than 25% (if this is what you set it to), you may not purchase more than $25K worth of Google shares. 3. Max. Number of trades per account: maximum number of trades allowed on the account per contest. 4. Minimum stock price for buying: Keep it low since you don t want to discourage people set it at $ Minimum stock price for shorting: Also for this set it at $1.00 (shorting just means betting that the stock price is going to go down at a certain price). 6. Commission: Leave it at $10, this is the commission a brokerage firm might get if this was real (adds realism to the game). 7. Allow short selling it s betting that a stock price will be going down. Allow day trading able to sell & buy the stock the same day. Allow portfolio reset they can reset it if they feel they are doing poorly. Allow trading on margin this is betting that the stock price will go up. 8. Security types Options Options are highly tied in with the stock s price. When it comes to stock prices 3 things can happen; it can go up it can go down it can stay the same There are 2 types of options, call and put. Call Option gives you the right to buy a stock at a certain price by a certain date. Put Option gives you the right to sell a stock at a certain price by a certain date. A term to know when it comes to Options, is Strike Price, it is the price at which you have the right to buy or right to sell. Once you finish filling in all the fields, simply click on the submit button and a link will be generated on the page, as well as you will receive an with the link to the contest. Please make sure to check your spam box and mark any from WallStreetSurvivor.com as safe. The contest will be removed if the following occurs: Contest is not active for 3 months (no trades have been made). Contest is created with inappropriate language. Contest is created with a contest name, moderator name and a description with gibberish language. Have fun trading! Good Luck! 5