@Inspecta, I'm definitely on the same boat of thought as you in terms of predicting being the fun part and the key to the game.
However, what I disagree on is that trading after four months having any predicting ability involved. For older games, we are no long predicting how well they will sell--all we do is look up data that is available elsewhere and say, "The stock price is higher than what X site says has already been sold, everyone SELL!" Then it becomes a game of who looks up something from another site (generally VGChartz which we really shouldn't even be relying so heavily on), takes a position, and cries short sell the loudest.
That really isn't fun and I haven't had to predict anything in a while to make money. I just see who posts a comment about already available sales information and then short the stock down to that number.
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However, what I disagree on is that trading after four months having any predicting ability involved. For older games, we are no long predicting how well they will sell--all we do is look up data that is available elsewhere and say, "The stock price is higher than what X site says has already been sold, everyone SELL!" Then it becomes a game of who looks up something from another site (generally VGChartz which we really shouldn't even be relying so heavily on), takes a position, and cries short sell the loudest.
That really isn't fun and I haven't had to predict anything in a while to make money. I just see who posts a comment about already available sales information and then short the stock down to that number.