Love it – Stockfuse – Virtual Stock Market Game Review

I’m surprised this app isn’t rated higher. A lot of people saying it crashes, which is something that’s never happened to me. The one problem I have is sometimes after a day or 2 my pending orders will vanish and I’ll have to reset them. Not a big deal but should be fixed. One big suggestion I have would be to have the option to see the leaderboard in absolute dollar amounts instead of only percentages. Since I started a couple years after many of the other users, I know I’ll probably never make it to the top 50 of the “All time high” board. But it would be nice to have the chance to occasionally be on the charts for the daily, monthly, or yearly charts. The problem is that the current system rewards taking huge risks that may payoff big in the short run, but will most likely tank your portfolio in the long run. Most of the people who get on the daily leaderboard for instance have much less money in their portfolio than they began with, but happen to have a huge daily gain on a percentage basis. It’s not that impressive to me if your portfolio is up 10% for the day but your portfolio worth is 1/10th of what you started at. You’re basically penalized for having a balanced portfolio that grows at a steady rate. I would also maybe make a rule that you need to make at least one trade a year to stay on the leaderboard. You can tell from looking at most of the All Time High user profiles that most of them picked some stocks a few years ago and basically forgot about the game. It seems like it would be more fair to only include people who are actively using the app, as opposed to those who played around with it for a couple days and then forgot about it.
Review by Born2Ball on Stockfuse – Virtual Stock Market Game.