Weekly Pulse 03

FINWIZ-2010

FinX the financial society of SSCBS proudly presents FINWIZ- a financial carnival like none other. Be prepared to amalgamate your financial theories with practices to be the one who is more worthy than the others, to be the deserving one, to be called the SMARTEST INVESTOR of them all!!!

We present forth our following Main Event:

SMART INVESTORS

Come. Invest. Win Big. Simple

Diversification. Hedging. Leveraged strategies. Derivatives. Securities. Arbitrage pricing theory. Reverse stock split. Phew!

This game allows participants to act as investors/traders who invest in shares of certain companies and make profits with the virtual amount provided.

Round 1-RULES & REGULATIONS

The first round will consist of a unique aptitude oriented quiz for all the teams, testing them on their financial quotient.

The teams will be given 30 minutes to solve these questions and a limited time to do the same.

Round 2– RULES & REGULATIONS

§ The Prelims consist of 5 rounds. All the teams act as investors. Each team will consist of 2 members. They will be given a virtual amount of Rs. 20,000 only at the commencement of the 1st round.

§ There will be certain companies in which they have a choice to invest.

§ Before the start of the game play, brief profile of all the companies will be given (1-2 lines).

§ Starting with the first round, they will be given a set of news and rumours.

§ The investors have to judge the stock movement on the basis of these news and rumours and, keeping the given portfolio of the companies, invest accordingly.

§ In the second round, a set of new stock prices will be provided (based on the news and rumours of the previous rounds).

§ In this round too, they will be provided with a new set of news and rumours on the basis of which investors have to invest/divest in the stocks at the new price level.

§ The news and rumours provided in this round will act as the basis for setting stock prices for the next round.

§ This will continue till the 5th round. After this, the final prices based on the news and rumours of the 5th round will be given and the investors would be asked to sell off whatever shares they have at the final set prices.

§ The top 47 investors making the maximum net profit will qualify for the Finals.

Round 3 FINALS– RULES & REGULATIONS

§ Top 7 investors of the prelims will be given a chance to form their own companies & rest 43 teams will act as investors.

§ The companies would be at some benefit in comparison to the others as they will be given the liberty to take certain important financial decisions and fixing up of share prices.

§ Investors will be given Rs 75,000 to invest & calculators will be allowed in the finals.

§ Apart from 5 dummy companies, there will be other 3 companies from the first round too. So investors will have choice to invest in 8 companies.

§ In the finals, prices of every round will be determined on the basis of 2 factors.

Ø Market Demand & Supply

Ø News & Rumours

§ There will also be software controlled FII flows too.

§ Total of 5 rounds will be there and the company with highest weighted average price and investor with highest profit will be declared as winners.