{"id":644,"date":"2007-03-06T19:14:18","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T00:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/mail-bag\/cnbc-stock-market-challenge\/"},"modified":"2007-03-06T19:14:18","modified_gmt":"2007-03-07T00:14:18","slug":"cnbc-stock-market-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/mail-bag\/cnbc-stock-market-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"CNBC Stock Market Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<strong>Comment:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\">I just went and did something unusual. I just entered the $1,000,000 challenge on CNBC. So now you have got to help me win. If I win, I will sign up for a lifetime membership with Self-Investors.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong>My Response:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\">Great!&nbsp;&#8211; people who win these things put all their eggs in one basket on highly volatile, bigger reward trades&#8230; much like the quick strike profit plays i highlight in the Stock Watch reports.&nbsp; I&#8217;d say if you stick to the following you got as decent a shot as anyone!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\">1. stick to no more than&nbsp;a few&nbsp;stocks for your entire portfolio<br \/>\n2. buy stocks under 10\/share, preferably under 5<br \/>\n3. pray that one or two of them double in price over the next couple months \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>With such a short time frame, this contest is about 20% luck and 80% skill.&nbsp; But hey, you&#8217;re odds of winning a million dollars here are a heckuva lot better than buying a lotto ticket.. and it doesn&#8217;t cost anything.&nbsp;&nbsp; Good luck!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment: I just went and did something unusual. I just entered the $1,000,000 challenge on CNBC. So now you have got to help me win. If I win, I will sign up for a lifetime membership with Self-Investors. My Response: Great!&nbsp;&#8211; people who win these things put all their eggs in one basket on highly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/mail-bag\/cnbc-stock-market-challenge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CNBC Stock Market Challenge<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mail-bag"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}