New Addiction: Alexadex.com
by Ian Harding
Ever wanted to play the stock market but was never willing to put up the money?
Alexadex is a fun online game that involves the trading of virtual shares in web sites based on their Alexa traffic rating. The higher the rating, the higher the value of it's shares. You can buy and sell shares for any site that has an Alexa traffic rating. For example, say you bought 10 site shares for $10 and the next day that site made the front page of Digg.com... well, the traffic for that site would go through the roof and the same would happen to its shares. Say it's shares rose to $1,000/share from its initial $10, your 10 shares would rise in value from $100 to $10,000. The trick is picking the right sites to buy, and knowing when to sell, just like a real stock market. There are currently users on the site with more than $290,000,000 in shares. Oh and, you can also choose to watch specific shares, so you can keep an eye on your favourites and buy, buy, buy when they're low, low, low... IF you think its worth it.
We're currently having a three-month long contest at work to see who can turn the largest profit from the $10,000 that every account starts with. I just started into it and am already addicted to the whole system. We should totally fire a group competition for R4NT.
*R4NT.com is currently not listed in the Alexa ratings... I already checked.