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Be A Tycoon October 16, 2008

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Lately I’ve become more and more hooked to Facebook because of this game that I’m starting to get addicted to. It’s called Be A Tycoon. There, I get to play my dream role of being the megaultrasuperdooper rich bitch who can go around shopping for luxury hotels, health club chain, gold mines, designer clothes line, race horses and stuff. There’s one catch though. I’ve got to protect my empire and I’ve got to make it grow in order to reach Titan status — and that would mean having gazzillions of money enough to buy the moon, the sun and the stars above.

Rule of thumb is buy low and sell high. So, I’ve got to really watch the trend – how the prices go up and down during the day (…and night and day and night!). I need to be familiar with “how low is low” for a particular commodity for it to be considered a good buy. PLUS of couse I also need to be familiar with “how high is high” so I can more or less know when I can start selling the commodity for a handsome profit. A race horse can go as low as $1M and high at $2M.

So far, I’ve moved up one notch - from millionaire to centurian. Along the way, there are things I that I regret buying and selling for such small profit. My gold mine (haha!) cost me $25M to acquire. BUT I didn’t trust the upward trend too much so I sold it off with just a $5M profit. Now, that damn mine costs $50M and it is still moving up! GRRRRRRRRR!!!! So I gambled and bought one now at twice the price just to see if I can still catch the proverbial gold rush.

And there’s this bank that I bought for $42M. It was doing good for a while so I just kept it in my portfolio. And then it suddently crashed to a $-6M loss for me. Thinking it might do me good if the winds started changing, I bought another bank at the current price of $36M. Oh well, a meltdown is a meltdown and I stand to lose so much more. So I better think and act fast.

Oh man, the game is eating me up alive! I’ve so much that I need to learn about taking calculated risks and being sensitive to the trends and all the fancy financial stuff in order to make it up there to the Titans league. As I’m typing, I feel the urge to smash the monitor. My gold mine just went pffffffft….It crashed to $38M!!!! I’m losing money fast!!! GRRRRRRRR! WAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!! I guess, I have to learn this the hard way.