1/19/2008 - TickerHound Challenge

Posted by Wayne on January 19, 2008 – 1:37 am

Due to my long winded “State of the Site” I’ll keep today’s TickerHound Challenge short and to the point.

Last week’s winners:

John - Click here to read John’s answer.

SharonMR - Click here to read SharonMR’s answer.

ChaosNantuko - Click here to read ChaosNantuko’s answer.

Great job guys!

You should each see 50 extra points tacked onto your accounts!

Also, I asked a question last week that wasn’t a challenge question, but more of a personal question I had. I asked, Why do you answer questions on TickerHound?

I really wanted to know why people took the time out of their day to answer questions on a site like this. The responses were great! I’m actually going to leave that question open and allow new members to constantly come and add their reasons why they contribute to TickerHound.

So if you’d like to share your reasons for contributing to the TickerHound community - or if you’d just like to see what everybody else wrote - then click here.

And now onto this week’s questions…I’m going to try something new this week. Instead of just asking 3 questions, I’m going to try breaking them up by “experience level”. So I’ll have a Beginner, an Intermediate level and an Advanced level investing question. The reward for the each question will increase based on the level of difficulty. For “Beginner” it’ll be 25 bonus points, for Intermediate it’ll 50 bonus points and for Advanced it’ll be for 100 bonus points!

Let’s see how it goes…

Beginner - 25 points:

What’s the definition of a recession?

Intermediate - 50 points:

If prices AND unemployment are both rising, what might this mean for the economy?

Advanced - 100 points:

Using discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis what would you pay for this company’s stock?

Good luck everybody!