<p>very interesting. thanks for the insight. I'm still a bit uncertain about the real long-term impact of this bursting of the so-called easy credit bubble, however. What I meant by "isolated" was "isolated in time" (as opposed to isolated in markets/region/etc, which it is not as you point out). It seems to me the market woke up a few weeks ago and said hey, these subprime mortgages aren't working out, people are defaulting. there was a rush for the exits and bam, credit crisis, credit markets stopped functioning. but as long as you're not holding onto "bad credit" (subprimes, apparently), shouldn't it be expected that everything will bounce back once the "real risk" of these subprimes have been "correctly" priced and the markets function again, ppl aren't afraid anymore? sure, easy credit may be gone as a result, but surely real market growth wasn't from easy credit (that wouldn't work since credit would have to keep getting easier and easier for growth to occur which of course doesn't make sense). growth occurs from long-term things like technology and EM development, etc, right?, which I don't really see as having been affected by this credit turbulence (though it does of course make for some rough seas until things quiet down again).</p>
<p>mlee, so are you working as an intern for the creators of theupdown.com? If so, you should tell them to explain more thoroughly how the disbursement of money works, when it happens, and the "possible" percentages. I understand that percentages would constantly change as profits and losses will never be static and users will continue to increase, but they should give some idea. </p>
<p>And why would they pay you to play the site besides the usual ads, visitor count, etc?</p>
<p>And it is hard to catch up if your using this, the leader already has near 1.6 million. </p>
<p>Lastly they need to offer the ability to buy options, if so, i would already be over 1.1 instead of my 1.03. Somewhat frustrating, compensating by going short, overall nice layout, i give a thumbs up, and another thumb if i figure out how people get paid. After one day, i have now found no use for investopedia.</p>
<p>thank you</p>
<p>I'll pm you the info, but basically payouts are based on your % returns for each month, so you don't need to "catch-up" to get money. payouts (more importantly) are also made for good stock analyses (the articles you can write on specific stocks). anyways, feel free to pm me if you more questions. </p>
<p>if mahras or anyone could explain to me what I'm missing about this "credit crisis". aren't markets already bouncing back w/ the little fed action that's occurred, implying no long term problems at least from the loss of cheap credit.</p>