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Nov 2020
10:31am, 16 Nov 2020
5,713 posts
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Alice the Camel
Will be uploading 3 miles in about 10 minutes after my shower. Every little helps!
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Nov 2020
10:39am, 16 Nov 2020
2,595 posts
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TBR (TheBeardRunner)
Any tips for someone who really doesn't know what they are doing?
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Nov 2020
10:40am, 16 Nov 2020
76 posts
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JogWalker
8k done. GPS fail today so another manual upload in a few minutes.
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Nov 2020
10:51am, 16 Nov 2020
37,364 posts
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♪♫ Synge ♪♫
TBR - there are two broad approaches.
The long-term investors looks for runners who are expected to increase their overall 90-day running mileage total. As an extreme example, if you find a runner who regularly runs 100 miles a month but was injured throughout September and did no mileage, buy them at the start of December and watch their value rise from 200 (0+100+100: Sept+Oct+Nov) to 300 by the end of the month. Then sell them and "bank" your gains. Equally if you know someone is going to increase mileage as part of a training programme or because they have signed up to a Fetch game, buy them.
The short-term investors (in other words everyone on the leaderboard just now) buy and sell within the same day and earn short-term gains. They look for a runner who announces a run or some planned activity on the ticker, in this thread, in other threads etc etc and buy them, then sell again as soon as they have uploaded the run.
This second approach is the optimum strategy for the game under present rules because, although the total is a 90-day running total, gains are earned as soon as the run is uploaded and losses only occur at midnight, ie at the end of the calendar day 90 days after an old run "drops off". It's the way the experts play, but it needs a lot of monitoring to do well at it. There are other techniques, but I won't reveal them all ...
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Nov 2020
10:52am, 16 Nov 2020
2,601 posts
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TBR (TheBeardRunner)
Thanks Synge, that makes sense 
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Nov 2020
10:54am, 16 Nov 2020
32 posts
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BlueArmy
Thank you JW and Alice, I just checked the forum at the right time today!
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Nov 2020
10:59am, 16 Nov 2020
33 posts
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BlueArmy
I should have added, about 6 miles for me this evening.
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Nov 2020
11:11am, 16 Nov 2020
5,714 posts
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Alice the Camel
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Nov 2020
12:16pm, 16 Nov 2020
78 posts
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JogWalker
I joined as a tradeable runner in late October at 129. Got to 220 today and should go through 230 on Wednesday. So, if you bought me on day 1 you’ll be getting 100+ profit this week. Still on track to be upwards of 265 by end of November.
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Nov 2020
12:21pm, 16 Nov 2020
49,816 posts
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Velociraptor
I said I'd switch to long term investing once I had my 5000 badge, but I'm enjoying stalking the training of a limited number of runners. It's a bit like Who's Been Training in the olden days before it became millions of people I don't know chucking columns of numbers at the page and running away.
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