Here are the rules:
1. Everyone starts with $1000.
2. You can invest it in any of the five categories: Hats, Prescription Eyewear, Non-Prescription Eyewear, Fake Facial Traits or Hatless.
2i. This was previously Wigs, rather than Fake Facial Traits, changed with episode 23.
2a. These elements are defined as:
2a i. "Hats": An object upon the head that is designed to cover it in whole or in part and looks (at least in part) deliberately unlike hair or natural baldness.
2a ii. "Prescription Eyewear": Glasses designed to correct vision.
2a iii. "Non-Prescription Eyewear": Glasses, goggles, or anything else designed to cover the eyes for purposes other than vision correction. If this object is also a hat, hat wins out for classification purposes.
2a iv. "Fake Facial Traits": Any head covering designed to evoke the sense of a natural facial trait, like fake beards, fake moustaches, wigs and masks. If this category overlaps with hats, hats wins out over Fake Facial Trait.
2a iv(i): Formerly, before episode 23 listed as: "Wigs": Head coverings designed to evoke the appearance of hair. Bald caps would also count. If the object is in part a hat and part a wig (like a dreadlocks cap) it counts as a hat for the purposes of classification.
2a v. "Hatless": Despite the name, counts as 'miscellaneous'. Refers to any shot which contains no worn piece of any of the above. You can HOLD a pair of glasses in your hand, and it's still hatless. But the moment it's put on, it becomes a prescription eyewear or an NPEW shot.
3. The market 'closes' on Tuesday at 5pm, British Columbia Canada Pacific Time. That will make absolutely sure nobody can 'sneak a peak' at the next episode. Edit: If you've not stated your bids before close of play, all funds default to liquid. Edit: With the advent of the new site, Rule 3 is as a whole defunct.
a. This rule was, before week 3: "If you've not stated that you're changing categories or 'selling out' your assets, your investments are assumed to roll over from the previous week." No longer is this rule operative.
4. LRR crewmembers are not permitted to play. No insider trading.
5. Finally, you cannot bid on a category that has 0% value that week. There are no riskless bids.
Once the hat stats go up in the Feed Dump forum, I'll post up in this thread telling everyone what happened to their investments. It will go up by the same proportion: If you bid on non-prescription eyewear at 1%, and it goes up to 4% the next week, your investment goes up by 400%, not 3%.
This leads to rule six (edited in):
6. THERE IS NO RULE SIX.
7. No bids can include cents. Whole dollar bids only. When returns are calculated they will be rounded to the nearest dollar.
8. In the unlikely event of a public disclosure by Loading Ready Run crew or contributors before market close, the market will be closed as promptly as possible by Fugiman or JackSlack. As such, we urge investors to invest promptly after market open.
So, here are this week's graphs, and I'll have the exact numbers up in the thread tonight.
