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Guess The DOW Twitter Challenge

This morning right when the market opened I decided to have a contest to win a brand new ipod touch if you could guess the correct amount +/- the market would end up at the closing bell.

There were lots of guesses but only one winner! @toekneehip. Click here to congratulate him!

Here were all the guesses:

@santaseo (santaseo) says:
@shoemoney -94points and at minus another 700 in the next 18 months
@jrdorkin (Joshua Dorkin) says:
@shoemoney I’ll take the under – My bet :D OW closes down 227 points
@rondavis007 (Ron Davis) says:
@shoemoney Finish even, so zero change
@bsutherland (bsutherland) says:
@shoemoney +101 for the Dow prediction
@rgremill (rgremill) says:
@shoemoney, in that case I predict Dow +103 points
@John_Taylor (John_Taylor) says:
@shoemoney -87 whatever that means! LOL I don’t even follow the footsie never mind the dow
@johnpwooton (John Wooton) says:
@shoemoney I say up 95 points
@toekneehip (toekneehip) says:
@shoemoney, dow will be -475 today.
@johnpwooton (John Wooton) says:
@shoemoney I say it’ll be up on speculation of interest rate drop
@niessuh (niessuh) says:
@shoemoney How could I predict if you’re not following me and I can direct message you :) )
@VaBeachKevin (Kevin Rogers) says:
@shoemoney Dow +160 points today.
@mloovi (mloovi) says:
@shoemoney down 47 I reckon, I know nothing about it but that’s what figure popped into my head :)
@alandd (Alan Dayley) says:
@shoemoney Complete and utter guess, not even reading the news yet this morning: +322 (unreasonable optimism, I guess)
@moneymatters (Money Matters) says:
@shoemoney My guess is that there will be a 100 point gain in the market today.
@drvthru (DriveThruInteractive) says:
@shoemoney I’m caling it early – DOW closes +129
@nicheblogging (nicheblogging) says:
@shoemoney Although with the debate scheduled for tonight I doubt anyone will let it tank.
@BarbaraKB (Barbara K. Baker) says:
@shoemoney Dow up 177 points today :)
@sizzler_chetan (Chetan Bhawani) says:
@shoemoney +220 is my prediction
@andymurd (andymurd) says:
@shoemoney My DOW prediction +280
@billnad (Bill) says:
@shoemoney Twitter contest for the DOW? I see +45 And let it be known I am the worlds worst stock picker
@eriqtan (eriqtan) says:
@shoemoney: -26points. twitter contest… predict closest + or – gain in todays DOW win a cool prize
@askfrasco (Stephanie Frasco) says:
@shoemoney @feedthebull I am going to say it is going to close at +100
@jcoronella (John Coronella) says:
@shoemoney you mean ‘guess’ not ‘predict’
@dbayer (Daniel B) says:
@shoemoney Dow goes down 50 Points
@FeedTheBull (FeedTheBull) says:
Markets starting off relatively flat. @shoemoney is giving away a prize to the person that predicts the closest + or – gain in the Dow today
@geegel (George Cozma) says:
@shoemoney Most likely there will be a rebound. I say +122 points
@themage (themage) says:
@shoemoney I wouldn’t bet against a full scale colapse.


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  1. Draguer les filles

    Thanks a lot!

    Congrats you

    Bye

  2. Simulation pret immobilier

    Wow thanks for that! This challenge is really cool

  3. Felix

    congratulations to the winner. he must be proud

  4. Jeff Paul

    This blog Is very informative , I am really pleased to post my comment on this blog . It helped me with ocean of knowledge so I really belive you will do much better in the future . Good job web master .

  5. QuickPWN

    Congrats to the winner, you are a good guesser! :D

  6. commentdraguer

    thanks mate really appreciate!

  7. Sweetiepie

    Interesting blog and worth checking out more than once.

  8. SMM Guru

    The mad money guy said take your money out of the market for 5 years… Ill wait till everyone follows his advice then start buying stock like mad to ride out the wave :)

  9. Jacques Snyman

    All I can say is….BUCKLE UP!!!! Strap on a parachute if you don’t like free-falling!!!!

  10. Harish

    Congratz to the winner

  11. George Cozma

    Something tells me I should stay away from the Stock Exchange. Missing the target by roughly 600 points can have this effect on people :)

    Regards, George

  12. Woqer

    Yes! I did it!

  13. meethere

    oops, i missed it…
    keep longer contests :D

  14. Ganesh

    Hey Shoe, I didn’t know that you were a twitter user.

    • Andrei Buiu

      Check out the “friend me” section on his footer.

    • QuickPWN

      He has a twitter counter right on the top right sidebar of his Blog. ;)

  15. Garanew!

    Can anyone explain what’s that for?

  16. Eva White

    I have no head for the markets.

  17. River Girl

    Congrats – you won a great prize.

  18. Jeff

    Can someone find the mean and variance of all the predictions?

  19. Moneybites

    I saw this but didn’t participate, def should have!

  20. Tushar Dhoot

    Dang, didn’t even know about it.

    I could’ve used an iPod touch.

    Oh well, I’m subscribing to your twitter so I’ll know for next time.

  21. Ari - Laberinto Social

    wow, whomever the winner, the day was bad…

    • Dick

      Yes, the fall continues. But the winner in this is not to blame.

  22. MouthyGirl

    What a crap shoot!

  23. SEI Design Group

    Depressing news, glad at least 1 person got something positive out of it.

  24. Hip Hop

    Wow I was so close!!!

  25. Bryn Youngblut

    AH well congrats to him, I wouldn’t have know what to guess anyways.

  26. andrew

    I just found the first disadvantage for not using Twitter, in my case. Congratulations to toekneehip!

  27. roulette

    Hey Shoemoney: check out: http://www.google.com/search2001

    It’s what Google looked like back in 2001 and do a search for “shoemoney”

    Do one for “JOHN CHOW” lol! The result is hilarious:

    Welcome To The Wired World Of John Chow
    Skip Intro.

    That’s what he looked like back then I guess.

    • SMM Guru

      I did a pot about some weird keywords you can type in. For instance try YouTube…. or even Shoemoney

    • QuickPWN

      LOL, great find! Google in 2001 was not so great.

  28. ethan

    Didn’t find out until too late…

  29. Reid

    Hmm I was a bit too late on this one… Oh well, but I really hate seeing the market drop like it is, hopefully it turns around soon!

  30. Rick WebGuy

    Looks like I was a little too optimistic… by about 600 points. Ouch.

  31. Steven-Sanders

    I decided when I saw the contest to not enter, but I guess I made the wrong decision, because my guess would’ve been down 500. Oh well, maybe next time.

  32. VikingBlogger

    Maybe i should start use Twitter again. Hmm…

    • Chetan

      There are many advantages of using twitter.. this was just one of them.

    • Moneybites

      Probably, all the cool kids are doing it ;)

    • QuickPWN

      I just started using Twitter and it’s a really great way to update your status to users! It’s a really powerful tool for bloggers and webmasters.

  33. Congrats to the winner! Ipod Touches are pretty cool :)

  34. Email Savant

    What a nerve-racking contest!!!! It was up, then it was down, and then it stayed DOWN!!!

    Thanks Shoe!

  35. jim

    Congrats man!

  36. Patel

    LOL Doesn’t hurt to be optimistic ;-) 10k hahah

  37. Eric Tan

    I knew it was going to be negative… but I was a little too conservative on the loss… oh well….

  38. Danny Cooper

    I tryed guessing but my message didn’t get through, may be because I was on private.

    • Jaseem Umer

      I don’t anything about stock market and I am wondering how they predict thing this much accurately.

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