Dear Protrade...

Dear Protrade,

I'm breaking up with you.



Ok, seriously though, I'm done with PROTRADE. I've tried again and again to get back into it. Last week I signed up for the challenge before Thursday morning (I always forget and then when the tourney starts can't join the challenge). Anyway, I am in the challenge, rocking a few transactions not really caring, checking it here and there. I make it to the leaderboard and work my way up to the top. I'm thinking, wow, Protrade is cool, I haven't lost my swagger, I could be back! I'm leading the challenge with just 1 hour and 56 minutes left, I'm already spending the $25 prize. I go to bed thinking, 'buzzer' game over!!

ERRRRRRT.

I wake up today to an e-mail that says here are the results: 1. not me, 2. not me, 3. not me.

What the f --.

Somehow, someway, the protrade userbase has found a way to manipulate around me in the last 2 hours. What a joke, I should have seen it coming. Things have NOT changed. So I decided in my angry rage I'd write a post, How? Can anyone explain how I didn't end up placing? Here is a copy of my post:

The Challenge 'Quail Hollow' has been completed. Here are the final results:
1st Place: cartzer, 3.244% appreciation, $25.00
2nd Place: fntsystd, 3.109% appreciation, $15.00
3rd Place: CockPuncher, 3.089% appreciation, $10.00

Any Prizes that are due to the winners of this challenge will be credited to their respective accounts in 2-3 days and may be redeemed at that time.



HOW?


If anyone can reasonably explain to me how I got passed up in the final two hours I would really like to know.

I joined my first challenge in over 3 months and I found myself atop the leaderboard. I thought: Wow, is this site really not full of cheaters anymore? Am I legitimately going to win this thing?

I went to bed with about 2 hours left in the challenge ahead by a decent margin. Somehow I didn't win, no. I didn't even end up placing. It's not about the money for winning, that has really nothing to do with it. It's about the fact that for my 3 years here on PT nothing has changed. The system is still flawed. The participants of this website are still cheaters.

F- this

So yea, I was seen as a big baby and every other comment was about how I can go watch my youtube videos if I want help on challenges... to which I blocked, nearly all. But whatever, my blood was boiling because I hate the fact that this site has been overthrown by theives and pirates and no one is doing anything about it.

It's time for me to walk away. It was good, my time on Protrade, but I can't engage that "sports community" with my blogs and won't waste any more time dealing with a manipulated market.

Here are my comments to protrade:

ok, i'll just be honest. this morning i wasn't in a good mood. for one, its monday. but also, i went to bed thinking protrade could be 'cool' again, thinking that it could actually be fun to play challenges again (yes it once was). i woke up and checked my email, it said that "cockpuncher" was in the top3, and my name wasn't there. i felt like wow, punched right in the c*ck -- you can't even say this users name separated. so that was pretty upsetting.

not only did i have to go to work, but i went to work angry at my perception. maybe i lost for real, whatever, never going to know for sure, but after all the BS this site has dealt to its users my trust level is zero. my life has been changed by the stories and crazyness ive experienced while reading peoples bs. its the kind of stuff you cant even explain to people because they really won't be able to get it. but really though, i probably got cheated, and it wouldn't be the first time.
i'm not even upset about the prize of the challenge. in fact, today at the wells fargo at the atm some guy in front of me straight up walked away before the money spit out. it spit out right when i stepped up and he was walking towards the exit, i yelled at him, dude you probably want this. i'm not poor. i dont need the prize money. i am just upset with this site in general. i mean it used to be that stuff was messed up or stupid or whatever, but it would be recognized etc, the protrade huddle, etc. and stuff got changed or it felt like a legit site. the economy ok yea whatever, i guess. some stuff takes priority, others does.

its probably been said before but this site seems to be neglected. we all know that whoever owns this site has other ventures and opportunities he takes more seriously. i realize how it goes, i help run a business. im not hating on making money. but when is protrade going to be where it should be? am i alone in thinking that it has such great potential? i feel that since i've been blogging and buying stocks on pt for such a long time i would be part of the potential or the history of greatness. when will protrade get the attention it needs from its owners in order to be what it should be? why don't they do us all a favor and sell it?

i assume that if someone was sole owner of this site they would take more time in developing the software that the site needed or was requesting. i dont know what im talking about, really, but, i'm kinda just annoyed that the same f-ing issues are always the same f-ing issues. for the past year or so i check the site once a month and the after the look at me posts, there are always a few about how people hate the same things, or that they are retiring because the feel disrespected by prtrade, or something about the good old days.. i guess i dont even spend enough time on the site anymore to know how little it hasn't changed or if there is change coming or what the actual business plan of the company is.

but i feel like i shouldn't have joined this hollow challenge. i'd be lying if i said i didnt know what i was getting into. i shouldn't have even bothered to write this post or try to change the result, because i knew nothing would happen or the same comments and crap would be said. but whatever. if i could delete the post i would...

protrade staff i remember visiting the office in the hayday, in the prime time when meadball was awesome. i remember how great the love was and how important the user was and i realize that over time it gets annoying to have to hear about everything all the time or have to respond to the same bs.. but during the hay day it sure seemed like the level of respect was higher. nick and ryan. i realize why things are such and such is why things are. the number of things on the priority list is far to many, and there is a long list of things that need attention on this site and on other sites. i don't want to come off naive to the world, but you've pretty much lost me as a loyal user. i shouldn't have joined that challenge, or for that matter continue to care. but afterall that's what makes me sad about the whole thing, because i actually did care and thought there was a good reason to care. its too bad the potential hasn't been reached, or ever will?

With that I cashed out and don't plan on redeeming anything with my remaining $PT525k. After all, who cares? Right?