About the Game

The Cash Cow Game seeks to emulate real trading of the Buy Write strategy using end of day prices for shares and options.

The object of the game is simply to teach new investors the strategy in a safe, practical environment and offer support in their decisions, and add to the confidence of more experienced traders

Players are called Milkers, shares are called Cows and writing calls is Milking.

How the game works

Each month up to 12 (usually 5 or 6) Cows will be available to milk – each will be based on a real ASX listed share. Milkers select from those cows and can then milk their cows at any time during the month. Milkers must have "covered positions" so you need to own the cows prior to milking and Put options are available for milkers who want to hedge their positions.

Each Milker will start with 100,000 Cash Cow Dollars, and “profit” when capital gain and call premium exceed any costs (brokerage) or capital losses.  No actual money will be traded in the game.

Master the strategy using the Forum

Each month Milkers will be ranked based on profit and contribution to the forum.   A milker with the same profit level who has contributed to the forum will be ranked above a milker who has not.  A contribution is a post to the forum containing a question, answering  question from another milker, or comment, personal view or other.  More active forum participants will be ranked higher then less active participants.  More recent forum posts will be ranked higher than older forum posts.  For a forum post to contribute to rankings it must conform to the Forum Guidelines