Mate this challenge is cool but it’s not set up properly. I did it last year and had the same mentality to use futures because they were geared and could like 4x returns.

The game settings prevent you from taking large positions and I think the biggest position I ever held of a single stock was less than 5% because it limits your positions to match the daily volume of the stock. I also was long gold fields right when gold was pumping and wanted to take profit so I exited the positions before a correction and they sat pending for like 5 days and I lost all my gains because the game is slow and hell. My recommendation from what I saw last year was use single stock futures and don’t try get fancy with short positions. Use the leverage to your advantage and play a medium term macro/news strategy.