"World's First Collaborative Multiplayer Stock Market Game" to Decide How to Operate Shares of 5 Million Yen or More Through Net User's Vote Appears in Twitch

Mike Robert, who works as an engineer at Amazon, announced that on May 30, 2017, "live streaming delivery platform"TwitchWe opened our own channel above. There is a surprising attempt to decide how to operate the stock portfolio of 50,000 dollars (about 5,660,000 yen) by viewer's vote on this channel.

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Speaking of Twitch, based on viewers' chatPlay PokemonOrPlay Dark SoulI was talking about something about the viewer participation type channel. Meanwhile, Amazon's engineer Robert opened a Twitch channel that allows audiences to freely buy and sell 50,000 US dollar equity portfolios that they were managing. The channel name is "StockStream"is.

StockStream - Twitch


Robert who opened StockStream calls his channel "World's first cooperative multiplayer stock market game". As a structure of StockStream, viewers can vote on transactions every five minutes, and based on this voting result, the software developed by Mr. Robert is "Robinhood"It is supposed to do business with.

The stock portfolio at the time of article creation can be seen from the following page. At the start we had 50 thousand dollars of stock, but total assets decreased slightly to 38,922.84 dollars (about 5.55 million yen) on 38th operation, of which there was no charge Information such as 500 dollars for shares and 3330.09 dollars for cash (about 380,000 yen) is also written.

Stock Stream - Portfolio


Robert who runs StockStream is CNBC's business news program "Power lunch"In my opinion," I am not so foolish, this is just a kind of experiment. Since I knew that nobody has done this kind of effort so far, I would like to be the first person to do this I am going to leave StockStream forever and I will add more features in the future. "

The number of page views of StockStream seems to exceed 600,000. Also, Jack Randall, Robinhood's Communications Officer, said, "I think that StockStream is mostly enabled thanks to Robinhood's handling fee, as Robinhood users do such a creative use I am very pleased that you are doing it, "he told CNBC.