Traders using the basic trading interface (the one in which you just enter the quantity of shares you want to buy or sell) are no longer limited to entering an order up to the size of the currently available order. For example, if only 200 shares are available for you to buy now, but you want 500, you can enter an order to buy 500 shares and the system will fill 500 shares at the best available prices (this is called a "market order"). In the basic trading interface, the cost of each trade is now just an estimate. This change should make trading using the basic interface much faster.

No changes have been made to the advanced trading interface that allows traders to place "limit orders" that ensure the price an order is filled. To learn more about the advanced trading mode, read this tutorial.

We will be launching IPOs for February 2008 NPD Futures next week.

NPD Futures debut in two-phase IPOs. IPO Phase 1 is a 48 hour period of trading without automated market making to determine the IPO Phase 2 price. Advanced trading mode is required to place orders in IPO Phase 1. After IPO Phase 1, the futures contracts will enter IPO Phase 2 in which the bid and ask prices will be fixed all day.

Super Smash Bros Brawl (Wii) has been replaced with WipEout Pulse (PSP). A GLS stock for WipEout Pulse (PSP) will debut the same day. Frontlines Fuel of War (PS3) has been replaced with Frontlines: Fuel of War (Xbox 360).

• February NPD Futures

  IPO Phase 1	IPO Phase 2	Title	Platform	Company	Release Date
  1/13	1/15	Xbox 360	Xbox 360	MSFT	N/A
  1/13	1/15	PLAYSTATION 3	PS3	SNE	N/A
  1/13	1/15	Wii	Wii	NTDOY	N/A
  1/14	1/16	DS	DS	NTDOY	N/A
  1/14	1/16	PSP	PSP	SNE	N/A
  1/14	1/16	Total Software Sales	N/A	N/A	N/A
  1/14	1/16	Advance Wars Days of Ruin	DS	NTDOY	1/21
  1/15	1/17	No More Heroes	Wii	Marvelous	1/22
  1/16	1/18	Turok	Xbox 360	Buena Vista Games	2/5
  1/17	1/19	Devil May Cry 4	PS3	Capcom	2/5
  1/18	1/20	Devil May Cry 4	Xbox 360	Capcom	2/5
  1/19	1/21	WipEout Pulse	PSP	SNE	2/12
  1/20	1/22	Lost Odyssey	Xbox 360	MSFT	2/12
  1/21	1/23	Frontlines: Fuel of War	Xbox 360	THQI	2/12
  1/22	1/24	Professor Layton and the Mysterious Village	DS	Level-5	2/18
  1/23	1/25	Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors	Wii	Square-Enix	2/26

A special report on the video game industry has been released by the simExchange Research.

We have set up a Feed for you to be able to know when we have released new reports. The feed contains the key points of each report.

We are looking for the community's input on games to be listed for February NPD Futures. If you think a game that is not mentioned here should be listed, please suggest and provide a case. As always, we can list 10 games.

Any game selected for an NPD Futures contract that is not already listed as a GLS Stock will also have a GLS Stock listed. The following games have been identified as candidates for February futures, ordered by release date:

• February Futures Candidates

  Title	Platform	Company	Release Date
  Turok	Xbox 360	Buena Vista Games	2/5
  Devil May Cry 4	PS3	Capcom	2/5
  Super Smash Bros Brawl	Wii	NTDOY	2/10
  Lost Odyssey	Xbox 360	MSFT	2/12
  Frontlines Fuel of War	Xbox 360	THQ	2/12
  The Club	Xbox 360	Sega	2/19
  Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors	Wii	Square-Enix	2/26

The following are upcoming GLS Stock and Metacritic Future IPOs. Remember, each stock enters a 48-hour IPO Phase 1 in which there is no market maker providing prices. Once a market price is established, players can buy at the same price all day in IPO Phase 2. If you want a game listed for trading, be sure to bid for it in the Unlisted Games section.

January 8, Tuesday: Sega's The Club (Xbox 360) and The Club (PS3). The game was submitted by ixaarii and Tumek.

January 9, Wednesday: Disney's Turok (Xbox 360) and Turok (PS3). The game was submitted by Lapperscrapper and kspraydad.

January 10, Thursday: THQ's Frontlines: Fuel of War (Xbox 360), Frontlines: Fuel of War (PS3), Frontlines: Fuel of War (PC). The game was submitted by Militmaster and nyg1988.

January 11, Friday: Rockstar Game's Bully: Scholarship Edition (Wii) and Bully: Scholarship Edition (Xbox 360). The games were submitted by MiyazakiFan.

January 12, Saturday: Ubisoft's Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway (Xbox 360) and Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway (PS3). The game was submitted by ixaarii.

January 13, Sunday: Capcom's Devil May Cry 4 (PS3) Metacritic Future.

Happy New Year from the simExchange! Thank you all for playing and supporting us over the past year--especially those of you who have stuck with us since the beginning through all the rough times as we develop and polish a video game prediction market. We appreciate your suggestions to make this community better and your forgiveness when we mess things up. We look forward to all the things to come in 2008 and hope to make the simExchange even more enjoyable and useful for you.

Congratulations to NeoZero for being the top player in December 2007. NeoZero squeaked past November's champion ixaarii with a 253.61% gain, just ahead of ixaarii's 250.04% gain. Apujanata came in third with a respectable 184.09% increase, followed by Bleezy with 143.53% growth. Heidir rounded out the top 5 with a 124.89% gain. Check out the complete December Rankings.

Congratulations to the Cheap Ass Gamer community for accruing the most net worth and greatest percent growth in December 2007. The CAG community amassed a total of 249,065,249.40 DKP, which was a 224.15% increase. This of course was the first month we rolled out the community leagues so keep track of how each community does from here on out on the new Community Leagues Rankings page. You can sort the page by both total net worth and month-to-date percentage gains.

The January NPD Future for Dark Sector (PS3) has been replaced with Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Xbox 360). The futures contract will debut on Friday, January 4, 2008. An additional Metacritic Future for Army of Two (Xbox 360) will debut on January 10, 2008.

Metacritic Futures for some highly anticipated games will begin IPOs with the New Year.

Metacritic Futures will debut in two-phase IPOs. IPO Phase 1 is a 48 hour period of trading without automated market making to determine the IPO Phase 2 price. Advanced trading mode is required to place orders in IPO Phase 1. After IPO Phase 1, the futures contracts will enter IPO Phase 2 in which the bid and ask prices will be fixed all day.

• Metacritic Futures

  IPO Phase 1	IPO Phase 2	Title	Platform	Company	Release Date
  1/2	1/4	God of War: Chains of Olympus	PSP	SNE	3/4
  1/3	1/5	Grand Theft Auto IV	Xbox 360	TTWO	TBA
  1/4	1/6	Lost Odyssey	Xbox 360	MSFT	2/12
  1/5	1/7	Super Smash Bros Brawl	Wii	NTDOY	2/10
  1/6	1/8	Starcaft 2	PC	Blizzard	TBA
  1/7	1/9	LittleBigPlanet	PS3	SNE	TBA
  1/8	1/10	White Knight Story	PS3	Level-5	TBA
  1/9	1/11	Too Human	Xbox 360	MSFT	TBA

The simExchange is proud to announce a new widget to display our Console Wars forecasts. This is a simple image link that will show the current Global Lifetime Sales Forecasts for the PS3, Wii, and Xbox 360. Visitors clicking through the widget will be directed to the simExchange Data Homepage. If they sign up, they will be credited as one of your referred users.



Get the code now and start using it on your blog and forums posts!

The simExchange is continuing its consolidation of stocks listed for trading. The following stocks are candidates for delisting. These stocks were chosen for delisting due to inactivity in the stock and/or lack of discussion for an extended period of time.

All shares will cash out at the last traded price. This price is determined as the fair value as the market has not viewed the price as undervalued or overvalued for some time. These stocks will no longer appear when browsing the genres and platforms pages. You will still be able to view the stocks' pages by searching for the games.

If you feel any of the following should not be delisted, please make a case and post in this forum by 11PM on Monday December 17:

BioShock (PC)
Blue Dragon (Xbox 360)
God of War II (PS2)
Guitar Hero II (Xbox 360)
Guitar Hero: Rock the 80s (PS2)
Eternal Sonata (Xbox 360)
Ninja Gaiden Sigma (PS3)
Persona 3 (PS2)
Resistance: Fall of Man (PS3)
The Settlers (DS)
Two Worlds (Xbox 360)
Two Worlds (PC)