[Bry789123]

Our school once had this competition as well. Given the short time period of these competitions, you have to buy high beta stocks in order to do well, or very low beta if the market is falling overall.

In order to win this a friend and I decided to team up and split the winnings. Basically what we did was to get one of us to buy the riskiest investments that we could (penny stocks, other low cap stocks, risky derivatives etc.) and the other would short them. This way over the course of the few weeks one of us would be dead last, and the other far ahead.

Worked like a charm.