SANLAM Itrade is not very realistic. Other threads have already discussed this. I got an email showing how one of the top 10 players made his money. Well, there was a penny share that he was buying and selling contiously. he would buy 100k when it reached 60c and sell when it reached 62c. He did this the whole week and made like 50k in profit... If u know anything about shares, you know this is not possible because of volumes....There are no geared instruments... Another thing that is stupid is that you can trade after hours. Ie. You can buy/sell at 11pm when the American markets close and give direction. SO if a share is sitting at R100 and the dow closes 2% higher, u know that share will open much higher. SO you buy at 11Pm the night before. In real life obviously you cant do that......... (so i think the organisers have put the prize money too highly to attract interest from too many traders...... It is not possible to make that much money in real life unless u are using geared instruments. And people just starting out investing wont be able to see this.....