Check out the Stock Trading Meets Fantasy Football post on CNN.com’s SciTechBlog about UpDown.com and how the financial crisis has inspired many people to develop their own investing skills on the site!

Brendan
UpDown Team

e have upgraded our contest feature again. Now you can run your own investing contests against your family, coworkers, and friends at any time on UpDown.com.

Many of you are familiar with fantasy sports and especially fantasy football, the most popular fantasy sport on the web. You have set up a league and competed against your friends and found out who among you was the best football general manager. Now on UpDown, you can conduct your own investing contests with anyone you choose to see who is the best investor. CNBC now has even more reason to call us where “fantasy football meets the trading floor!“

Before this upgrade, you could participate in organized contests on UpDown only if you were a college student, like the thousands competing in the Summer 2008 $10,000 Student Investment Contest. While we will still hold these community-wide contests, we are happy to now provide all UpDown members with the opportunity to compete with whoever they want!

The UpDown Team