Anyone long Google today (it is up 10% after hours on very good earnings) is pretty happy. Even if you didn’t have capital to invest in GOOG, you could have potentially made some extra cash with your foresight. In a monthly contest pitting you against other stock pickers playing with virtual cash, you could Win $1000 with FinGad. You have some crazy ideas you want to test out without risking you hard earned money? Use the FinGad community as a platform to test and evolve your ideas in a community of other speculators looking to hone their trading skills.

The FinGad contest rules are straight forward. You get $50,000 in virtual money with which to buy and sell stocks. If you end the month of trading with the highest valued stock portfolio - you win $1000. Check the rules for other details.

There are other financial sites out there that try to motivate users with monetary rewards, but I don’t know of one that is offering as much cash motivation that FinGad is with their monthly contest.