I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate The Wild Investor for winning Hedge Against Speculation’s first ever contest. For winning, http://thewildinvestor.com gets a free Performance Ad Spot starting March 20 to April 20, 2008.

Thanks to the good turnout, Hedge Against Speculation will now be hosting monthly contests. So let me introduce you to April’s contest: 

(updated 3, 24, 2008) PRIZE: To please ALL my readers, I edited this month’s prize. Not all my readers own or want to promote their website, so this month’s winner will get to choose either prize 1. or prize 2.

1. A 125X125 Performance Ad Space for one month.
 or

2. $5 sent through PayPal.

RULES: To qualify you must do one of three tasks:

(1) Subscribe to my RSS feed or email Newsletter.

      & submit a rating and review of my site on TIMLINKS. It’s easy, this takes less than a minute to do.

or 

(2) Vote for me on Blogger’s Choice Awards. You will need a registered account to do this.

      & submit a rating and review of my site on TIMLINKS. It’s easy, this takes less than a minute to do.

or 

(3) Drop your card on my Entrecard.

      & write a recommendation for my site.

After doing one of these three tasks, please reply to this post letting me know which task you performed with your name/email.

Once you have done all this your name will be posted below with a number. Of the names listed, a random number will be picked with this number generator, and the person with that number will win the prize. 

1. Chris
2. Kitty
3. Fil
4. Dylan
5. Cody 
6. James
7. indocontest

TIMEFRAME: All entries must be entered by April 19, 2008. I will select and announce the winner the following day. The winner will be contacted through email and once I receive confirmation their ad will be displayed immediately.

For those of you interested in donating a prize to this contest or my future contests, please email richard@hedgeagainstspeculation.com Being a contest sponsor is a good way to promote your product or website. 

For my latest post on the stock markets, go here.