Pseudo-commodities interactive futures trading game

A futures trading game played by a plurality of participants utilizing data terminals and the Internet, comprising the combination of

• means for providing a pseudo commodity contract displayed on and available for trading via said data terminals;
• said contract being defined by a word description of an issue of interest to the participants, with said contract having no intrinsic financial value;
• said contract issue
• having no immediate resolution, no timetable for resolution, and no accurate means of scoring during play;
• being influenced toward a partial or complete resolution, for the better or worse, by the possible or actual occurrence of different random events or factors including information, that could be real or fantasied;
• means for setting an arbitrary price for initially trading the contract, at the then degree of issue resolution, and for setting an arbitrary termination date for trading the contracts;
• means for subsequently and periodically reporting via said data terminals of the occurrences of any such potentially influencing events, factors or information, where;
• the participants, based on the significance each places on such ongoing events, factors or information, can individually
• reevaluate each's opinion of the comparative current contract price and degree of issue resolution versus a possible or probable shift, higher or lower, of subsequently traded contract prices, and
• trade the contract accordingly via said data terminals, with each participant's profit or lose being the differences between the each's entry and exit trade prices;
• monitoring all contract trading and reporting such traded prices via said data terminals.