The UMushroom Investment Challenge is Live!

Lea Katunaric at Team UMushroom

03 Mar 2025

The UMushroom Investment Challenge officially starts today, March 3, 2025 – and it’s time to put your investing skills to the test.

What’s Happening Today?

Starting now, you can begin trading, building your portfolio, and climbing the leaderboard. If you signed up early, your pre-trades have been registered and will be executed at the closing price of Monday March 3rd! The first activity is now live, so you can start learning, and earning your first activity points!

🔔 Make sure you turn on notifications to never miss opportunities for your bonus points!

If you haven’t joined the challenge yet, it’s not too late! Follow this step-by-step guide.

Learn, Compete & Connect

One of the most exciting aspects of the UMushroom Investment Challenge is the social experience! We’ve partnered with Invesco, BX Swiss, and neon to bring you exciting learning activities about the world of investing. Each week you will learn the most important steps for your investing journey, and we will help you sharpen your investing skills:

Week 1: Discover (03.03.2025) – UMushroom
Week 2 & 3: Setting Up The Portfolio (10.03.2025) – Invesco
Week 4 & 5: Asset Classes (24.03.2025) – BX Swiss & Invesco
Week 6: Staying Up To Date (07.04.2025) – BX Swiss & Invesco & UMushroom
Week 7: Managing Behavior During Cirtical Events (14.04.2025) – Invesco, neon & UMushroom
Week 8: The Real Deal Starts Now! (21.04.2025) – neon & UMushroom

Take part in Live Webinars

Get ready for two exciting webinars in collaboration with our partners Invesco, BX Swiss, and prize sponsor neon! These expert-led sessions will give you valuable market insights, smart investing strategies, and exclusive opportunities to boost your knowledge—all in a fun and interactive format. You can already sign up:

Mark your calendars:

📌 07.04.2025 – Invesco & BX Swiss
📌 16.04.2025 – Invesco & neon

Attending the live webinars will give you 20 points (don’t worry you still get half the points for watching the replay!)

Learn from the Experts You Trust

We also teamed up with finance professors and familiar finance faces, whose portfolios you can check out for inspiration. Meet our Challenge Promis here.

Plus, you can follow other participants, see their performance, and analyze their portfolios on the leaderboard. We highly encourage you to connect, learn from each other, and engage in friendly competition—because investing is more fun when you do it together!

Tips for Success:

Want to do good in the challenge? Here’s how:

✅ Stay active daily – every move earns points! Doing your weekly activities, collecting bonus points and optimizing your portfolio all will have an impact on your score!
📈 Make strategic trades – focus on smart investments. Transactions are now live, so every decision counts. Optimize your portfolio and maximize your gains to stay ahead of the competition.
🎯 Keep an eye out on competition– curious about someone’s portfolio performance? Have a look at their portfolio, but be warned grass is not always greeneer on the other side.

Win Prizes

Win Big – Prizes Worth Over CHF 12,000! 🏆

This isn’t just about having the best portfolio (though, let’s be honest, that’s a pretty sweet bonus). We’ve got amazing prizes waiting for you at the end:

A one-year lease for a Stromer E-Bike (45km/h) with insurance worth CHF 6’000.00
10 neon portfolios worth CHF 500 each

A magical overnight stay at the Bubble Hotel

… and so much more!

If you wonder how our contest came to be, make sure you check out the following article.

Stay in the loop!

We’ll be sharing exclusive content, investment tips, and fun updates on our social media—so make sure to follow us on our socials. Plus, every week you’ll receive a newsletter filled with insights of what’s coming up next!