Important Dates

Description Dates
Registration Open Date 15 January 2026
Game Start Date 16 March 2026
Game Ends 15 September 2026
Winners Announced 18 September 2026

Monthly Competition

Monthly Competition
Month Start date End date Results
March 16 March 2026 16 April 2026 17 April 2026
April 17 April 2026 15 May 2026 18 May 2026
May 18 May 2026 18 June 2026 19 June 2026
June 19 June 2026 17 July 2026 20 July 2026
July 20 July 2026 20 August 2026 21 August 2026
August 21 August 2026 15 September 2026 16 September 2026
Annual Competition 16 March 2026 15 September 2026 18 September 2026

Participants need to have executed at least 1 trade each game calendar month from the date they registered.

List of prizes available in the VTG

Prizes available

Annual Prizes

Speculator Portfolio ETF/ETN Portfolio
1st Prize R100 000 R100 000
2nd Prize R60 000 R60 000
3rd Prize R30 000 R30 000

Monthly Prizes

Speculator Portfolio ETF/ETN Portfolio
1st Prize R2 500 R2 500
2nd Prize R1 000 R1 000
3rd Prize R500 R500

Terms and conditions:

All prizes awarded will be in the form of ETFSA vouchers. Prize winners may choose which ETFs to purchase on the ETFSA platform or choose to withdraw the cash. VTG entrants are only eligible to win one (1) annual prize a year and no more than 2 (two) annual prizes in their lifetime, no more than 2 (two) monthly prizes annually may be won.

Webinars

These sessions are for participants to ask any questions you may have about the game, please join on these times and ask questions or submit the questions for the webinars to [email protected] beforehand, asking it be addressed in the next webinar.

Date Time Topic Register
27 July 4:00pm Please register for Investment Challenge and VTG Market Information Session
presented by Technical Analyst Costa Perdikis - Lefika Securities
Register