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The Investor Challenge / Re: How to identify frequently traded shares
« on: January 10, 2014, 01:16:50 pm »
A bid of R1-90 seems highly unrealistic/opportunistic as the stock is currently sitting at R3-22. I'm guessing updated figures will show the stock is a little over-valued but surely nowhere under R3-00. Well that is my very amatuer analysis for the day 
What intrigues me is the large difference between bids and offers. I can only assume bids can carry over for days/months and those could be outdated? That would maybe mean there is just very little demand at the moment.
What intrigues me is the large difference between bids and offers. I can only assume bids can carry over for days/months and those could be outdated? That would maybe mean there is just very little demand at the moment.
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The Investor Challenge / Re: How to identify frequently traded shares
« on: January 10, 2014, 11:58:57 am »
But if you put up an offer of R3,20 and someone sees it isn't there a chance a buyer would come in and bid on that? Or isn't that how it works?
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The Investor Challenge / Re: How to identify frequently traded shares
« on: January 10, 2014, 11:45:43 am »
I assume R96000-00 if an offer of R3,20 a share is taken?
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The Investor Challenge / Re: How to identify frequently traded shares
« on: January 10, 2014, 11:19:02 am »
Surely then shares in a stock can suddenly become frequently traded should something in the market change? Wouldn't that make administration on this site a bit difficult? Perhaps rather then impose a small penalty on buying price based on a stocks average volume? 
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The Investor Challenge / Re: How to identify frequently traded shares
« on: January 10, 2014, 10:06:14 am »
Or another suggestion. Put the trading back to normal but make the selling 15 minutes delayed. Problem solved?
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The Investor Challenge / Re: How to identify frequently traded shares
« on: January 10, 2014, 08:24:11 am »
My thoughts on the infrequently traded shares...
While they make it easy for someone to exploit the system on this site by keeping a watchful eye on live data I think there is no need to also eliminate infrequently traded shares. Perhaps bring the "live" trading back and instead disable the selling feature for 24 hours after buying? Some of those shares eliminated are still attractive long term despite being "infrequent".
The problem is most of the beginners AFAIK also use other free online resources that are also delayed. So my trade would in effect be 30 minutes late here which means if I read a breaking story I can't capitalize on it and at the end of the year I could potentially be 4% down. (I lost 4% yesterday on Advtech because of the pending rule, I was 14th place on leaderboard before it took me back)
I haven't bought shares before so I don't know if there is any delay in real terms. If so then you can still leave the pending feature enabled to simulate this...in which case I'm not too heart sore about my 4% loss
But in any event maybe a 24 hour selling disable after purchase is the way to go?
While they make it easy for someone to exploit the system on this site by keeping a watchful eye on live data I think there is no need to also eliminate infrequently traded shares. Perhaps bring the "live" trading back and instead disable the selling feature for 24 hours after buying? Some of those shares eliminated are still attractive long term despite being "infrequent".
The problem is most of the beginners AFAIK also use other free online resources that are also delayed. So my trade would in effect be 30 minutes late here which means if I read a breaking story I can't capitalize on it and at the end of the year I could potentially be 4% down. (I lost 4% yesterday on Advtech because of the pending rule, I was 14th place on leaderboard before it took me back)
I haven't bought shares before so I don't know if there is any delay in real terms. If so then you can still leave the pending feature enabled to simulate this...in which case I'm not too heart sore about my 4% loss
But in any event maybe a 24 hour selling disable after purchase is the way to go?
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The Investor Challenge / Re: The 2014 Challenge has begun!
« on: January 09, 2014, 12:54:51 pm »
I see Oando has been removed from this site now. Will it still update in my holdings? Will it be added back?
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The Investor Challenge / Re: New feature requests go here
« on: January 09, 2014, 12:20:16 pm »
How about a chat window above the forums to post nonsense not worthy of entire threads? Just to chat to the guys on shares moving and queries etc... on the fly.
Just a thought.
Just a thought.
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Shares / Stock not listed?
« on: January 09, 2014, 10:52:13 am »
Just wondering if I am missing something or if Digicor (DGC) is not listed here for a reason?
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The Investor Challenge / Re: Lucky trade or what?
« on: January 08, 2014, 02:09:04 pm »
Ah thanks. 
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The Investor Challenge / Lucky trade or what?
« on: January 08, 2014, 01:41:53 pm »
Seems qriffon he got out on the max value on an otherwise dormant stock (Oando PLC). FYI I'm a beginner in share investing so I don't know much 
But how?! <see attached>
But how?! <see attached>