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The Investor Challenge / Re: The challenge begins on the 22nd April 2013
« on: April 20, 2013, 02:55:27 am »
I'll give each user the option, with the default being yes.
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In the "Your Holdings" section, maybe it would be nice if there was a field showing how much % each share makes up of your portfolio
Other than that looks pretty awesome!
Frikkin cool, now u need to work on Advertisements on your sites. I do not want u to disappear. Also see if you legally can get feeds, 15 min delayed is fine. showing main i.e. JSE, dowjones, the rant and so on.Thanks. I got the all ok from the JSE, it'll be 15 to 25 minutes delayed depending on when exactly it syncs. I'll monitor the traffic, when I see enough hits to start covering costs I'll put the ads in. Who knows, maybe some financial institution would want to sponsor the challenge... We'll see.
must say, u doing a good job.
Why oh why Patrick are you working so hard? It's appreciated though, thank you
A few more items that may need attention -1. Yep, that's what Idid, right before thinking nobody would ever notice!
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At cash holdings of R400K, buying @ 260 per share allows you to purchase up to 153230 shares. Calculate it out and you have available cash of R 8.41 thereafter, so you could have bought 153233 shares. Seems you calculate the max shares allowed based on the max comm you will pay on the total available cash holding. Not a major issue.
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At cash holdings of R 94.86 you appear to allow the purchase of 1049 shares @ 9cents - Seems you are not taking the minimum comm of R120.00 into consideration at clculation of what you can purchase. (You do prevent the actual purchase from going through though). Not a major issue either.
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My previous blog comment is no longer viewable - was it cleaned/deleted?
Nothing else to report, all other calculations appear in order (although I have not bombarded the site with all variations).
Great job.
Definitely need lines between the shares or an alternating background shade on the purchase page (already mentioned by someone above)Done.
Include something on the front page about the portfolio valuation methodology - (Semi-live, closing price or whatever)Done, but I'll have to re-write it when I'm more awake...
Please acknowledge the source of the pricing data - The JSE is very particular about who uses their data and how it was sourced - you might need to get permission from them to re-publish the data even though they provide it on a public web site and it is delayed.Done, I've also sent them a mail asking if they're ok with that. If not I'll take the prices from another site, it'll just mean a fair amount of extra work.
Are you sure you want to be spending all day approving/rejecting blog comments? Would it not be easier if only registered users were allowed to add, and then remove moderation/approval from this?True
I would still like to validate the calculations etc., e.g. purchase fees and price updates. Suppose that can only be conclusive after the overnight price update (I am assuming you update on the daily close?) I would recommend a start date of 1st May (with R500K if you'd like) if all else is equal. That should also give you enough time to "advertise"? However, knowing developers - you'd want this live today if possible - gotta show off the workI update every 10 minutes, from the JSE website which updates every 15 minutes, so at best we're 15 minutes late with prices, at worst 25 minutes late... For the calculations I'm not bothering with strate or vat as the amounts are so small.
I would recommend a start date of 1st May (with R500K if you'd like) if all else is equal. That should also give you enough time to "advertise"? However, knowing developers - you'd want this live today if possible - gotta show off the workYou know us well!
High Unregistered users can add comments to the Blog. To prevent spam, recommend that only users who have logged on can post comments. Users not logged in can only view.I approved the comment thinking you wanted to see it, all comments need to be approved so we should be ok on the spam front!
High You can purchase fractions of shares. Bought 0.5 and 0.0111 of a shareWell spotted, it should be fixed now.
Medium Previous winners not provided for.Good idea, I'll add that when the time comes.
Nice to have Leaderboard to show % Growth.Done.
Nice to have "Out of style"Hmm for now I've shortened the time, I could remove the words completely, but I prefer to see something other than a blank screen. Adding the css here is surprisingly tough considering the way I load the next page.
Nice to have No Lines between holdings.I'll work on that.
I'll give it a go - being a Tester in my day job has it's benefits.