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The Investor Challenge / New feature requests go here

« on: April 23, 2013, 04:06:40 pm »

Aragon had a great idea on adding the purchase price of the shares and the % growth on the holdings pages which have been done. If anyone has some more ideas please let me know.

Obviously there's a cost-benefit to everything, so don't be too upset if it doesn't happen, but if it's a good idea I'll do my best.

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The Investor Challenge / Re: The challenge has begun

« on: April 23, 2013, 11:27:59 am »

jaDEB, now my screen's gone blank, what is your ranking again?

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Shares / Re: So what are people buying

« on: April 23, 2013, 10:52:11 am »

Quote from: Moneypenny on April 23, 2013, 10:40:20 am

what is the % change for each company since start of comp

Wish I could tell you, but I don't record the price movements, just the price at purchase (which could be different for every user) and the current price. I thought since there are so many websites with price history I could just get that data there.

For example, here's CML's history since the comp started testing last monday, if you want something else, just edit the share code: http://markets.ft.com/research//Tearsheets/PriceHistoryPopup?symbol=CML:JNB

Day   Date   Open   High   Low   Close   Volume
Tuesday   April 23   5,085   5,085   5,040   5,050   135,734
Monday   April 22   5,100   5,139   5,005   5,068   916,397
Friday   April 19   5,139   5,144   5,057   5,100   2,306,122
Thursday   April 18   4,996   5,131   4,900   5,075   572,130
Wednesday   April 17   5,090   5,090   4,960   5,013   515,068
Tuesday   April 16   5,100   5,140   5,061   5,089   1,231,958
Monday   April 15   5,061   5,159   4,978   5,105   1,196,708

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Shares / So what are people buying

« on: April 23, 2013, 10:14:03 am »

One of the cool things about running that competition is that I can do some data mining. Call me a geek, but I love data. The first interesting piece I thought I'd look into, is what are people putting their money into. So here's the list of the top30 shares, and how much money was sent their way. Looks like Orca has been promoting CML quite well

Obviously we're working with a small set here, with 42 participants, there's a total of just under R17m that people could have spent.

CML    1085017.6000
SAB    851485.4400
SGL    820938.5400
MTN    590895.8000
APN    588954.7500
PNC    508734.8000
OML    439934.4000
CPI    428710.0000
BIL    409717.6800
ACT    345937.5000
LON    345760.2000
AVI    317433.6000
AGL    307071.0000
MTA    286474.5400
KIO    278594.4000
NED    266349.6000
SOL    228303.9000
CFR    226580.9000
HAR    221250.0000
WHL    220425.9400
DSY    216742.8000
KAP    205800.0000
ELI    203100.1600
STXDIV    175745.4400
NPN    170522.9000
JDG    168000.0000
ABL    166091.8000
OCE    165025.0000
MDI    162400.0000
OLG    159874.0000

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The Investor Challenge / Re: Ready to go tomorrow (update, it's live already) with a number of new features

« on: April 22, 2013, 03:33:04 pm »

Thanks Graham. I like the idea of avoiding speculation, but it'd be a ton of work. Like literally a ton! The R100k figure has been hardcoded all over the show, from pages, to my cron jobs etc.

I'll look into hat happens after December when we get closer to the time. Most likely we'll record the winners on the 31st dec and then start again.

Cheers.

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The Investor Challenge / Re: The challenge has begun

« on: April 22, 2013, 03:11:33 pm »

At the moment it's only the holdings page that charges up the account the very first time. I'll put a message on the purchase page to tell new users to first click on the my holdings page.

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Shares / Re: The Investor Challenge Competition begins Monday the 22nd April 2013

« on: April 22, 2013, 02:38:07 pm »

Good point, it's fixed, credited the amount back to you. I don't have a list I can scan though, so if anyone knows of other shares to remove from the list please let me know.

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The Investor Challenge / Re: The challenge has begun

« on: April 22, 2013, 01:03:59 pm »

Quote from: Krypt0n1te on April 22, 2013, 01:01:36 pm

Think he just needs confirmation that he is in fact in the lead!

Yep, he got me... The last bit of code went live very late last night, so my excuse is a lack of sleep! I don't see your list yet, are you timing your entry?

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The Investor Challenge / Re: The challenge begins on the 22nd April 2013

« on: April 22, 2013, 12:43:58 pm »

Quote from: jaDEB on April 22, 2013, 12:04:13 pm

Patrick, my screen does not work. blank, just check who is in the lead please.

Weird, do the other screens work? Else send me the details in a pm and I'll figure out what's up from there.

Oh and well done! For now...

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Shares / Re: Ok all systems go with the challenge, please share, tweet, g+ etc.

« on: April 22, 2013, 09:54:54 am »

Any time, you could stay in cash till the day before year end if you like. The only issue is cash only portfolios won't feature on the leader-board.

I'll have a monthly leaderboard to go along with the overall after every month.

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Shares / Ok all systems go with the challenge, please share, tweet, g+ etc.

« on: April 22, 2013, 09:29:26 am »

Ok let's go. I see jaDEB's taken an early lead with his 100% sibanye gold portfolio, followed by 100ways who holds 7 shares. I'll be joining in soon, hope to see the rest of you there.

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