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Shares / Re: Welcome to the share forum
« on: April 09, 2013, 09:18:51 am »
The change to the new Sharechat forum is like being in Disneyland

Disneyland - The only person trap ever built by a mouse :)

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Off topic / Funny motogp crash
« on: April 08, 2013, 09:59:14 am »

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Shares / Re: Bitcoins, bubble or good defensive purchase?
« on: April 08, 2013, 09:03:59 am »
I see someone used a few million dollars worth to buy a pizza!

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Some call it the most famous pizza purchase in history: In May 2010, a programmer called Laszlo asked an online forum if anyone would buy him a couple of pies in exchange for 10 000 Bitcoins, an experimental online currency launched in 2009.

"No weird fish topping or anything like that," he wrote.

With each Bitcoin fetching less than a cent at the time, the order was worth about $41. Today, it would be valued at about $1.4m.

http://www.fin24.com/Companies/ICT/As-virtual-currency-soars-fears-do-too-20130407

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Shares / Re: Share pick competition - What would you like?
« on: April 05, 2013, 08:16:54 pm »
I like the idea aspire, but it'll be far harder to implement. It is something I'd like to do though. Maybe I'll do the simple one quickly, and then focus on the more advanced style competition

As to how I would see that working moneypenny, is possibly to have a leaderboard with the ranking according to annualised return.

Keep the ideas coming guys. I've already started development. At the moment I can read in a list of shares automatically. Still some way to go  ;D

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Shares / Re: Today's Outlook
« on: April 05, 2013, 08:10:24 pm »
I bought some satrix indi's in a dip a few days ago. Who would have thought they'd drop 5% in a few days! Oh well, they were bought for the long term...

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Shares / Re: Welcome to the share forum
« on: April 03, 2013, 12:35:37 pm »
Forums are made by where the members are. I've paid for the domain for a year, the hosting won't cost me a cent so I'll keep it running until this time next year at least.

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Shares / Re: Post your portfolio!
« on: April 03, 2013, 12:29:46 pm »
At present:
FOORD Equity 90%
CML 3.3%
STX Indi 3.3%
Vodacom 3.3%

Watchlist:
SAB
MTN
PNC
MTA
IVT
RMI

I'm new to buying shares directly, so at the moment 90% of my investment is in FOORD equity. They've done well so I'll keep that there and use my monthly contributions to buying shares directly.

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Shares / Share pick competition - What would you like?
« on: April 03, 2013, 11:56:23 am »
Since I'm a software developer by profession I could code a share pick competition and link it to the forum. How do you think it should work?

My thoughts are everyone gets to pick a portfolio of up to 5 shares, and decide what percentage of the portfolio each of those hold, then we do running calculations and save the monthly leaderboard at the end of the month.

Any other suggestions?

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Shares / Re: Welcome to the share forum
« on: April 03, 2013, 11:42:49 am »
another option to help limit spam would be to force new users to click a confirm subscription link via the email account they provided .... this will at least slow down the spam registrations

Good call. I've just done that.

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Shares / Re: Welcome to the share forum
« on: April 03, 2013, 11:27:12 am »
Looks great guys, and the chats have been imported. well done  ;D

only the smallcaps one, partially  :-[

I'm looking for ways to import. Not so easy I'm afraid. I suppose we could copy and paste if a topic is of interest, but so far I can't find anything automated that would do it. I'm also not sure that would be legal/ethical.

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Shares / Re: Gold & Gold Shares
« on: April 03, 2013, 10:52:48 am »
Ok so now it says I've just arrived instead of newbie. The default groups go as follows, feel like inventing some clever and fun names?


Name   Stars   Members   Required posts    Modify
I've just arrived   8   0   
Jr. Member      0   50   
Full Member      0   100   
Sr. Member      0   250   
Hero Member      0   500   

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Shares / Re: Welcome to the share forum
« on: April 03, 2013, 10:26:48 am »
Cool I'm making you guys moderators now to test. If you don't want that kind of power let me know and I'll make you mere mortals again! ;D

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Shares / Re: Welcome to the share forum
« on: April 03, 2013, 10:16:00 am »
Can I make you a moderator Goliath?

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Shares / Re: Welcome to the share forum
« on: April 03, 2013, 10:07:16 am »
Welcome guys. This is a trial, if it get's used I'll keep it. Feel free to test in any way you like.

If you would like to volunteer to be a moderator, please let me know so I can add you to the mod list.

Cheers,

Patrick

Just checking to see what a quote looks like.

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Shares / Share Dividends and LDTs
« on: April 03, 2013, 04:50:56 pm »
In order to assist with keeping track of dividends and allocating them to the competition, I would really appreciate it if we could enter dividends into the following table EXCLUDING TAX, the system now handles that! Once added it'll automatically post the LDT to the end of thread.

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