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General Category => The Investor Challenge => Topic started by: Hamster on April 11, 2016, 10:39:25 am

Title: ALL IS LOST!!! Investor Challenge down :(
Post by: Hamster on April 11, 2016, 10:39:25 am: Database on holiday?
Title: Re: ALL IS LOST!!! Investor Challenge down :(
Post by: Patrick on April 11, 2016, 10:45:44 am: Looks ok to me, what do you see?

Here's your holdings
DIVTRX    CoreShares S&P South Africa Dividend Aristocrats    2451    2795    2749    -1.65%    R67 377,99    17.59%
NEP    NEW EUROPE PROP INV PLC    1130    18077    19049    5.38%    R215 253,70    56.18%
NPN    NASPERS LTD -N-    48    204605    206216    0.79%    R98 983,68    25.84%
Title: Re: ALL IS LOST!!! Investor Challenge down :(
Post by: Hamster on April 11, 2016, 10:51:51 am: Working now. Complained about not being able to establish a DB connection. Shareforum also complained about MySQL being missing but that went away after refresh.

As you were.
Title: Re: ALL IS LOST!!! Investor Challenge down :(
Post by: Patrick on April 11, 2016, 10:54:51 am: Ah yes, I see the notification in my email. I have something called Monit running, which watches the web server, database server and hard disk, and if anything goes down it gets restarted in max 10 minutes. That means I can sleep easy, and go on long bike rides without worrying about server issues 8)
Title: Re: ALL IS LOST!!! Investor Challenge down :(
Post by: Hamster on April 11, 2016, 11:37:45 am: Noice
Title: Re: ALL IS LOST!!! Investor Challenge down :(
Post by: abtheunissen on April 13, 2016, 09:09:55 am: Is it possible to short stocks on the investor challenge?
Title: Re: ALL IS LOST!!! Investor Challenge down :(
Post by: Patrick on April 13, 2016, 10:31:35 am: Quote from: abtheunissen on April 13, 2016, 09:09:55 am
Is it possible to short stocks on the investor challenge?
Nope, that would be far too difficult to code, and probably just confuse all of the non-traders here, who are kind of the people I'd rather get interested in normal investing.
Title: Re: ALL IS LOST!!! Investor Challenge down :(
Post by: abtheunissen on April 14, 2016, 03:28:43 pm: Would make it more interesting. I entered the investor challenge late. Yesterday actually. No value for me in a lot of stocks. Would prefer to be short. Ill have to wait it out then. We are going down thats for sure.
Title: Re: ALL IS LOST!!! Investor Challenge down :(
Post by: gcr on April 14, 2016, 04:15:33 pm: Quote from: abtheunissen on April 14, 2016, 03:28:43 pm
Would make it more interesting. I entered the investor challenge late. Yesterday actually. No value for me in a lot of stocks. Would prefer to be short. Ill have to wait it out then. We are going down thats for sure.
Are you a day trader by any chance? And can you quantify your statement that we are going down - may help me in my decisions to either buy/sell
Title: Re: ALL IS LOST!!! Investor Challenge down :(
Post by: terencej on May 16, 2016, 07:24:38 pm: My BBET40 is not changing. Value has been the same for a week now and I can see that the value has changed on google finance.
Title: Re: ALL IS LOST!!! Investor Challenge down :(
Post by: Patrick on May 17, 2016, 08:11:12 am: Quote from: terencej on May 16, 2016, 07:24:38 pm
My BBET40 is not changing. Value has been the same for a week now and I can see that the value has changed on google finance.
I have no clue what's happening with it. The google link is reporting the value at May 6th. This normally happens when a share code changes, but I can't find the new code. Can't even find it in my ABSA stockbrokers account, and Easy Equities is reporting the price as exactly the same as my system, R50.90.
Title: Re: ALL IS LOST!!! Investor Challenge down :(
Post by: terencej on May 17, 2016, 09:54:11 am: This is really strange. But this morning it actually shows 0.02% increase. So maybe it is working now? :wtf:
Title: Re: ALL IS LOST!!! Investor Challenge down :(
Post by: Patrick on May 17, 2016, 10:45:21 am: It changed names, so I fixed it :)