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Patrick

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Price updates currently on the blink
« on: May 31, 2013, 11:50:10 am »
Dear all,

Please note that the JSE price listing is currently down, so the leaderboard isn't updating at the moment. :wall:

Hopefully it'll be back before the next deposit arrives tomorrow, but until it's back purchases will be disabled.

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Re: Price updates currently on the blink
« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2013, 12:13:14 pm »
Oh, and if anyone knows of another page listing all the JSE prices please let me know. I wouldn't mind a backup for the JSE listings.

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Re: Price updates currently on the blink
« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2013, 02:35:22 pm »
I got a response from the JSE:
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Hi Patrick
 
We are currently experiencing problems with the website, and out IT department is busy looking into the problem.
We apologize for any inconvenience caused.

Kind Regards,

[Name removed]
CSS Call / Customer Support
Equity Market Division

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Re: Price updates currently on the blink
« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2013, 08:08:53 pm »
I think you pulled the plug because cml is dropping ;D

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Re: Price updates currently on the blink
« Reply #4 on: May 31, 2013, 09:01:04 pm »
I think you pulled the plug because cml is dropping ;D

Haha! Seeing as I really hold a fair amount of CML I wouldn't min that sort of control ;D

JSE is still down. If I was the IT manager there the web team would have a lot to answer to, and wouldn't be leaving the office this weekend until it was fixed  :wtf:

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Re: Price updates currently on the blink
« Reply #5 on: June 01, 2013, 02:46:22 pm »
Price link still down, so nobody is going to get to spend their money yet!

I've updated the prices once off, but it's not something I can do in an automated way just yet, so I'm still relying on the JSE fixing their system. Looking at the drop in net worth on the leaderboard yesterday must have been a bloodbath for some of us!

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Re: Price updates currently on the blink
« Reply #6 on: June 03, 2013, 08:50:48 am »
Well after working all of Sunday I woke up to the nice surprise that the feed is down again. I'll give it a while, but if there's still nothing running by tomorrow I'll have to look at another source of data.  :wall:

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Re: Price updates currently on the blink
« Reply #7 on: June 03, 2013, 01:34:47 pm »
Ok, we're back for now. I had to get most of the data from reuters, with a few shares from bloomberg. hopefully they don't mind too much. I'll switch back to the JSE when it eventually comes back online.

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Re: Price updates currently on the blink
« Reply #8 on: August 02, 2013, 04:28:16 pm »
Any idea when my SNV dividend will be paid?

Should've been 2.5c a share on 29/07/2013

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Re: Price updates currently on the blink
« Reply #9 on: August 02, 2013, 07:06:53 pm »
Any idea when my SNV dividend will be paid?

Should've been 2.5c a share on 29/07/2013

Added here: http://www.shareforum.co.za/shares/ldt/

It'll go through this weekend sometime.

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Re: Price updates currently on the blink
« Reply #10 on: August 05, 2013, 09:50:10 am »
Patrick - what time delay are you working on in terms of share prices 5 minutes, 15minutes ??
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Re: Price updates currently on the blink
« Reply #11 on: August 05, 2013, 10:19:41 am »
It depends on a number of things. If the JSE link works then it's a minimum of 15 minutes and a maximum of 25 minutes. I haven't tested the backup link but it'll be a minimum of 15 minutes again.

The JSE link is notoriously unreliable (seems down again today, just switched to backup), but to get more frequent and reliable data you have to pay huge sums of money.

My backup link is very reliable, but far more resource intensive, so I prefer not to leave it running.