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market_rouletteI forgot to email jamethiel to tell her it's her turn. Sorry!
This is the Monday post for the week of January 10-16. All transactions and questions should go here. The last one will be closed; if you have anything you want to change in that one, post here with a link to it.
Announcements
Er, none. Second part of the market tutorial goes up this week. I'm working on my grocery store metaphors. If anyone wants to contribute a post about anything, contact one of the mods. We like posts!
Reminders
1.) January is still no-transaction fee month.
There is no fee for buying or selling. If anyone wants to sell as well as buy, this would be a good time to do it. I'd suggest any day when a major announcement is scheduled to come out and you can watch stock prices rise and fall. We haven't talked about short selling yet, but I'm wondering now if I should set a month later in the year as transaction-free and see what everyone does with it when they know how to do it.
2.) February will be a no-transaction fee except for selling month. Selling fees are the same as real-time fees.
3.) March will see the introduction of the ETF and mutual fund. One of the drawbacks of mutual funds usually is that they require a starter amount from $1000 to $10,000 dollars to even begin. Most self-service brokers, however, have ways around this, so we'll be introducing both items for trade after there's been a short tutorial over them and what they do.
Conversion Data
All future currency conversion data is on the sheet labeled ConversionData here. I checked against yahoo and msn and googlefinancial's historical conversion data is accurate to three to five decimal places, which for our purposes is perfect, so it updates automatically for everyone.
Transaction Format
We'll probably just keep posting this in every Monday post for easy reference.
Format
Buying - Real Time
Buying - Automatic
Selling
Markets
Also will now be listed on every Monday post:
Eligible Exchanges:
You may buy from any of these exchanges no matter where you are or what country you are in, as well as your home country exchanges and any they are allied/list.
Transaction Alpha Test
To make things easier, I'm trying out a googledocs form to record transactions. It also automatically timestamps.
Transaction Form
If anyone can tell me how to make it imbed, please do so, because it totally will not.
This page should show you your transaction afterward.
Tell me if this works or not. I hope it will be slightly more convenient than posting here, though you're welcome to do both. Eventually, anything recorded here will automatically update your individual spreadsheet. I got that working on one set, but I also got import data working on one set and not on anything else, so go googledocs.
Final
Happy buying!
jamethiel to tell her it's her turn. Sorry!This is the Monday post for the week of January 10-16. All transactions and questions should go here. The last one will be closed; if you have anything you want to change in that one, post here with a link to it.
Announcements
Er, none. Second part of the market tutorial goes up this week. I'm working on my grocery store metaphors. If anyone wants to contribute a post about anything, contact one of the mods. We like posts!
Reminders
1.) January is still no-transaction fee month.
There is no fee for buying or selling. If anyone wants to sell as well as buy, this would be a good time to do it. I'd suggest any day when a major announcement is scheduled to come out and you can watch stock prices rise and fall. We haven't talked about short selling yet, but I'm wondering now if I should set a month later in the year as transaction-free and see what everyone does with it when they know how to do it.
2.) February will be a no-transaction fee except for selling month. Selling fees are the same as real-time fees.
3.) March will see the introduction of the ETF and mutual fund. One of the drawbacks of mutual funds usually is that they require a starter amount from $1000 to $10,000 dollars to even begin. Most self-service brokers, however, have ways around this, so we'll be introducing both items for trade after there's been a short tutorial over them and what they do.
Conversion Data
All future currency conversion data is on the sheet labeled ConversionData here. I checked against yahoo and msn and googlefinancial's historical conversion data is accurate to three to five decimal places, which for our purposes is perfect, so it updates automatically for everyone.
Transaction Format
We'll probably just keep posting this in every Monday post for easy reference.
Format
Buying - Real Time
Format of Declaration to Buy:
Subject Line: "Buy: {Ticker}"
Name: Your Name
Company: Company Name
Ticker: Ticker
Time: In Your Time Zone or in GMT (say which one you're using)
Price: In Your Country's Currency
Shares: 5
Country: Your Country
Buying - Automatic
Format of Declaration to Buy, Automatic:
Subject Line: "Automatic Buy: {Ticker}"
Name: Your Name
Company: Company Name
Ticker: Ticker
Time: In Your Time Zone or in GMT (say which one you're using)
Amount: Amount you wish to invest in this stock
Country: Your Country
Selling
Format of Declaration to Sell:
Subject Line: "Sell: {Ticker}"
Name: Your Name
Company: Company Name
Ticker: Ticker
Time: In Your Time Zone or in GMT (say which one you're using)
Price: In Your Country's Currency
Shares: How many shares.
Country: Your Country
Markets
Also will now be listed on every Monday post:
Eligible Exchanges:
1.) NYSE, any version.
2.) Euronext, any version
3.) ASX - Australian Stock Exchange
4.) LSE - London Stock Exchange
5.) TSE - Tokyo Stock Exchange
6.) Hong Kong Stock Exchange
7.) Shanghai Stock Exchange
8.) Toronto Stock Exchange
9.) Deutsche Börse
10.) NASDAQ
11.) Any stock listed in your local market.
You may buy from any of these exchanges no matter where you are or what country you are in, as well as your home country exchanges and any they are allied/list.
Transaction Alpha Test
To make things easier, I'm trying out a googledocs form to record transactions. It also automatically timestamps.
Transaction Form
If anyone can tell me how to make it imbed, please do so, because it totally will not.
This page should show you your transaction afterward.
Tell me if this works or not. I hope it will be slightly more convenient than posting here, though you're welcome to do both. Eventually, anything recorded here will automatically update your individual spreadsheet. I got that working on one set, but I also got import data working on one set and not on anything else, so go googledocs.
Final
Happy buying!
