market_roulette | admin: monday post, january 24

Note: This is late and I apologize; for some reason, work was randomly blocking sites or not connecting to them.

This is the Monday post for the week of January 24 through January 30, 2011.

Reminders

1.) January is still no-transaction fee month.

There is no fee for buying or selling. Go nuts!

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.

Transaction Format

We'll probably just keep posting this in every Monday post for easy reference.

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.
These are the exchanges anyone can buy from. As well as these, you can buy from any that are your local markets.

Transaction Alpha Test

Once again, here is the link to the transaction form. If people could please use it? and for this week, it'd be great if you'd mention in your comment whether you've used it as well.

Transaction Form

This page is where you can see what you posted.

Once again, any questions or concerns, please contact your mods.

Threaded | Flat

Name: Spn_girl
Company: Atlas South Sea Pearls
Ticker: ATP.AX
Time: 10.59am my time is the most recent price yahoo will give me, refreshing doesn't seem to do anything :s
Price: $0.10
Shares: as many as I can buy with the money I have left
Country: Australia

Hey :) The two companies I was looking at earlier in the month have not done what I wanted price wise and I haven't had time to do much in the way of research to find others I like (we had a death in the family and things have been a bit crazy) and now I am running out of January! So I saw a few people think this one is worth buying, and had a quick look at their website - they look good, I like that they are helping the environment and the locals! So I'm just jumping on the band wagon so I dont have to worry about this any more this month, I'll get back into things properly next month :)

Hi! :) I hope it's okay if I scrap my shares and buy some new ones? I feel like I should use the rest of January and my other shares were doing horrendously... :D

Name: thexpuzzler
Company: Conergy AG
Ticker: CGY ( think it's .DE again)
Time: 12.21 German time
Price: 0,439
Shares: 100
Country: Germany

I'll put them in the sheet too, they do Solar Energy. We'll see how this one works out for me :)

Hi, I don't seem to be able to use the transaction form - it gets to a Moderator Options page and tells me I'm required to fill in those questions. I already told it my name once, I don't think I should be putting my name into a box labelled "Moderator: Your name."

Name: Lebannen
Company: Premier Foods PLC
Ticker: 01QLV4 / ISIN: GB00B01QLV45
Time: 17:00 GMT
Price: £0.2068
Shares: 76
Country: UK

(why yes, I am spending my $25 bonus on both cake and ingredients for more cake! And also on bread, Branston pickle, custard and other things I have been known to buy.

On the transaction form -- I assume I should identify as "United Kingdom," since that's closest?

1. my spreadsheet hasn't been updated with this transaction yet - I'm not sure if I'm supposed to do it myself as I did my first couple and got a note saying I was doing all your work for you, lol! Do I wait for you to do it or go ahead and fill it in?
2. I just now filled in the transaction form in case that was a better way to get it done than commenting here - I thought I remembered being gmt-8, but I just checked and I am gmt+10 oops! Sorry, think I got the rest of the form right though.
3. I know earlier in game play you put up how much we had to spend in our currency, but I can't find where it was :( I think AU it was $151.??? but couldn't remember exactly, so if my buy needs to be altered slightly to fit the amount of money I have left to spend then please do so :)
4. Do you prefer the form or the comment in here for transactions or are we supposed to do both each time?

thanks :)

Name: thexpuzzler
Company: Skynet
Ticker: SKYD
Time: 14.35 (German time)
Price: 2,90€
Shares: 24
Country: Germany

(I bet they'll start dropping the moment I buy them ;))

Okay, tried again, hopefully got it right -- in the form. Sorry for being all -- yeah. ::facepalm of epic::

Name: jamethiel
Company: Boral Ltd
Ticker: BLD.AX
Time: 16:20
Price: 4.92
Shares: 18
Country: Australia

Already done in my spreadsheet, but just for total transparancy :D

Edited 2011-01-27 05:24 (UTC)

Name: jamethiel
Company: The Reject Shop Ltd
Ticker: TRS.AX
Time: 16:20
Price: 13.87
Shares: 8
Country: Australia

Edited 2011-01-27 06:12 (UTC)

Used the form. Slight weirdness -- Aer Lingus shares sometimes seem to be called AERL, and sometimes EIL1? LSE and Google agree on the AERL, so I used that, but I actually got official closing price from the ISE website, ISE.ie, since that's where I wanted to "buy" from -- but you seem to have to use the whole company name, not ticker. IDEK.

(Shares bought because I feel I ought to, also because Aer Lingus has taken me some nice places. *g*)

I did all three of the transactions I'm about to post here by way of the form but I just noticed that on at least one I failed to note the time as AM and it's possible I've missed something else. So for clarity I'm putting them all here as well

Name: nafs
Company: IMAX
Ticker: IMX-T
Time: 12:50 AM EST
Price: $25.58
Shares: 2
Country: Canada

Name: nafs
Company: Indigo Books and Music
Ticker: IDG-T
Time: 12:56 AM EST
Price: $14.77
Shares: 5
Country: Canada

Name: nafs
Company: Score Media
Ticker: SCR-T
Time: 12:58 AM EST
Price: $0.97
Shares: 25
Country: Canada

Buy: ATP.AX

"Buy: CGY"

Transaction Form

Buy: PFD.L

no subject

no subject

Buy: SKYD

Buy: CSLT

Sell: BLD.AX

Buy: TRS.AX

Buy: AERL

Buy:IMX-T

Buy:IDG-T

Buy:SCR-T