admin: monday post, january 24 - january 30, 2011

[seperis]

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.

Comments

[spn_girl]

I figured ;)
hey with the ATP.AX I can see it has very low volume, no-one has bought any at all since noon on the 25th and it looks like thats a fairly normal state for them, not to have much buying or selling going on. Does that mean maybe its not the best thing for me to have bought as with low volume then there's not going to be much demand to push the price up? Am I understanding that right??

[jamethiel]

Honestly, I originally bought ATP.AX but they've turned out to be a bit of a lemon. I think they will go up, and I like the cut of their jib as a company, but I think it's something you have sitting in the back of a cupboard as a longterm investment, whereas here we're necessarily limited by the term of the game.

As an investment? Consider GrainCorp, because they've taken a hit at the moment due to floods but I think they're going to rise (GNC.AX). ComputerShare (CPU.AX) are another stock to consider but I believe they're falling at the moment and haven't hit rock bottom yet, so I'll be waiting for them to do that.

I'm keeping an eye on Riversdale Mining (RIV.AX), but won't be investing unless they fall substantially. I wish I'd invested five months ago :S

Beyond that, I've "invested" in the reject shop. They revised their profit projections which caused the stock to take a BIG tumble, but it'd been climbing pretty steadily and I believe it can recover, given time.

TL;DR, right? I'd be happy to verse ATP.AX for you if you want.

[spn_girl]

meh, its only pretend money, might as well hang onto it for now and see what happens!

I'll check out those others you have suggested for my Feb allowance for sure :)