Miguel
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Well, here's how I understand it:
'Stop' orders buy or sell once a price hits a certain price level, however they only initiate at that price. In other words, the actual amount will be at whatever the market price is when the order goes through. In our case, it is 20 minutes later.
Example: buy a stock at $20 per share. You can put in a stop sell order for $15 to prevent the loss of more than approximately $5 a share. However if the stock is sliding fast the actual sell may be at $14 due to the 20 minute delay.
'Limit' orders are guaranteed to be at the price specified, either buy or sell. In real accounts these trades cost more. Not sure about in the game since I haven't done a limit order yet.
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cmlancas
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It shouldn't take six hours to make a trade. That's what I'm pissed about. I've participated in many stock market challenges and the like previous to this. VSE just sucks with its trading. Shit, for awhile I made $150,000 because they had no idea how to handle a reverse split.
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Krakrok
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« Last Edit: November 19, 2007, 01:45:35 PM by Krakrok »
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Viin
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Showoff.
If you guys can find a better stock simulation game, we can try it on the next game. I agree VSE does suck sometimes, but I haven't found a better one!
Edit: I r a god speler
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« Last Edit: November 19, 2007, 01:47:32 PM by Viin »
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Grand Design
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I have to admit that I get a tiny bit of joy seeing cmlancas squirm.
Ahh, schadenfreude.
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cmlancas
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Haters. :)
I'm going to take a hit on Citigroup (because of a huge fuckup. Thanks VSE!), but the others will be gains.
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I can't promise anything other than trauma and tragedy. -- schild
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Sky
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I was just going to sit on XOM for the duration of the game, but damn I wish I still had that 1000 short C. C is going to take another whupping according to the news this morning (and yesterday, the day before, yada). Might want to dump it before it drags you down further. XOM is doing crappy, but at least I was able to dump KBR, my own previous albatross.
VSE is odd. The delay and I've seen a bunch of bugs, misdirected pages, won't save login. Little things, but lots of them.
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Nebu
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Still... seems hard to complain about free entertainment. I'd love for it to be better, but for now it's still entertaining and a welcome distraction from work.
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Krakrok
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Everyone was rocking. Now we're headed negative. The crappy thing is even though I have real time quotes I can't do anything about it for 20 minutes. Makes the game more fair I guess.  |
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bhodi
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No lie.
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Doing daytrading with a 20m delay is like trying to play FPS competitively with a 400ms ping.
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Krakrok
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FRE and ETFC both getting destroyed.
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Sky
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Behold the power of Oil.  |
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Viin
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Apparently stop orders don't work on sells? I tried to sell one with a higher stop but it sold it at current market price. Sigh.
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cmlancas
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Lots of things don't work on VSE.  |
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I can't promise anything other than trauma and tragedy. -- schild
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stray
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And cmlancas falls (hard I might add)!  |
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Krakrok
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I don't see how today's numbers could possibly be right. My stock was up 0.94% on the day and it shows me down 2.74% unless it's docking me on my margin. Lots of other peoples numbers don't look right either.
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Nebu
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Reaganomics?
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bhodi
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No lie.
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Hey, Vonage lost it's final lawsuit appeal against Verizon and our stock went up.
It's a mystery to everybody.
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Ookii
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Hey, Vonage lost it's final lawsuit appeal against Verizon and our stock went up.
It's a mystery to everybody.
Cramer says this happens when a lot of people short a stock, they end up making it go up! |
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cmlancas
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VSE is extremely broken. If all of you could spare $5, I think I can look up the old game I used to play on where we won't have to play with broken toys. This broken toy is stabbing me hard. HARD I TELL YOU! Anyway, grats to those of you doing well. I'm taking it in the ass. |
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I can't promise anything other than trauma and tragedy. -- schild
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Ookii
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VSE is extremely broken. If all of you could spare $5, I think I can look up the old game I used to play on where we won't have to play with broken toys. This broken toy is stabbing me hard. HARD I TELL YOU! Anyway, grats to those of you doing well. I'm taking it in the ass. See if it still exists, I'm sure everyone will who aren't cheap. |
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Viin
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I'm hoping that Fool.com will add "game" support to their CAP stuff. We can look at this one for the next game: http://simulator.investopedia.com/I'm having a hard time finding a new stock to invest in to regain my losses .. if anyone has any suggestions.  |
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stray
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Not always to be followed, but a good bet is generally those companies that have an effect on and/or are needed by multiple industries. For example, anyone involved with steel, machine and tool makers, geological/surveying companies to an extent..
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stray
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 I don't see that as a good thing. I'm getting paranoid. [edit] Imageshack's at a crawl... Something should be showing up here. |
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Sky
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Don't sweat. I lost like 9 points in the last hour today. Stocks are fucking retarded.
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stray
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I jumped 7, went down to 6... But I'm just wondering if I should pull out now (main stock is John Deere at the moment).
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stray
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It's 10:30 AM CST. Miguel has already jumped up.... 14%. His profile has no stocks. Wtf?
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Krakrok
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He had C short and bought a cover for it today so he could have sold it short at 32 and then bought it at 30 which would have been $2 a share he made.
In other news I am totally screwed. My percents haven't been right for over a week either. Totally lost my ass in GOOG again.
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Viin
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GOOG sucks - I don't think I can recover from it. :P
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stray
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Pulling out of Deere while I'm ahead! Definitely have a Day Trader mentality...
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Miguel
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Shorting C this week looked like a no-brainer to me.  They just announced another cash infusion (7B!), I'll have to see how it plays out tomorrow. |
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Nebu
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I've been travelling for the last 4 days. I'm afraid to look.
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cmlancas
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I think the program is broken. How am I in the green? I haven't been making trades lately because MY VSE IS BROKEN AND WON'T LET ME, but I'm still in first.  |
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I can't promise anything other than trauma and tragedy. -- schild
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cmlancas
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Oh. Here's my for real stock market game:  That's a 4.87% gain so far. My next gain on January 2008 will be much better probably because my company's stock didn't do so well last quarter and I swooped in and bought it up. Edit: Oh yeah. I'll have a 100% + X gain because they are matching a full $750.00. Hell yeah! :D |
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I can't promise anything other than trauma and tragedy. -- schild
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stray
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Shit, I knew I should have kept a clean slate today. I lost like 3000 already. Damn this second place shit!
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