Version 3 Launched!
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Wall Street Survivor has launched a major upgrade that contains several new features and improvements that users like you have requested. Among the many improvements, here are the most significant new features:
Overall, you will notice that each page has an updated “look and feel,” easier navigation, a universal Search box, and more educational links to help you become a better trader. Other new features:
Here’s a page by page review of what’s new: Home Page:
Dashboard Page:
Trade Page:
Quote Page:The stock quote pages provide much more analysis to help you make informed decisions:
Message Center:
Edit Preferences:
Stock Ideas and Premium Tools:
Let us know what you think!
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Portfolio Glitches Today
We are currently experiencing technical difficulties relating to portfolio values, account balances and transaction history. We hope to have your account back to normal shortly.
Thanks for your patience!
The Wall Street Survivor Team
WSS Version 3 Coming in September!
A whole new version of Wall Street Survivor is coming to your browser in September.
It will have a new look and feel below (see below) in addition to several new features that you have asked for in surveys:
- New Stock Quote page that integrates stock ratings from Zacks.com, technical analysis from Recognia and stock stop prices from Smart Stops. the page will also contain vital basics like charts, company information, news and, of course, a stock quote.
- New StockTalk feature that creates discussions centered around specific stocks. Rate the best comments and watch them float to the top of the board!
- New Trading Diary that will allow you to keep notes and set alarms about stocks you own. The Diary will integrate with the existing Watch List, Open Positions and Transactions pages.
- New ETF Center that allows you to find hot ETFs!
- New Currency center
- Multi-portfolio capability for each account – no more opening up multiple WSS accounts
- Integration with Twitter! The best from Twitter about your stocks!
- Survivor Sentiment: find out how the community feels about any stock!
- A Message Center so that you can send private, direct messages to other Survivors. The Message Center will also send you brokerage related messages such as dividend notices and alerts to your expiring options.
- And many new bug fixes and new user help features to make the WSS fantasy trading experience even better!
V3 Header, Coming Sept. 2009
Database Upgrade
We are updating the database so that orders and trade executions can be processed much faster. Much of the work is done at night and may cause the site to be down after 11PM eastern time.
We are sorry for the delays. Please bear with us as we work to make WSS faster, bigger, stronger!!!
Wall Street Survivor Mobile Has Arrived
Feel like your portfolio is being neglected because you aren’t near a computer during market hours? Heard a great stock tip but didn’t take advantage of it? Ever want to make a trade while stock in traffic?
We at Wall Street Survivor are excited to inform you that we have released a mobile version of WSS! You will be able to trade all the same equities and securities that you can on the web from any mobile phone with an Internet connection. You will have access to all of your portfolios including your 100k contest, permanent and options portfolio. This service will come at no extra charge to you, aside from your existing data package.
In addition to making trades, on WSS Mobile you will be able to check your account balances (long and short), open positions and order history. You can also get updated quote details on your favorite equities including updated price, volume, change and day range. Finally, you will be able to view a market summary giving you details on the NASDAQ, S&P 500 and the NYSE.
We are pleased to announce these features and hope that you will take advantage of them. If you have any questions or comments you can leave them below or you chat with us on twitter at twitter.com/wallstsurvivor!
Survivor Spy
Would you like to know when your favorite Survivor Makes a Trade?
Imagine getting an email alerting you a top Survivor has just bought Sold, or Shorted some stock. That’s the premise behind a new premium service called “Survivor Spy”.
For a nominal monthly fee (about $19.95), you will be able to get instant emails delivered to your inbox as soon as one of your favorite Survivors makes a trade.
Look for this to arrive later this summer.
New Make a Trade Page Coming…
We’ve heard from many active users that placing Trades takes too long. So, we will consolidate the Make a Trade pages down from three to one true, full page load.
This should significantly decrease the amount of time time it takes to place trades which can be crucial for Day traders, or Survivors who simply want to lock in a fast-moving price.
Here’s a sneak preview of the new trade page which should be live around Halloween:
Redesigned Make A Trade page with the following features:
- New Trade controls are laid out in a left-to-right row to emphasize the task flow; once something is selected, it should move to the next stage automatically. Clicking on a previous control takes you back.
- Each step in the trade taskflow is highlighted with an explanation, which can be folded up into a minimal version by clicking the triangle in the corner
- Trade logic is designed to prevent error messages. Each step presents only the possible options given the previous step, so it is impossible to select a trade chain that does not work; the only error message should be for a ‘Symbol Not Found’.
- For Stop and Limit orders, a pop-up dialog allows the user to set the price. If selected incorrectly, they can just click elsewhere or press Esc to close the pop-up and reset that drop-down to ‘Type’.
- If an order is a regular Market order, then the Duration control is greyed out.
- Once a quantity is entered in the QTY box, then it should jump to the Preview stage automatically, and the information displayed should update dynamically if the user increments or decrements the QTY value, for instance, if they want to achieve a specific trade price, etc.
- New column design with links at left, ad column at right incorporating the new tabbed content box
New Email Preferences
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With our latest software update, you can now choose which emails you wish to receive from Wall Street Survivor.
Do you love the Weekly Newsletter but find the Daily Wall post notification emails annoying? Just go to your Edit Profile page and you can select which emails to stop receiving.
Best Stock Trade of the Day
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Due to corporate actions like name changes, splits and stock ticker changes, the accuracy of the Best Trade of the day has been spotty, at best. For example, yesterday’s Best trade (on 9/16) which displayed at the top of every page shows a $276,360 gain for REV which split 10-1 yesterday. This “Best” trade is not realistic or accurate.
While we work to fix this feature, we are going to take it down and replace it with the Weekly winner.
Expert Stock Picks
Many Newbie Survivors understand about stocks and the stock market but don’t have any idea of how to find stocks to trade.
As one Survivor, brainiac, wrote on her Blog:
I signed up for the “fantasy stock market” and perused the pages of Google finance. And I have no idea what to do with all of that information! There’s a big search window to “get quotes,” but what am I getting quotes for? I understand the idea of buying and selling shares, but that represents the entire body of my knowledge on the subject. How do I figure out what companies I want quotes for?
So, we have Starter Stock portfolios for anyone who signs up (TIP: they are also available if you reset your portfolio).
OK, then you’ve got about 10 stocks picked by someone. But then what to do?
That’s when we came up with the idea of Expert Portfolio picks! We are going to replace the “Balanced” “Conservative” and “Agressive” starter Portfolios with Portfolios created by some real stock picking experts. One of them we hope will be Peter Navarro, who is an Economics Professor at UC-Irvine and is Harvard educated.
And those experts will then update their picks every week, so that you can get some guidance, some new stock trading ideas and start to understand why these picks are getting made.
Expect this to be on the site in about 2-4 weeks.
