Price Feed Issues Create Negative Portfolios
We have experienced several 30-60 minute outtages from our stock price feed vendor, Thomson Financial. For the last year, they have provided our Survivors with excellent price quotes, but for some reason it is breaking down.
This problem causes your entire portfolio to suddenly show a negative number (which is impossible) and for all your open positions to show a price of $0.00.
Needless to say, we are urging Thomson to fix this problem as soon as possible. We sincerely apologize for this service interruption and will fill any orders not processed due to there problems.
Classic Dashboard View
The old, beloved Dashboard view that contained a simple table of Open Positions is coming back after an outpouring of love and support for it. It will be an option and it will supplement the new Dashboard views. Expect it to roll out in about 1 week. Here’s a mock up of what it should look like:
We still like the new view on the Dashboard, it’s pretty sweet, too!
New Site, some growing pains
Welcome to the new 2.0 version of Wall Street Survivor. We hope you like all the new features.
If you were playing on the first day, Thursday May 1st, we apologize for the outtage, but we’re back on track now taking thousands of trades every day.
There will be no weekly prize for the first two days of trading (May 1st and 2nd). Good luck Survivors!
Starter Stock Portfolios
What do you do when you don’t know what stocks to buy?
That question inspired us to develop starter stock portfolios: a selection of stocks pre-selected for you so you don’t have to spend a lot of time researching or asking your buddies for Hot stock tips.
For the new contest starting May 1st, everyone will have the opportunity to select one of 3 starter portfolios after registering: Safe, Balanced and Aggressive. Of course, you can still choose to select your own stocks, if you prefer.
MAY 1st. “Get Ready…for a new way to look at trading stocks!!!
We have finally did it! Combining the best of both worlds. As Rory posted earlier the ‘buddy list’ will now allow you to see what your WSS friends are trading and make comments about it on your own wall or their wall. Your profile page will be something familiar yet different. Out with the old and in with the new, our Spring/Summer game let’s you see the market in a fresh new profile page. Take a look for your self.
Buddy Lists
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Survivors often mention in the Forums how meeting other people has been one of the best parts of playing the game. Now, we’re going to make it even easier to stay find and stay connected to your Survivor friends.
Introducing Buddy Lists! Now, you can keep a list of your Survivor friends and track their portfolio performance on the Leaderboard! See the preview image to the left as an example of how a Buddy List would be incorporated into the Dashboard.
Another neat feature we included is when you invite your friends to play the game and when they join, they are automatically added to your Buddy list! How great is that?
Survivor Book Store
We’ve had some good discussion about what financial and investing books to read on our Forum. So, we got to thinking: Why don’t we start offering financial books on our site?
The good folks at Traders Library have created our own Survivor Book Store. There are hundreds of books available for prices that are often BELOW Amazon. Make sure you check out the section “Below 50% Off” for some awesome deals.
The store will slowly get integrated into the Education sections of our site like Survivor University where specific books are most relevant.
Amazon gift cards for all Daily & Weekly Winners.
We have had gift cards in the past, but do to popular demand the contest winners for the new Jan-April Contest will be seeing more Amazon gift cards in their Inbox. $100,$150,$250 gift cards will be sent to those who win Daily and Weekly prizes, making this Contest the best yet, because You get to choose the prize!
Voltage!
Video feeds are coming to Wall Street Survivor. We’re building a group of video channels to stream for free and we’re calling them Voltage!.
Traders and investing buffs notoriously are glued to the boob tube when the market is open and watch the Money Honey (aka, Maria Bartellomo) on CNBC. Besides entertainment, good video content can give investors trading ideas to make money and often provides insight on the seemingly chaotic market environment on any particular day.
That’s why we want to provide our Survivors with valuable financial and market related video content. Here’s one possible source: Bloomberg TV which is generally not available in U.S. homes via cable or satellite TV service.
The beginning…
Before starting here at Stock Trak, I had been managing I.T. for brokerage firms in Canada for 4 years. The work was great and I was learning bits and pieces about trading while working. My plan was to gain a good enough understanding of the markets and start playing with it myself. Four years later I was still on the sidelines.
When I joined Stock Trak, I figured that my learning curve would probably end since it was only a simulator, was I ever Wrong! Most of my colleagues are experienced traders and were willing to share knowledge over drinks after work. After 3 months of “lessons” with my colleagues and multiple Vodka Sodas I finally took the leap and joined the masses.
I look forward to reaping the rewards of my investments and thank Wall Street Survivor for not only giving me work, but the knowledge to further my investment opportunities. Also a BIG thank you to all my colleagues who had the patience to explain concepts, methods and theories.
