Topic: [Trading Simulator] A fun & free Speculation Game - SWITCH TO BPI ON JULY 15 !!! - page 38. (Read 241385 times)

I can do one tomorrow, had a busy weekend and day today and have to get some sleep now. After I wake up I will be able to do an update.

I'm going to offer this up, while running the risk of being a jerk and not being able/willing to implement it.

Ideally, all these transforms are available within Google's spreadsheet scripting language.
Failing that, I know it could be written in .NET using the AgilityPack for HTML parsing.

-Accept the 'Current Standings' URL as an input.
These standings include 'Processed through Current Post Number' numbering (right now, we are at post #1924.)

When run, the tool auto-parses web pages. Let's say it runs and there are new posts from #1925 to #1928.

1925 - A new Buy for Chainsaw.
1926 - A new Sell for dnaelor.
1927 - An invalid, second Buy
1928 - A random comment

The first filter pulls out 1925-1927. 1927 is rejected by a secondary validation filter.
1925 and 1926 update standings for Chainsaw and dnaelor.
The spreadsheet's 'Processed through Current Post Number' is updated to 1928.

Valid postings follow a format defined in the initial posting. An example:
[[email protected]]
[[email protected]]

It would not be hard to be even fancier and allow for
[~B]
[~S]
since we could retrieve the timestamp of the message, then retrieve the price at that time via script. It would actually harden the game while also making it easier to play.

If there is massive interest, you guys can probably twist my arm to code something up.
The timer on a spreadsheet could update and process multiple times per hour. An open-sourced program could be run, but we would have to decide on who had it, you don't want too many cooks in the kitchen.

If there's no interest, I'm happy to let this die. I just wanted to share it in case there was motivation to push it forward.

I think this is a neat game, and I'd like to see it continue long enough for us to all get to play amidst rally mode :-)

sell @ 243.02

Miz4r, do you have time for an update? I can't really, this week. (at least not before saturday)

BUY at $243.72.
Ow.

buy @241.55

buy 241.65

buy @241.43

Buy
@ 241.62

All you longers are DEWMED!! 

Buy @243.98

BUY @$244.25

60c profit 

let's keep it at 8 for now. Thing like penalties for "early trades", or adding 'stop loss' etc are nice ideas, but we need to implement that and then the maintenance of the game is getting bigger.

buy @ 240.74

I also like the 8h rule, would be completely different trading without it. This way it makes people find real trend changes instead of pursuing small price change opportunities.

 I would strongly prefer, at this point, to keep the rule the way it has been.
The eight hour window is part of the nature of this game. Changing it would change the game midway into a different game. I am saying this having been burned by the window myself. got burned stuck In a trade myself
Sucks, but you definitely modify reading behavior accordingly.

I think 4h would be enough to prevent trade-spamming and reduces pure momentum trading adequately. It's only a proposal. I can live with the 8h, too, but sometimes this timeframe is too long to trade the smaller waves...

...penalties? Well, there we talk about two different things. I don't want to get a penalty for trading (a bit) faster. 

.... I think that the 8h rule is necessary BUT I think to prevent unfair losses due to large unexpected events there could be a penalty option of perhaps 2% more or less that could be fined for posting within 8hr. The player would have to declare it or it would be considered cheating.

8h rule sucks. How about half it to 4h?

sell @244.89

Sell @246.66