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IanT(MoneyAM) - 01 Feb 2007 08:02

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PapalPower - 01 Feb 2007 10:03 - 2 of 105

Am I allowed to enter ? Even if I cannot win the prizes......... ????

G D Potts - 01 Feb 2007 10:09 - 3 of 105

IanT i am trying to register for ChampInvest but It continually says One entry per person/Hosuehold, I have even tried different names and addresses, can you help?

IanT(MoneyAM) - 01 Feb 2007 10:12 - 4 of 105

GD,

This is because you have registered and played before - I will send out your username and password to you,

Ian

IanT(MoneyAM) - 01 Feb 2007 10:13 - 5 of 105

Papal,

Unfortunately, players must be resident in the UK.

Ian

G D Potts - 01 Feb 2007 12:08 - 6 of 105

Yes It has rembered my username and password, I just accessed it thankyou - Mikhail Khodorkovsky, could still do with my password though as only the compouter remembers it, thanks

IanT(MoneyAM) - 01 Feb 2007 12:10 - 7 of 105

GD Potts,

I sent your password to your E mail this morning - let me know if you do not receive it,

Ian

Juzzle - 01 Feb 2007 12:38 - 8 of 105

Annoyingly it won't let me trade the shares I want to trade! Tried entering TAN, it says no such epic. Tried SPI, same response. Have tested other bigger stocks (just to see if it's working at all) and those are OK. Are AIM stocks excluded this time???

mg - 01 Feb 2007 12:51 - 9 of 105

Juzzle
You might find that it's because of the start-up rules - you have to trade within the NMS for 2 stocks worth at least 10k each - so it will, presumably be quite restrictive for the first stocks traded. Part of the game I suppose.

mg

IanT(MoneyAM) - 01 Feb 2007 12:51 - 10 of 105

Juzzle,

I will get James to take a look,

Ian

Adacol - 01 Feb 2007 12:52 - 11 of 105

How can you trade SEO?
Does not make sense.

IanT(MoneyAM) - 01 Feb 2007 12:55 - 12 of 105

Adacol,

What problems are you having when you try to trade SEO?

Ian

Adacol - 01 Feb 2007 13:04 - 13 of 105

SEO...
maximum trade 600,000 (7,500)???
minimum trade 800,000 (10,000)???

Adacol - 01 Feb 2007 13:09 - 14 of 105

MYH.....same thing...max trade is lower than minimum trade!!

Juzzle - 01 Feb 2007 13:09 - 15 of 105

mg - In case it might be that, have now opened two qualifying trades over 10k each in bigger stocks - but still won't recognize or quote for TAN, SPI and some others tested. Will wait to see what James finds.

IanT(MoneyAM) - 01 Feb 2007 13:19 - 16 of 105

Adacol,

This only applies to the opening trades to validate the account. You will have to trade something else to validate and you will then be free to trade it within the 3 times NMS rule.

Ian

IanT(MoneyAM) - 01 Feb 2007 13:20 - 17 of 105

Juzzle,

TAN and SPI should now be available for you,

Ian

Adacol - 01 Feb 2007 13:20 - 18 of 105

SEO..
I was going to buy at 0.0118.....it is now 0.0135!!!!!

Adacol - 01 Feb 2007 13:21 - 19 of 105

I have traded something else!!!

IanT(MoneyAM) - 01 Feb 2007 13:22 - 20 of 105

Adacol,

I will just take a look at your account.

Ian

Juzzle - 01 Feb 2007 13:25 - 21 of 105

Yep, TAN and SPI OK now ta.

Is that thanks to a fix specific to those two stocks? Or was it a fix that releases all smaller stocks?

IanT(MoneyAM) - 01 Feb 2007 13:25 - 22 of 105

Adacol,

You have only made one trade - yoru account is therefore not validated. please refer to the rules of the competition with regard to your opening 2 trades to validate your account. Only when validated as per the rules, will you be able to trade the other stocks you have mentioned within the 3 times NMS rule.

http://www.champinvest.com/help/rules/

The section you are looking for is General Rules

Ian

G D Potts - 01 Feb 2007 13:52 - 23 of 105

dON'T THINK d1 oils is working either IanT

G D Potts - 01 Feb 2007 13:52 - 24 of 105

Quote DOO

Adacol - 01 Feb 2007 13:58 - 25 of 105

I was trying to make my second trade???

IanT(MoneyAM) - 01 Feb 2007 14:07 - 26 of 105

Adacol,

Those stocks do not meet the criteria to make the second trade, as the 1st and second trade need to be above 10000 and within the 3 times NMS rule. You will need to trade something else which fits into the rules as laid out on that link and then you will be able to trade them correctly,

Ian

IanT(MoneyAM) - 01 Feb 2007 14:08 - 27 of 105

GD Potts,

I will pass this onto James.

Ian

IanT(MoneyAM) - 01 Feb 2007 14:09 - 28 of 105

GD,

Can you try now - I am able to get a quote for DOO (D1 Oils), If it doesn't work, make sure you are buying or selling within 3 times the NMS and if that doesn't work, pleas elet me know what goes wrong and at what stage?

Ian

petralva - 01 Feb 2007 19:15 - 29 of 105

ian

trying to set up my a/c......and won't except my username or password.

mark

Bullshare - 01 Feb 2007 20:05 - 30 of 105

Mark: You seem already to be registerd in the Game as petralva2 and 100,000 sitting there waiting to be spent!

Dil - 01 Feb 2007 22:54 - 31 of 105

Ian it wont let me play , says one entry per household , I'm sure I had more last time :-)

Can you email my details please.

Bullshare - 02 Feb 2007 08:41 - 32 of 105

Dil. Check your email.

Mike

Dil - 02 Feb 2007 08:48 - 33 of 105

Cheers mate ... hope the Jocks stuff you :-)

petralva - 02 Feb 2007 10:36 - 34 of 105

cheers bullshare

petralva - 02 Feb 2007 10:36 - 35 of 105

cheers bullshare

G D Potts - 02 Feb 2007 12:44 - 36 of 105

THE 60 second wait is very irritating, any particular reason for it IanT?

jimward9 - 02 Feb 2007 12:56 - 37 of 105

Ian just tried to log in / register last time used omega1525 cannot remember password, tried link it said e mail sent, not recieved could you send again. jim thanks

This_is_me - 02 Feb 2007 14:54 - 38 of 105

There is a problem with AXS. The system thinks the quote is in pence when in fact the price quote is in EUR (despite its London listing)

If you know anyone who will sell me the shares at 2.19p please let me know!

akel44 - 02 Feb 2007 15:17 - 39 of 105

when u buy sell x 3 within the limit, can you dump them in one go?

akel44 - 02 Feb 2007 19:44 - 40 of 105

lets try again, i had to buy 3 times to purchase the amount i wanted,
will i have to sell 3 times to get rid of them all,

Juzzle - 02 Feb 2007 21:35 - 41 of 105

I would expect so

jimmy b - 02 Feb 2007 23:04 - 42 of 105

Won't let me play ,says this username is already taken ,i played under my jimmy b name in the last game .

jimmy b - 02 Feb 2007 23:06 - 43 of 105

Also if i try to register under a new name ,it says only one player per household ,,moneyam i'm not even playing yet !!!

bosley - 03 Feb 2007 08:15 - 44 of 105

our usual rules , jimmy?

Dil - 03 Feb 2007 10:37 - 45 of 105

You can only sell the nms in any one transaction akel so if you've got 3x then yes you will incur 3x selling charges .

This is what would happen in the market and stops people buying huge amounts of illiquid stock in the game in one transaction and reflects more fairly the real market conditions.

Hope this helps.

Bullshare - 03 Feb 2007 11:09 - 46 of 105

Dil; thanks for helping on this, you are quite right it is only at NMS.

JimmyB: if you played last time then the username you used then is still valid for you and is active. Looking at the records your MoneyAM and Champ invest passwords are the same. Hope that helps

mike

jimmy b - 03 Feb 2007 12:38 - 47 of 105

Thanks Mike ,, the only thing is i can't remember my password ,can you email it to me ?? thanks.

jimmy b - 03 Feb 2007 12:39 - 48 of 105

No bos i'm going to try and make some cash this time :-)

jimmy b - 03 Feb 2007 12:43 - 49 of 105

I 've just looged in thanks ,i remembered it ...Now stand back everyone and watch me lose a small fortune .

darryl2 - 03 Feb 2007 18:56 - 50 of 105

I can't register because of the one entry per household...can you help?

Bullshare - 04 Feb 2007 10:47 - 51 of 105

Darryl: Email sent with your Game username and password

Mike

MightyMicro - 04 Feb 2007 14:11 - 52 of 105

Mike,

I've registered and I'm playing, but I'm not winning yet . . . can you help? ;-)

Bullshare - 04 Feb 2007 19:38 - 53 of 105

MM :-)

hewittalan6 - 05 Feb 2007 08:14 - 54 of 105

Is there a reason I cannot log in this morning????
Alan

RUPIE - 05 Feb 2007 08:48 - 55 of 105

Ian,
Could you please e-mail me my password etc.
Many thanks.

IanT(MoneyAM) - 05 Feb 2007 08:50 - 56 of 105

Rupie,

E mail on its way,

Ian

RUPIE - 05 Feb 2007 08:58 - 57 of 105

Thanks Ian

akel44 - 05 Feb 2007 11:28 - 58 of 105

dil: ok thanks

mg - 05 Feb 2007 12:42 - 59 of 105

Mr Boydell
I've got an itchy nose - could you scratch it please.

Mr mg

Bullshare - 05 Feb 2007 12:49 - 60 of 105

FOS: no, you can get one of the wardens or inmates to do that for you !

SOS

This_is_me - 07 Feb 2007 09:30 - 61 of 105

There is a problem with AXS. The system thinks the quote is in pence when in fact the price quote is in EUR (despite its London listing)

IanT(MoneyAM) - 07 Feb 2007 10:10 - 62 of 105

This_is_me,

Unfortunately, our systems can only deal in sterling, not Euros, so I am afraid this will continue throughout the game.

Ian

PapalPower - 09 Feb 2007 11:24 - 63 of 105

I'm not allowed to play....... :(

You should allow non-UK residents to enter on the understanding they are not elegible for any prizes........... :) !!!!! Could put a little "*" next to their name to notify of this.........go on.......you know it makes sense...........

lanayel - 15 Feb 2007 16:09 - 64 of 105

Let PapalPower play.

Fred1new - 15 Feb 2007 16:54 - 65 of 105

Shan't!!!

bosley - 15 Feb 2007 20:02 - 66 of 105

papalpower, considering how well you did last time, email me your choices and i'll go 50-50 with you when we win :))

honest ;)

sportbilly1976 - 16 Feb 2007 10:46 - 67 of 105

trying to hold on to slender lead.....

attempting to go with the thought that trading too often will reduce the capital, so might hold onto same stock now till end (of month / april not sure!!)

also agree though that the 60 wait between trades is very annoying, especially when sometimes I might have to place 5-6 trades in the same stock - what is the reason behind it as it does not replicate real life?

IanT(MoneyAM) - 16 Feb 2007 10:53 - 68 of 105

sportbilly,

It is an LSE rule, essentially, if there was no delay, people could get live prices as often as they want for their own trading. We have have to put the tyime limit in just to stop it being used for purely getting live quotes.

Ian

G D Potts - 16 Feb 2007 11:37 - 69 of 105

Sorry your request cannot be processed as trading is not allowed during market auctions.

What does this mean Ian? Seems to only occur when I try and get a quote for GTL.

IanT(MoneyAM) - 16 Feb 2007 11:38 - 70 of 105

GD,

I will get the guys to take a look into it,

Ian

EWRobson - 16 Feb 2007 12:49 - 71 of 105

Good going, sportbilly, from one who is languishing in negative territory. I have reorganised my portfolio for month 2 but I suspect your objective should be focussed on month 1 forgetting the next two months. That probably means running the profits but perhaps switching any laggard(s). AZM results on Monday could be interesting! (but that is proably a 50/50 scenario).

Eric

Kyoto - 16 Feb 2007 12:58 - 72 of 105

sportbilly,

I think you would find that if you tried to place an 5-6 trades in the same stock consecutively with the same broker they'd be complaining to you about market abuse, if indeed they let you trade so quickly in the fist place. Barclays Stockbrokers, for example, will often give you an error message if you try to trade the same stock again online within 1-5 minutes in situations where the Retail Service Providers (RSPs) have closed down the their quoted NMS size to small levels.

It depends on the situation, but the MoneyAM system is, if anything, slightly unrealistic in allowing you to trade this way at all, when in real life with the kind of above NMS orders you're probably putting through you'd be phoning your broker to get a quote from the market makers, quite possibly outside the touch prices/spread.

sportbilly1976 - 16 Feb 2007 14:07 - 73 of 105

EWR,

Given that this game favours the brave (or silly!) I have 100% in one stock.....

Kyoto,

I remember having the same experience with Halifax before.....so will take the situation as given !....just having a little rant I guess!!

Flackwell Vialli - 17 Feb 2007 08:39 - 74 of 105

Ian - Your response re:the 60 second rule read

"It is an LSE rule, essentially, if there was no delay, people could get live prices as often as they want for their own trading. We have have to put the time limit in just to stop it being used for purely getting live quotes."

Could you expand on please as I can not for the life of me see why an exchange whose life blood is from market trading would object to people using a facility to potentially increase the number of trades they make on a real exchange ?

Haystack - 17 Feb 2007 11:05 - 75 of 105

I think it is because of the pricing structure from LSE to MAM and the fact that the LSE has a commodity that they want to make money from (the price information). They will hardly want someone giving it away. MAM will be charged for the data if they give away live price information.

MightyMicro - 19 Feb 2007 00:09 - 76 of 105

Flackwell:

All exchanges charge for their live price information, in some cases, quite spectacular sums of money, and usually on a per individual user basis. It's because the information has a value which decreases with time, rather like radioactive half life. Once the data is 15-20 minutes old, it's reckoned to have little or no value and can be obtained for nothing.

I'm sure that somebody at MoneyAM more familiar with LSE audits than I would be able to explain the rigours of these inspections.

Flackwell Vialli - 19 Feb 2007 07:28 - 77 of 105

Fair points gents - didn't realise the prices themselves were "sold".

IanT(MoneyAM) - 19 Feb 2007 07:40 - 78 of 105

Flackwell,

They beat me to it. In essence as mentioned the prices are a commodity for the exchange, and therefore, we cannot allow an unrestricted system where people could just get as many prices unlimited as they wat.

Ian

Dynamite - 23 Feb 2007 11:47 - 79 of 105

Hmmm well I was doing alright at this game until I broke my ankle and leg (dog pulled me over on wet concrete)only just come out of hospital after having it all bolted back together....I should have bonus points for all the time I couldn't get to a computer...not that I would have won anyway....I hope to have less of a handicap in next months game :-)
Di

G D Potts - 23 Feb 2007 14:26 - 80 of 105

you know it continues right? Like it doesnt reset, you ll be at the same disadvanatge as you are now

G D Potts - 23 Feb 2007 14:37 - 81 of 105

bought a few shares in some gold producer nuemonic GDP because its my initials on Champinvest and they went up 100% ha. Only bought a 200 worth becuase that volume limit though!!

Kyoto - 23 Feb 2007 17:11 - 82 of 105

Next time buy it for real in the market? :-) Your timing's better than mine though - I bought it six months ago. By the way, they're a precious metals recovery business (great) with gold producing aspirations (slightly worrying). Every time I see it I think I'm looking at some Gross Domestic Product news.

RUPIE - 27 Feb 2007 14:53 - 83 of 105

Ian could you please e-mail me my username and password.
Computer it was on has died so now on new one .
Many thanks
Andy

IanT(MoneyAM) - 27 Feb 2007 14:57 - 84 of 105

e mail should be with you in a few mins Rupie

RUPIE - 27 Feb 2007 15:01 - 85 of 105

Thanks Ian

AndyH78 - 06 Mar 2007 11:33 - 86 of 105

What do world spreads offer, is it just indices and FTSE 100?
I much prefer to be able to trade midcap stocks as per IG, than indices.

Not a lot of detail on the website.

robertalexander - 20 Mar 2007 13:35 - 87 of 105

hi am new to 'shorting' i have 'sold' 15000 shares in HMV and they went down[so far so good] now how do i close the postion? do i just buy 15000 HMV shares?
any help will be greatly received. glad i am only playing with play money or i would be in serious doo-doo
Alex

IanT(MoneyAM) - 20 Mar 2007 13:37 - 88 of 105

robert,

yes you just buy the required amount back to close the short

Ian

robertalexander - 20 Mar 2007 13:43 - 89 of 105

thanks Ian

Haystack - 16 Apr 2007 18:02 - 90 of 105

I do like today's monthly leader. He has risen from 545th to 1st, has a holding worth MINUS -15,639.73 and a 216.74% increase!!!

IanT(MoneyAM) - 17 Apr 2007 07:08 - 91 of 105

Haystack,

We will take a little look at that one.

Ian

fine one - 17 Apr 2007 07:26 - 92 of 105

I BROUGHT 420,000 ST JAMES ENG STICKER (SJA) CHANGED TO IMMERSION TECH
STICKER (ITI) EXHANGE RATE 7 (SJA)TO 1 (ITI) =60,000 (ITI) I GOT 58393 (ITI) SHARES THE PRICE IS STILL AT (SJA) PRICES 1.30 PER SHARE AND MY ACCOUNT IS -5830.99 NOW?

IanT(MoneyAM) - 17 Apr 2007 07:28 - 93 of 105

fine one - we will take a look at this and make any necessary adjustments.

Ian

IanT(MoneyAM) - 17 Apr 2007 11:11 - 94 of 105

Fine one,

We have made the necessary adjustments to your account.

Haystack,

We have found what was causing the league issue and resolved it.

Ian

ValueMax - 23 Apr 2007 10:23 - 95 of 105

Ian,

When will the IPL 60p dividend be reflected on my account?

IanT(MoneyAM) - 23 Apr 2007 10:25 - 96 of 105

ValueMax,

I will speak to the tech guys,

Ian

Kyoto - 01 May 2007 07:48 - 97 of 105

Congratulations to all the winners!

ragingbull - 01 May 2007 21:08 - 98 of 105

Thanks Kyoto!

EWRobson - 03 May 2007 12:48 - 99 of 105

Well done, ragingbull in particular. From your name you presumably took up long positions. Did you make the money primarily from stock picking or active trading?

Eric

ragingbull - 05 May 2007 00:01 - 100 of 105

EWRobson

Definately stock picking. I only held five positions during the whole of the game. Most of my gains came from MXP which I held for 47 days for a 74% gain. In fact, for the last two months and a bit of the game I didn't do any trading at all, apart from selling MXP on 10/4.

ragingbull

EWRobson - 08 May 2007 11:39 - 101 of 105

Well done again. Hope you had some real money on MXP. If not, the prize is not a bad consolation. Of course, loading funds into a preferred well-researched stock must be the best way to make money on shares.

Eric

ragingbull - 09 May 2007 15:30 - 102 of 105

EWRobson

Yes, I have got some real money in MXP- what about yourself?

I'm still awaiting a reply from MoneyAM about the prize. I assumed that it was 2000 in a spread betting account but I'm not so sure now. They don't seem to sure either.

Ragingbull

IanT(MoneyAM) - 09 May 2007 15:41 - 103 of 105

Ragingbull,

I will speak to the appropriate deaprtment and get comeone to contact you.

Ian

ragingbull - 09 May 2007 16:39 - 104 of 105

Ian

Thanks.

ragingbull

EWRobson - 09 May 2007 18:08 - 105 of 105

Not in MXP but does still look interesting - worth a check on the thread.

Ian - we need to get cracking on next Champions League. Consolation for Liverpool losing the final!

Eric

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