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Beta - Bullie's Instant Desktop NewsAlerts! (BETA)     

TullettJ (MoneyAM) - 03 Jun 2005 12:06

About Desktop NewsAlert (Beta)

MoneyAM's NewsAlert allows you to keep up to date with the news on stocks you are interested in without requiring you to be logged into the website with your browser!

NewsAlert hides away in your system taskbar and pops up whenever there is an AFX or RNS news item about any of the stocks that you've decided to monitor.

To take part in this beta of NewsAlert (codename: Desktop Bullie-Whiplash), please visit the NewsAlert page.

System Requirements: Microsoft Windows (98/ME/NT/2000/XP) Microsoft .Net framework (download from http://microsoft.com)
newsalert-screenshot.jpg
When out of beta, this service will be available to Active level subscribers and above

foale - 06 Jun 2005 13:23 - 13 of 92

hi when I do refresh stock list
perhaps after add ing some more to my list

takes quite a while to re list them...several minutes..
at perhaps one every 30 secs..with corresp bleep
is that whats supposed to happen

also they appear slightly out of time sequence
though its mostly accurate

IanT(MoneyAM) - 06 Jun 2005 14:18 - 14 of 92

foale,

I will pass onto JT,

Ian

TullettJ (MoneyAM) - 06 Jun 2005 14:45 - 15 of 92

foale,

Currently when you refresh the stocklist, it'll repull the days news, it'll also only display them 5 at a time.

The next version to be released with resolve these issues.

J

foale - 06 Jun 2005 14:58 - 16 of 92

ok...just giving some feedback...
all sounds good

I am still very happy with it....

TullettJ (MoneyAM) - 06 Jun 2005 16:53 - 17 of 92

foale,

Glad to hear it :)

J.

Kayak - 08 Jun 2005 10:03 - 18 of 92

What would be extremely useful is a version that gets all RNS (and RNS equivalent services) news for all stocks (not the AFX rehashed cr*p). It would be great to have always open in a corner of the screen. Currently if one wants streaming news one has to keep a whole page open. You could have RNS/AFX tick boxes (also effective on a stock list) and an 'all stocks' option...

On a connected topic it would also be great to have RNS/AFX filters on the streaming news page in the same way as another site...

Kayak - 08 Jun 2005 10:04 - 19 of 92

The client window doesn't seem to keep its position on being restarted. It would be great if it did.

IanT(MoneyAM) - 08 Jun 2005 10:05 - 20 of 92

Kayak,

I will pass your comments on to the tech guys,

Ian

Kayak - 08 Jun 2005 10:38 - 21 of 92

As an enhancement to post 17 one could have an additional filter to filter out routine RNS announcements, i.e. remove:

Rule 2.10
Rule 8.1
Rule 8.2
Rule 8.3
SAR 3
SAR 5
Section 11
Section 198
Listing Rule 15.4.10
EPT Disclosure
Holding(s) in Company
Net Asset Value(s)
Blocklisting Interim Review
FRN Variable Rate Fix
Transaction in Own Shares
Portfolio Update
Cancellation
Major Interests
Official List Notice
Disclosure Table
Notice of Results

This would allow the window to be kept closed and only to pop up with potentially important news.

It would be sufficient to have a tick box for all of them. E.g. four tick boxes:

1. RNS and RNS equivalents excluding routine announcemnts
2. RNS and RNS equivalents routine annoucements
3. AFX
4. AFXU

Again, this all applies to the streaming news page too.

foale - 08 Jun 2005 20:45 - 22 of 92

Kayak post 20 would be useful

Maggot - 09 Jun 2005 11:04 - 23 of 92

Sorry to be stupid, but how do I check that I've done everything correctly? How do I get the News Alert box up on my screen?

IanT(MoneyAM) - 09 Jun 2005 11:06 - 24 of 92

Maggot,

You should see a little icon down on teh left hand side in your system tray. If you right click on this you will see some options - one of which is show window - if you click on that it will bring up the box.

Ian

IanT(MoneyAM) - 09 Jun 2005 11:07 - 25 of 92

Should also add that if you haven't already opened it you will need to go to programs and open it from there,

Ian

Maggot - 09 Jun 2005 11:19 - 26 of 92

Nope. Cant find the Systems Tray under Systems. But have got newsalert1 and newsalert2 on the desktop, the first of which which requires me to download .NET Framework version 1.1.4322. Is that it?

IanT(MoneyAM) - 09 Jun 2005 11:25 - 27 of 92

Maggot,

Do the following -

Once you have downloaded the application, click on start and then on programs and look for a new program called MoneyAM.com news alret. Clcik on this

It will takle a few seconds to start up and you shoudl then see down by the clock in the right hand corner of your desktop and little blue MoneyAM icon.

This is the icon I was referring to - you should now be able to right click on this as I was saying before. YOu can edit the stocks you are watching by clicking through from the original link in this post.

Ian

Maggot - 09 Jun 2005 11:41 - 28 of 92

Thanks. Is it the basic .NET Framwork 1.1 I should download first? There are so many options.

IanT(MoneyAM) - 09 Jun 2005 11:46 - 29 of 92

If you click on the download the latest version link it should give you just 1 option which you need to then open when prompted.

Ian

Maggot - 09 Jun 2005 11:57 - 30 of 92

No, I'll not bother. It keeps directing me to Windows Update which tells me no updates are available. Can't find a 'latest version' link anyway. But thanks for your help.
I've got XP Pro - is this different to ther versions?

IanT(MoneyAM) - 09 Jun 2005 11:59 - 31 of 92

MAggot,

I am not sure what is going on but here is the direct link to download the news alert service. Try clicking on this and let me know what happens:

http://www.moneyam.com/newsalert/newsalert-1.0.28.0.msi

Maggot - 09 Jun 2005 12:09 - 32 of 92

IanT. Done that. I've already saved this to disc, and have the icon on the Desktop.
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