If you're having any problems, or want to suggest some improvements, please post below!

Level2 changes
In the last few weeks we've needed to implement some code changes to make us compliant with the LSE's rules on the access of Level2 data.

The following requirement is now in place:
You can only use 1 program on 1 computer to access Level2 on MoneyAM using a single username.

This means that you are able to view as many Level2 windows using any one particular browser, or program, that you wish, however you will not be able to use both Firefox and Internet Explorer at the same time (the same goes for using Quote Tracker or TradeSeeker at the same time as viewing it using a web browser)

If you find you're being logged off of MoneyAM's Level2 with the message 'you've logged on from another location' then check the above and make sure you're not running any other programs at the same time before reporting this as a bug.

March and Mighty Micro:
Your posts 357, 360 and 364 may have an upside. I follow DYS and it was marked up this morning after the 'ghost' trades appeared here! Please, let the price go up a bit more before they twig it was a trade on the 24th! And, please only fix bug after ?2.20 has been reached!

I'll give you a list of EPIC codes that might benefit from this glitch!

Without decrying the input are the regular postings of 'significant' market news as a new thread by Kam-MoneyAM the way to handle this input?
It does tend to clutter up the BB.
Would it be better to have a daily thread called say 'Breaking news xx/xx/xx' to which these items could be added rather then a new thread for each item?
If the news was of such significance as say 911 then a new thread but I suspect that posters would get there first anyway.
M

vasey: Ah, you've discovered the MoneyAM Auto-Ramper(tm) before we were ready to announce it. It's an extra subscription feature -- it takes a percentage.

MM

Facility to download, in CSV, trade data. Could make this part of the L2.

What is the difference between clicking 'Bulletin Boards' and 'Back to list'?

Martini; Until we launch the site, we are getting Kam to post on the BB. The simple reason the front page is not being used as the entry gateway by betatestests and we want to ensure that we get the right content when we do launch. However point is taken. On Friday he did 'take over' the BB.

M

Like Kam's aritcles. Hope it continues after launch.
Do they deserve a special section by themself.
eg. a reportage with 'talkback' section ??

axdpc; could do we ewill have a think. Kam isvery well known in the City having just come to us from Sharecast. He is itching to confront a few CEO's so we might go back to previous idea we had of users nominating companies to tackle!!

M

Mike,

The thread in BB can get a bit disorganised and hard to find.
How about a high level view of BB threads, arrange and expandable by name, category, EPIC or author. Searchable threads are good but there are time when
one just wants to browse... Easily done in SQL language if that what you are using.

All: Re: remembering Username/Password with Internet Explorer.

I've reproduced a post from another thread here from Ian Penning (IST and MoneyAM) on the login username/password problem

For those of you using Internet Explorer, you can persuade it to remember your username/password for the site without too much difficulty.

You need to set the following options:-

1. Go to the Tools menu
2. Select Internet Options
3. Click on the Content tab
4. Click on the Autocomplete button
5. Tick the following:
User names and passwords on forms
Prompt me to save passwords

Then, the next time you login, IE will ask if you want to remember the password.

Most other recent browsers have similar functionality.


Hope this helps for now

Derek (IST and MoneyAM)

Can't get the stockwatch pages to work today.. wanted to add some new watch lists but can't see them as it says 'not connected. Refresh page to reconnect' I do that and it still doesn't work. The applet seems to be okay (am using Sun java)

Jumpin
Have you tried clicking "Turn streaming off" top right above grey box?
Regards
M

Yep just did that and it is okay and can see them now... forgot to look for the button it was too far to the right in my window! I presume streaming is turned off then at weekends etc?

Biker - sorry for the delay in responding. The problem you reported earlier looks like a connection problem - the significant part of the stack trace is the java.io.FileNotFoundException. Did you make any changes to your internet connection settings at all? Are you still having the problem now?

thanks
Ian Penning

As regards the site not being entered via the front page, I would expect that to stay the same when it is live. The question was asked about the A***N site when I was on a training course and not a single person entered via the front page. We all had links saved to the Monitor page or the BB. Eeven now if I do enter via the front page, I never read it as I click on Monitor as soon as the buttons appear.

On the market scan page I like to look at the biggest % risers / fallers. I also like to know if the fall / rise is news driven. So please add an indicator to show if there has been a news item that day.

Trades data

(1) seems unduly delayed...clock (top left hand corner reads "12.06.54" with latest trade entry reading "12.13". This implies a delay of up to 6 minutes which is way too much. The "clock/trade delay" on advfn was invariably a max of 3 minutes which is tolerable. Please confirm whether or not a 6 minute delay exists and if you can shorten this. To me, speed as well as accuracy of data is vital..no point if other data providers are much faster in this area.

(2) can only be updated by reclicking "trades" or refresh button...this is text not streaming as with advfn. Have I missed a button to turn on streaming? As it stands, text makes for easy reading of data in a fast market compared to continuous streaming when the data is almost constantly moving down the page, but not sure that integrates too well with a DDE transmission platform (see (3) below).

(3) will you be able to provide DDE transmission? If so, will it be excel compatible? A computer based proprietary trader will almost always use DDE. To my knowledge, this is provided by sharescope, proquote and e-signal who are charging $106pm plus xchge fees.

Hope these questions help and thanks in advance.

Toml: thanks for the feedback:


1)The trades are OK but our clock is duff!!!

2)The trades are live and should be streaming. The drop down box on that page has a live stream header. Other drop downs are indeed html

3)We are looking at DDE link after launch in mid-Jan.

regards


mike

Mike

Thanks for your comments.

regards,

Tom.

What about something like this for the UK market.

http://www.fantasystockmarket.com/Calculators.asp

ipenning....

Good morning Ian.

No changes made here. If things are working I tend not to bugger about with them. :) Everything worked when I switched off one night but didn't the next morning.

Connection is via 64k ISDN, which is as good as it is going to get around here for a long time to come. BT has promised ADSL at about the same time as the next Ice Age

Since the last time you looked at it, with the holidays I forget exactly when that was, I now have all the headers, the two columns of icons, the up/down arrows and the epic codes back, but no data. The trafic light is green and it tells me that I am "Connected to Stream".

The Java error message looks a bit shorter as well, and says:-

12/31/2002 @ 11:36:40

Deltastream StockWatch Applet (C)IST 2002
Build: 20023531604

Caught exception painting com.deltastream.applet.stock.MonitorScreen$StatusPanel[panel0,0,0,870x20,layout=java.awt.FlowLayout]:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.apple.mrj.internal.awt.QDGraphics.drawString(QDGraphics.java)
at com.deltastream.applet.stock.MonitorScreen$StatusPanel.paint(MonitorScreen.java:100)
at com.apple.mrj.internal.awt.VComponentPeer.paint(VComponentPeer.java)
at com.apple.mrj.internal.awt.VComponentPeer$UpdatePeerEvent.dispatch(VComponentPeer.java)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java)

Regards - John