There is a really good tech team here, lets give them some ideas for enhancements or to cure any bugs we find.

The portfolio section column widths.

Perhaps I am the only one losing money around here (LOL), but the % change and P/L Totals both have column withs that result in the - sign being shown on the line above.

Also as we seem to be able to mention competitors, it would be nice if threads about a stock could be grouped in the same way the do at iii.co.uk.

Your portfolio section throws this up

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at com.caucho.server.http.FilterChainPage.doFilter(FilterChainPage.java:182)
at com.caucho.server.http.Invocation.service(Invocation.java:312)
at com.caucho.server.http.CacheInvocation.service(CacheInvocation.java:135)
at com.caucho.server.http.QRequestDispatcher.forward(QRequestDispatcher.java:216)
at com.caucho.server.http.QRequestDispatcher.forward(QRequestDispatcher.java:100)
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at com.caucho.server.http.FilterChainServlet.doFilter(FilterChainServlet.java:96)
at com.caucho.server.http.Invocation.service(Invocation.java:312)
at com.caucho.server.http.CacheInvocation.service(CacheInvocation.java:135)
at com.caucho.server.http.RunnerRequest.handleRequest(RunnerRequest.java:342)
at com.caucho.server.http.RunnerRequest.handleConnection(RunnerRequest.java:272)
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if you try to add a stock valued at 2p. It works ok if you value at 2.0p duh.

Maybe UKX is allowed on an account with a higher subscription rate, I am not sure.

Haystack,

You can not have delayed prices on a StockWatch that contains live prices...

If you have a subscription that allows live indices, then you can indeed have UKX on your StockWatch...

Hope this is of some use.

J.

The site is already excellent, given the short period since official launch - but here are a few thoughts.

Fundamentals: have already been mentioned, but it would be good to have brokers consensus/forecasts/major shareholders etc...

Stockwatch: the column widths are too wide and (as has been mentioned before) although you can adjust them manually, the settings aren't saved. Also, I would like the option to move the chart/trade/news icons from the left of the screen as at present to the right of the screen and in the reverse order i.e. N first - plus there are currently no columns for XD or trade type (although this appears on the trades page). My Monitor on ADVFN also shows the UKX in real time at the top (but perhaps that's because I'm a L2 subscriber??) rather than the delay shown here.

URLs: it would be helpful if URLs on the message boards were automatically "live" without the need to wrap them in HTML to create a hyperlink.

Help Section: it would be useful to have guidance on basic formatting when posting messages. Most of it can be found by checking the source code, but there must be many members who still wonder how to use bold/italics or to post a chart, for example.

News: the lack of archive material is a bit of problem at present. If there's a trading update or new set of results from a company, you have to go to another site to enable any comparison with previous statements.

Futures: the Indices (DOW, Nasdaq and S+P500) seem to be on a 1hr+ time delay.

Sorry for the long shopping list, and many thanks for what you have already achieved....!! :))



T22

Thanks for identifying portfolio problem -
as you say, entering a price of "2" crashes it,
but "2.0" or "3" is fine. Will fix this.
F

...OK, it's fixed.
F

Any chance of having Point & Figure for Daily and intr-day charts?

Harvey

When you are in a thread, you need another button at the bottom so that you can go "back to list" without having to scroll to the top of that thread to get back to the BB

felix

i have discovered a flaw in the display of prices (bid and offer). Like advfn you have 3 colours for the price display (bid and offer). Red to show its gone down from previous price. Green to show no change and Blue to show its risen from the previous price. Problem with MoneyAM's price display that it gets reset to green every time the page is refreshed, say clicking on "N" for stock and then going back to your stockwatch, the bid and offer prices all return to the colour Green. Advfn doesnt do this and 'remembers' the colours so you know whether the bid/offer prices are rising/fallling/unchanged.

Is it possible to have the trades on the trades page colour coded so that you can see at a glance whether the trades look like buys or sells? If it is could you make the entire line either red, blue or green to make it very obviuos to the idiots like me?
Thanks,
TT

Just noticed that the previous post is about colours also. Told you I was and id...

I've set up a sample portfolio and find that there are 2 little quirks on the Portfolio section:

1. The portfolio includes cash (well, 4.65). The end of day valuation of the portfolio is out by 4.65 because it is not adding the cash to the value of the shares.

2. The summary says 10 assets, value 51,502.66. (Actually, there are 11 assets, 10 shares and the 4.65.)
Then it says:
Today 51,378.32 124.34 0.2%
1 week 51,715.76 etc.

Shouldn't 'Today' read 'Yesterday' or 'One day ago'? Today's value is 51,502.66. Yesterday's value was 51,378.32, and it has increased by 124.34 today.

Some very good ideas in previous posts.

Would like to see following.

List of major shareholders.
Shares mag archives by epic.(maybe added to news section)
Company web site addresses.

Better layout of the bb's Dare I say more like ADVFN, with visited threads and created ones highlighted in various colours.
I find the bb somewhat cluttered at present.

I am finding it difficult to remember which thread titles I follow and ones I've never visited - any chance we can have some form of recognition system that makes it quick to go to threads your following, or involved in.. :@)

lesk,

I think I've seen you on the MMD thread!

Only another 6.5 hours to go!

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Ashley,

I think back to when the BB's were fun and educational places to be, and to be honest we were in the bull market then. This bear market is a killer, and interest in stocks and shares is currently very low.

Some have sufferered real pain, IMHO, and that explains some of the behaviour on some threads, I think.

To be fair, AM is new, and there is surely a honeymoon period to give them time to improve the site?

Again, discussion on equities is Very low on all BB's at the moment, down to most of them falling in value I guess. I noticed a difference on iii when TAD had a good run, some old faces came out of the woodwork, number of posts noticeably rose, but have vanished now that the price has fallen back.

The cameraderie from 2 years ago just isn't around at the moment, but would return, I'm sure, if/when the market turns around again.

I agree that the Trader's Room has less posts than I would like, and hope that it will improve with time.

It's been a long night, so off home now!

Andy.

Do i take it, that i have to pay ,just to use the 'Trader's BB'..??

alecm,

Yes, to use the Traders' Room, you need to become a paid subscriber. The Traders' Room is available at all paid levels, including the 5/month one.

J.

??? is'nt that a bit strange.? surely if you were going to charge for something , then it would be 'real-time' prices, not the use of a BB..?? this BB is a dead loss at the moment, virtually un-used, (but that is down to site being new.)

Hmmm have to have a think about this now....

Dont mind paying for services, (as i do on ADVFN already,) but to pay just to use a BB..??

Think i will look again in a month or two....