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

Ashley, so not all is as it seems in there then..???

What do they prefer chatting about then..?

alecm,

Actually, site site was not down yesterday, there was a glitch with streaming for a while (but the site remained up, but upon roll back to the non port80 fixed version, all was fine. It appears that some web-caches (otherwise known as transparent proxies) at companies like NTL, Blueyonder etc etc cached the downsite page, and would not refresh to get the fully functioning website.

I have put in place code to stop this happening in future as it was infuriating for us and misleading to our customers!

As for more downtime, yes, there will be more *scheduled* downtime while we put in place more services, and increase our resiliance and redundancy, but as for unscheduled downtime, I hope the team at MoneyAM have learned from all the design and setup mistakes that ADVFN made and wont repeat them here...

I guess only time will tell...

J.

ps: Scheduled downtime will always to out of market hours!

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Tullettj, all i was getting was a big blue screen with your logo on it saying site is getting maintenance, try again shortly.....

Just had a look at the titles on the 'Traders Thread' out of the first 45 threads, about five were directly aimed at a specific stock....(now where have i seen that before..??? (PBB) ADVFN..?? and i certainly would not pay to use that....

Cheers Ashley, so i takr it , it is not good.....

Money am, think this is going to be a problem, hope you sort it soon.....

Mr Ashley James,

Can you please point out to me, either on here or in mail: jonathan@moneyam.com where all these personal attacks are happening.

Obviously, if this is the case, then action will be taken.

Thanks,

J.

alecm,

The blue screen was due to the caching issue and was totally out of our control.

I have now put in place code to stop that happening again...

J.

Alec,

Well it has done me a favour, it has put me off BBs anyway.

Shares Talk content 1/100, which is a surprise because I thought Shares Magazine were going to inject some content.

Also normal us and them trader/investor divisions which are so mutually destructive, especially noting ADVFN PBB has died, and most ADVFN posters now just post on FBB Day, Shorters and Minters Threads.

The days of a BB being for research seemed to have flown straight past AM's business plan, more a huddled club of traders looking for mutual support.

I think we have to accept that there really are not enough people left who even consider investing or trading in equities is worth while to support three main websites ADVFN, AM and III.

I think people will pay for content and functionality, in the absence of either I am not sure what they are expected to pay for.

Even FTSE 100 feed is 15 minutes delayed-pathetic or what?

Cheers

Ash

Tullettj, that is exactly what i am saying, things beyond your control...You cant account for these, that is why i am waiting, i cant see the logic to paying for something that is not proven....i am not saying that i do not like your product, quite the contrary, it is the case that it is not 'safe', if you know what i mean...

As for the 'Traders' BB, think i can live without a second PBB to be fair i wish it was like the FBB but without the idiots.......

What about offering something like a 'X' amount, day trial, as an offer, so that people can make their own minds up, have a look at the new things they will get , just so they know, just limit it to one trial per person, even do it for a couple of hours.....

Did'nt the price of Level 2 drop a while back..? i stand to be corrected on that , but your prices seem to mirror the 'other' site, but for lot less product (at the moment).

Alec...

alecm,

We are not currently offering Level2, nor do we have prices for that product displayed anywhere...?

J.

Johnathan,

I have sent Mike Boydell your Managing Director at least four emails in the last 48 hours, plus several others over the first two months but it appears that due to a long standing friendship with a Mr Johnathan Simms alias Dead Cat Bounce, also a close personal friend of Clem Chambers he does not want to deal with it.

Clem's posts on ADVFN PBB have a certain logic, We have our own secret weapon Ashley James, meaning if we send the boys round to MoneyAM, afterall they have left the door wide open, and they attack and harrass AJ, he will react, the traders will then return to the fold appalled by the ensuing commentry, he was indeed entirely correct with his strategy, AJ will react after six weeks of provocation, being called a lier, having his integrity questioned.

The bottom line, if you are a cronie of Mike Boydell, is that you can post what you want, however abusive, however if you are an outsider on the receiving end, forget it, the clique will win against anyone from the outside world.

In fact please do not post on shares or spend time injecting content, MoneyAM want an exclusive club, exclusive that is to anyone not in the inner circle, or whom is not a fully fledged GNI Day Trader.

There are only so many times you can ignore impartial policing of BBs when you have sold a monitored BB policy to the outside world.

Really, at this stage of the proceedings, to say I was not impressed would be being kind.

Cheers

Ashley

Ash, that has always amazed me, you can get any feed APART from FTSE for free...that still gets me smiling, but the FTSE feed from the LSE, still has to be paid for by some one, and it aint cheap......

http://www.londonstockexchange.com/distributors/realtime.asp

i looked into it for someone, who is setting up YET another of these sites, with an American backer, dont think it will be long until that one appears either....


There aint enough people to go around (ADVFN,III,am).? i totally agree, that is why i am a bit suprised that am is charging people to use a BB...

Lets look at it another way, ADVFN charge for PBB, now totally useless and un-used, III in the same boat, anyone see a pattern forming..??? AM, why is yours going to be so different..?? i cant see it....

Alecm,

Exactly, I pointed this out day one, was ignored, a far wiser strategy would have been to have had one BB day one, then offer access to a separate traders room after 90 days when functionality up and running serviced out of a monthly subscriptions.

This would enable you to gain critical mass day one of postings volumes, leveraged off loyal trader cronies, which would have attracted remaining investors and ADVFN type FBB clientelle for the first time able to follow the day traders threads in it's full glory.

Personally I would have charged everyone for BB use day 1 5 plus VAT after a 30 day cancellable trial period perhaps.

Now we have the worst of both worlds, a divided community, neither with critical mass, nor sufficient content or vibrancy playing both ends off against the middle, ie not knowing if ADVFN or MoneyAM will win out, a foot in both camps.

Meanwhile the market is systematically reducing the number of people even interested in shares by the day.

Is anybody out there in touch with the current stockmarket and economic collapse?

Hello-ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo?

Cheers

Ash

Mr Ashley James,

I have just been speaking with our Customer Services Manager about this matter, and we both agree that there are more people than just Mike who:
a) can deal with abuse on the bulletin boards.
b) *want* to deal with abuse on the bulletin boards.

Personal attacks will not be tolerated, it isnt always going to be possible for us to read every single post, which is why we have moderators and why it is good for other users to report these to us!

Please email support@MoneyAM.com any potential breeches on the BBs and they will be dealt with appropriately!

J.

Ash, i agree...

Lets look at it another way, i am new to this site, i look , i like, but the BB, is virtually un-used, i ponder, i know, i will look at the other one, AAhh, problem, i cant without paying...Do i pay for something i cannot look at..??

People should be charged a 5 sign on fee, then after say, 60 or 90 days, they pay 5 per month, that way they can see what they are paying for...

Alec......

.

I use the Traders room and find it very useful. It has been running for a few months now due to beta testing. A community has developed and the posters there are very helpful, polite and generous to each other. Ashley has his own battles to fight, some of which may be of his own making. Apart from Ash and his various combatants, there is no aggravation at all there.

There are useful threads on Technical Analysis, Sharescope and other software packages, US stocks, Crocodile's Traders thread which gives an insight into day trading and is a very useful learning tool. There are discussions on particular stocks and general chat about trading and investing techniques. It is a fantastic source of information. If you ask a question about the LSE, day trading, technical analysis or something that is pretty obscure about stocks, then you can expect to get an answer there. If you invest money in stocks then 5 a month is a not significant cost. That's about 1 a week. You can subscribe to it and if you don't like it then cancel it. It is not like ADVFN here. You can cancel whenever you want.

Because of the connection with Shares magazine, I am expecting to see more input to the site from their journalists. That is something which will make this site different from others.

ASh, people WILL pay for info, but they have to know what sort of info they are going to get..!!!

Who wants to pay for half the threads on the Traders Thread..???

Truth is, i would probably only read less than 10% of them, and the other BB is deserted, so not looking good is it..???

I would like to see a historic list of Director Dealings & up-to-date lists of Major shareholdings for all stocks.
Cheers.