I second that suggestion! :D

Looks like the beginnings of a potentially great hack! *clicks installed*

EDIT: as i haven't actually installed yet, can i ask whether this mod allows daytrading via the yahoo feeds? Since they are 15 minutes delayed, it isn't too hard to know the future of the stockmarket as it were. If using yahoo, having it use end of day quotes only would avoid this problem (or paying for a more upto date feed for daytrading).

I never thought of that. I will implement an option allowing you to use the most recent update from Yahoo or the previous day's end of day quote.

One thing I also found out, if you have some stocks, then purchase some more of the same, it will not display the unique name of the share with the combined totals. Rather it will treat each entry of the same as a different entry and gives an impression of duplicates, triplicates etc... If it can't be combined then perhaps a transaction date would be handy in there.

I get a javascript error with the ajax on IE

What if I don't want to use "real" stocks, and want to make up generic stock symbols that are specific to my site?

The only stock purchases that get combined are those that have the same "purchase price". If you buy 100 shares of MSFT at $10, and then another 100 shares at $15, each group of shares will show up as two listings in the stock table.

I only tested this under Firefox. I will look at this later.

Sounds like you want an entirely different plugin then.

That is not the case. I made those transactions at market close which means they have the same purchase price. They are however behaving as separate transactions instead of having been combined.

here is a screenshot of the double MSFT with same purchase price.
Anyway, I still think a transaction date is important, for later sophisticated reporting.

Hmm.. this looks like a bug. Did you buy both sets of stocks after the market had closed?

Yes I did

I have fixed this bug and the duplicate entry bug in this last update (0.9.2). Upgrade as normal.

hummm, did you upload it? Nothing has changed with what I just downloaded

Error in upgrading to the lastest update...

Ok, please try again. Looks like I had an error in the product's XML file which was causing a problem with upgrading. This should be fixed now.

The javascript error in IE is gone, but we still have double for identical value stocks

Today is january 2 2007 all quotes read from the ajax display 12/29/2006 or 11/30

That doesn't seem to be an indication of something wrong with the addon, as google finance and yahoo finance are all showing the same exact thing (12/29) as the last trading date.

you are right, market was closed today for president Ford

Hmm the lookup field does nothing for me. I put in a stock symbol like GOOG and click search and it does nothing.

is this 3.6.4 safe yet? Just would like to have a 3.6.4 safe version

thanxs great mod btw

Everything has updated exactly as it should. Excellent hack. I can't wait to see this expanded with multi-user options such as viewing others portfolio and VBA CMPS blocks.

Nominated for MOTM.

Running on 3.6.4 with no issues here

Are you using the latest code? Have you tried in multiple browsers? Could you PM me an URL to your board and I can take a look...

Awesome Hack Man!

However , the " who's online " page shows " unknown location when someone is trading on my forum

This would be excellent if we could make a portfolio for our own stock. Could that be implemented?

What do you mean? You can already create your own portfolio. That's the point of the add-on.

I found out from zethon the ajax in my search wouldn't work because I am on 3.5 ( the rest of the hack works fine) Is there anyone willing to take a look and make the changes in the search needed to make this work on 3.5?

This is such an incredible hack, my users love it.

Thanks so much for this, cant wait for a new release with some of the already mentioned suggestions.

Fatal error: Field money is not defined in $validfields in class vb_datamanager_user in /includes/class_dm.php on line 485

I am using icash and it shows I have 100,000 on hand to buy? I can enter it all but when I click to buy I get that error...

are you sure you've configured this pluigin properly? it sounds like your "money row" may not be accurate.

Well I left a post in the icash support thread and I am asking the author of icash what to do?

Thx

This is a great hack, and I sure want to use it and I don't want to use vbux!

Ok what the icash author posted in reply to this is this........

You need to find out the column your stock mod uses in the user table and edit the settings in the admincp

Below is the setting in icash that I think he is talking about.. What do I put in here? Or will icash even work with this?

options icash "Money row"
What the money row is in your user table, this can be used for easy integration amongst your favorite hacks! (default is money)

Yes, so you want to set the "Money Row" setting in the Stock plugin to the row that iCash uses. It sounds like that value is "money"

Please note that there is a problem in the plugin when you change the Exchange Rate setting of the plugin. I will look into this tonight and hopefully have a fix up in a few hours.

Ok I went and uninstalled and reinstalled icash and stock trader and icash is using money as its "Money Row"... when I go to stock trader it shows the 100,000 I have on hand. I have it set to money and the trader plugin sees it but when I go to purchase after previewing I get this error...

Fatal error: Field money is not defined in $validfields in class vb_datamanager_user in /includes/class_dm.php on line 485

It looks to me that it money is not included as something that can be altered by stock trader?

It shows up in your stock trader...?

Thx

I agree, this would be a great addition to a hack that has very cool potential. It would also be nice if there was a page where you could show "The Top XX Portfoilios", or view others portfolios.

A way to showcase the richest portfolios would be great too

If I install this mod and and then later update to later versions, will my users have to start over with their portfolio?

No, they will not.

Would be nice if this had its own money system I can't seem to get icash to work with it... a simple way to just give money to users as it is I won't use this... can't seem to get it to work.

Nice hack though...