Add-On Releases - Stock Trader for vBulletin

Stock Trader

Summary

This add-on gives your users the ability to use the money system on your board to "invest" in stock. Users can purchase and sell stock at market values. This plugin uses a stock feed from Yahoo to get real time stock quotes.

Release Notes

This product is considered to still be in Beta.This should be ending by the end of January.

This add-on is known to be compatible with vBulletin's built-in reputation system, vbBux and iCash.

Product Specifications

1. two plugins
2. one cron job
3. file uploads
4. one new DB table
5. one template
6. several phrases

Installation
Approx 2-5 mins

1. As always: Back up your Database!
2. upload the files in the "upload" directory, preserving the directory structure
3. Go into AdminCP and import the product-stocktrader.xml file.
4. (OPTIONAL) add a link in the navbar template or wherever your users can find it!

Upgrading/Updating

1. upload all files in the upload directory, overwriting any existing files
2. re-import the XML file, setting "Overwrite" to "Yes"

Configuration

1. vBulletin Options -> Stock Trader Options

Change History

• 0.9.9 (07-25-01) - fixed problem with trading mutual funds, fixed cheat with buying off hours (I think)
• 0.9.8 (07-18-01) - added new options and fixed bug with purchasing really cheap stock
• 0.9.7 (07-15-01) - fixed bug in top portfolios when using a table prefix
• 0.9.6 (07-15-01) - fixed table prefix issues, fixed portfolio.gif problem
• 0.9.5 (07-14-01) - added statistics page, ability to view other user portfolios, and postbit friendly variables
• 0.9.4 (07-09-01) - added a Capital Gains Tax option
• 0.9.3 (07-02-01) - fixed error with purchasing negative stock, fixed compatibility with iCash
• 0.9.2 (07-05-01) - bug fixes
• 0.9.1 (06-30-12) - added AJAX stock info lookup
• 0.9.0 (06-29-12) - initial Beta release

Future Features

• stock ticker marquee for users

Official Support

http://code.google.com/p/vbtrade/

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[zethon]

Originally Posted by leo1977

I am not getting any yahoo feed, just the options to purchase stocks. running 3.6.0 and vbux. Any ideas?

Perhaps I worded it badly. You won't get any feed, the pluging pings Yahoo when it needs to get stock info. What you're seeing is the plugin (look in the screen shots).

[leo1977]

So if I undertand right, It will ping yahoo after a while and I will get the info?

This is what I have now (see the attachment)

Thanks

Originally Posted by zethon

Perhaps I worded it badly. You won't get any feed, the pluging pings Yahoo when it needs to get stock info. What you're seeing is the plugin (look in the screen shots).

[zethon]

Originally Posted by leo1977

So if I undertand right, It will ping yahoo after a while and I will get the info?

This is what I have now (see the attachment)

Thanks

Go ahead and purchase stock. There's no way in this plugin to look up stock symbols or get quotes. You have to know the stock symbol ahead of time by using finance.google.com or something like it.

I'm going to look into adding an AJAX interface for looking up stock info though.

[leo1977]

From screenshot 2 I was under the impression that it's already in this mod. So how would a user know what to put in the fields? Adding an Ajax would be great

[Magz]

Great looking mod,

I am always on the lookout for giving my users extra features on my boards, but a quick question. I have a UK based site, what would be involved in making the mod UK ccompatible, ie in £'s and buying stocks from The UK as opposed to US?

regards

[zethon]

Originally Posted by Magz

Great looking mod,

I am always on the lookout for giving my users extra features on my boards, but a quick question. I have a UK based site, what would be involved in making the mod UK ccompatible, ie in ?'s and buying stocks from The UK as opposed to US?

regards

AFAIK the Yahoo feed only supports USD. In the mod you can set an "exchange rate" that specifies how many of your board's points equal 1 USD. Perhaps you could use that somehow.

[Lionel]

Are you planning to do a vbadvanced module, besides the ticker?

[Oddjob]

Well, it seems to work flawlessly with vbbux.

Awesome mod, looking forward to the next version.

Would like to see something in the postbit legacy where you can see what stocks people have......

[zethon]

I just posted an update which implements an AJAX interface to look up stock information. This does not allow you to search for stock symbols, you must know the symbol ahead of time.

There's one extra file that needs to be uploaded in this update.

[Carl Anderson]

This looks great and I think I will install it. I do have a suggestion! Make it so you can have investing contests - issue so many bucks in a portfolio that has a start and end date? Nice job thx a bunch!