Hi EIC,
Glad you like the idea and thanks for moving the thread. About implementation, I think we need the following:
- A stockbroker who will provide the bid and offer prices as at the date of purchase and sale of the shares - unless you have access to these prices, including the relevant fees/charges.
- The mid market price should then be used for valuation on a daily/weekly or whatever basis is agreed. I'm assuming the prices displayed on the 'ticker tape'/datafeed on this site is based on mid-market valuation as at the close of business. Please educate me if I'm wrong.
- Updating the portfolio is a manual task and therefore needs the dedication of the Administrator (sorry EIC if that falls to you
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- For the technical part, I cheated and used View>Source from the original Capital Times Challenge website to create a sample of what SMN Challenge might look like. As you can see, I'm kicking ass! First rename the attachment from .doc to .htm file type. I had problems uploading .htm directly.
- The Challenge could be moved (again) from the forum to the main page where you might have better control for formatting and linking the pages and making it available to click-through traffic.
More contributions please...