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simon
Administrator
#1 Fri Sep 15
What kinds of features do you want? Are we missing anything important? This thread is for asking and answering these questions. Feel free to post suggestions and ideas, so that the Bullpoo team and the community can discuss how we can make this site better for everyone.
stockydave
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#2 Fri Sep 15
i find it very hard to read the text with the new layout and colors. Whites on whites, reds on blues. Its a nightmare for a colorblind person!
simon
Administrator
#3 Fri Sep 15
i find it very hard to read the text with the new layout and colors. Whites on whites, reds on blues. Its a nightmare for a colorblind person!


Yikes! First of all, my apologies - we'll get on this issue right away. Please let us know a little more information so that we can fix this asap. Are you having trouble distinguishing the reds/greens or blues/yellows? What kind of color combinations would be best? We wanna get it right this time.

Thanks for letting us know about this, stockydave.
echocubed
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#4 Fri Sep 15
I think bright orange and white don't really go together because it's harder to see the small words in bright orange while in a white background; but i guess its just a personal thing..
joey
Administrator
#5 Fri Sep 15
Hi all! I'm Joey and I'm in charge of site design for Bullpoo. Firstly, I'd like to thank stockydave and echocubed for their comments and as you can see, the link colors have been changed. We hope this solves some of the readability issues from the initial release. Thanks and keep those suggestions coming!
smokinstocks
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#6 Fri Sep 15
Yes, I think it is better, I'm not as young as I use to be, and my vision isn't that great. The new coloring is better.
echocubed
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#7 Fri Sep 15
Yes, I think this colouring is better than before
mikegross
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#8 Mon Sep 25
Please remove the cancel feature of queued transactions. Right now, I can buy something, watch it go down on my Etrade account and then cancel it before the order goes through. If you remove this functionality, this will be comparable to a real-time site, only with a 20 minute lag.

simon
Administrator
#9 Tue Sep 26
Please remove the cancel feature of queued transactions. Right now, I can buy something, watch it go down on my Etrade account and then cancel it before the order goes through. If you remove this functionality, this will be comparable to a real-time site, only with a 20 minute lag.



Thanks for pointing this out! That does undermine the 20 minute delay for our market orders. We will remove the function to cancel market orders that are being queued.
edsonmedina
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#10 Fri Oct 6
What about adding EuroNext? :)
DeerajKir
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#11 Fri Oct 6
this site has changed much since I visited last
cristobal
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#12 Wed Jan 3
Have you considered creating a filter to allow one to sort investor ranking by maximum percentage of portfolio put into any one transaction? Or to include a weighting for percentage of correct direction picks (in additinoa to absolute dollars gained)?

Here's the reason... Right now the investor rank (in absolute dollars) rewards the biggest gamblers. Few people actually invest (for very long :) by putting >50% of their portfolio into any one position (short or long). There will be as many users with -80% return using this strategy as there are those with >100%. We just don't see the 'losers' on the list of 'best investors'. Therefore, if users could filter the list of 20 best investors with some additional criteria that excluded 'Bet on Red' scenarios, we might start to see results that looked more realistic.

In general, congratulations on the site, it looks great!

--Chris J. Los Angeles.
simon
Administrator
#13 Thu Jan 4
Hi Chris,

Thanks for your feedback. We have been looking to revamp the ratings system to make it more realistic and relevant, and your suggestion is a good path to take. Our idea is to focus more around the portfolios and we've been brainstorming a way to make a better points system, yet not be biased towards a particular investment strategy. I think your idea of creating filters is a good solution as it will allow members to choose what types of portfolios they can see.

I hope you don't mind if we continue asking questions and extending this discussion further, so that we can refine the ratings system. Thanks for your compliments, we are working hard to make it better.

Simon
Bullpoo Team
cristobal
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#14 Thu Jan 4
Simon,

Thanks for your response. I think I will add suggestions as I think of them. Perhaps
you will like some of them and decided to push through to an implementation...
Is there a way (currently) to rank and display stocks by total member position in $$?
This could be done based on current positions, and potentially, historically. The
value of the historical view is that it may help promote the site if you could in fact
show that the member's aggregate picks (top 5 or 10) did well over time. Specifically,
could it be shown that member top positions (long or short) are a reasonably good
indicator of things to come?

--Chris J., Los Angeles
kevin
Administrator
#15 Fri Jan 5
Hi everyone,

Just to introduce myself, I'm Kevin, the one in the team that looks over the finance side to Bullpoo. Chris, thanks for your feedback! I read over your discussion with Simon and wanted to touch base with you as well.

We are changing the ranking system to make it more realistic. Instead of just ranking on absolute dollar value, we also want to rank based on average ROI, best historical picks, and perhaps even accuracy on forecasts. This should flatten the playing field for all players. Was this what you had in mind? If not, please feel free to message me. We want to incorporate your feedback into the development process.

Look out for new and exciting tools and features for 2007, and keep the feedbacks coming in - we welcome and appreciate it all.

Kevin
Bullpoo Team
DonutPatrol
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#16 Sat Jan 6
Chris J.

Good suggession. That's why "stock picking" contests are always won by high risk gamblers that put all their money in a few aggresive stocks. The only way to "win" is to go balls out. Plus, there's no penalty if you should lose. What these contests don't show is t;he very high percentage of high risk takers that lose big time. As you wisely point out, most people don't invest their real portfolos this way. And if they do invest this way there is a very heavy penalty for losing....you lose real money.

John K.
Menlo Park, Calif
simon
Administrator
#17 Mon Jan 8
We've had a bunch of good input about the portfolio ranking system recently, and I've started a new topic about improving it. Please feel free to add your thoughts to it.

Thanks!

Simon
Bullpoo Team
reuben
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#18 Tue Jan 9
I have not yet found how dividends are treated in portfolio performance.
I presume there is no automatic system in place for "sweep" accounts, but could one set them up for "manual" entry to hold cash in equivalent form pending other investments?

And, does the T+3 rule apply, so that one may sell first on a day and then buy that same day with the upcoming porceeds?
kevin
Administrator
#19 Wed Jan 10
Hi Reuben,

Thanks for your post!

We've received a few requests on dividends and how they fit into the portfolios. As of now, we only process stock dividends and stock splits, and not for cash dividends. So users are not able to track their performance with dividends taken into account.

We are looking into fixing it so that all corporate actions can be processed automatically. For the time being though, you are able to manually enter the information into your "tracking portfolio", and we welcome you to try it out.

The T+3 rule doesn't apply here. We've simplified it so that you can buy and sell right away, instead of waiting three days for settlement. Once you buy or sell anything, your funds and positions should be reflected in your portfolio immediately.

Feel free to let me know if you have any other suggestions or comments. Thanks!

Kevin
Bullpoo Team
reuben
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#20 Wed Jan 10
Not having used them yet on this site, I am not sure of how the use of "Stops" is handled. I presume that stops have to be manually reset as a price changes rather than reset auto (as selected) as Schwab has only fairly recently done on its "StreetSmart" (Trailing Stops). Correct?
kevin
Administrator
#21 Wed Jan 10
Hi Reuben,

The stop-loss function serves as the absolute lowest price an investor is willing to take before they sell their stocks. It's pre-set, and automatically sells stocks at a certain price below the purchase price. You are correct that these orders have to be manually reset, but we will soon include a "good until" date, at which time unexecuted orders will expire.

Your mentioned "Trailing Stops" sounds interesting. Can you elaborate more on how it works? We might be able to implement it as one of the new functions. Loving your ideas, please keep them coming!

Kevin
Bullpoo Team
reuben
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#22 Thu Jan 11
First off, it might be more convenient for feedbacks to appear in inverse chronological order, and scroll down to get prior inputs.

Trailing stops.

This is slang for a system where the stops change price settings as the traded price moves up or down. If one has a stop set to prevent or limit loss of a gain, as the price moves up the stop is reset a bit higher as the price advances. James Dines was forever advising on "moving stops." He made this writer a lot of money. Remember silver in the 60's? LuvYa, Jim!

One can set up a calculation external of one's account and then manually enter the change in the set of the stop. However, now some sophisticated trading systems like Schwab's StreetSmart Pro will do it for you automatically.
That is very useful if one suspects or sees evidence of "corrections" or another lawsuit against MO, or MSFT and the EU.

Of course the same can be used in the other direction to cover shorts, and to add to short positions during extended declines.

Still, Vigilence is required. reuben
simon
Administrator
#23 Fri Jan 12
Hi,

Thanks for the continuous feedback! Just a small update - I have added a sort feature to allow you to order topics by regular or reverse chronological order. Once you have ordered it according to your preferences, this will be automatically saved for you and remembered whenever you browse the forums again. Thanks for the suggestion, reuben.

The team looks at all of the new suggestions every day, and we are in fact working on a few of the ones right now! Stay tuned.

Simon
Bullpoo Team
reuben
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#24 Sun Jan 14
As things go on , you might consider setting up a virtual self-directed IRA account, perhaps at several levels(?) say, 30,000; 50,000 and 100,000 instead of the 1mil for traders.

Initially it could be all equities. Later as you work things out, it could include mutual funds. That would be the only "true" way for some to play. Apply the restrictions on IRAs used by brokers (Schwab, e.g.). No margins, no shorts, limited option trading.

MOTTO
"Learn how to run your own IRA and beat the funds"

That's sort of like going into a candy store with only 3 cents instead of a quarter 30 years ago (or more).
reuben
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#25 Tue Jan 16
One thing I forgot to note on the concept of a Virtual IRA account, was that you should defer consideration until dividends can be accounted for, either by manual entries from account holders, or automatically.

Yields (payouts) 7% and up (plus price appreciation) have been my prime targets for parts of my tax sheltered portfolios.
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