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Forum Upgrade Notice December 25, 2007
The Neodaq forum has been updated to Olympus, some people may have
trouble getting in if they password was not able to be converted.
If you have trouble, use the send a password function and click
on the link in the email to activate this password. If your e-mail
on the forum is not valid, you can contact me at phpbb3 (at) neodaq.info
and I can work on getting things fixed up. Please be patient
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Hoarding 101 This activity is off the charts with many
item prices climbing faster than kudzu. Seems the forum is
attracting more and more people who are interested in risk reward
cycles presented by stuffing your SDB.
Welcome to all the newcomers, don't be shy, be sure to post your
own thoughts... that is what a community is all about.
Thanks to all of the oldbies who continue to post great information,
you have made this forum the best resource around for earning NP.
Speaking of the oldbies, there is much speculation about the
influence of our boards on item prices.
It does indeed seem that you all have the uncanny ability to guess
the next big thing, or maybe it is the next big thing because you guessed it.
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You can stick a fork in this one, it's done...
Congrats to the winners, thanks to all for the creative,
input and a special thanks to our very own gramdragon for all her efforts in seeing this through.
Banner Competition - A BIG One!
It has been awhile since I last wrote out here so 'bear' with me.
There is a certain little competition in progress currently, the SBG is looking for a banner change and it is you who will have the bragging rights of your banner being displayed millions of times through neopia. What could be better than having your art displayed millions of times? Well, how about millions of NP in prizes to be awarded to the finalists? Over three million to be more precise, all waiting for your creative talents to shine like the gold that will line the winner's pockets. For details head over to the Banner thread in 'Writers Block/Art Skool in the forum and show us all what you've got... Oh, and remember, this is open to all members of the forum, not just SBG, so even if you are tied down or don't want to commit to the full experience of what the SBG has been offering all these years, you can still join in on the fun.
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One word AWESOME, why awesome? Well recent developements with one of Neodaqs umbrella sites is bringing us closer to a new era in getting big the Neopian way. For a look check out the iPricing link on the left and for details see the forum under Neopets Related. The nitty gritty of it though is we are now collecting current prices of neopets items when ImproveNeo users search the shop wiz. These prices are then saved to a database so months or even years from now we will be able to look at an items history much the as we do with stocks with charts and graphs that will show trends in pricing previously unkown in neopia. With over 1500 items added to the index within the first 72 hours or release it is a sure success and destined to become one of the most popular resources available for gaining np earning insights.
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New Tools I have added a "Tools" menu to the sidebar
of Neodaq. Currently there is only one tool, but hopefull the kit
will grow. The first tool I hope you find usefull, especially if
you like to post pieces from the spreadsheet, as it will take a
cut-and-paste section and format it into a table that can be pasted
into the forum.
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New Ticker We now have a stock ticker on the page.
Stocks are color coded as to their price area.
Grey are stocks below 15 (unbuyable)
Green are stocks 15-19 (buyable)
Blue are stocks 20-29 (holds)
Purple are stocks 30-49 (low sell points)
Red are stocks 50-59 (near sell ranges)
Orange are stocks 60 and up (strong sell points)
Prices are slightly delayed due to data collection
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Add your feedback and your support if so inclined when the
time comes there is currently a discussion in the forum concerning
pestering the ENT... errr I mean petitioning the TNT about enhancing
the stocks game. Some time back they had said they were going
to raise the buy limit but as with most things easier said than
done apparently.
Cast your vote and please follow up on this thread because as
group we just might be able to get noticed. Heres
the thread.
Also noteable, see the little red line on the charts?
Hmmmm... richie is up to something. Looks like we now have the
daily lows going in on the charts. My guess is that the highs
will come along soon also. Dont know how it will work out on the
long term charts but for a month or two view it looks like it
will be quite interesting.
~ w3
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New Charts To those who actual read this notice I have
a little preview for you. If you look at the text links to the
stock charts, there is now a whole new set of charts, which are
update (almost) every 1/2 hour. There is still a lot of work to
do before this if fully implemented but it is a major break through
in Neodaq technology. I wish to give a special thanks to ineedjava
for developing the script which is sending this data.
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New Portfolio The latest update on the stock
market makes the portfolio page on Neopets much nice to work with,
I have even gotten a work around working to get buy a coding error
on the page. They made it even better by making it also be the
sell page
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Digging that Data on the off chance you have missed the
new link on the left be sure to check out 'Richies Data Mine'
For the numbers nuts out there this is a veritable treasure trove
of information. This new tool allows you to look into the history
of the stocks in the way you want to.
Richie isn't sitting on his laurels basking in the praise that
is so rightfully his for all the work he has put into the site.
Rather he is hard at work on a number of additions and enhancements
for the site including a new version of the Data Mining page that
will add much more flexibility.
Of Note: Also want to mention for those who follow the grading
of stocks. The system for grading stocks has been changed.
For the last three years I have used each stocks average for computing
grade and over time it has just not held up. The new system
uses the frequency the stock moves from the buyable range to above 45,
and the more often this happens the
higher grade it will get. This will likely cause some upset for
those who have a port full of stocks currently rated high as some
of them will get a lower rating but don't worry about it and don't
sell them off just because their grade changed.
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BDvENT.com is looking for avid BD'rs/coders/artists interested
in helping to build up this new site. If this is you then be sure
to check out the thread in the BD Chat board of the neodaq forum.
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Hey hey hey... The charts are back, whoo hooo. I finally got
things sorted and working and not without plenty of hair pulling
I might add. PT and I probably look like twins now but the charts
are working and being built on the fly from the database to boot.
The page isnt real pretty right now but I will be working on that
soon and hopefully adding a lot of new features for sorting and
comparing the data. Use the link on the left to find them and
enjoy...
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Here's an interim fix for the xls to accommodate the two new
stocks ACFI and TNPT. I did'nt mess with the charts so there might
still be some problems there but the rest of the sheet works fine.
Also you will need to delete the stocks put in after the first
refresh then put your data in for the BUYS and SALES pages. NeodaqXLS_v6_0h2.zip
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After a long and arduous battle in the NWC Team wars the SBG
battlers fought their way to a Third place overall. Hearty congratulations
go out to the entire team for representing the SBG in a way that
makes us all very proud. Also a special note of thanks to trikey
for heading up the team. Once again a nice trophy comes to the
SBG cabinet... Watch out next time is all I can say because this
group just keeps getting bigger and badder all the time.
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Well the introduction of the new stock LDSC has caused more than
a few people to go scrambling about trying to figure out what
was wrong with their spreadsheet. While in some ways it is nice
to see some change in the game that doesnt involve our shares
langing on zero it always causes me consternatation as it means
back to the XLS to try and fix things up. With so many people
adding code to the sheet over the last few major versions it seems
so foriegn to me not to mention the other spreadsheet that I use
to track the data in as it complains too.
I think everything is working well in this new version but if
there are problems please report them in the forum, here is the
file
*Note* a a couple small fixes added that were missed in 6.0f
so here is 6.0g NeodaqXLS_v6_0g.zip
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AAVL
hits ?? For a Million NP It has been some long time now
since I first offered this contest up, since Sep 19, 2003 to be
exact. Wow, that has been nearly a year and a half ago and now
with AAVL seeing ground it has not been on since before then could
this mean that someone will be cashing in on the Million NP?
At 43 as of this writing it seems to be getting close. Be sure
to get your guesses in on the date in the thread linked above.
I would love to see someone win this one as I am sure the lucky
winner will love having a million NP dropped on them.
Be sure to read the first post in that thread before posting
to make sure your guess will count and try and keep the list ordered
properly to make it easy for the next person who comes along to
insert their guess into the list.
w3
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12/29/04 Santy hits Neodaq forums, I was lucky in that it seems
nothing was touched by the worm other than the forum script files.
The forum database and the rest of neodaq.com appear to have been
untouched. Lucky of course means all of the files that make up
the forum had been deleted so the forum had to be rebuilt from
scratch. Since I have set up a few of these this part is only
an hours work but of course there has to be a fly in the ointment.
Some time back I had set up a dedicated server for some other
websites of mine. Since I had this server with plenty of horsepower
sitting idle I have been wanting to move neodaq.com from the shared
hosting provider where it was currently located (number of reasons
here from flexibility in what I can do with the site to the ten
bucks a month I was shelling out for no real reason). I also registered
neodaq.info so I would be able to make the move in small steps
without interrupting the site while doing so.
The ointmented fly - moving a forum with as many members and
posts as this one is not an easy task. The database is very large
(250MB + uncompressed) and on a connection like mine (2-way satellite)
this is compounded so I have been dragging my feet on doing it.
Luckily I had a backup only a few hours old so very few posts
were lost. Having the forum wiped out meant I was going to have
to go through all these steps anyhow just to get it back online
so I took the opportunity to make the move now. I spent about
eight hours uploading files, googling for help and editing php
scripts but now it is done and on its new domain where it should
remain neodaq.info/forum
so please update any bookmarks.
There are likely to be some hiccups that will need to be worked
out so bear with me. This morning already there was a sessions
full error which google once again provided a fix involving editing
a php file related to how data currently being accessed is stored
(memory or disk). Hopefully this fix is permanent.
The avatars directory was also wiped out. I had an old backup
and will be looking for a more recent one I think I have on my
notebook from a couple months back. I have uploaded the old one
(about a year old) and will check for the newer one soon. If you
avatar has not shown back up by new years then you will have to
re-upload it, sorry.
Lastly, there were a lot of mods on the forum that made things
a little nicer to use (quick post) interesting (word count) or
just different (gabby). Most if not all of these mods will not
be reinstalled. I am only going to be working on things affecting
the stability of the forum. My reason is simple, this is a clean
install of the forum at the perfect time, ver 2.2 of phpBB has
been announced for a beta release in a month or so and neodaq
forum will be quickly upgraded provided there are no large problems
with the release. Having an umodded forum will make this much
less painful.
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Advent calendar link added to the Daily links and War Status
added next to the Battledome link to keep you up to date on the
war.
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Neodaq.xls back on track thanks to those folks from the forum
who continue to fix and improve this spreadsheet. What a group
effort his has become with so many people adding fixes or offering
code snippets each time it goes down.
My apologies if I am sometimes a little slow about getting the
new files up but they have to be combed through and tested before
I will post them on the site for all to download. In the interim
during a broken file episode I simply add my buys and sales manually
which is what I suggest everyone else to do so you will have complete
records once a new working copy is available.
If fixing these files was left just to me there would be a much
longer wait because of the trial and error method of my own madness
not to mention the creative additions that are a benefit of a
group exercise so I really want all who contribute to know that
you have my thanks.
w3
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