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OzSuper comment / Problems with price load for Thursday 15-Nov-2007
« on: November 17, 2007, 12:52:03 PM »
Only a small number of companies from a bad set of price records for Thursday. Problem being investigated.


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OzSuper comment / non standard price loads for previous 2 weeks
« on: August 19, 2007, 04:12:35 AM »
Due to interuptions to normal price data, non standard price loads have been arranged for the previous two weeks. Normal data loads are now being restored.

This will now return to a smoother and timelier loading of end of day prices.

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OzSuper comment / Must now be registered in forums to post
« on: June 03, 2007, 12:59:16 AM »
Due to recent spam entries being posted by GUESTs. The policy for these forums has been changed so message posts can only be done by those who have registered for these forums. No big prob, if you want to post then register (no cost). But you are expected to not post gratuitous spam entries.

Previous spam entries have been deleted and blocked.

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Trading strategies / The Original Turtles Trading Rules (2003)
« on: May 20, 2007, 05:13:19 PM »
available on the net originally from: www.originalturtles.org

These free rules are interesting to show one successful trading system. Used as a template for novice traders in the successful walk to wealth.

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OzSuper comment / NULL dividiend dates (2007-01-26) corrected
« on: March 12, 2007, 06:01:44 PM »
NULL dividend dates have been tidied from 1900-01-00.

as per http://www.ozsuper.com/ax_b/b_AAO.php#Fundamental

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OzSuper comment / Colors to show more information in ENHANCED prices...
« on: February 28, 2007, 02:21:14 AM »
The enhanced prices within each company home page has color attributes used to show:

1) the high and low limit via solid GREEN and PINK.
2) comparative rise and fail with GREEN and RED font
3) no movement with a FAINT font, to suppress attention.

OZSUPER has now introduced these graphics with a little more complexity. The method is applicable for values that are not rising/failing with a neighbour value. RANK% is the value to demonstrate this, by showing...

1) high/low values outside an outer limit with solid GREEN and PINK. Set at 5%
2) Positive value outside an inner limit, using GREEN and RED font. Set at 20%
3) within inner limits, using the FAINT font to suppress attention.

These INNER and OUTER limits will soon become dynamic... stay tuned.

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OzSuper comment / Basic Prices on own page now
« on: January 17, 2007, 01:00:28 AM »
The basic prices has been removed from the bottom for the company home pages, and placed on it's own page. reachable from the hyperlink from the old location.

This means the company home page is smaller, and the 120 trading days can be enlarged to show more history. The basic format has been retained so as to enable pasting and spreadsheet processing.

Example for company code AMP...
Old location:
http://www.ozsuper.com/ax_b/b_AMP.php#Basic

New location:
http://www.ozsuper.com/ax_b3/b_AMP.php

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OzSuper comment / Prices a few days behind...
« on: January 13, 2007, 01:58:22 AM »
Due to a site technical problem, the dates of daily price and statistics are running a couple of days behind. A fix for this is in the process of being developed and and expected to be fixed over the weekend.

Stay tuned, and serious apologies for the delay with the all important numbers.


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OzSuper comment / PE ratio now shown day by day
« on: August 27, 2006, 01:19:54 AM »
Please note that the PE (Price to Earnings Ratio) is now being shown on each of the Company pages as part of the ENHANCED section. This indicator is being shown day by day, so for those that utilise this indicator, we can readily see how the ratio is changing as the price moves. As the ratio moves lower the share becomes cheaper and more attractive to buy. Negative values mean a loss is being incurred, rather than profit.

Also note that the formula is PRICE / EPS (Earnings Per Share). The value for EPS is the latest on file as shown under the FUNDAMENTAL section, as stated in the column heading.

Examples:
Fundamental... http://www.ozsuper.com/ax_b/b_ANZ.php#Fundamental
Enhanced...     http://www.ozsuper.com/ax_b/b_ANZ.php#Enhanced

Enjoy.

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OzSuper comment / Restrictive access WARNING
« on: May 11, 2006, 11:33:51 AM »
The top-of-page global 'STOP PRESS' message now clearing states that there are upcoming HEAVY restrictions for new participants on this site.

This is not a joke.

The restrictions will apply at the time of implementation for all members registering and paying the site fee at the time. Previous users, with access, will continue their uninterrupted access within reasonable and responsible limits.

Further wordings will be generated and available shortly.

This site is no joke. Access is a privilege.

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Trading strategies / Share Trading and RANK%
« on: September 16, 2005, 01:04:22 AM »
Share Trading and RANK%

Major v Minor questions
Let’s remember the MAJOR questions of share trading and not be sidetracked into the chasing answers to lessor questions.

1) The major question: What is the best company to buy (CHOOSE)?

2) Lessor but still important questions:
When and how do I buy the best stock (BUY)?
When and how do I get out of the stock (SELL)?

3) Other questions that arise appear to me to be minor in nature.

The Problem
I would argue that many of the principles, methods and techniques are ways to help answer question category (2) above, rather than (1).

This includes all the “graph me a stock” add-ons such as moving averages, levels of resistance and support.

The Solution
In response to the lack of a clear approach to answer the major trading question. Embedded in this search is looking for the stock that will approach the market best growth.

Here is where we start getting into the subject nature of each trader.

By applying a simple hard number that not only shows the way a company has competed in the market for a single day but also allows the comparison across other days, we provide the trader with the bare basic metric to allow the applying of whatever criteria is needed. Some investors will chase the high scores, others chasing the low scores.

Percentile Scoring
A percentile is often used in the academic world in relation to students scores in tests. The definition is a percentage of participants who score the same or less than the student in question (including themselves). The value ranges from 1 up to 100.

A score of 90%, says that the student is inside the bottom 90% of all students.

What’s wrong with a percentile?
This method of statistics reacts to the particular nature of a specific exam. It is not transferable to another exam day.

The problem comes to light best when looking at those that share the bottom score for the day. If 50% of participants share the lowest score the percentile of each of them is 50%.
These bottom scorers are now not comparable to an exam the next day where only one participant obtains the lowest score, whose percentile would then be 1%.

If you want to track the lowest scorers across the last 5 years, some adjustment of this percentile is required.

A percentile is a means of measuring an upward, or one way progression. It does not serve when analyzing the downward direction.

RANK%
Is the OzSuper name given to this variant. After applying a normal rank of companies in the market for a single day, and redistributing these values into a range of 100% down to 0%, where the top ranking companies share a value 100. The lowest ranked share a value of 0.

These scores are now comparable across trading days. A company having a value of zero automatically means it’s on the extreme of the scale for that day.

We now have a hard number for how a particular company did in comparison to all others for that day.
What it does NOT do

Important to keep in mind is that this value is not tracking the amount of growth for a company, but the competitive nature of it’s growth.

Best example to illustrate would be:The worst trading day where all companies loose. The best gainer (or in fact “the least looser”) would be given a value of 100. It is the best in the market for that day, even though it lost money also.

What is INCLUDED
The measure is the ON-Market growth for the company on a single day in comparison to other companies.

What is NOT included
Any OFF-Market growth is NOT measured. Changes in price between CLOSE and the next day’s OPEN price.

Remember RANK% is not growth, but comparison of growth in the market.

As you surf www.OzSuper.com look for the new RANK% value as a guide when reviewing which stock is "BEST".

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OzSuper comment / New GUI enhancement for DATES on OzSuper...
« on: September 05, 2005, 03:52:27 AM »
More than just showing figures, stats and dates, is the presentation of the data in the best way for fast interpretation by the viewer.

To further this requiement various dates across www.OzSuper.com are now sharing the same BELOW, EQUAL, ABOVE color coding as price movements. Especially on expiry dates, showing OPTIONS and WARRANTS that have expired or yet to expire.

Any feedback on this or other required features feel free to post further.

Enjoy.
PS. The date compared against is the "latest price load" date , so as to behave across world timezones.

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OzSuper comment / New forum platform for OzSuper
« on: July 03, 2005, 04:49:19 PM »
Due to security issues with phpBB, OzSuper has now migrated to SMF for it's forum software. Previous status of forum has been migrated. No previous data or features should be lost.

Note: You may need to change your local time setting in your profile, the value is relative to the location of these forums. ie: GMT+7. Therefore GMT+10 timezone will be a value of 17, to provide you with your local Australian Eastern Time.

Interested in feedback on the new layour etc....

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OzSuper comment / Page Table of Contents...
« on: June 09, 2005, 01:34:20 PM »
Did you know...

Every page is provided with a "Page Table of Contents... ", usually in the left column. This allow you to jump to specific sections of the current page being shown.

That's fine, but did you also know that....

Each section is also linked forward and backward with other page sections. So you can very quickly jump up and down the current page.

 8)

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Trading Scams / Good Trading Definition, behind most trading scams...
« on: June 09, 2005, 12:29:47 PM »
:idea: Profitable trading is buying low, selling high...
...and having others do something different
.


Most scams are centered on low cost stocks that can have their prices move due to a change in trading behavour.

Basically this means:
1) buy a cheap stock low.
2) get others to buy it.
3) price goes up.
4) sell before the others do.

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