Argonath Stock Market V3 - 3 days

[Teddy]

With bonds interest is added on to your original purchase amount,
with Stocks if you buy low & sell high, the difference is your profit. 

[Boozman]

This is pretty cool. Going to have to look in to this.

[Teddy]

We've become aware of some minor bugs,over the next few days we will be slowly
working on these bugs, and working to increase site efficiency.

We will also be adding Corporate bonds to the available services. In addition, we are now making businesses free-to-apply! We are waving the 'opening' fee of 150,000$ and returning the security opening fee to all business that are applicable. Please Contact [WS]Teddy_Collin in-game for more information.

Regards
Argonath Stock Market Development Team
[WS]Mikro, [WS]Teddy, [BGM]Aldo
Post Merge: April 22, 2012, 05:44:31 pmSite will be offline for full addition of Corporate Bonds for the majority of today.

[Doggie]

[SugarD]

Blank post? You forgot the image URL my friend.

[Teddy]

Site has been fully restored, we had some troubles with the corporate bonds getting integrated. We've added some extra features, and a few Easter Eggs within the system. Credits, Real-time stats, corporate bonds, updated system interface, updated staff list, updated calendar, updated inbox system, and improved management/administration are of the changes to the system. 

[Mikro]

Against everything we have envisioned, we have chosen to add the ability for a user to be able to place a bid on a stock from the site itself, without the direct need of a broker. While a user interested in selling must still contact a broker; we have debated this for a while and determined to best enable the site to expand, and allow the ability for those who are not in the same timezone as our brokers to be able to still use the site.

This isn't the only change we managed to sneak in over the weekend, we have made changes to the tracking system; a user can now see all related transactions on one page, rather each transaction per ID. Here is a list of features updated/bug fixes:

• Inbox 'ID' bug - users would see a list IDs, rather names. This normally happened when in low-bandwidth mode.
• Order Now - added the ability to order a stock while viewing its ticker information.
• F.B.I Dashboard Update - added ability for FBI members to see general logs.
• Argonath Staff logs - added ability for Argonath administration members to be able to see general logs.
• Updated staff list - General updates to the javascript for faster loading
• User Control - added ability for admins to ban a user/IP from the site, or simply suspend for a period of time.
• Activity tracking - added ability to see what a user is doing on the site at that moment(administration)
• Dynamic Credits - made credits dynamically update-able.
• Improved UI - major changes to over all interface, and alerts

[Teddy]

From: Argonath Stock Market Executive Offices
To: General Public

Hey! We are hiring again! We are looking for active & dedicated staff members to work as brokers, or handlers in-game.
What is a broker? A broker is a staff member who works with shareholders, and companies to get their shares sold, or for interested clients to become shareholders and purchase shares. These members are important to the success of Argonath Stock Market, and the stability of the market. They secondary job is to seek clients, and potential businesses to the Market. Math knowledge, and minimum knowledge of how the system works is a bonus. Argo Court Contract is required.

What is a handler? A handler is a staff member who works with the transportation of funds between shareholders, and companies. They are required to report all transactions, with screen evidence. These members are trustworthy members of the whole community, and are highly active and responsible at all times. Math Knowledge is a must, and a minimum knowledge of how the system works is a bonus. Argo Contract Contract is required.

Interested in being a Handler or Broker? Apply NOW! (ASM account required)

The broker and handler application system is preformed on the Argonath Stock Market system itself, you must be logged in and have an account on ASM to apply. The application has a pre-processing filter, your application may be rejected by the system if it determines unsuitable requirements. We do see the full results; so be honest on your application, as it is rare an application is rejected by the system. Our contracts are created in the Argonath Court system, you must sign and be noted by a Judge of the courts. This is to ensure, for handlers that our clients money is safe and protected by the Argonath Court. Please note this contract is also automatically generated by the Stock Market system, please ensure when you apply you have your exact in-game name as it is now to prevent any further complications.

Sincerely,
Argonath Stock Market Executive Offices
[WS]Teddy Collin
[WS]Mikro

[Aksel]

I love it! As I don't really play anymore, I'll scoop in some cash in hope to earn some.

[Teddy]

Argonath Stock Market will be offline for up to 2 days for major reworking of the back end to increase site efficiency and to change some of the operations of the site. We plan to reduce the amount of loaded plugins on pages that they are not needed, as well as change some of the CSS to adapt browsers a bit better. Some other things planned are removing the system preloader, and adding a few new minor features. See you back soon!

In addition, Argonath Stock Market is seeking an additional assistant developer. Skills required: PHP, Javascript(including Jquery), SQL. If you are interested, send me a PM.

[Mikro]

   ATTENTION!    

Today it became aware to our host that a credible attack may have taken place against the server, while to what extent, if at all a security breach took place is unaware. However, it is confirm that it was on the same server in which the Argonath Stock Market server operates on.

For Security reasons, we have suspended the Argonath Stock Market pending an official statement from the hosting provider. We are unaware the extend of this attack at this current moment and will choose how to proceed after this statement.

Signed,
Teddy Rosso
Argonath Stock Market Developer

Posted in order of Teddy

[Teddy]

Regarding Security Concern:

After an official statement from the hosting company, we have now learned that the growing concern of a possible security breach on the server in which Argonath Stock Market is hosted has been put the rest. We do now know that the attack was unsuccessful and no levels of security have been breached. We can assure that none of your login details, personal information has been compromised.

It is with this in mind, we have taken our own security precautions into mind and we will unsuspend the Argonath Stock Market shortly after we finish a security patch on our staff upload system, as well as investigate some other possible security vulnerabilities and assure these are sealed and handled to ensure maximum security is held on the Argonath Stock Market system.

We are expected to be finished our assessments within the next 12 hours. Any questions or concerns can be directed to my PM's (Teddy). About an hour after the site is resumed, the stock algorithm will be restarted as well. This was frozen to protect damage to the stocks prices.

Signed,
Teddy Rosso
Argonath Stock Market Developer

[Aldo]

*Security Block*

[Teddy]

Main post has been redesigned, special thanks to Rami!

[Teddy]

Argonath Stock Market Official Statement

We are glad to announce and congradulate our latest addition to our development team as a trial developer. We welcome to the group TeaM-Hess as a trial developer for Argonath Stock Market! Our Version 2.0 has gone into the planning phase, over the next week you can leave your suggestions for our next version and it'll be built into our development planning and may make its way into Argonath Stock Market 2.0.

Beta applications for Argonath Stock Market are available via PM (form bellow/Account required). All Argoanth Admins+ will get access to ASM beta 2.0, as it will include an "Argonath Administration" section, to detail logs (with respect to our legal bounds) to help over any matter. Also planned are court ranks, ArgoHQ ranks (Managers+).

We'll keep you in the loop and post our progress over the next few weeks, while our work will be done directly to the site; a custom function will allow only beta testers and developers to see it until the full version is released!

Signed,
[WS]Teddy Rosso,
[WS]Mikro,
[BGM]Aldo,
TeaM-Hess,
Argonath Stock Market Development Team



Beta Application - PM to Teddy

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[center][b]ASM 2.0 Beta Request[/b][/center]
[b]In-game Name:[/b]
[b]Server(s):[/b]
[b]Username:[/b]
(( if Argo admin+ simply note under server(s) tab ))