Pick One - For January 1

[dnaleor]

hey, I like you "daytrading SIM"

maybe we should create a speculation game during 2015?
we start with 100 USD on 1st of januari and we need some simple rules

only one trade/day allowed. keep everything in excel with a standard file (like the one you are using)
The only problem I see is how to prove no one is cheating by posting his trade a few hours after BTC crashed or started going up.
The only solution I see at the moment is take a printscreen and post it in the topic.

are you interested in this? We could set it up together  

i'd follow this, sounds like fun. Don't make it any real form of investment tho, just set it up with imaginary BTC, everyone who joins in, starts with the same amount of BTC and invests at their choice of price during the day. everyone has to keep track for themselves though and post in a thread their exact time of investment and exact amount, so there is no cheating etc.

could be a great community game, just for fun

yeah off course everybody could participate
you don't need to do the trades, although I will do them, just for fun

edit: timestamp of post could just determine the exchange rate , good thinking 

[jdany]

hey, I like you "daytrading SIM"

maybe we should create a speculation game during 2015?
we start with 100 USD on 1st of januari and we need some simple rules

only one trade/day allowed. keep everything in excel with a standard file (like the one you are using)
The only problem I see is how to prove no one is cheating by posting his trade a few hours after BTC crashed or started going up.
The only solution I see at the moment is take a printscreen and post it in the topic.

are you interested in this? We could set it up together  

Sounds frickin' awesome.

[raskul]

hey, I like you "daytrading SIM"

maybe we should create a speculation game during 2015?
we start with 100 USD on 1st of januari and we need some simple rules

only one trade/day allowed. keep everything in excel with a standard file (like the one you are using)
The only problem I see is how to prove no one is cheating by posting his trade a few hours after BTC crashed or started going up.
The only solution I see at the moment is take a printscreen and post it in the topic.

are you interested in this? We could set it up together  

i'd follow this, sounds like fun. Don't make it any real form of investment tho, just set it up with imaginary BTC, everyone who joins in, starts with the same amount of BTC and invests at their choice of price during the day. everyone has to keep track for themselves though and post in a thread their exact time of investment and exact amount, so there is no cheating etc.

could be a great community game, just for fun

yeah off course everybody could participate
you don't need to do the trades, although I will do them, just for fun

edit: timestamp of post could just determine the exchange rate , good thinking 

since i'm lazy.

can someone set up a template spreadsheet for it? and set up a fresh thread which explains it all?
I might just do the investment for real too.

it reminds me of those fantasy-football things I used to do when i was a kid... of course, there was no internet in those days so it was all done by post.
can't wait to get started!

[jdany]

If we can get a few trusted members to volunteer to validate trades, I think that would work.
I'm not around enough to field them by myself.
Everyone tracks their own trades and values.

We can probably use an exchange for actual trade references
posts to the forum would be ok - as long as post edits were disqualified.

Ideas? ..

[dnaleor]

the best thing would be to do as little as possible ourselves.

Maybe we could do it like this:

When people want to buy or sell the BTC, they post just "BUY" or "SELL"
Immediately after that, they quote their own post and add the exchange rate (I propose we use bitcoinaverage.com, to avoid exchanges going down)
The user also calculates how much 'virtual' BTC or USD he owns at that moment.

The player needs to wait at least 24h before he can do a new post (so buy or sell)

everybody can check if the exchange rate was correct and so on...
We can have some volunteers to check some random posts from time to time, to make sure nobody is cheating.

question: will we allow partial buying or selling (so f.e BUY 50 USD worth of BTC) ?
imho I think it's more fun to go "all in" every time



When we have set the rules here, we can create a new forum account and a moderated topic so we are in full control

[raskul]

there should be limits set. meagre limits, so you don't get someone coming in saying 'BUY 21million BTC' etc etc

A good starting point would be to allow everyone the amount of $USD which = 1BTC at the time of the OP.

[dnaleor]

how can you check if posts are edited and/or deleted?

[b4basit]

0.275 BTC

[inca]

People should be able to simply buy or sell all their holding by posting a msg on the thread with buy or sell. A bot could keep track of participants balances and post shortly after with a summary for the person. It could post a scoreboard on here too.

[dnaleor]

People should be able to simply buy or sell all their holding by posting a msg on the thread with buy or sell. A bot could keep track of participants balances and post shortly after with a summary for the person. It could post a scoreboard on here too.

well, I never wrote a bot, but I know some programming. Will take a look at. Doesn't sound too complicated. We still have one month, so maybe we can get it working 
If someone else has more experience with bots, please, do it

[inca]

People should be able to simply buy or sell all their holding by posting a msg on the thread with buy or sell. A bot could keep track of participants balances and post shortly after with a summary for the person. It could post a scoreboard on here too.

well, I never wrote a bot, but I know some programming. Will take a look at. Doesn't sound too complicated. We still have one month, so maybe we can get it working 
If someone else has more experience with bots, please, do it

I am pretty busy but it would be a fun project for you dnalor!

[dnaleor]

People should be able to simply buy or sell all their holding by posting a msg on the thread with buy or sell. A bot could keep track of participants balances and post shortly after with a summary for the person. It could post a scoreboard on here too.

well, I never wrote a bot, but I know some programming. Will take a look at. Doesn't sound too complicated. We still have one month, so maybe we can get it working 
If someone else has more experience with bots, please, do it

I am pretty busy but it would be a fun project for you dnalor!

the problem is I can't find an API...
Without API I'm not able to code it.

[inca]

People should be able to simply buy or sell all their holding by posting a msg on the thread with buy or sell. A bot could keep track of participants balances and post shortly after with a summary for the person. It could post a scoreboard on here too.

well, I never wrote a bot, but I know some programming. Will take a look at. Doesn't sound too complicated. We still have one month, so maybe we can get it working 
If someone else has more experience with bots, please, do it

I am pretty busy but it would be a fun project for you dnalor!

the problem is I can't find an API...
Without API I'm not able to code it.

There is no api? Well you can scrape the webpage instead

[Wilhelm]

People should be able to simply buy or sell all their holding by posting a msg on the thread with buy or sell. A bot could keep track of participants balances and post shortly after with a summary for the person. It could post a scoreboard on here too.

well, I never wrote a bot, but I know some programming. Will take a look at. Doesn't sound too complicated. We still have one month, so maybe we can get it working 
If someone else has more experience with bots, please, do it

I am pretty busy but it would be a fun project for you dnalor!

the problem is I can't find an API...
Without API I'm not able to code it.

Use Metatrader against btc-e and program en Expert Analyzer. That's how I do it
You even have a tester so you can test your bot on historical data.

[readysalted89]

how can you check if posts are edited and/or deleted?

The site below mirrors bitcointalk posts and often preserves deleted posts, but it seems a bit erratic in what it records. You can link your bitcointalk account to it at the link below but I'm not certain how it works. Is anyone here registered there?

https://bitcointa.lk/link_account/

[tss]

i'll take the btc.  i have plenty of $100 bills and even more gold

[Raystonn]

how can you check if posts are edited and/or deleted?

The site below mirrors bitcointalk posts and often preserves deleted posts, but it seems a bit erratic in what it records. You can link your bitcointalk account to it at the link below but I'm not certain how it works. Is anyone here registered there?

https://bitcointa.lk/link_account/

Why would you not use the bitcoin blockchain for this?  You do want a verifiable ledger, right?

[raskul]

how can you check if posts are edited and/or deleted?

The site below mirrors bitcointalk posts and often preserves deleted posts, but it seems a bit erratic in what it records. You can link your bitcointalk account to it at the link below but I'm not certain how it works. Is anyone here registered there?

https://bitcointa.lk/link_account/

Why would you not use the bitcoin blockchain for this?  You do want a verifiable ledger, right?

because it's a just for fun idea, we won't actually be trading - that way anyone can join in.

[Raystonn]

how can you check if posts are edited and/or deleted?

The site below mirrors bitcointalk posts and often preserves deleted posts, but it seems a bit erratic in what it records. You can link your bitcointalk account to it at the link below but I'm not certain how it works. Is anyone here registered there?

https://bitcointa.lk/link_account/

Why would you not use the bitcoin blockchain for this?  You do want a verifiable ledger, right?

because it's a just for fun idea, we won't actually be trading - that way anyone can join in.

And?  You can use the bitcoin blockchain for simple messages.  They will be timestamped, ordered, non-forgable, and non-deletable.  You can start as simple as "buying 1BTC at $376.72".  Just post the bitcoin address you are using in a thread here and they can all be tracked easily enough.  You can get much more complex if you wish, and code up an app to send the message and track the leaderboard.  But that's optional.

[BitCoinNutJob]

On January 1, 2015.  

Which will have the most value?

In a vacuum i definitely would be picking bitcoin here, good news train is never ending for months these days.