Welcome seasoned investors, come in out of that cold!

Well, back, burnt to a crisp and suffering frostbite; It's a cruel world out there and the finance bears have sharp claws!

Here is a little snippet of the roller-coaster ride that has kept me from my favourite things (like SL and Virtual Investment Services)

The US house of representatives have approved a $700B bail out for the finance and banking industry. Nationalisation of Investment Banks (the remaining ones that haven't gone belly up yet!) Shares collapsed again last week. This appeared to be due to an investor panic regarding the freezing up of money and credit markets. The ride continues...

Here in Oz, things have been just as rough:

Sydney: Government moves to guarantee bank borrowing and inject capital into banks, along with US moves to buy bad debt should help unfreeze money markets and enable shares to move higher. The AUD$ has seen a slide of over 30% in the last 3 weeks (which is great for our existing USD$ investments, but not new ones!) Currently sitting (and it will change in 3 seconds...) around the 0.69US cent mark...Retracting interest rates and falling commodity prices mean there is more downward pressures in store for our local sovereign.

So, apologies now for the lack of posting, but I am sure there are some forgiving souls out there..

Back to the performing markets;

WSELIVE has been a smash hit so far since it's revamp and the prices of all listed companies have recovered substantially from their pre-close lows.

Big news this week was the unfortunate (and sudden) delisting of MH Motors (CAR), who announced they will be moving to a "less high standard" (sic) exchange. (ISE)

Trading on CAR has been a little over-zealous to say the least with prices maxing out around the $W24 mark on very reasonable volumes! That's a little crazy when you start looking at the PE ratios, but let's not go in to that now.

Seinkiewicz Investment Management (SIM) also made the move to a smaller exchange and I must say I was among those sad to see them go.

Other companies riding the boom cycle right now are (ALC), (AMI), (RDX), (FKH) and (FVS)

• (ALC) announced 3 new sims and has seen a steady rise in price, hovering around $W5.50 mark and trading steadily.
  
• (AMI) has stepped up and Adonis Action has been flaunting the word out there, seeing tops of $W2.00 and averaging around the $W1.20 mark in the past few days. With monthly reports showing modest figures and no dividend payment since the reopen, the bubble obviously isn't as tight as some others.
  
• (RDX) Solid business model right from the start, suffered from day-trader rout during most of last year and is only now seeing reasonable pricing averaging over $W2.00 for the past 2 weeks and tops of $W3 (even one massive day of $W10!!) not uncommon.
  
• (FKH) Low market cap and very few shares, proving the model of scarcity as trading in this company has hit highs of $W150 on a list price of only $W10. Not bad, (huh hmm...google..huh hmm...kidding)
  
• (FVS) There were always skeptics of the dreaded SL "Fund" companies, but Mart Lupino has showed the staying power and the earnings aren't too shody in this emerging market. The decision to delay the dividend wasn't met with the usual panic and the shares are sitting quite comfortably around the $90-$100 WIC mark.
  

The WSE fund began trading again also last week, which is a welcome return. As the market stabilizes, we should soon see the return of the World Traders Fund to the floor as well.

Finally, news just in, check out the Applications section under the new offers tab and you will see the latest addition appears to be a RL company that is wishing to list on WSE. I do believe this is the first of it's kind to this market and I must admit I am extremely excited..off to do some research...

We will be making a more concerted effort to provide market analysis over the coming weeks, with a commitment coming from me to get Splinkrot Writer and VerySmart Sella back on board for a minimum of a weekly round-up in the short term.

Over to the Metaverse Investment Fund now; and major developments in the past 2 weeks have solidified current positions into the GREEN with commissions payable for applications and redemptions from the fund reducing from 3.5% to 1%! Good news for both existing and newcomers to the fund. 499 investors now feeding the $L6.5M fund with almost $L600k in dividends in just over 8 months in existence.
(Boy, do I wish I could convince my Risk and Compliance dept. to cast their eyes over this!)

Our plans to bring our products to market are still in the works and the final stages of the initial seeding are under way. Stay tuned.

Glad to be back.
Yours sincerely,
Logansan Oh
- CEO, Chairman.

The return of the market...so far:

Well, I wouldn't say it was back a vengeance just yet, but we have seen some movement on the market since it's re-opening a fortnight ago.

We mentioned just after the opening there was a commonly held opinion it may take a little while for the users to return and it seems they are slowly coming back online, with around 150 active users stated in the average 24hr period. There also seems to be some new faces coming on board via the Facebook channel, with the 25,000 user number now topping 27,700. Not a bad increase in less than a month with minimal media.

On the trading front; there have been a few solid days topping W$200k turnover with the largest day recorded being yesterday at almost W$260k with over 196k shares changing hands.
The biggest movers thus far being AMI, RDX, SNE, CAR and SIM, all managing some good numbers across the 2 week period.

Prices on these shares have varied, with most increasing slightly and some retracting to find support at a more reasonable value. As stated earlier, those holding shares prior to the relaunch seem to be holding for higher prices, which is a double-edged sword, but does bode well for those of us in for long positions. Some initially expected a sell-off, but the World Stock Exchange has obviously proven it's place on the virtual exchange stage with this relaunch.

Still a little early to be producing reasonable speculative analysis and some CEO's are yet to release full financials and forecasts.

Pie-in-the-sky:

• Redux Technologies (RDX) - Highly respected scripting, recovered well from pre-WSE4.0 undervalue, great financials, great forecast.
  
• Sarah Nerd Mainland Estate Holdings (SNE) - Ever the rock, ever resistant, Second Lifes' Linden Lab and potential mainland changes look to increase value of mainland by removing some of the nasties and re-focusing on communities, SNE is one of the best placed to capitalize on this.

Just my 2wics for now.

Once again, check back for Splinkrot's analysis on WSE4.0 (once the kinks are ironed out) and keep on tradin'!!

Sincerely,
Logansan Oh.

coming along nicely..

Work is progressing in our new toolset and offerings and should be completed within the week.

So far the turnover at the exchange has been gradually increasing, but as awareness grows and the market begins to bring in liquidity once again, we will be able to gather the correct data in order to model our strategies for investors.

I must say it is against my general approach to business to be a "jack-of-all-trades" but so many opportunities are passing across our virtual tables that I cannot find the time to master just one. I believe this will not be too detrimental to our success, as the goal posts move constantly in this environment, re-invent or die. Pretty cut-throat, steep learning curve, but dividends should pay off in the long-run.

We have found the new data available on the new WSE4.0 very insightful and our security enrichment process which we used before is fast becoming obsolete, with the World Stock Exchange providing much more thorough and meaningful information on its listed assets.

Our funds under management continues to grow and diversify, with our search continuing for new and improved revenue streams. Trust me; volatility in the FX markets is a BOON!

Sincerely,
Logansan Oh

Analyst - again..

Well, I have logged on to WSELIVE today and I am once again an approved Analyst :) Happy Days!
I also found that the first approved analyst and ex-WSE employee MouzurX Wise has placed up a market analysis for the day. This is great news for us! The report is complete, thorough yet simplistic, which gives us a chance to update our toolset and diversify our offering to the market.

Splinkrot Writer ("Righter" on Facebook, hahaha chicken, you got owned by the ghost-in-the-face-machine!) will be producing a full application analysis in the coming days as the "kinks are ironed out" and the full service offering becomes available. This should also allow the market time to gain some momentum.

In the meantime, I would love to hear from some of you on what you think of the new WSE4.0 so far. (if you are out there Sportsbets, I'm waiting to hear your excitement at CAR..)


Sincerely,
Logansan Oh
-CEO, Chairman

and they're off..WSE 4.0

Well, the nay-sayers’ will be eating their hats and freezing in a very hot place as the World Stock Exchange re-opened it’s doors yesterday and has begun a new chapter in the world of the Internet Economy.
Not a bad start and nothing like the expected “run” seen in previous resumptions of service with WSE and other Virtual World Exchanges. As at close of day (which we will be using GMT00:00:00 from here on in) market turnover was W$124,997.51 with a total share volume of 77,492. Considering the market has been open for just on 18hrs, there is still plenty of room to move.

LukeConnell Vanderverre was present at the WSE4.0 Launch in-world at Hope Capital island; stating that he expected users to begin to come back online within a week as they logged in and got the news from invites and notecards. He told the investors gathered “give it 10 days (to fully get going again)”. Today he added the following message to the site.

We had a sneak peak of the new Facebook interface over the weekend and after playing around, must say we are impressed. It seems to have lived up to our expectations. Splinkrot Writer will be covering the application feature set in more detail later today, but Facebook users can take a look here and existing users will be familiar with the original website.
(Our new favourite tool is the “Advanced Orders” or Conditional or Stop Limit Order, but I don’t want to steal any thunder, so go check it out yourself!)

Another announcement today from WSE regarding the financials for the World Traders Fund and WSE (the old ‘Hope Capital Limited’) states that these will be available at 9:00:00am UTC (GMT) or 2am(PST), which should put allegations of “double standards” or “lack of transparency”, finally, to bed.

A brief report today: Movers and shakers were RDX, first cab off the rank, clocking up over 60k shares and topping a whopping W$38.10 when the market opened. SNE saw some volume later on in the day, with their earnings showing a loss, but showing resistance as the price steadily grew from W$1.00 to W$1.69 on close, sitting comfortably above the December/January prices of just under $L0.90.
After some solid earnings announced right on close, FAG began trading just as we took our snapshot, so we are expecting this one to take off in today’s trading..
There were still a few yet to get a look in, with trading halted on WTF and FKH, WSE in secondary until September 21st and ALC just not happy with the current BID’s.

Happy Tradings and Welcome back everyone!!
Yours sincerely,
Logansan Oh
-CEO, Chairman
S&W Assets and Funds Management

S&W Assets and Funds Managment - The Road Ahead..

Hi everyone,

Well, you would be hanging on those baited last breaths as we await the re-launch of the World Stock Exchange and you wouldn't be alone, trust me.

You have probably been wondering what we have been occupying ourselves with over the last few months, well, let me give you a few ideas;

Splinkrot Writer has taken a break from reporting duties to research some Business Development ideas we had been bandying around. This has proved both successful and profitable as we have now developed a strong position in a few Virtual World markets, bringing in regular revenue.

VerySmart Sella has continued his study and experince in Trading and is now a few steps closer to holding a traders licence in Australia. He will be joining us back on the WSE shortly...so look out for a new-improved "new kid on the block"

Logansan Oh, (that's me!!) has obviously been holding up the fort and exploring some of my own ideas for capital investment. The funds under management over at http://metaverseinvestmentfund.com/ have almost topped 300k and to date have earned investors over 400k in dividends and heralded a consistently increasing stock price since opening.
Company changes with http://www.deliciousdemar.com/DDE/DDE_Index.html have created plenty of noise, but overall, the most solid investment made thus far in SL, returning around 70% on initial investment already!
The remaining markets within SL have slowed to a grinding halt and are suffering a renewed wave of declining investor confidence, with particular
As always I have one eye firmly planted on the REAL WORLD markets (and just as well, I have my life savings in there!!) for any opportunities or early indicators or coming volatility. (Off the top of my head, last FX price for my 2 top crosses; AUD:USD-0.9307, EUR:USD-1.5559, hehehe)

So we have been busy and for good reason. There are three key milestones we wish to acheive for S&W Assets in the coming month;

1. Adapt our proven market tools to the newly launched WSE4.0 on Facebook
2. Launch our tools to the public on an exculsive subscription only service
3. List S&W Assets and Funds Management on the World Stock Exchange to allow a capital injection to better leverage our current market positions.

We feel now the market has evolved and matured enough to benefit from these services and our reputation can speak for itself on the precarious Virtual World topic of "trust".

So, we hope that you will get behind us so that we can impart our knowledge back to you and with it, the ROI you have been searching for!

Yours Sincerely,
Logansan Oh
-CEO, Chairman

CO.MI.NG - now 03.08.08

It's almost here! After a long (long..long) wait, the World Stock Exchange looks set to return in a little over a week.

A quick look over both the WSELive site and the WICExchange, shows the new launch date.

I tried to get into Hope Capital island in-world, but it seems it has either changed names, or been removed from search.

Hopefully I can get hold of Luke Connell before the launch date for more info.

Yours,
Logansan Oh

Still around!

Hi all, apologies for not posting in a while, there just hasn't been much going on!
I have spoken to Luke Connell a few times recently and it sounds like it's all systems go for the relaunch of the market, so I'm getting excited about that.

The Metaverse Investment Fund is still going strong with 442 accounts and a share price (unit price) of $L1.137 at last check. Not bad at all.

You may have noticed the new link to the right, I have been using the VirWox site for converting $L's lately as I have found it to be a well run site. With the fluctuations in the FX markets recently, there is plenty of room for profiting.

Delicious Demar has decided to halt dividends for the first time in the companies listed-history. Big news, as she plans to increase the cash-at-bank in order to mitigate against any "changes" to policy, etc that could crop up from LL. Good idea in my mind, though there will always be a few nay-sayers that just want their dividends regardless of current market conditions.

I am working on a top secret project at the moment with a handful of developers in the Funds Management space at the moment. We are still in the proof of concept stage so I can't say for certain we will go ahead (or if my idea will work..) so stay tuned for more on that.

I wanted to know if anyone would be interested in following along with the other Second Life securities exchanges. I know I have mentioned this before and as this site was dedicated to WSE only (S&W = Second Life and WSE) maybe I can just rename the acronym and start to cover the other markets. I am not sure if there are other sites out there that are dedicated to the other markets (apart from those that are directly affiliated with said markets..) so maybe this idea could be beneficial to the readers. Let me know your thoughts..

Until next time,
Logansan Oh

Metaverse Investment Fund

When I first spoke to Shaun Altman about the Metaverse Investment Fund, the total user accounts at that point was something like 200. Shares in the fund were a little over $L1.03 and the first month of investor returns (since February 1, 2008) was somewhere in the vacinity of 10%.
Fast-forward a little under 2 months and the picture is a now slightly different;

• 364 users (and counting)
• 14.8% Investor Returns
• $L137,273.87 in total dividends
• Current share price of $L1.07421

Those numbers aren't too shody. I still haven't managed to wrangle any further details out of Shaun about his "swinging doors", but he is obviously doing something right!

Although my original investment was "modest" by Shaun's standards, the return so far, including fees on the fund as at 18th April, is 7.2% since February 26th (50 days). Not exactly "Second Life Gambling Parlour" returns, but certainly better than most RL funds lately!!

Still waiting to hear from any other MIF investors on their thoughts on the fund. My 2 cents; Congratulations to Shaun on his efforts. Keep up the good work!

Movement at the station...

Check it: Looks like it's almost here!

Sorry I haven't posted for over 2 weeks, I have changed RL jobs (yes, again) and it's not working out (yes, again!)

I promise (yes, I said it) to catch up on all the details over the coming week.

In a nutshell;

• Metaverse Investment Fund is doing well
• Delicious Demar initial buyback and future plans have been announced and so far, so good
• Some interesting developments in the Stock 'Reporting' space, more to come...
  
• and lastly...WSE 4.0 is almost here

So, stay tuned!!
Sincerely,
Logansan Oh

Pain and suffering..

I can't take it anymore!

No, it isn't that bad; Delicious Demar Enterprises has been delisted.
Talk about your Bear Sterns!

There are many questions raised that are being crunched over but I will pose one myself;
How many securities does it take to call yourself an exchange?
- Look at the others!

WSE will be back, we all know that (just feeling a little tight round the nether regions on account of the sky falling in lately, but this will pass) Who will join them?

Logansan Oh

Hawk-eye fails...

I missed this one!

More on this later (I need to chat to a few people!!)

In the meantime, Nobody and the crew over at Y2P are covering this.

Yours,
Logansan Oh
- CEO, Chairman

I have 3 words for you...

Well, number 1 is a picture:

Number 2 is a quote: (highlights in red)

WSE MONTHLY REVIEW BEGINS

Submitted by: World Stock Exchange (WSE)
Date: March 14, 2008
The World Stock Exchange has now started reviewing all virtual companies listed on the WSE to ensure they are adhering to the WSE Listing Rules, Constitution and Terms of Service.

This process is expected to take "5" business days.


and number 3 is: Countdown!!


Woot,
Logansan Oh
- CEO, Chairman

Firms starting to show support

Sarah Nerd Estates and Mainland Holdings (SNE) announced today that she intends to keep the company listed at the WSE.

Staying at WSE
Submitted by: Sarah Nerd Estates and Mainland Holdings (SNE) Date: March 12, 2008I've gotten note card's and messages from a few other exchanges asking me if I'd like to switch, and today I received a note card from a shareholder asking what my plans were. Just so everyone is aware, I plan on staying here at the WSE. I don't fully understand how the new WIC system will work, but I'll figure it out later this month when WSE reopens. I don't feel comfortable moving all of my shareholders. I apologize if this doesn't fit any individual shareholder needs, but I am trying to do what I feel is best everyone as a whole, and at this time I feel it's best to stay here.

Good news there! Let's hope there will be a few more of these positive announcements.

I am starting to tally these, so far Delicious Demar Enterprises (DDE) has expressed her intentions, Lemur Investments (LEM) has made some comments on his blog but at this stage looks to be staying put. ETC, FED, ALC, SIM, ALL, FKH all made announcements of their results as per commitments...the predictions of a mass-exodus are looking a little more thin!

I would love to get together with other CEO's and discuss where their heads are at on this matter.
Please IM me in-world or email me at logansanoh@bigair.com.au or if you want a public discussion, please leave a comment here.

Cheers,
Logansan Oh
- CEO, Chairman

Another one bites the dust

Citing conflicts of interests, Sky Island Estates (SKY) has delisted from the WSE.

Here is the exact wording from Paris Druart:

Submitted by: Sky Island Estate (SKY) Date: March 11, 2008SKY is delisting from the WSE. My reason is simple; Anshe Chung (Third Party) is an investor in our company and in the WSE. She allows avatars to break the forum rules, bashing us on the SLExchange.com. I will not continue to support those that do not support us. I have made a list of all the SKY shareholders. We will either regroup on a different exchange or pay each person for their shares. Because Third Party is not a valid avatar name he/she will not be refunded. Good luck with your SL companies.Take care.Paris

Not directed straight at WSE, so this news might hang around...
If you want to see some of the drama around this one, head on over to SLExchange and check out some of the threads (most get closed by sysops pretty quickly) on Paris and others on 'land-barons' or 'shady estate owners' etc.

I have 2 comments to make on this but please make up your own mind about these things;

1. Third Party is NOT a valid avatar name. Fair play. Nuff said.
2. 'Don't beleive everything you breathe' - Beck. I have seen some of these land-owner/estate-owner bashings and I question those that 'name names'. Who is to stop one estate owner from causing a fuss with their nearest competitor and stealing there renters? Just a thought...

So, the fun continues...but we STILL don't have a market!

Sincerely,
Logansan Oh
- CEO, Chairman

A million things to talk about!

Where do I start? MIF, PFW, SRI, SLW(allet), HOT, WSE Video? Don't think I will have time to put them all down yet but here goes;

Let's start with MIF. I mentioned last week that I had met with Shaun Altman (initially to discuss WSE) and he introduced me to his latest concept for the world of SL Finance - MIF.
MIF (or the Metaverse Investment Fund) spruiks the arbitrage angle and thus far I have yet to uncover the "doors" that it uses to turn a $L profit. But, let's leave that for now and get down to the numbers.
As promised, after my initial investment, a dividend was posted on Friday. Nothing spectacular, but lets look closely:

• Initial investment - share price = $L1.035661 (Tuesday LATE)
• Dividend paid Friday (3 days)
• Total dividend - $L0.006774.

Not bad. Mutliply that out for a yeild curve and if the 3 days is accurate (hopefully I wasn't paid for the whole week, that would be unfair to other investors) that's actually pretty impressive.
The 'share' price increased over the week as well. Currenty (now 9 days later) it is $L1.042437.
I wanted to wait until tomorrow to give it a second week of activity, but instead, I will do some more calculations tomorrow and get a full report then.

So, back to the WSE...Did everyone check out the video post yet? A little amatuer-hourish, but I actually think that works in Luke's favour. It's very; raw.
To be honest, I am still working my way back through some of the parts, so I will make a full run-down in the next couple of days, but basically he re-iterated the items from the in-world announcement. Bottom line; WSE is still closed, your $L balance will be a $WIC balance when they return and a full divorce from SL seems likely.

Parks Fireworks (PFW) has followed the lead from a few others and moved on from the WSE. Follow may not be the best term as the exchange of choice is VSTEX. Strange choice...but seems to have paid off. Last trade was 1100 or so shares @ $L1.98! Last trade on WSE (28.12) was $L0.80.

Mainostaulu Network (MAI) also made the shuffle last month (07/02) this time ANCAPEX was the destination, joining another of the WSE elders - SLRisk (RIS). The move hasn't boaded well for MAI, with LL's announcements on Advertising Land spam hurting the business. The stock is trading way-on-down @ $L0.25.

Spontaneous Rich Investments (SRI) last traded on the 26th December ($L0.21) I received a note that they could be delisting also. More on this after I have spoken to the CEO. (As the market is closed, I don't feel this could be a breach of market knowledge)

Kush Islands (HOT) The news on HOT is it is trading on SLCAPEX and is hovering around the lower end of the WSE price @ $L2.65. Definitely keeping an eye on this one!

So, with all this hip-hopping going on and the branches on the ol' Tree-O-Logansan stretching further and further from the trunk; it might be time for a reassessment of our focus.
S&W (Second Life and World Stock Exchange) may change to V&M (Virtual Worlds and Markets)?! I'll keep you posted ;)

Sincerely (under the pump),
Logansan Oh
- CEO, Chairman (work-aholic)

A new hope

Ah, Mr Lucas, thank you.

I would like to take this opportunity to point you all towards a new investment vehicle being run by one of the markets most well-known high-end investors; Shaun Altman. Well known since the Ginko collapse, it appears this perpetual entrepreneur has grown tired of relying on the trust of other avatars and decided to bring his own brand of capital sourcing and management in the form of the Multiverse Investment Fund.

The Fund (MIF) is slated as an arbitrage model which will turn a high profit through the many 'doors' available in Second Life. Having spoken to Shaun in the past at the WSE and giving him the third degree about this new type of security, I have decided to place a modest investment with him and put the mandate to the test.

Results are posted on a weekly basis with my first to be available within the next 48hrs.
Unfortunately I am travelling to the other side of the country this weekend, but I do hope to check up on it so I can get back to you all..

Could this be the new darling of SL finance?

Sincerely,
Logansan Oh
-CEO, Chairman

note: I have attempted to contact many of the WSE investors that I am told are already on-board, with little response so far (it's only been 2 days), so if you are already involved or have more info, drop me a line!

Shock? Or the beginning of the storm...

Urgent news; Kush Islands (HOT) has announced it will delist from the WSE and move to SL Capital Exchange (SLCapEx). Citing concern over the World Stock Exchanges (and "it's founder") direction, stating "We can no longer tolerate".

This move comes as a bit of an initial shock, but I am not certain this will be the last folowing on from the WSE's announcement to the market earlier this week. (I will recap on this once I have reviewed tomorrows second announcement)

Well, having said this, looks like my extended holiday is about to come to an abrupt end...wacth this space!!

Sincerely,
Logansan Oh
-CEO, Chairman

Are we there yet? (the second)

Well, I think this speaks for itself. I'm sure Luke will fill in the gaps for us on the day.

Don't miss this one! See you all there...

Greetz
Logansan Oh

#Paused#

"Still in limbo, think I'll stay up late"

Hi all,

Unfortunately I don't have any news at this time, but we are all poised for the market re-opening at the end of this month. (fingers crossed!)

It's been pretty quiet around the place with the usual suspects being mute, save for JT Financial's new SLWallet news.
News from the GRID is there is a new "dazzling" interface is available from the newest first look viewer. More bugs you say? Sure, why not.

Apart from that, we still play the waiting game...

Sincerely,
Logansan Oh
- CEO, Chairman

Banking...PFFT! I have bigger news...

Well, this year has begun with a tremendous WHOOMP! No banks; that was just the beginning...

I have just hit on this article and i just can't keep my speculation button in check (possibly as I just read about 40 pages of "To grief or not to grief" and...well, I'm for the face punchers. Kick the geeks!) Anyway, sidetracked...I would like to point out one very, very, interesting line in this article, which can be found in-full here, "...Want to build your own social gaming platform that resides on your own Web site but leverages the power of users' Facebook relationships? Now you can!"

Anyone else putting 2&2 together here?
Is the WSE; 'now' poised to come back?...and with a vengence?!? I guess time will tell...

(I know, patience is a virtue...but HOT DAMN! I'm getting antsy!! I want my market back!!!)

Sincerely,

Logansan Oh
- CEO, Chairman

...Side note

Funny little side note I stumbled upon...

Jeez, the things we get up to when we are bored...BRING BACK THE MARKET!

Finally...Midas comes to the party!

Big news today as Midas Commons released the Midas Bank depositors list to the WSE.

More later...

Sincerely,
Logansan Oh
- CEO, Chairman

** NEWS FLASH ** - WSE Halted for upgrade. (EDIT)

I spoke too soon today (that will show me for not hitting the floor in-world first!) as I just missed the late breaking news from the WSE.
It seems the final upgrades to WSE 4.0 are to take place now (a little earlier than first expected) and there has been a market-wide halt while the upgrades are completed.

Casper Trebuchet (Lemur House of derivatives - LEM, LFB, LWI and LHH) was the first cab off the rank to explain to investors what this meant from a company stand point. It's speculation at this point to say that the trade halt will last the entire 30 days (though in the post from WSE, it states 45!), as this will definitely hurt a few companies...

We will endeavor to contact a representative of the WSE for further comments and get back to you as soon as we hear further. (...and I already paid verysmart)

Sincerely,
Logansan Oh
- CEO, Chairman

** EDIT **
After spending some time last night and this morning (AEST) speaking with investors, CEO's and LukeConnell Vandeverre, it seems evident that the announcement was not previously known by the market. Obviously, recent announcements and even dating back to the original WSE 4.0 changes, have stated that something "big" was coming.

Could this be the promotion to the 'greater' internet that has been mentioned on many occasions? Will we see the mass influx of investors that us first-movers have been waiting for?

It does seem the 30-45 day is a contingency for development work and bug fixing (having experience in Software Testing myself, this may even be optimistic!) Luke has stated a best-case-scenario of a week. Fingers crossed!!

Daily Round-Up - January 4

Hi all, my name is VerySmart Sella, I have been following the World Stock Exchange for several months and am currently a junior trader for an Australian stock broker in RL.

I will be providing a daily analysis for the coming week or so. I also have access to the archived data, so I will be trawling through and giving an update on how things went over the Christmas and New Years holiday season. (This may take a day or two!!)
Finally, I will also be collating some information on the current IPO applications on the WSE. This should help provide further details on up-coming listings and may help both CEO's and Investors alike.

Here is how today looked:

• Action Mortgage and Investment (AMI) has had many trades over the last few days and seems to be a popular one with the investors lately and even more popular with the traders! It gained yesterday but lost this and more today to fall 23.3% to $L0.23
  
• Blumont Capital (BMC) followed AMI and lost it's gains and more from yesterday falling similarly, 21.7% to $L0.18
  
• Four Deuces Entertainment (FDE) not surprisingly it's still suffering after announcing details which remind me of the THI days (all talk and promises...didn't we just have an election? "Fool me once..." anyway, i digress) Falling a huge 90% to a number more suited to a failing company at $L0.04
  
• Sienkiewicz Investment Management (SIM) rallied 11.1% today to $L1.20
• Apez Corp (APZ) Has had some pretty steady numbers heading north for some time and this was evident throughout the day today. A late fall and rise ended with the stock hitting a solid 85.1% gain to $L2.61. On the way back?
  
• Burning Embers BDSM community (BEX) has fallen steadily since the rumours of a bailout began last week. Vyktor Oh selling off stock and not being in control doesn't exactly instill investor confidence...the stock fell sharply today, losing 42.9% to $L0.24
  

Now, I have access to similar information as Splinkrot and Logansan, but investing is a very personal and individual thing. I don't have time to explain exactly my position on the market and how I make decisions just yet, so I will give to a few 'tips' of my opinion and hope that the recommendations are taken seriously:

• (FDE) historically, a fall like this means the old casino boffins will jump in for a sports-bet they can't resist. It will either recover (possibly slowly or spectacularly...), become a penny trader; moving 1-3 cents every few days or just fall into the World Traders Fund... definitely keep your eye on it
  
• (AMI) one of my personal favourites for easy money. Just when you think all the chips look down, it returns in a blaze of glory. Won't last long at this price of $L0.23
• (CAR) always has been a strong buy, plenty of people making $Lindens on dividends and on the trade price movements. Until the market works out what this is meant to be priced at, I would put it down as one of the few LONG's around.
  
• (BEX) I have to throw this out here, in the true tradition of SPECULATION, a record low price, plenty of bad news doing the rounds, positive outlooks announced from the 'acting' CEO...could it all just be bad press? If so - money to be made!
  

Ok, if you have any problems, suggestions or opinions yourself, please let me know.

Happy New Year!!

We are still here!
I hope you all enjoyed the festive season and for those of you still enjoying the R&R (like me) I hope the head isn't hurting too much.

There has been a steady flow of information from CEO's since our last update, though the market is relatively slow. We expect things to start to heat up now as people return to the helms and traders return from their profit spending breaks.

On the news front;

• (WSE) Two more IPO applications were declined, failing to satisfy WSE's new minimum revenue requirements. The affected companies - (BMI), (SLT)
• (WSE) announced a problem while upgrading the WIC exchange. Traders have been urged to cease using the currency until the problem is rectified
• (DDE) returned from vacation announcing a 'double-dividend' of $L0.04. Welcome back!
• (BEX) has suffered since the handover from the CEO. Rumours the CEO was dropping to run haven't been squashed and the announcement the 'community' wanted Burning Embers to stick around didn't instill the strongest investor focus

Splinkrot Writer is still pre-occupied with the new family editions, but as we have developed our reporting standard and fine-tuned our tools, I now feel our newest analyst VerySmart Sella will be able to bring you the news and analysis of the days trading.
He will also be starting to perform further analysis on the IPO's in application. Thank you to those who voted on our poll.

Please help me welcome VerySmart on-board and if you have any suggestions to improve the site, as-always, post a comment, send us an email or contact one of us in-world.

Sincerely,
Logansan Oh
- CEO, Chairman