You can use them to export all your trades in a comma-separated-values or in Microsoft Excel format for further analysis.
Thursday, January 30, 2014
CSV and EXCEL tradelog export
Yesterday we introduced the tradelog export to ".csv" and to ".xls".
You can use them to export all your trades in a comma-separated-values or in Microsoft Excel format for further analysis.
You can use them to export all your trades in a comma-separated-values or in Microsoft Excel format for further analysis.
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Reviewing Born of the Gods for Standard Pauper
On episode 141 of the podcast Pauper to the People I was part of a Standard Pauper Review of the commons in Born of the Gods. These cards will shake up the format!
Here is the show:
The Standard Pauper Show
For your reference, here is the latest episode of the Standard Pauper show, running every week on youtube.com/MagicGatheringStrat
We are getting closer to the Standard Pauper Gauntlet and I am looking forward to reviewing some of the decks for the Gauntlet here.
What is Standard Pauper?
Standard Pauper is the cheapest possible format - you can play only with the commons that are currently in Standard.
Learn more about the format here. http://mtgostrat.com/?s=standard+pauper
MTGO Library Bot 6.48
ML Bot 6.48 is a maintenance build over 6.47
- it fixes a crash happening on the final confirm window, in Selling mode.
- mtgo freezes are now better detected: the bot will restart mtgo in 95 minutes instead of the usual 130 of the previous versions
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
MTGO Library Bot 6.47
ML Bot 6.47 has just been released.
This is a maintenance build fixing a CPU problem happening on some computers. The problem caused the CPU to stay constantly to 50%-100% even when the bot was "waiting for trade". Now the CPU usage will stay at 5%-10%. This is important if you run multiple bots on the same machine, for example using VmWare or VirtualBox, and in general in the cases where the CPU is shared with other application.
Having a less working CPU will also mean lower electricity bills and fewer overheating problems.
Many thanks to BestDeal for helping me out with this.
This is a maintenance build fixing a CPU problem happening on some computers. The problem caused the CPU to stay constantly to 50%-100% even when the bot was "waiting for trade". Now the CPU usage will stay at 5%-10%. This is important if you run multiple bots on the same machine, for example using VmWare or VirtualBox, and in general in the cases where the CPU is shared with other application.
Having a less working CPU will also mean lower electricity bills and fewer overheating problems.
Many thanks to BestDeal for helping me out with this.
Monday, January 27, 2014
Wikiprice is now on a new server
Recently we had some problems with wikiprice, mainly due to the computational power of the server and the heavy traffic. Today we had to keep wikiprice down for 8 hours while we were migrating to a new server.
We moved wikiprice to a new server that doubles the amount of ram and uses ssd hard drives. We also optimized the code. So: new server, more ram, ssd hard drive, code optimization: all should result in a very stable wikiprice with an uptime close to 100%.
The first thing you'll see it that the pages load faster. Oh, we also changed the graphs a bit, and added a login section for a plethora of things we'll add in the future
We moved wikiprice to a new server that doubles the amount of ram and uses ssd hard drives. We also optimized the code. So: new server, more ram, ssd hard drive, code optimization: all should result in a very stable wikiprice with an uptime close to 100%.
The first thing you'll see it that the pages load faster. Oh, we also changed the graphs a bit, and added a login section for a plethora of things we'll add in the future
Sunday, January 26, 2014
MTGO Library Bot 6.46 - Oversell protection
ML Bot 6.46 is a major release, offering a numer of small bug fixes and bringing a new tool, the Oversell Protection.
What is it? The oversell protection is a set of rules that apply to customers that buy more than "x" copies of a certain card in a 24 hour period. While not everybody needs it, it can be useful to protect your bots from someone buying all the copies of a certain card (for example to speculate on it). A user buying all the copies of a card is not necessarily a bad thing, but if you want an always stocked chain this could be annoying, especially when the prices of the cards move fast (such as during the Release Events).
You can active the tool in the Online Control, clicking on the "Oversell Protection" button. There are several things you can do there: you can decide how to respond to an oversell attempt: you can deny the trade or you can increase the price of the card. You can do this for rarity and foilness, and choose the thresholds of cards and the increase in price.
The interface is easy use, but we are still working on it and will make it better. So far the oversell protections apply to all your bots - we plan to make it chain-wide and all-bots-wide to offer a deeper control.
As final note, with ML Bot 6.46 we changed the executable packer to decrease the size of the files. This is ok, save for AVG Free that detects the new executable ("LauncherGUI.exe") as a generic virus. We are still working on the issue and try to find out why. Other antivir are fine and do not raise any alarm, we think that AVG is tuned to detect a higher number of false positives than other antivir.
Note for the beta testers: this release, 6.46, is NOT the 6.46 you are using, it is slighly less. Your version already has the oversell protection.
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What is it? The oversell protection is a set of rules that apply to customers that buy more than "x" copies of a certain card in a 24 hour period. While not everybody needs it, it can be useful to protect your bots from someone buying all the copies of a certain card (for example to speculate on it). A user buying all the copies of a card is not necessarily a bad thing, but if you want an always stocked chain this could be annoying, especially when the prices of the cards move fast (such as during the Release Events).
You can active the tool in the Online Control, clicking on the "Oversell Protection" button. There are several things you can do there: you can decide how to respond to an oversell attempt: you can deny the trade or you can increase the price of the card. You can do this for rarity and foilness, and choose the thresholds of cards and the increase in price.
The interface is easy use, but we are still working on it and will make it better. So far the oversell protections apply to all your bots - we plan to make it chain-wide and all-bots-wide to offer a deeper control.
As final note, with ML Bot 6.46 we changed the executable packer to decrease the size of the files. This is ok, save for AVG Free that detects the new executable ("LauncherGUI.exe") as a generic virus. We are still working on the issue and try to find out why. Other antivir are fine and do not raise any alarm, we think that AVG is tuned to detect a higher number of false positives than other antivir.
Note for the beta testers: this release, 6.46, is NOT the 6.46 you are using, it is slighly less. Your version already has the oversell protection.
Approach MTGO Finance like Warren Buffet
If you have been living under a rock, you may never have heard of the most successful investor in the world: Mr Warren Buffet, 83 years old right now.
Here's how happy investing money makes him.
This guy has managed to get 20% a year on any money he has invested - over a long period of time. In the world of investing money, he has no match.
Based on a long article in the Swedish financial magazine Aktiespararen, I have tried to figure out how mr Buffet would approach MTGO Finance.
Here are some of his principles and how they may apply to Magic Online:
Thinking like this made Warren Buffet the fourth richest man in the world:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes_list_of_billionaires#2013_Top_10
He was beaten only by three guys who built worldwide companies. It is hard to approach MTGO Finance like Bill Gates, btw.
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Some of my other MTGO Finance material:
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Here's how happy investing money makes him.
Based on a long article in the Swedish financial magazine Aktiespararen, I have tried to figure out how mr Buffet would approach MTGO Finance.
Here are some of his principles and how they may apply to Magic Online:
- Evaluate the company, not the market: Think about the deck the card you are evaluating goes into. How will this deck do in the future? What will the demand be? Can the card be reprinted?
- Choose the right company and act as an owner: If you invest in cards, make sure you have played them. Be aware of the interactions of the card so you can properly evaluate if a card is overshadowed by a newer card. If you deep on a card, make sure you play it. Constantly.
- Think about the difference between a card's price and its value: Rageblood Shaman spiked on MTGO as it has a lot of value if a Minotaur deck becomes a viable (even tier 3) Standard strategy. The card has a lot of potential value but had a very low price. If you managed to sell in time, you could have earned 1000% on the first spike (5 to 50 cents) .There may be future spikes.
- Buy cheap and keep for a long time: This may apply more to stock that actually on the average have positive expected value (EV). Magic cards do not. BUT overall MTGO speculators are too shortsighted. Act on the major trends - such as PTQ season and not fancy guesses about the future. (Check out my Seasonal Trading video - link below).
- Trade as little as possible: Warren wants to avoid fees and you should also act to avoid fees! Do not give the bots 15-50% every time. Sell to humans. Get your own bot from mtgolibrary (you only pay when you sell!). You can trade a lot if you do not lose rake every time you do. Be aware of fees.
- Invest deeply in a few companies: Specialize. Choose a format or a set and learn everything about it. Do not try to speculate in all MTGO cards. Avoid more complicated areas like foils or promo cards until you are ready. We have all tried to speculate in too many areas. Consider how many speculators are trying to break Standard prices - maybe you should be the one that ignores the current set?
- Never borrow money for investments: If you borrow money to invest in MTGO cards, you are adding even more risk to a market that already has huge risk. Do not do it. I do not think there are many speculators that do this but if you even think about it - DON'T!
- Act rationally, not emotionally: Be aware of yourself and your emotions. You are your own worst enemy. Do you have pet cards? Are you attached to an investment and can't sell it to cut your losses? Learn about yourself. Know yourself.
- Be aware of interest on interest: There is probably a situation where you can get interest on interest on MTGO but I fail to think of one right now.
- Learn from your mistakes: When you have to sell with a loss think about why this happened. What could have turned out differently? Why didn't it? Did you make the right call and then something bad happened (like a sudden reprint, for example) ? How can you avoid this situation in the future?
- Take your own path: MTGO finance is different because most of the people on the market are players, not investors. Even so is it really your best option to check Reddit and Twitter and do what Marcel does? Or can you find your own niche?
Thinking like this made Warren Buffet the fourth richest man in the world:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes_list_of_billionaires#2013_Top_10
He was beaten only by three guys who built worldwide companies. It is hard to approach MTGO Finance like Bill Gates, btw.
- Check out the Weekly MTGO Finance tips show here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoEgvEaipZg
- Warning! Speculation on Magic Online will probably fail for you. Here's why: http://youtu.be/mHwCO4QCWqA
- Seasonal Trading on MTGO: http://puremtgo.com/articles/mtg-finance-seasonal-trading-cycles-over-year-magic-online
- Dan on Good Bots and Spreading Risks: http://mtgostrat.com/2013/09/mtgo-finance-good-bots-spreading-risks/
- The Most Important thing about MTGO finance: http://mtgolibrary.blogspot.se/2013/10/the-most-important-thing_23.html
- When do you sell your card? http://mtgolibrary.blogspot.se/2013/11/when-to-sell-magic-online-card.html
- When do you invest in the fall set (Theros)? http://mtgolibrary.blogspot.se/2013/11/when-to-invest-in-fall-set-theros-for.html
- Is Core Set mythics the safest investment on MTGO? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmyOxWT5qp8
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