Instead of NO configuration, can you add support for stock broker fees per transaction (percentage, and flat), as well as support to customize all messages, prefixes, commands and colors?

Add support for players to directly trade stocks with the server instead of selling and then buying the stock they want. (broker fee applied).
Explanation: If player has 5 stocks that are valued at $50 each (total $250) and stock X costs $30 each, then player 1 could trade their current stocks for a maximum of 5 of stock X shares since that would be of equal value PER SHARE (Greatest Common Factor). The player can use a command like "/sm trade <currentstocktick> <preferedstocktick> (amount)". If the amount is incorrect, it will return,"You can only trade a maximum of <amount >. Try again." ect... If no amount is defined, it will trade the maximum allowed. Any leftover stocks will remain in the player's portfolio because they paid for them. Broker fee applied from config. This works best when a large amount of stocks are involved.

Broker fee explained: Broker fee should be a percentage and/or flat rate set in config per buy/sell/trade/transaction. The fee is deducted from the player AFTER the transaction (can cause player to have negative balance).
Example: If flat rate is set to $10 and the percentage is set to 5%, then the total applied fee is $25+(.05*X) X= total price of stocks (percentage can be less than 1%(.01)(.00010 = 1/1000th% ect...)
So, if you purchased 100 stocks for $75 each, the total fee is $400 ($25+(0.05*$7500))
If only the flat rate is defined, the fee would be $25 instead of $400. If only the percentage if defined, the total fee would have been $375 (0.05*$7500). After the transaction, the plugin will return,"You paid ($400) in brokerage fees." ect...

I personally argue that sign support would cause strain on the server because all signs have to update every X minutes, and if there are many signs in one place, players nearby might lag and disconnect. I suggest the use of multi-threading to divide the workload if you choose to add sign support in the future.
If I think of anything else, I'll edit this post accordingly. Please comment and add suggestions!

This is the easiest to use, most efficient, and best designed stocks plugin I have come across. Agree that sign support would be cool, just for users who want to see popular stocks instead of looking up symbols online. 10 outta 10 haha

YES YES YES YES.... omg, you are a GOD......

Thank u so much

I used this plugin in my server and it does not seem to update the price Any fix? or is there something wrong i did I am using the essentials, vaults, clear lagg and this plugin yet will be adding more soon

Anyway you can add some type of sign support so we could list the stocks and they change with the stocks?

This is honestly an amazing plugin and I am looking forward to using this on my server! Thanks so much!

Easily the best plugin I have ever had the pleasure of using on my server! I have literally waited years for one worthy of our server! <3 Will you be adding sign integration? I want to make a job 'Stock broker!' Thanks for the epic plugin!

@botskonet

Thank you, much appreciated :)

@botskonet

Thanks for the response and the effort. My members instantly fell in love with this simple and fun plugin and we've been yearning to have it back in.

I have currently just renamed the .jar to .back and kept the folders intact as we have members with money tied up in some stocks. Will I need to have them all sell out in prep for the new build or do you think it will merge just fine with your update?

Thanks again.

Was working fine until the Yahoo API page was unconnectable. Immediately hard crash server.

java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 502 for URL: http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=GOOG,HPQ,T&f=nsl1op [07:53:01] [Server thread/WARN]: at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown Source) and on and on...

Worked again once the yahoo finance list was live again. Found a new and major error though. Folks are able to by non-existant stocks or pre-release stocks and suddenly gain millions in moments. If you could fix so that if the list is down it doesn't crash, and make it so you can only buy/sell existing live stocks and not fake/nonexistant, that would be awesome. Thank you.

Update - over an hour in, had a few people using it and unless they do /sm mine too fast we see no issues. We do have request, two actually.

1. Do you have a Donations link anywhere?

2. Any chance of adding a sign function that we simply put like [RSM] first line (Stock Initials) second line

And have it just show maybe approx every 5 minutes the current data? I realize this could be tricky or beyond the scope of what you intended , but I figured I would ask anyhow :)

Thank you again.

Using it at XeGaming.Com Works like a charm. Already have members going broke buying stock. We all know its beta and things could go snap any moment but so far we really like what you have done. If you want to come check it out and get some feedback, feel free.

My question is. As we buy and sell in game, do we use the internal db generated? Meaning, I assume the prices are pulled from online but the shares are affected by our purchase of em in game right?

cooooool