Okay I'm going to try this out and see how it works. See below:
AirStocks can now be traded at ANY TIME. The AirStocks market will be open except for times when the database is being updated.
With advancements in programming technology, we are now able to "grab" and use the most current stock price available. So this means we can now buy/sell stocks at ANY time regardless if the market is open or closed.
This is a HUGE improvement! This means we can now trade while the "real" trading is happening.
There may be times when the website we are getting prices from is down or not working, in which case we will fall back to the old system of trading --> http://www.air-source.us/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=24
You will notice some suttle changes to the "current" stock price on some screens, and depending on when you view the stock you may see a "after hours" note, which means the price of the stock is different that when the stock market closed for the day. Your purchase price will revert to the after hours amount if different than the last price.
If this creates issues I may bring back the old way of trading stocks until we resolve the issue. So have fun and please report problems you may forsee with this new system in this forum.