Re: [Rails-devel] 1835 share selling

[Aliza P. <ali...@gm...>]

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:47 PM, brett lentz <bre...@gm...> wrote:
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>
> There are two distinct use-cases here:
>
> 1. I sell a share, then realize I meant to sell multiple shares as a
> single sale, and so I sell more shares.   Result:  This should be
> counted as a single sale, with a single drop in stock value for the
> whole sale transaction.

You click "undo" and then sell them all as a single transaction.

(Alternatively, Rails could generically prohibit selling shares
one-at-a-time, since all games I'm aware of that discuss the topic
explicitly disallow it.)


>
> 2. I deliberately want to trash the stock price of a company by
> selling multiple shares as individual transactions. Result: This
> should be counted as multiple sales transactions, and drop the stock
> value for each sale transaction.
>
> I'm not sure there's a good code-based way for Rails to distinguish #1
> from #2 without additional information.
>
> Personally, I'm totally okay with saying that the correct way to
> execute #1 is to click Undo, and re-do your single sale as intended.
> This means that Rails should treat all sales as individual
> transactions, and so achieving #2 is as easy as "Sell 1... then Sell
> 1.... then Sell 1..."

Yes.

>
> ---Brett.
>