JSE INVESTMENT CHALLENGE

Public Game User Manual

August 2014

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Contents
Register as a new participant ............................................................................................................................................ 3
Register as an existing participant ..................................................................................................................................... 6
Account-Profile .................................................................................................................................................................. 8
Home Page ........................................................................................................................................................................ 9
How to Trade ................................................................................................................................................................... 10
View Order Status............................................................................................................................................................ 14
View Transaction History ................................................................................................................................................. 15
View Scoreboard ............................................................................................................................................................. 16
Portfolio........................................................................................................................................................................... 17
My communities .............................................................................................................................................................. 18
Create Community .......................................................................................................................................................... 19
Join Community ............................................................................................................................................................... 21
Delete Community .......................................................................................................................................................... 22
Glossary ........................................................................................................................................................................... 23

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Register as a new participant

To register you can click on the “Register” link.

Alternatively click on the Register button below “About the JSE Investment Challenge”
paragraph.

Once you have clicked on the “Register” button or link the registration form below should
appear where you can fill in your details.

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You have an option to pay now or later, if you decide to pay now by clicking on the “Pay
now” link the screen below should appear. Select the “Credit card” option.

Fill in the details as shown below.

When the “Pay now” button is clicked you will be required to provide OTP (One Time Pin)
sent to your phone. Once the OTP has been entered correctly the payment is processed.
You will get confirmation and two emails, the one congratulating you on successful
registration and the other will contain the receipt.

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Register as an existing participant
If you have participated previously your profile information exists on the website. To
register click on the “Register” link or button as indicated below.

When the “Register” button or link is clicked you should be presented with a registration
form where you must select “Existing” on the dropdown shown below.

When “Existing” is selected, the form below should appear where you should populate the
fields with your details and then click the “Search” button.

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The screen below should appear.

If you would you like to pay click on the “would you like to pay now” checkbox which will
redirect you to the payment page where you will select payment method, enter payment
details, provide OTP then receive confirmation

Please note that you can pay later on the registration form by unchecking the “Would you
like to pay now?” checkbox.
And click the “Continue” button to proceed with the registration process.

If you registered and did not pay and want to make a payment you can login and go to
“Account menu” and select “My Entries” menu item as indicated below.
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When “My entries” menu item is clicked you will see the screen below. Click on the “Pay
Now” link and follow the payment steps as demonstrated for registering a new participant.

You will notice that the paid checkbox is not checked, however once payment is done it
should be automatically checked.

Account-Profile
If you want to view your profile information click on the “Account” menu then select the
“Profile” menu item.

When you click on the “Profile” menu item the screen below should appear with your
profile information.

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On the form above you can edit your details (e.g. change email address) and click the “Save
Edit” button. When the “Save Edit” button is clicked, the “Confirmation” below should
appear.

Home Page
When you log in to the Public Game site for the first time you should be able to see the
screen below. With a welcome message and a link to this document “How to play”.

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How to Trade
Trades in the virtual system are requested by placing what is known as buy orders and sell
orders. To request a trade, go to the “Trade” menu and select “Trade or Quote”

On the “Trade or Quote” page you will find a “Search” option which allows you to find
shares based on their share code or name.
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If more than one share matches your search criteria you will be presented with a list of
options. Each share in this list will have a “Quote” and “Trade” button next to it.

Type in the share name/code and click on either the “Quote” button to review the
instrument’s information or the “Trade” button to go directly to the page where you can
enter your buy or sell order details.

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When the trade button is clicked

The Trade Request page should appear where you can either buy or sell a share. You must
also enter Number of shares to trade on the circled text box below.

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When the “Place Buy Order” button is clicked the trade verification page should appear.
This is where you confirm the order that you have just placed.

Once you have confirmed the order, the trade confirmation screen should appear.

An alternative way you can view the quote detail is by clicking the Quote hyperlink next to
the share you want to view a quote of.

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Alternatively if you want to trade you can click the Trade hyperlink next to the share you
want to trade.

View Order Status

If the order was not cancelled or failed then it should move from pending status to
complete order status.

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View Transaction History
This allows you to view all transactions/trades you have placed. You can access Transaction
History page by clicking “Transactions” button on the trade confirmation page or by clicking
the menu item “Transaction History” under Trade menu.

When you click the “Transaction History” menu item or the Transaction button on the
confirmation page the page below should be displayed. On this page you can filter or search
by transaction type, instrument or enter transaction date and click search

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View Scoreboard
This page allows you to view your ranking or position in the virtual trading game. You can
access this page by clicking the Scoreboard menu as indicated below.

Once you have clicked on the Scoreboard menu the page below should be displayed.

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Portfolio
The “Portfolio” page allows you to see if the share value purchased is either going up or
down. To access the “Portfolio” page you must click “Portfolio” menu.

When you click on the “Portfolio” menu the page below should appear.

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My communities
My communities allows participants to create “communities” where they can create, invite
friends to join and compete against one another in the virtual trading game. To go to
community management the participant would have to be logged in and select my
communities under the account menu, see below

When my communities menu item is clicked the below will be show.

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On this page participants can create, join and delete communities. No communities will be
listed if you have not created any. The South Africa and Gauteng are public communities
that all users are automatically entered to.

Create Community
To create community the participants must click the “create a new community” button as
shown below

When the above button is clicked the below form will be displayed to the user, the only
required field is the name of the community.

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When the community name is entered the participant should see the below form where
other participants can be invited to join the community created. On the “invite friends”
textbox the participant must only enter emails to send invitations.

When the invite button is clicked the participant should get the confirmation like shown
below. In addition an email will be sent to emails entered on the “invite friends” textbox.

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Join Community
The participant has an option to join other communities by entering the community code.
To join community click “join a community” button

When the above button is clicked the below screen form will appear, where the participant
will be requested to enter the community code.

If the code provide by participant is correct the below highlighted message will be shown

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Delete Community
The participants can also delete a community that they created. To do this participant must
be on “my communities” page and click delete as shown below

When the delete hyperlink is clicked there will be a warning message above the page like
shown below.

If “ok” button is clicked then the community will be deleted and the below confirmation
screen will be displayed

Note: when the community is deleted members or participants in that community will be
notified via email.

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Glossary
A helpful glossary of terms is available at this link on the challenge website.

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