Is ASB Site down or just me?

[melsmith90210]

Trying to log in this morning and it says there is an error....is it just my computer??

[Ripping]

its down for me too

[melsmith90210]

Cheers....hope it is not down for long I hate not being able to watch the markets open especially on a Monday!

[zyreon]

can not wait to get rid of my last few NZ holdings so i don't have to put up with the fawking bull shiz of asb securities any more!

[Paper Tiger]

quote:Originally posted by zyreon

can not wait to get rid of my last few NZ holdings so i don't have to put up with the fawking bull shiz of asb securities any more!

you could always just change brokers

[whiteheron]

zyreon

There are better opportunities in general in Australia in my opinion

I now have everything there , except for one in NZ

[zyreon]

indeed, excuse my outburst.
the majority of my activity presently is conducted in NY... worlds better than NZX

but then again i learnt the basics on the NZX so i suppose it's good for something!

[trendy]

Anyone else having problems logging in?

[port hills]

quote:Originally posted by trendy

Anyone else having problems logging in?


No I'm OK [^]

[Year of the Tiger]

quote:Originally posted by trendy

Anyone else having problems logging in?




I'm in there ok

[port hills]

National Bank has been without depth all morning, now ASB has gone as well!! :(

[trendy]

Could be the feed from the NZX.

[port hills]

quote:Originally posted by trendy

Could be the feed from the NZX.


Direct broking is still OK.

[drum]

Anyone having issues with ASB Securities this morning? I get a 'system error'.

[Year of the Tiger]

quote:Originally posted by drum

Anyone having issues with ASB Securities this morning? I get a 'system error'.


Me Too......

[shasta]

They have just executed a buy order of mine though, received through paradise.

Damn nuisance though!

[Steve]

Just thinking about it, but isn't it funny how different brokers go 'off-line' at different times despite having the same feed-source?[?]

[I.T.Ancient]

Is ASB online trading is down (again)? Is the problem universal or is it just me?

[Paper Tiger]

works for me

[biker]

quote:Originally posted by I.T.Ancient

Is ASB online trading is down (again)? Is the problem universal or is it just me?

Yep,down again.....[V]

[Tumbleweed]

Seems to be working.

[Shooter]

Still down for me...

[I.T.Ancient]

Up again now. That was **** annoying

[Sky Tower]

Have you considered registering as a Trading customer with more than one broker/bank?

If one goes down you just log into another and get basically the same information.

Would be a prudent strategy - if one bank has an outage you can get the same trading/market depth info from another website

[rotsevni]

I wondered why the ASX and NZX were out of step with each other and then realised the ASX is closed today. Was I the only one to not know that?

[lanenz]

quote:Originally posted by I.T.Ancient

Is ASB online trading is down (again)? Is the problem universal or is it just me?
You must have an IT problem at your end. Works fine for me,

[biker]

quote:Originally posted by lanenz


quote:Originally posted by I.T.Ancient

Is ASB online trading is down (again)? Is the problem universal or is it just me?
You must have an IT problem at your end. Works fine for me,

The ASB online trading facility was down from market opening for at least an hour and was acknowledged as such by them. (just for the record.)

[lanenz]

quote:Originally posted by rotsevni

I wondered why the ASX and NZX were out of step with each other and then realised the ASX is closed today. Was I the only one to not know that?
I noticed that as well as i expected a couple of the oilers to be down today. Is it Aussie day today? If so perhaps a good day to be at the cricket drinking a fanta or 2

[rotsevni]

quote:Originally posted by lanenz


quote:Originally posted by rotsevni

I wondered why the ASX and NZX were out of step with each other and then realised the ASX is closed today. Was I the only one to not know that?
I noticed that as well as i expected a couple of the oilers to be down today. Is it Aussie day today? If so perhaps a good day to be at the cricket drinking a fanta or 2

It was the difference between NZO price here and on the ASX which alerted me to the fact that the ASX is closed

[lanenz]

Rotsevni. How did that alert you? It has been pretty much the same differtial for quite some time. They have a wider trading range due to the smaller number of shares available. Buy at 82. sell at 85

[patsy]

I consider the ASB Securties website as one of the most poorly designed websites I know of, and certainly the least functional and user friendly. Frankly, I can hardly believe that an organisation that prides itself of its IT-savvy outlook can come up with such a pice of cr*py design - and I'm not referring to the aesthtics but to the lack of "practicality" from the users viewpoint.

[biker]

quote:Originally posted by patsy

I consider the ASB Securties website as one of the most poorly designed websites I know of, and certainly the least functional and user friendly. Frankly, I can hardly believe that an organisation that prides itself of its IT-savvy outlook can come up with such a pice of cr*py design - and I'm not referring to the aesthtics but to the lack of "practicality" from the users viewpoint.


Completely agree. It's a shocker.

[COLIN]

I can thoroughly recommend Direct Broking. Have used them for my on-line activities for several years now, without fault. Their direct trading facilities provide me with virtually all I need, without fuss.

[metro]

quote:Originally posted by biker


quote:Originally posted by patsy

I consider the ASB Securties website as one of the most poorly designed websites I know of, and certainly the least functional and user friendly. Frankly, I can hardly believe that an organisation that prides itself of its IT-savvy outlook can come up with such a pice of cr*py design - and I'm not referring to the aesthtics but to the lack of "practicality" from the users viewpoint.


Completely agree. It's a shocker.


There are other choices like National Bank or Direct Broking

[Offshore]

I have been using ASB site but like using charts - the charts on ASB site are disappointing. I have phoned them twice over last year and they keep saying the charting area will be improved, but do not say when. So I am looking elsewhere - has anyone used NBNZ website charts and how are they?

[warthog]

Hmmm. DB seems to be down (for me anyway) right now.

[Tyke]

I use Quotetracker which constantly updates its data in real time through Direct Broking and it's not working either

[warthog]

quote:Originally posted by Tyke

I use Quotetracker which constantly updates its data in real time through Direct Broking and it's not working either


Tyke, where would one find information about Quotetracker?

[Sky Tower]

quote:Originally posted by Offshore

I have been using ASB site but like using charts - the charts on ASB site are disappointing. I have phoned them twice over last year and they keep saying the charting area will be improved, but do not say when. So I am looking elsewhere - has anyone used NBNZ website charts and how are they?


Offshore: certainly I liked the NBNZ charting facility when it first came out but it does have limitations i.e. no MACD indicator.

It does however have intraday, weekly, monthly and quarterly charts; commonly used buy/sell indicators including RSI, Stochastic, Williams %R; and range of chart options including moving average, exponential moving average, bollinger bonds and envelopes; and a range of graphing styles including Line, Candle and OHLC.

Really you need to try for yourself and see whether the NBNZ charting facilty is going to be of use for your (specific) particular needs.

[Tyke]

quote:Originally posted by warthog


quote:Originally posted by Tyke

I use Quotetracker which constantly updates its data in real time through Direct Broking and it's not working either


Tyke, where would one find information about Quotetracker?


www.quotetracker.com You will need to be a client of Direct Broking as , as far as I know, they are the only NZ firm that allows access to their server. I also use it for my AUS portfolio (also through DB) UK (ADVFN) and US (Ameritrade)

[bk]

He Tyke, good program, that quotetracker. :)

I have one problem though, when tracking NZO and NZOOD through Direct Broking NZ I seem to get the correct NZ values for NZOOD but the Australian values for NZO. Seems if a ticker is known at both markets it provides the Aussie values although I specify DB NZ. Do you have a solution for that[?]

Thanks

[airedale]

Customers of the ANZ bank can get a link from their website to take them to E*trade, and that is far superior to anything locally for trading the AUS market.
Now that the NB is owned by ANZ, NB customers would be better served if they also had that option.

[OldRider]

I have used "quotetracker" for end of day prices,
ASX source for Australian prices, and Motley Fool for UK.

Recently Motley Fool has not been updating for me,anyone else had the problem?

TYKE: With motley fool giving a problem I tried ADFN, registered there but no joy either. Is there a secret? For me end of day delayed is fine, so don't see need for expensive real time.

Any other suggestions?

[Sky Tower]

Interesting comment Airedale

[Jerry Medved]

quote:Originally posted by bk

He Tyke, good program, that quotetracker. :)I have one problem though, when tracking NZO and NZOOD through Direct Broking NZ I seem to get the correct NZ values for NZOOD but the Australian values for NZO.[?]
BK, When QuoteTracker requests the quotes, it explicitly specifies NZX as the exchange if "DirectBroking - New Zealand" is selected as the datafeed in QT. I just checked and got NZ quotes on both NZO and NZOOD. If you are still having the problem, please email QuoteTracker support with your PORT.XML and STOCKS.INI files from the QT folder and the description of the problem.

quote:Originally posted by OldRider

I have used "quotetracker" for end of day prices,

Recently Motley Fool has not been updating for me,anyone else had the problem?
TYKE: With motley fool giving a problem I tried ADFN, registered there but no joy either. Is there a secret? OldRider - Fool has recently made some changes regarding their quotes. I was aware of the US site changing. Did not know they changed the UK site too. I checked - basically, I can make it work again, but will be way slower than it was before. Reason - if you request a quote on more than one symbol, they don't return anything other than LAST and CHANGE, so would have to get one quote page for each symbol. Much slower. In general, Motley Fool is delayed quotes. You would be better off using real-time from your broker if they QuoteTracker supported. Also, if you want, you can email QT support for Yahoo configuration files. (will fix fool quote config)

ADVFN should work, but only during market hours. Also, you need to have a direct internet connection. ADVFN will not work through a proxy server (routers and firewalls should be fine).
You will get constant reconnects though, unless you have a paid subscription, because of their round robin connection scheme. If you are going to pay however, you would be far better off with MoneyAM for UK symbols

Jerry Medved
http://www.quotetracker.com

[Jerry Medved]

OLDRIDER - Select OPTIONS/WebUpdate menu in QuoteTracker to get the Motley Fool UK fix. I also made it read the news headlines, so you will see lightbulbs come up next to the symbols in the quote table. Click on the bulb to read the news

Jerry Medved
http://www.quotetracker.com

[bk]

Jerry, thanks for the help. I will wait to see if the problem resolves itself come monday when the market opens; if not I'll email QT.
Right now I have sitting on the screen side by side NOG at 0.90 and NZO at 0.83 - mind you, it shows the open and the previous close for BOTH being 0.90, but NOG finishing at 16:35 and NZO at 18:35
And PPP also shows Australian figures.

[OldRider]

Jerry: After update all is back to normal,Motley fool working as before.

Many thanks, your help is much appreciated.

Quotetracker is a most useful and well used part of my investing armoury, it seems this may be the case for other Sharetrader posters as well.

I wish you well with it in the future.

OldRider

[Jerry Medved]

Thanks OldRider. BTW, check out the beta version of QT. It has the new historical charts that work same as the intraday ones (zooming, scrolling, all the indicators, trendlines, etc). And, works for AU and UK stocks too
http://www.quotetracker.com/beta

[kura]

ASX trading suspended ?

[Jay]

I was also wondering what is going on[?]

[kura]

Back to normal, was problem with ASX, & affected all brokers

[Tinker]

Last couple of days I have found at night the ASB site is so slow it times out when I request another page. It is doing it now.

Is this me or are others experiencing this too?

Ta
Tinker

[port hills]

quote:Originally posted by Tinker

Last couple of days I have found at night the ASB site is so slow it times out when I request another page. It is doing it now.

Is this me or are others experiencing this too?

Ta
Tinker


It'll not let me in at all, doesn't seem to believe my password???

[Tinker]

Ok Thanks Port Hills, sounds like the same thing. I'll send them an e-mail.

Cheers
Tinker

[small fish]

I too have had this problem last few weeks but has been improving

[OldRider]

I have had similar problems since the latest windows update, which included the latest Internet Explorer version.

Both computers running XP have had the same problem, old machine running Windows 98 works fine.

Tonight I went back to using Firefox, XP machines worked with no problems, seems problem is with Internet explorer. I talked with my son, he says they have had some problems at his work, and in some cases some web sites will need some changes to perform correctly.

The worst problem I had with ASB was that I could only get details of NZ cash balances, foreign currency just hung till it timed out.

[Tok3n]

ASB Securities seems to be slow again

Can't seem to execute ASX buy orders, anyone else having the same problems?

[Lion]

quote:Originally posted by Tok3n

ASB Securities seems to be slow again

Can't seem to execute ASX buy orders, anyone else having the same problems?



Yep, it's a bit shakey for me too

[pimpit]

yep cant see depth.
worst broker ever!

I missed a opportunity to trade PYMO as PYMO was not added in ASB system.

[tsb]

trading page down again around 12.20 with the standard we are experiancing delays etc
they are having a bad time of it again.

[Steve]

quote:Originally posted by tsb

trading page down again around 12.20 with the standard we are experiancing delays etc
they are having a bad time of it again.

Time to switch brokers? If so, better to avoid National...

[quartzpurple]

is it down again?

[OldRider]

QP:
Working OK for me. I have experienced erratic slowness and inaction lately, not just with ASB. Son tells me most likely cause is telecom broadband service.

[hilly]

Haven't been able to load www.asb.co.nz for about a week now.... anyone else having issues?

[shasta]

try this

http://www.asbbank.co.nz

[Paper Tiger]

It is working for me (I am logged in and using both ASB Sec and the banking bit)

regards
Paper Tiger

[shasta]

quote:Originally posted by shasta

try this

http://www.asbbank.co.nz


Works for me & i'm an ASB/ASB Sec customer

[hilly]

quote:Originally posted by shasta


quote:Originally posted by shasta

try this

http://www.asbbank.co.nz


Works for me & i'm an ASB/ASB Sec customer


Thanks guys, but still no luck. Wondering if its because i'm trying from the UK??? Have tried other computers from over here and no luck either.....

[absolut-advance]

Try access it via fastnet, I've had problems with logging on, trash cache and cookies.

AA

[absolut-advance]

hehehe just noticed the: Page will explode in 1min 0.17 seconds. Snitz Forums 2000

havent noticed that before when ive posted in the past.

hehe

AA

[absolut-advance]

Slow today!!!

must be overloaded with sell orders

AA

[mibo]

quote:Originally posted by absolut-advance

Slow today!!!
must be overloaded with sell orders


Yes definately, going by the red arrows all over my portfolio!

[shane_m]

I am having problems with ASB today. Is ASB down again today?

[ratkin]

yep.............................

[I.T.Ancient]

I looks as if their servers are overloaded.

[Arbitrage]

It has been burping and stumbling for several days now.

[Tok3n]

ASB Securities is becoming a joke lately

Is National Bank any better?

[Caesius]

No.

10 chars

[kura]

I haven't had any email confirmation of trades lately, this morning I sold 20000 shares in an ASX company, the one and only email confirmation I received was for selling 170 shares.

[biker]

Likewise. 3 or 4 notifications didn't come through but a couple did. ASB are laying the blame with xtra which is probably valid.
Also, very frustrating to have the ASB ASX access slow to a crawl especially when the market has just opened as well as at other inexplicable times during the day.It does tend to negate the straight through trading advantage of the ASX.

[Jay]

If you are on Xtra, try logging into the webmail and looking at the bulk or Spam mail folder.
I found regular emails that I have been getting for ages in there and since the the "upgrade" THEY have decided it is spam. This included an email from a firend of mine that was not a "joke etc". Sent a complaint to them, yet to hear back

[mibo]

Looks like ASB site is down again :mad:. It is obviously not very reliable.

[mibo]

No sooner said then it is back to normal, maybe even quicker. Go figure...

[Treetops]

ASB Sec says "We are currently experiencing delays." You can't even logon. After about two minutes trying you get system error. I'm surprised they can't improve this. Are they prepared to lose clients or are they about to fold and tight for cash? :confused: With an Australian accent ASB sec lives up to its name. ;)

[Tok3n]

Pretty sub primed system they have aye :(