ASB Trading System

[Novitiate]

Is anyone else finding that the ASB system has been incredibly slow the last couple of days?

[BRICKY]

yep.slow as. I thought it was my computer

[absolut-advance]

yes yesterday and today very slow.

AA

[ratkin]

Almost unusable

[belgarion]

The research section used to contain a pages called forecasts where covering brokers rated selected stocks ... Seems the only covering broker is now Morningstar ... What happened to the others? Was there a stouch I missed? Or are other brokers now charging for their rather dubious dart-throwing results?

... and on another note ... One notes the other dart-thrower still have PVO pegged at 'Buy' ... Exactly how I can't imagine! I'm guessing they are advising us to approach the PVO recievers ...

[Novitiate]

Anyone else having trouble with the system today? I'm having problems logging on - says system is temporarily unavailable.

[brettdale]

Anyone else having trouble with the system today? I'm having problems logging on - says system is temporarily unavailable.

Yep having the same trouble today.

[Arbitrage]

Service will be affected tonight too as they are carrying out maintenance from 6:30pm till 8:30pm.

[Jay]

Have'nt they just changed to straight thru trading on NZX shares - no manual intervention.
Wonder if this has affected speed etc

[absolut-advance]

Frustrating! I hold GOA and GOAOA and ASB is still showing no turnover after 19 minutes of trading! WTF! (As is the ASX site?)

Not to mention the hanging website! practically unusable

Come on ASB get your %$#@ Together!

(is it in a trading holt or something?, people on HC seem to getting price data from somewhere???)

(28 minutes later the Price Data finally comes through, what a joke, asb site still hanging, get through about every 5th attempt :( )


AA

[ScrappyO]

Frustrating! I hold GOA and GOAOA and ASB is still showing no turnover after 19 minutes of trading! WTF!

Not to mention the hanging website!

Come on ASB get your %$#@ Together!

(is it in a trading holt or something?)


AA

Yip.. this is bs, keeps crashing and no depth...it all over the show :mad:

[Novitiate]

Is it just me, or is the system unbearably slow today? I tried quitting my browser and starting over, but it took several minutes just to try and logon - and now I have a runtime error while trying to access my portfoloio!! Grrrrrr.....

[Ptolemy]

Is it just me, or is the system unbearably slow today? I tried quitting my browser and starting over, but it took several minutes just to try and logon - and now I have a runtime error while trying to access my portfoloio!! Grrrrrr.....

no, not just you. This is a regular event. I don't know why I put up with them - actuallu I do. Because I am too lazy to change and I like the security of having my money market account with a bank (remembering the access brokerage disaster).

Has anyone else heard the rumour that ASB is looking to get out of the securities business?

Might be a blessing in disguise for us long suffering "customers".

[Novitiate]

Can't get on to the system today! Error .. error .. error.

I hadn't heard that rumour - must investigate. I like the convenience of the one-stop-shop with ASB.

Anybody got any recommendations for other online platforms?

[777]

no, not just you. This is a regular event. I don't know why I put up with them - actuallu I do. Because I am too lazy to change and I like the security of having my money market account with a bank (remembering the access brokerage disaster).

Has anyone else heard the rumour that ASB is looking to get out of the securities business?

Might be a blessing in disguise for us long suffering "customers".


I hope you are wrong as then there will only be one on line broker. Watch the fees increase.

[marknz88]

I cant see ASB getting out of the securities market, espicially since CBA seems to keep pushing and pushing their product over in AUS...if anythung ASB would be upgrading to the webiress platform im the future from their current web based platform (which is rubbish compared to aussie brokers)

[mccollr]

I see that ASB are in the process of upgrading their site. The demo looks good and certainly an improvement. They have a blog where you can make suggestions which is a good start. From the Demo one well might be able to do everything for the NZ AX from the one site.
Rod

[Novitiate]

Ouch - that big figure on the Portfolio View showing the percentage your portfolio is 'up' or 'down' by is handy - but just a little depressing atm. It's so big and so red.

[Ptolemy]

Ouch - that big figure on the Portfolio View showing the percentage your portfolio is 'up' or 'down' by is handy - but just a little depressing atm. It's so big and so red.

Oooh, yes. I don't like that either. How do you get rid of that? Some nice new features but mainly cosmetic.

On the positive side they have finally put a stop loss selling feature on the site - only 3 years after Direct Broking introduced theirs.

[belgarion]

Ptolemy - I'm sure it there's been a stop loss facility for ages. I think I might have even used it once :)

[Novitiate]

Wish I had used it more often. Can't say Phaedrus didn't tell us.

[absolut-advance]

Takes some getting use to this new site, I don't like all the grey fonts, Black was much clearer and i wish volume turnover was still displayed on the depth page as i was a refresh-aholic ,other then that i like it a lot.

Live VWAP is awesome

AA

[Aaron]

I just need to vent about the new ASB securities website. I have given it some time as new things take time to adjust to. The only improvement I can see is the volume on the watchlist. How do you get the watchlist to show alphabetically?

There used to be historical figures for companys which has gone.

The whole revamp seems to be about reducing service and getting people to the buy sell screen as quickly as possible. I think it is a backwards step from the old website.
I have only ever used ASB securities. Does anyone know how they compare in regard to research with other online brokers?

[tobo]

also as awkward as anything to get from chart to chart (not that their charts have any useful indicator control...so I don't know why I am complaining)

[frostyboy]

Has anyone had any luck negotiating the comission/spread on the retail NZD/AUD rate?

[Lego_Man]

I havent tried, but they should be giving us closer to wholesale rates. I do it through my workplace when i want to transfer funds, every hundred bucks here or there counts.