I am going to give them a week to sort out teething problems. Never easy switching buildings and technology issues. But if there is no improvement, I will be leaving as well.
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I've placed a few trades on the ASX, but they've been showing as 'Placed' for 20-30 minutes now (ANZ moved to Limit Order within a few minutes). Can understand if it's because it's still pre-market. Hopefully it isn't this slow once trading begins.
Chi-X trades not showing up in the course of trades? I think the price and depth are still updated, but can't see the trades.
If they were doing live runs before the weekend you would have expected that they did not see pre-open or depth update as per schedule. They could have created an alternative data source to test over the weekend.
Looks like they still dont have the link between the cash management account transaction and the cash management account balance working yet. My cash sort of looks like it is there - but not in the part it would need to be if I wanted to transfer it.
That is possible. But do not underestimate the NZX. Back in the day when people would call me was often the NZX's fault even though to the punter it would seem/look as if the broker had the issue. No substitute for the real deal and they probably did try it with an alternative date source to test but an alternative data source would be more reliable. Anyway I am happy to give them a few days to sort their $^#@ out.
Thought they had fixed my portfolio totals in the end yesterday, now its worse than ever, guess i can pretend their totals are right and Im having agood week on NZX.
Not sure if this is the right place for this, but I sent in my unlisted market form to Direct Broking and got a response back saying its all done, but nothing new has shown up in the website. Is that expected?
I thought there was going to be a little new market section added and I would be able to place an order via the site. Was I mistaken or am I just blind?
I cant say for sure Meister, coz I bought on the USX (Unlisted) through Craigs but I tried to add it to the Direct Broking portfolio and couldn't so I'm assuming the portfolio service doesn't include the Unlisted market listings.
It would be cheaper to get them through DB of course so I should probably do that in future. I hadn't considered it an option.
You have to call them to lodge an order but once completed by them, it will show up in your portfolio. The unlisted does not have automated systems for market price etc unfortunately so the likes of brokers such as DB and even Sharesight can not automatically update prices. It has to be done manually.
There are some issues around being able to edit Unlisted holdings on the DB platform. As there are around being able to maintain Fixed Interest positions.