Trading the stockmarket (NO Referrals)

tlrBeta · 10 Nov 2020 at 14:45

A lot of interest right now, it isn't surprising.

HL also had a glitch this morning with no live prices streaming.

413x · 10 Nov 2020 at 14:46

Surprised the big risers from yesterday are still rising!

Simon · 10 Nov 2020 at 14:47

I think its released a lot of downward pressure on stocks that were 'cheap' but who knows in this game!

413x · 10 Nov 2020 at 14:49

Simon said:
I think its released a lot of downward pressure on stocks that were 'cheap' but who knows in this game!

It did.
I was expecting a rise in my airline shares. But not 30-40 percent. Wish I had had RR!

englishpremier · 10 Nov 2020 at 16:18

tlrBeta said:
A lot of interest right now, it isn't surprising.

HL also had a glitch this morning with no live prices streaming.

It's worse than that. I can shares missing. An extra £3k of available funds, but no notifications on anything being sold or stops kicking in.

FMF · 10 Nov 2020 at 16:21

englishpremier said:
It's worse than that. I can shares missing. An extra £3k of available funds, but no notifications on anything being sold or stops kicking in.

Im not a CT at all but I do wonder sometimes that these outages are at the most critical of times.....

BennyC · 10 Nov 2020 at 18:27

englishpremier said:
It's worse than that. I can shares missing. An extra £3k of available funds, but no notifications on anything being sold or stops kicking in.

A stop failed for me too yesterday on HL and sell limit today.

Trades which processed successfully yesterday failed to register for a few hours as did cash, the offer price was correct though. Services down shortly thereafter.

LSE boards have been down most mornings for the last fortnight or so but a fix is 'almost finished'.

ADVFN has been fine though.

englishpremier · 10 Nov 2020 at 20:42

I got the notifications of my stops a couple of hours later. The transactions were visible in history though before that.

uncle_rufus · 10 Nov 2020 at 22:02

FMF said:
Im not a CT at all but I do wonder sometimes that these outages are at the most critical of times.....

Couldn't it just be that these services become busy during these critical times and that puts more strain on them leading to outages?

"These damn supermarkets, they always run out of stuff right when people are trying to panic buy it all"

FMF · 10 Nov 2020 at 22:29

uncle_rufus said:
Couldn't it just be that these services become busy during these critical times and that puts more strain on them leading to outages?

"These damn supermarkets, they always run out of stuff right when people are trying to panic buy it all"

Fair poin. You would think a FTSE 100 company like HL would have sufficient server capacity however.

Basher · 11 Nov 2020 at 07:58

uncle_rufus said:
Couldn't it just be that these services become busy during these critical times and that puts more strain on them leading to outages?

"These damn supermarkets, they always run out of stuff right when people are trying to panic buy it all"

True, but it's not an acceptable answer. These platforms need to be built for these times. There are plenty of tools out there to help them predict/understand user experience, the impact on their infra and make informed decisions.

Diddums · 11 Nov 2020 at 08:08

uncle_rufus said:
Couldn't it just be that these services become busy during these critical times and that puts more strain on them leading to outages?

"These damn supermarkets, they always run out of stuff right when people are trying to panic buy it all"

Not really a valid comparison unfortunately. If a supermarket doesn't have stuff, you simply go elsewhere. With companies like this, they already have your money and your shares leaving you with no other options.

It's a paid service, an oopsie now and then is acceptable and workable but the extent at which these companies screw up is unacceptable.

uncle_rufus · 11 Nov 2020 at 10:03

To be clear - I wasn't defending the fact that they have outages; it is unacceptable and they should ensure they have the capacity to handle surges in usage. I was merely pointing out that the outages are better explained by said surge in activity than by some sort of conspiracy theory (e.g. they have a button they can push to cripple the service whilst they inside-trade or whatnot)

Simon · 11 Nov 2020 at 10:26

If the trading tools are down then they lose out on trading fees. no CT needed

booyaka · 11 Nov 2020 at 13:14

FMF said:
Fair poin. You would think a FTSE 100 company like HL would have sufficient server capacity however.

You would think Overclockers (a pc parts retailer) would have sufficent server capacity for 3xxx launches etc

Russinating · 11 Nov 2020 at 13:42

FMF said:
Fair poin. You would think a FTSE 100 company like HL would have sufficient server capacity however.

Friend used to work there. No matter the size or scale of any company, it's still likely run by morons at some point in the chain.

Martynt74 · 11 Nov 2020 at 13:43

Russinating said:
Friend used to work there. No matter the size or scale of any company, it's still likely run by morons at some point in the chain.

That's a terrible way to refer to a friend.

Russinating · 11 Nov 2020 at 13:53

Marvt74 said:
That's a terrible way to refer to a friend.

Trig · 11 Nov 2020 at 14:45

CRSR on the up then, see how far it goes..

Gibbo · 11 Nov 2020 at 15:48

Trig said:
CRSR on the up then, see how far it goes..

I sold at $29 and also grabbed 20,000 HYVE shares at 8am as think its a major vaccine recovery play, currently a couple of grand up in a day but I think it can move well north of 100p, as I think its flying under radar but a successful vaccine will mean events are back on for 2021 and so think this can see major recover.