Bid/Ask spread addition

do you know who is doing stocklist.ai?

At the moment I have a complex analysis indicator that I developed (still a work-in-progress) in TradingView but ideally I would like to create a standalone tool that can get live price data and analyse all stock on my watchlist in real time. I’d therefore be interested where stocklist gets its price data. I know there are some price api around but on first glance they seem to have limitations

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No, but I messaged via the ā€œjoin the waitlistā€ G Sheet and got a message back…so someone is active and might respond to your query and/or help you out stocklist.ai sign-up

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Oh wow. Thanks for the shout out @haggis_mince

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Welcome to our community! :wink:

Btw, nice work with stocklist.ai! :fist_right: :fist_left:

Thank you very much. It does seem to be getting some traffic these days. Seems to come from Reddit !! Glad peeps like it.

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I have to agree with @dougal1984 I prefer to get an indication when placing a order at what price the trade will actually execute. I prefer to use the limit method to trade because I feel you get a deal closer to the expected price. A buy/sell spread as an indicator would be very useful. I presently have to go to another platform to get this info. I have tried placing a trade at the LTP but as it often takes time to execute, i feel the limit order when available (not available in pies) works best.

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Father McGuire,
I’ve just signed up for T212 after trading on IG for several years (I summed up my FX fees over that time and that’s what lead me to switch). I was very surprised to find no bid-ask spread shown, and so ended up in this thread. Does direct market access ensure we are getting the same bid-ask (and more importantly buy / sell prices) as we would on any other platform that offers DMA? If that is the case then I can just about live with checking elsewhere before buying anything. But if I can’t check then that won’t do at all, as some illiquid names have spreads wider than my stop loss.

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While DMA provides access to the order book and real-time market data, it does not guarantee that you will receive the same bid-ask and buy/sell prices as other platforms that offer DMA. Here’s why:

  • Each broker may have different liquidity providers and execution venues, which can result in slight variations in bid-ask and buy/sell prices.
  • The prices you see on Trading 212 may be influenced by the liquidity providers and execution venues they work with.
  • Market conditions and order flow can also impact the bid-ask and buy/sell prices, leading to differences between platforms…

How can I know then the SPREAD of a certain product?

Since I have experienced having limited buy order not fulfilled even though the LTP has gone through it. Either the App has a glitch or something doesn’t match up here… It would be nice if:

Show LTP in the product but as well the Bid/Ask in small numbers or something. Since this is VERY USEFUL and necessary information.
Thanks

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Exactly!
Kudos to this

How do you see the LTP? Doesnt seem to be an option?

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Maybe it could be an helpful option to introduce a threshold. If the spread exceeds the threshold show the Bid/Ask, below the threshold LTP will do.

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LTP (Last Trade Price) may show what just happened in the past, Bid-Ask shows the real-time market demand/supply. Both are important.

Can T212 also include Bid-Ask prices or have the option to show LTP or Bid/Ask or both?

Thanks

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Currently, we don’t have plans to bring back the Ask/Bid prices or provide an option to see them along with the LTP. I’ll let you know if that changes in the future, though.

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Just stopping by to say that I’m very unhappy to hear this.
Please reconsider, and display the real conditions behind our orders.
With T212, I exclusively use limit orders that I estimate based around bid-ask values that other platforms show me, simply because I don’t/can’t trust market orders here.

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That’s incorrect. No-one is giving live price feeds away for free. Bid ask / LTP are all in the past. Bid ask usually by 15 minutes.

sorry but only half correct. Many platforms will show you live bid/offer or actual quote when you are placing orders

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On free brokers? Which ones?

For example XTB.
Not sure if for all exchanges, but for XETRA it 100% shows live bid/ask prices.

XTB has fees. Currency conversion charge is high.