Remember the time we could just buy stocks on T212, good times!

[phildawson]

Whilst I agree a couple of things.

@itzikhil

Limit orders not triggered

Do you mean they aren’t filled? There’s no guarantee they will fill. Thats not in T212s control.

@itzikhil

The general graph is basically an animation of some line regardless of the price, or account value, if you want something even close to reality you must use the advanced graph.

The line chart is just an average, the candles are needed to see the OHLC on each minute but thats not new or unique to T212.

Now the ASK quotes that appear on the chart that come in from Bloomberg yep I have a big problem with those and have a huge thread on it. Delayed quotes, wrong quotes. It was meant to be fixed, still having issues.

Does a broker have a legal duty to provide recent indicative ask and bids?

Further more what is classed as indicative in terms of timescale? Is a quote from 1 minute ago ok? 1hr ago ok? 1wk ago ok? 1 month ok? I’ve been battling T212 for most of this year on its Bloomberg data feed and specifically AIM instruments. The main issue faced is either lack of new quotes (for sometimes weeks) or the quote is wrongly updated such as only new BIDs come in which leads to fake zero spreads. When the BID overtakes the ASK that’s got to be an indication something isn’t right. A c…