Guys,

We are just about to restart the streamers on stockwatch, so if you loose connection, please hit refres or CTRL + F5

Apologies for the inconvenience

Ian

Our data suppliers are experiencing difficulties with regard to some of the prices on Stcokwatch - on some stocks the Mid price is showing as the same as the offer price. They are attempting to resolve this and I will update you as soon as they have come back to me.

Ian

i have just bought some shares but they are listed as a sell in the streaming data. why?

Bosley,

When a trade goes through there is no note on it for us to discern whether it is a buy or a sell - please read the following disclaimer from the TRADES page which explains this in more detail:

Disclaimer

All analysis on this trades page is intended only as a guide and its accuracy is not guaranteed. It should not be used for investment purposes.

It should be noted that all trade declarations made by the market do not include a buy or sell indicator and therefore we have to derive this information ourselves. The policy we have adopted is based on the mid price of the stock at the time of the declaration. For example, a trade declared at a price that is higher than the mid price at the time of declaration would be put in the buy column, a trade lower than the mid price would be put in the sell column. A trade which matches the mid price would be considered unknown. Please also note that the market can delay declaration of the trades for up to an hour in which case we will not make any assumptions and place that trade in the 'unknown' column. Please also note that many investors are able to buy and sell within the spread and also users of level 2 systems will actually be buying at the perceived sell price, these trades might therefore appear to be wrongly categorised

With regard to the problems with Stockwatch - I have spoken to our supplier who has said that the problem is actually eminating from The London Stock Exchange.

The Stock Exchange are now looking into this and I will update you when I have further information or the problem is resolved.

Again apologies,

Ian