All,



Over the weekend, the London Stock Exchange are migrating their trading platform/price feeds to a new technology, with several differences in the data format. This change will affect all data providers and all brokers, as they will be switched to the new system.



The new system will be live as of Monday 14th February.



We have been making the necessary changes and performing comprehensive testing to make sure that the change goes smoothly and does not affect our users. However, due to the complex nature and fundamental restructuring this change is forcing onto ALL data providers/brokers, there is a possibility that some providers may experience difficulties.



We are confident that the service should be working as normal, however, should you do spot any issues from open on Monday morning, please let us know.

Ian

Do LSE outsource their IT development? If so, to whom?

It seems every time someone I know does a major IT upgrade - things go wrong - big time..........

"The LSE on February 14 successfully migrated trading in UK stocks to its new Millennium Exchange trading system, provided by Sri Lankan technology company MillenniumIT, which the LSE bought in 2009 to overhaul its technology systems."

Apparently MilleniumIT's staff was two Sri Lankans who owned a second hand acorn computer and lived above a take away in Columbo. The $30,000,000 the LSE paid for the rights to the technology is, apparently, non refundable.

:-) There are always risks and problems when we aim to make progress. NASA blew up loads of rockets and people before they got them into space. Now we have mobile phones and sat nav, so it was all worth it! I'm sure the stressed out techies at the LSE will get it sorted, and in the long term the system migration will be overall a positive thing.
Positively,
George

I wonder if the people who got blown-up see it like that ...

;-)

So George, will we then have a rns flag on L2 and an indication of a 2nd or third etc rns on the watchlist? Or will moneyam get left behind? Funny how every time I ask these questions there is never an answer. Or I am told to watch this space, agian!

ducatiman. We have no plans to add 2nd or 3rd news flag to the stockwatch at the moment. We will once again look at a news flag on level 2, it is on the wish list

What about Chi-x Bully? Presumaby still not looking at it?

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L2up again