RE: MM's19 Feb 2024 17:21
Hi jockrock. Without access to Level 2, or sight of the mm's list of buy /sell prices for various amounts of shares before transaction prior to dealing, the later marking of a trade as a sell or a buy is not an exact science.
If you able to see the stated buy/sell prices "on the slate", for your order quantity, you can then compare the actual definitive prices for similar dealt quantities, which have actually been transacted, before you deal. That will still not tell you truly which is a sell or buy.
If the bid/ask is shown as 50p v 56p and you see transactions at 51p and 55p, then it becomes obvious, although it's more difficult if transactions are done at quite close to the midpoint of 53p.
This is all the more reason to have L2 access, if ones level of trading makes the cost of L2 worthwhile.
With the current cases of SUN, it's currently more difficult, given that the best bid/ ask has been a wide 0.60p /0.70p and your buy price was 0.64p .... so close to the mid-price of 0.65p, that would make anyone's casual glance look to be a sell, as it was closer to the bid than the ask. If you had paid 0.66p, then your trade would likely have been marked as a buy.
Regards.