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Mrcautious - haha, did you manage to buy/sell back again to get back to previous position? Hope it didnt cost you too much!
@dave - I actually did this yesterday. I was getting a quote on a share, my wife came in distracted me about some frivolity and I clicked accept rather than cancel -- bugger !
Etot-the first thing you need to realise about AIM stocks is the the spread is usually largeish and changes constantly as the demand for shares on the MM's changes..This has the effect of sometimes causing the percieved Bid price changing also when calculated as a mid price..If you look at a main marker ie 'proper' share the prices shown on say HL are usually accurate. On some more illiquid AIM stocks I think the MM's much about with the spread to give the appearance the share is going up or down, to try and stimulate trading...
sensible advice. The best guide on the actual SP is the actual price you could buy / sell at. so just get a quote to buy / sell to find the most accurate SP (be careful not to accidentally click accept though, I've done that before!!)
I'm fairly new too and so not that qualified to answer except that I had the same confusion. I wouldn't pay any attention to the prices , or even the trades, you see here - the direction of trade - buy/sell can be wrong (though not as frequently as the rampers/de-rampers would have you believe), AND it's 15mins behind live prices. Open and close prices can to vary if the share is traded on other markets while LSE is asleep.
HL will show live prices in your portfolio view but, if there's a lot of trades going through. when you request a quote to buy or sell, the actual price and spread can be very different to what you saw seconds ago.
Use any graph as a rough guide, but, the only price you should concern your self with is the one it says on the quote when you're about to press the button.
I see HL, Barclays, Interactive Investor all have different prices. But if you look at them later they seems to match what you see here. I think one or more use the lower bid price though.
I'm new to aim investing and really confused about how the sp is evaluated. I hold BCN in a HL account, yesterday at 1717 the share price was given as 22p (I took a screen print), today at 1833 the sp was 22p, the value was quoted the same in both cases. HL registered this as a day loss of 1.5p = 6.25% loss. So somehow between 1717 and 0830 yesterday's close was 24p. This site has a loss of 1.4p. Any ideas on why this happened? I'm sure it's not a one off.