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Google has just shown price 21.03 at 2% up for day which looks like sudden drop but test buy 21.7 and sell 21.35. Why would google show this artificially low. I know google not necessarily the best way to track prices but usually quite accurate ....
Now back to normal showing 22p but sort of thing that can spook folk
Investing.com had the same.
..and now 21.00
LSE has the same as this 21.20 - 22
Google just shows the last trade and the price that trade was made at. GLA
Aren’t they all (at least) 15min delay and based on some algorithm of the active MM’s.
Level 2 or actual order quotes are best, everything is just a guide. The actual spread when wanting to buy or sell is usually much closer especially with the liquidity available here - when MM’s aren’t playing games.
Anyway, hands on bum, news soon.
GLA Investors - TFG
As TFG says,
Google is actually live prices. but shows the last traded price and not the actual price, so can be very misleading.
L2 can be a good guide, but even then, that is the price they will sell you shares over and above the level that they are dealing at. (EMS) - Set by the London Stock Exchange) - and then Each MM chooses the minimum number of shares that they will deal with.
I use the L2 live trade list - and whist each broker sets their own, you can gauge a trend, and what the current prices are.
Watch it long enough and you can watch the pressure build before the next share price change.
However one should not get to hooked on what is a "buy" and a "sell" - they are just trades and a computer is taking a guess at what the trade is. they can, and will let the price run to the wrong side of the mid-price so that every trade looks like a buy or a sell and it gets miss printed.
can be mesmerizing sometimes, especially when it gets going and the MM do some work.
GL - BR
I for one can not believe that anyone who calls themselves an investor, especially with AIM shares, does not pay a subscription to say ADVFN (Other platforms available) to get live prices.
For around £20 per month, unless your just a Piggy Bank investor, it is not a lot of money for you to know exactly what's what in regard's to live pricing.
Live pricing is free on IG.com
Spade .. why should you unless you are trading ..minute by minute prices are not important to a lot of us especially if you are holding long
SAS - for me it's not the £20 a month - I am not a professional investor - have a day job and not much time - and am not trading as such. I only check a couple of times a day, and try and catch up on forums evenings/weekends.
When picking where to invest - I try and pick carefully shares that I hope will give me a return - short term for me would be 3 months, but mainly in the long term.
Maybe I should not be on AIM - but was very glad I was when I found GGP.
I still run without L2 . I spend too much times staring at share prices as it is . I know if I got L2 i'd never leave the screen .
So I just go with gut instinct - based on fundamentals , then if by luck you see the SP drop 20% as you still have some cash spare - have a bite . Best thing I learnt also was when the SP goes up 20% , take a little bite of that end too . And don't go all in one share . Major on four gooduns is my choice - that way you'll always live to fight another day :-)
Investors, by their very nature, don’t need access to live prices imho.
Some prefer live data when making a purchase!
Just been out for a swift one, so sorry for the delay in answering my post from earlier.
After reading some of your answers, maybe I'm paying for something I don't really need. Yes, I can get live prices on my ii account but I just like the convenience of wherever I am, of just picking up the phone and looking at live prices on my watchlist and with live trades can see what the real spread is and not the advertised spread.
Each to their own, but I don't mind paying a £ per trading day just for the convenience.
ATB in however you choose to access the price.
HL gives live prices