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(From the Stock Exchange) Friday, 25/02/2011 08:59:32 The uncrossing trades and the automatic trades (UTs and ATs) that took place in SETS and SETSqx securities this morning will stand. London Stock Exchange continues to investigate the market data issue. Participants can continue to delete but not enter orders at this time and no automatic execution is taking place. All market maker quotes are indicative only.

(From the Stock Exchange Link Above) Friday, 25/02/2011 08:33:22 London Stock Exchange continues to investigate this morning's market data issue. Order entry has been disabled and SETS and SETSqx is being put into a HALT phase in accordance with our protocol. Participants can continue to delete orders. Further updates will be provided shortly.

Dear All, The Stock Exchange have reported problems this morning, and have paused trading on SETS and SETSqx - you can read updates at: http://liveservice.londonstockexchangegroup.com/en/incidents/active/lse There is not a problem with our services; there simply is no trading occurring! Regards, Admin

Hi All, Just a quick heads up to let you know that LSE is going mobile! You should be able to access it from any smart phone, including iPhones, various blackberries, etc. This is a project under development, so check back regularly to see new features as they are added. It can be accessed at: http://m.lse.co.uk ...on your mobile device. As always, feedback is appreciated.

No. I have spoken with our data vendor, and the have said that while the Stock Exchange have done some rather odd things this morning, the quote driven systems (which this site uses) are fine. Apparently the issues yesterday were mainly affecting AIM market stocks. We are still working on a resolution for the intra-day graphing, but anticipate that being resolved shortly. Admin

Have spoken with our data suppliers. They assure us that their entire team is working on a resolution, and the issue is being treated as urgent.

Luckyles; the issue we are seeing on Live is that the mid-price appears to be incorrect; it looks like the trade price is correct (if you look at the recent trades tab), but the bid/ask/mid appear out. Are you seeing a different issue to this? Our data vendor Netbuilder, is working on the issue, which is affecting all of their customers, including (unfortunately) us.

There is an issue this morning with delayed data. Over the weekend, the London Stock Exchange migrated to its new software platform, and it appears that there are some 'teething' issues. You can read about the go live at: http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/open-source/3260727/london-stock-exchange-in-historic-linux-go-live/ Our engineers are working to resolve this issue as soon as is possible. The premium live service is not affected, which gives us confidence that the delayed service will be fixed shortly. Apologies for the inconvenience, Admin

Hi lala59, yes, this is possible. Simply click the blue 'filters' tab near the top of the chat pages, and click the user's name to remove them from your filter. Hope that helps, Admin

Hi DavieR / Bloomio, You are correct, the valuations will show differently. This is however correct; the valuations for the new Portfolio are based on the sell (bid) prices (as opposed to the old one which uses the mid-price) - so the valuation is closer to what you'd actually get if you sold a holding. When we were doing the specification for the new system, we looked at a number of other websites, and it appeared that most do it this way, and it does make sense, even if the valuation is slightly more pessimistic. Hope that helps, Admin

Thanks LarryH - noted. We'll see if it's possible to have a 'quick add', or possibly a simple mode. I agree that the new system is better suited to less frequent traders. Also, we've flagged a to-do to add a 'hide' roll-up to the graphs!

Feedback on new portfolio. We've had a number of e-mails regarding the new portfolio system that was added a couple of months back, and have taken the decision to temporarily switch the old portfolio to be the default while we address the change requests. We have a decent sized list, but some of the ones we are definitely doing include: 1) Add a 'copy portfolio' button to bring across holdings from the old portfolio. 2) Percentage Change info plus direction arrow for the current prices 3) Link from each holding to the corresponding share price page. 4) Adding some contextual help; while we feel we have got a fairly good balance between usability and complexity, there has been feedback that the new portfolio is a little more difficult to use, and some features are not obvious. ---------------------------------------------------------- If users have more feedback that you feel would be useful, please feel free to post it here! The new portfolio system has several advantages over the old one, and we feel will become a valuable tool for investors; however as with everything that is well used, we do understand that not everyone likes change! The advantages / features include: 1) Graphing of historical portfolio values 2) Profit/Loss for the day 3) Cash management (the old system does not take cash into account at all) 4) Support for multiple currencies, for foreign shares traded on the stock exchange. 5) Print support 6) Multiple portfolio support 7) Streaming live prices for live price subscribers 8) Export of holdings as CSV (Excel spreadsheet format) 9) Notes - per portfolio, and per transaction 10) Roll-back (undo) of last transaction per share 11) Full transaction history, plus cash-book. As always, we value the feedback from our users, and will do our best to ensure that the portfolio meets requirements. Many thanks, Admin

Hi vonny. Sorry for the tardy reply, though we've been jolly busy! The old portfolio will be adding a button that allows people to transfer their portfolios across; although in some cases it might be better to do it manually as the new portfolio takes into account cash. Regards, Admin.

Hi vonny. Sorry for the tardy reply, though we've been jolly busy! The old portfolio will be adding a button that allows people to transfer their portfolios across; although in some cases it might be better to do it manually as the new portfolio takes into account cash. Regards, Admin.

Please visit the IFA Blog section to catch-up on all lse.co.uk's recent improvements...interesting reading for all dedicated Members. Did any of them pass you by? (until now)

Please visit the IFA Blog section to catch-up on all lse.co.uk's recent improvements...interesting reading for all dedicated Members. Did any of them pass you by? (until now)

Thanks vonny. We're afraid you will have to do this manually. Regards, Admin.

Thanks vonny. We're afraid you will have to do this manually. Regards, Admin.

Hello RayP. If you look at any individual share's page, you will see a 'Buy' button on the left of the bottom row of icons. Clicking this takes you to a link to open a TD Waterhouse account. We should have Barclays available as a second option tomorrow, with hopefully more trading account providers to follow. Regards, Admin.

Hello RayP. If you look at any individual share's page, you will see a 'Buy' button on the left of the bottom row of icons. Clicking this takes you to a link to open a TD Waterhouse account. We should have Barclays available as a second option tomorrow, with hopefully more trading account providers to follow. Regards, Admin.