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MM, thanks for your unexpected reply , very welcome.

If you looked at my ADVFN L2 posts, you must have been impressed with the video.
As an experienced L2 user , you may have ignored it because it was very basic on content for you.
However the screens showing everything on the books , and how you can choose a percentage of the book , may have been of interest?

While you are here, what is a Level-1 data feed? I cannot look at IG's version without paying for a month in advance. Is it a fixed % of the L2 order book perhaps?

Collectively I am higher in the list than TG :O)

FNB Botswana Nominees (Pty) Ltd Re:AG BPOPF Equity 47,230,769 7.87%
Hargreaves Lansdown (Nominees) Limited 32,438,533 5.40%
Interactive Investor Services Nominees Limited 28,030,191 4.67%
Hargreaves Lansdown (Nominees) Limited 26,177,942 4.36%
Jim Nominees Limited 18,713,726 3.12%
Gilby Super Pty Ltd 15,299,570 2.55%

X-O is the trading name for Jarvis!

MM I'm glad I never worked for you!
Was it really too much to expect you give me the shortest most helpful advice I needed in choosing whether to use L2 or not?

All that was needed was "research data feeds" and this would have been put to bed in half an hour! In the IT world there two types of programmer - the ones who felt knowledge was power and kept everything to themselves , and those who shared theitr knowledge!

We'd be in different camps for sure. Despite that , I cannotbelieve you are a paid ramper, mainly because I don't think TG would waste money on rampers - one the most cretinous suggestions I have read on here!
Quite the converse, if he had bunged a few brown paper envelopes around during Eric's era , I reckon the PPA would have been issued many years ago!

Instead of L2 , I am thinking about screen scraping ASX trading to achieve the history I want.

I was fairly sure MM had L2 from a few posts giving the numbers on the books but did not single him out from others with L2 experience. Appi for example. I applaud Appi for replying ..... Appi Clappy maybe?

That was quick , searching the forum for data feed rather than L2 made the difference!
For me, a fixed price of £7.20 and $24 for LSE and ASX is too strong so no thanks. Final answer!

" JamesIG Administrator
Posted June 25, 2018

When there is a dash in the 'Rebate level (number of trades)' this means that we do not offer rebates on that particular level 1 or 2 data. A number indicates that if you meet the specific number of trades you'll receive a rebate. "

Emailed IG
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Tue, 7 Dec, 17:12 (14 hours ago)
Hello, I have downloaded and installed L2 Driver in the belief I could use it as read-only unless I subscribed to L2. You will know L2 is totally unavailable to to me
I have a couple of questions to satisfy before I decide whether full L2 is desirable.

1. How much is the subscription and are commission payments offset against that charge each month.
2. If I subscribe to L2 and then deal on L1 (I use the QUOTE option currently on LSE), are the commission charges the same as they are now? i.e. £3 frequent trader £8 standard rate.

I look forward to your reply,
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helpdesk.uk@ig.com 04:25 (3 hours ago)
Thanks for your email.
Please note that the charges for Level 2 data feeds is given in the platform>>My IG>>Settings>>Data feeds>>Next to the relevant markets.

The commission charges are same.
If you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact us.
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WjmbH5paGDW10zXNvHAVde8Wuyometpq/view?usp=sharing

My commission on ASX is actually a fixed $10 below trades of maybe $10k? , a high number for me..
No frequent trader concessions , and a % of the excess is added to the $10 commission, presumably capped at $24.
On LSE it is £8 or £3 so I really do need to make sense of the link!
My first thoughts are that commission is excluded from the table, and are chargeable as expected and the prices shown are additional charges with or without rebates (which look a bit confusing).

The final lines could mean frequent traders don't pay or something else?
I'll leave it there but thanks for the help to those who did. You'll no doubt discover my decision from further posts!

I noticed my thoughts on ASX had been noted earlier.

I have good reason for following ASX.

Imho every investor who made money at Arrow and Sunshine by trusting TG will be long - term holders in TLOU. Add their inevitable recommendations to friends and family to invest and you must conclude it explains why the ASX market is far less skittish than London.

LSE was added from scratch later and the Australian story encouraged many that
1. There was a fast buck to be made from Tlou
2. This would be an excellent long- term investment.

The two factions still exist with too much interchange from one group to the other and back again.

Inevitably , non- Aussies such as me bought into ASX (Natives Bruces are not allowed to do the opposite in London afaik).

There was an opportunity there for foreigners to play the markets off against each other and introduce instability on ASX.

I planned to do just that initially but was too frightened that the market would catch me out between my sell and buy!

I have similar counts on the two exchanges!

When the news comes that Tlou are commercial the largely sleeping ASX market will react first with top ups from the old faithful and even more of their friends and family and others who will us in the gainers list!

The UK will be playing catch up at that point.
It will make a change.

Now Hydrogen and Solar and Carbon are in the running there are quite a few events to come.

The only way is up , starting at 1p 2p or whatever - it really won’t affect the plateaus that await us! Table mountain here we come - one day! But when?

RSB v Liverpool was played behind closed doors tonight. Why is that if Covid is not a problem!

Scrolling on phone is even harder than on laptop!

I wondered why I could not tick Appi’s post and then realised I am logged out.

I cannot really speak for BTS but I am 100% certain it does not matter to him if the price is 0.0001p or any other value below his selling price?

He is in until then, as most of us are, even Whizzer, who will change instruments once he is in the black.

What matters here is three things!

1. That TG is allowed to see this through.
2. That we do not not have a hostile takeover which the sp would attract every one of us at 0.0001p .
3. We don’t see TG fail unexpectedly for most of us.

I don’t use passwords on the Iphone but I have here and broken the habit of a lifetime.

Too much chance of having the phone nicked.

At least my filter is active.

Bless you for taking the time to respond MFM.
I see you picked up their "best execution" term/promise rather than "best offer", my memory of it. You realised it is tantamount to the same for our purposes here. So thanks for that.

I like consistency, and that is what I find at TG's doorstep.

Yesterday I referred to 2.5p after someone else posted.
The price , yet again, was not 2.5p ( 2.55p!)
When challenged last time, he pointed to the value of last trade!
So here is the last trade as reported by LSE here
Date Time Trade Prc Volume Buy/Sell Bid Ask Value
06-Dec-21 15:09:38 2.64 373 Sell* 2.50 2.60 9.85 O
Does he quote 2.64p? DHF! Consistent? Yes - a con man!

Thanks for your response too Swan, good to see you stick your neck out :O) , the message I am getting is that it is worth my while to contact IG and get it from the horse's mouth.
If they do not approve I'll lose nothing, and if the commission rate for DMA is a minimum of $30 (which I saw somewhere) then I am definitely better off sticking with L1 only.

Saxo's L1 commission is less than $10 , rising to something like $57 for DMA/L2 , a bit crazy.

I have well over a million shares in the bank , so apart from the forthcoming options or other placings , I am content to simply keep my IG head above their Custodial charges with 3 x £3 freuent trader trades on £90+ , the minimum transaction value. Luckily my main broker, X-O, do not charge custodial charges! But they do not allow foreign stocks e.g. TOU:ASX to be held, hence the IG account.

The sun has come out 5 hours late, it is Poppy time if I can find my boots!
The wind has dropped too! "We're from Bournemouth! Sunny , sunny, Bournemouth!" is back.
Thanks guys.

I think this puts the mockers on L2 for me.

"L2 DEALER MAY INVOLVE SOME CHARGES
Before you begin trading via L2 Dealer, you should fully understand the costs
involved. Depending on the exchange on which you wish to trade, you may be
liable to pay some data usage fees. Contact us for more information on these costs
plus commission and funding charges."

I am using the L2 dealer app (without L2 access until I subscribe) which includes the L2 button!
I was going to extract everything I could for TLOU so I can revisit the positions prior to a known historical event e.g. when the spread moved from 5.2c and 5.3c the other day.

I could rattle up a lot of hits with a new app - and it would be just my luck to be charged for every hit!

DYOR on this board is taken to extremes it seems.
The lack of help is astonishing and we have the sp we deserve.

This page encourages me to ring IG , it includes my planned use of L2 as well as discouragement for not being a professional trader.

https://www.ig.com/uk/trading-platforms/l2-dealer

IG supply L2 , if I understand it for £7+ per month less commission paid on trades.
A regular commission is £8 , frequent trader 3 x £3 , so effectively free (I can't find it again).

What I can find is , IG say their Best Offer deal does not apply if you subscribe to L2.

My question!

Does this only apply to DMA under L2 trades , which is totally understable , or is it likely to apply to L1 trading as well, please?

I am reticent to phone them because I only want L2 to guide my timing when I trade.
I'm not sure if they would frown upon that? They stipulate that you should be an expert to use L2!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qUusTJWKGgqscwrOo49n0mC_gskL5AWv/view?usp=sharing

I see 2 posts at the top from you!
You know filter works on here!
My search engine now has you hard-coded for removals!
I'll send this (to show it works) and then in my next post I'll give you the evidence that you are finito, gone, unreadable, par moi!

Having looked to see what the Moron has said, attacks on HB, Tb and MM as well as me, I think he needs an ADHD clinic!

{I am almostout of analogies that might penetrate Moron's thick skull!
I am going to hard code his name into my ignore table - I did not really look him up - I forgot to add him back in after I tested whether my deletions were working dynamically!}

He ignores the obvious the whole time, too busy wondering why he is at odds with the whole board here and in Brisbane.

Point 1. 2.5p is immaterial? , a bit like going to an auction to buy the Mona Lisa and them starting the bidding at a £1 or £1000 or £1M or £10M - wtf difference does it matter - it where is ends up that matters!

Point 2. Why is he talking about 2023 after TB and Appi and others cleared it up!

Point 3. Hydrogen market or Carbon Market? Japan are going to import liquid hydrogen from Australia in my BBC link! I think it is odds on there will be a Hydrogen market nearer than Japan for TLOU! Car tyres for the carbon is a ready maret no doubt.

Point 4. Why is Hydrogen off the agenda? Every man, woman and dog know there is a prototype under developemnt and it needs delivery to Botswana when complete! I record Poopy in the hope she can tell Moagi! There is nothing to discuss as long as they give us notice of when they need the gas and solar in situ!

Point 5. Toyota cars? Has mug ever been abroad?????? Toyotas are everywhere - if they are the market leader in Hydrogen cars Botswana will need refill points to replace diesel one day!

Point 6. All of us are muppets??????? A well known first stage of madness is when you think everyone else is mad!

Point 7. Really I'll end with this forever - WAC!!!!! All of us muppets have never noticed that Xmas and New Year are bank holidays and holiday periods! None of knew that until Moagi told us ????? FFS how stupid is he?

If think he is the new Frankenstein - a robot with a protoype brain running on Botswana CBM gas , Hydrogen and Carbon zaand methane from a cow's backside!!!!! Only the methane is available currency and it shows!!!!

I think I will go on ADVFN and ask how they stopped him posting over there?????
I think it is clear he wanted to smell my BS over here to boost his brain cells !!!

BYE BYE CLOWN !

One day you might actually answer a question or argue your point with commonsense, but I won't be watching!!! Discussion points are wasted on here it is true ! But people are suffering fatigue from our battle on here I am sure!!!!!

If you believed what you write you would have filtered me years ago! But the sado-masochist in your methane riddle skull won't let the only who rises to your bait go!!!! No more I promise!

TB, don't be hard on yourself,
these chatrooms are for raising ideas for discussion imho!
The best ideas in life often come from an unrealistic beginning but evolve into something better.

e.g. I once asked my drinking buddies at a Barclays liquid lunch, what sort of horse would they own if they'd been cowboys in the Wild West?
(a) A sprinter that gets you outta town, the horse tires, and the posse catch up with you?
(b) A stayer that runs forever but is so slow that the posse catch you in no time?

After discussing it , we decided (as a group) that you'd want a horse that could run FASTER than a speeding bullet! And then an Aussie freelancer from Adelaide , added, and run FURTHER !

It produced a good laugh, or was that the ale?

You buy back would work if they could buy enough at 3p to cover the options! They get 4.4p back on each if the placing succeeds, but it breaks down if the price does not reach 4.4p plus enough to make it succeed.

Even so, they can recover their 3p in all probability from the shares we issue to BPOPF with a 10% discount , your original idea!

We'd be in pocket if the price is over 3.4p (less 10% is 3.06p) which , in 5 years, is a certainty, the alternative being 0p (in Davy Jone's locker?).

Evolution might turn into a proportion of the BPOPF contractual shares?

Some of the geniuses I have worked with in finance could find a way to make it work.
The analyst I set up Treasury Mangement Reporting with , during testing would come back to to me with test results that were wrong, and tell me I was treating a particular Credit Ledger code as a Debit Ledger code or whatever . I was in awe of him! We set up a database of ledger codes so the likes of him could amend the pyramids on the database and the relevant Treasury Report programs I'd written would not need to be touched!

So good if new codes were introduced , and at freelancer rates , must have saved them a fortune in program/app changes! It was his concept , I just needed to make it work!!

And the options date is feasibly likely to see a price above 4.4p - I did not say this for obvious reasons, but had 2023 been the date - the options were likely going to be scrapped and TLOU would have missed out on the cash (as well as us not having a perk) !

Cheers everybody involved in clearing it up.
Look forward to seeing how flexible we are with the funds now.
With the BPOPF fund raised to include poles and wires, I wonder if what is left of the original 2.6M raised towards that is now ours to use on Hydrogen work and associated Solar Panels?

Glad this is the outcome because if it goes well we'll start earning quicker than from electricity.

Could the 2023 Hydrogen delay have caused the price slip?
Colm is in big trouble at mill if it was a slip of the tongue.

I'm surprised nobody has considered this. It is effectively putting us back a year IF HYDROGEN PANNED OUT , but if S.M. fails it has gained us months , or possible years , depending how the Hydrogen programme ultimately failed.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0012b0g/bbc-news-at-one-06122021

From 26m 28 seconds

Had not considered it was a slip of the tongue, Appi.
Surely, it is now 2023 or someone would have been in touch with Proactive and/or Youtube and/or Colm to get the video pulled?

TG seemed to be quite set on CBM powerin his last video - so I suspect BPOPF might well have agreed to funding but insisted upon us concentrating on the original goal!
Colm stressed Hydrogen's importance in today's video , and Solar , which S.M. needed in 2022 for Green Hydrogen.

Hellfire!!!!! BBC news are discussing the Toyota Mirai car I highlighlighted a while ago!
They claim Toyota does not have an all-electric car because they are concentrating on hydrogen power!

Japan are going to continue using currently imported coal from Australia to produce power in a new power station , expected to last 40yr + , beyond their 2050 deadline for cleaner power!!!

BUT they plan to get the Australians to stop exporting coal to them!!!
The plan is for the Aussies to convert the coal to hydrogen and CO2 and export Hydrogen!
The Blue Hydrogen makes the Japs look good , and Australia get negative Carbon Credits for the CO2 they are left with!

The reporter said Australia will still be digging out the coal? I wonder about that?

The Mirai
"RE: What has changed since Aug 2nd? Friday 05 Nov 2021 10:55
As I understand there is no road tax on a used Mirai provided it's book price is less than £40k or it is 6 years old or more.
There's 3 on autotrader for £23k,£24k and £35k all of which are likely higher than book price."