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Got my Credit Card verified finally.

My bank has a STATEMENT option under Credit Card option but only produces the transactions and not the account details (name , Address etc).

Today I took the Statement Option as choice #1 , and then choose Credit card and the secondary #2 and that produced the goods - the paper startement we used to get through the post.

At my age I like repetition because it needs less memory cells. Logically Card+Statement get you to the same place as Statement + Card .

It does for Bank Account details but not for cards.

I think I am now prepared to become an FX trader because turning £38 into £55 looks worth a cople of days waiting for it to settle. Tomorrow if I can withdraw £55 ....... but we'll see! I am expecting to see between £10 and £20 the way my fortunes are going. It looks too good be true if this pans out and I'll get 4.5% APR from APRil fools days while the fx rate is unfavourable.

Yesterday my Share Dealing account kept showing me different values in GBP.

It was usually between Cash Withdrawable of £38 and £54 , and what this told me was the actual cash balance was in AUD!!!!!

I looked at Currency Convertion and true enough I had $113.44 and that appeared to be stable!

So I watched the GBP figure using Refresh FX rate every few seconds, and when GBP 55 appeared - I dealt!!!!

I definitely have GBP 55 to deal with but , IG are still varying the GBP cash balance in the £90+ region though!!!

My amount that is withdrawal was £97.90 on the Platform screen and everywhere else apart from the WITHDRAW screen which sticks with ZERO!!!

So I think IG are still treating my account as being worth $113.44 in cash and will do until my FX convertion to £55 settles , tomorrow?????

At that time I'll have £55 to withdraw - Poppy's vet bill as it happens.

I can only think that £97.90 is the value of £55 in dollars???

No wonder they had difficulties swapping shares across the world if their software is as bad for them as it is for me!

Winni I sold over 1m at 1.2c and bought back at 1c for the 200K+ profit.

Then I sold 1.5m at 0.9c and boughtat 1.6c , 2.3c and 2.7c which cost me dear. However value wise there was a profit on my first 1.3m shares to offset the loss of shares. And I a not here for any sps lower that 5p or 10.24c which is coming this year imho.

Green Total 208,518

Red Total -844,844

Check Total -636,326

I intentionally tried to reward others who had sold cheaply but not this generously. I expected the jump from 0.8c to 4c or more but not a quickly as it did. But at the time, we were not sure if IG was isolated or whether other brokers were having problems.

I suspect SteelMoors may have had all his TLOU shares in his ISA.

That would make it easier for IG to transfer them back again - no confusion at all.

In my case I had both Share Dealing and ISA accounts and TLOU shares in both accounts and on both Exchanges AIM and ASX. I also added my X-O shares to the Share Dealing Account from my X-O nominee and ISA accounts which was a mistake - I put the cash into the wrong IG account and did not move it to my ISA out of pure laziness and/or tiredness. A bit of a hornet's nest in comparison.

I found a spreadsheet from post X-O sell out in December which showed over 3m shares so I am down 595,666 shares plus any added funds since. Tlou have cost me dear by dumping AIM. And IG finished the job off ....

SteelMoors, if this unwinds exacttly as you hope it means IG have cost me big time!!! I think I have possibly lost 300k to 500k shares, quite a few commission charges, and a lot of sleep!! Your post feels like they have sent me a frog to kiss me back into the real world.

Sorry Winni, I wasted the whole of yesterday getting my laptop to work.

My battery went flat on Sunday afternoon, and I could not get the battery to recharge. Finally gave up to watch the England match and 90 minutes later the battery was 70% charged!

I only had the AC adaptor connected (65w) and had disconnected the USBC charger (65w). It is ok to use both simultaneously until the battery hits flat!

Then it tells you it cannot find ANY charger and refuses to charge the battery but runs the machine off one or both chargers until you disconnect the supply and it dies immediately.

So my AC adaptor is working after all - bought the USBC charger because I was not sure. My memory forgets what BIOS settings I have set up each time , getting old is difficult. But I'll remember this lesson - AC adapter and default BIOS - and watch a football match whilst drinking 3 pints.

Back to trading on IG, I never intended to accept the BEST OFFER of 2.7c Winni , but after hours of being told insufficient funds, I just wanted to get an offer accepted! Little did I know the buggers would not give me a chance to change my mind! Deal went straight through , never showed as an order (from which is the cancel option) , and nowI remember why I loved their fixed price QUOTE options on LSE. That gave you total control - not poxy partial fills so full commission is payable for a tiny number of shares that are worth less than the commission charge.

IG are showing GBP figures everywhere , unless I contact them to change Base currency to AUD, which might be more complicated. Especially if I but LSE shares on Fixed price quotes 😜😜😜 So I need to do a currency conversion before I can withdraw GBP. But , would you believe my BANK CARDS still show as REVIEW IN PROGRESS. FX rate is crazy - my £42 balance after my last buy @ 2.3c - varies from £38 to £45 whereas this is what they are showing right now!

Funds: £53.24

Confusion everywhere?

IG are driving me mad - I decided to use my £3k , now worth £2.8k because of fx rate variation.

You cannot believe any of the trading figures - it shows the amount of cash in GBP available to trade - and my experience is it will say insufficient funds!!!!!

I found two ways to get an order in.

1. I opted for "buy at best price" and that went through @2.7c without appearing as an order. So no chance to CANCEL it.

2. That left me with £480 , and I had failures galore - insufficient funds!

3. No way did I want to buy @ 2.7c again and eventually I found this went through! Still hopeless compared to our LSE trading last year and once more it went straight through without a chance to cancel.

(a) Goto history via the hyperlink under History!

(b) Choose Transfer Funds and you'll get your GBP balances on all your accounts. It will be less than you expect! But note the value.

(c) Now Choose Currency convertion and note the fx rate it shows!

(d) Divide (b) by (c) and I found using that the resulting AUD figure was accepted!

(e) I was left with £42 in my account from the 480 but I bought @ 2.3c so saved a small amount by doing both transactions (10$ commission on each).

I still see ZERO for my withdrawal amount - I cannot really recommend IG any longer. The nos are too mysterious for me and I was a mathematician before my short term memory started to fade.

Going to this game, glory hunter is seems because 3 points will make us champions. I'm trying to familiarise myself with shirt numbers and names, which is proving difficult. However I found this beautiful video which is my first glimpse of our new indoor training facility. It is on the site of 3 golf courses (Canford Magna golf course) and looks good from outside. But inside looks incredible imho.

https://x.com/i/status/1767268138381418779

I think BOTS believes that ....

Never admitting to being wrong means you are always right!

It is the only thing that makes sense after 10+ years of his pessimistic claptrap.

What variety of clap I dunno - but a combination of all STI is possible and they would explain why he never noticed Covid being an obstacle for 3 or 4 years.

And why he does not give TG credit for dealing with Synergen Met and Crypto and Orapa while the CBM energy project was delayed for that indefinite period.

All 3 could come good even now, so Hydrogen, CBM electricity, Solar electricity, and a gas pipeline to Orapa all have a chance. QA better chance than Ian Karma's civil war and nationalisation of CBM power using methane that will not burn despite evidence from the flares , and the Data Centre initiative backed by Emirates cash which is interest free.

That sounds as fantastic as making 200k shares on a swap deal which was doubted despite the evidence.

Cherries women play Bristol Rovers tomorrow (Sunday) at the Vitality Stadium.

They might do better than the men within their league. Though Donkey will say they are to lose their 100% record because 17 wins from 17 games and a goal difference of 77 (4.5 goals per game) makes a win as dubious as TG's hat-trick of CBM successes in the 21st century , another 100% record.

Division One South West

POS Team P W D L GD PTS

1 AFC Bournemouth 17 17 0 0 77 51

" The Company is providing an opportunity for shareholders to deposit their Ordinary Shares with the Company's ASX depositary in exchange for delivery of ASX shares, without cost, in connection with the AIM Delisting whether prior, on, or subsequent to 31 December 2024 (being the date on which the AIM Delisting takes effect)."

"Company's ASX depositary" - never understood what that was. Did it also have an LSE depositary? And a Botswana one?

"the AIM Delisting whether prior, on, or subsequent to 31 December 2024 (being the date on which the AIM Delisting takes effect)." - this opened the door to the idea that IG could fulfill the swap in 2025, but ,with hindsight, it clearly meant that the AGM might not agree on Dec 31st , the proposed date?

I am peeved that I sold my X-O Jarvis shares and bought back into my IG Share dealing account. Should have bought into my ISA though that would have reduced my 2024 ISA allowance and lowered the extra 200k shares I fluked for buying at 1c having sold them for 1.2c

Water under the bridge and in our coal seams now - onwards and upwards from here.

Winni, there is little doubt about the story since Boobar posted that II completed the swap in mid December.

IG shareholders and IG themselves made one serious mistake I fear. This will make Donkey extremely happy. We expected TG and Tlou to drive the swaps because they alone knew what to expect after due diligence.

My opinion has grown stronger with time , that Tlou did not know there was a problem with ISAs at IG - they had faith that all brokers would know the ropes!

And I , for one , had faith in TLOU.

If Boobar or any of the punters who got their shares in December had told us that , we may have been able to pressure IG into action.

Instead, we had Bob999 telling us his non-ASX broker had supplied him with a share certificate and a few IG victims were being fobbed off with mysterious twaddle about Custodians that never made sense.

Basically, IG did not bother about TLOU and presumably expected TLOU to give them instructions that were never going to be forthcoming. And from another poster on here , it may have cost him shares in his ISA in the distant past.

II come out of this well , they executed the process exactly as we all thought it would progress. TLOU would have evidence that brokers knew what to do! And no evidence that IG did not have a clue. I have never contacted TLOU myself, afaik, thinking I would be hindering progress if the office is replying to incessant queries from all and sundry. If I'd broken that habit, maybe TLOU would have told IG to just get on with it in time. Maybe TLOU were talking to the Sydney office , leaving London in the cold? So IG fell foul of having a presence in Melbourne and Sydney.

https://www.asx.com.au/markets/company/tou

shows share price graph where I expected it ..... 3c is a 1.46p equivalent .... still a bargain price for a share that has never been worth less than 5p+ imho.

Think I'll buy in my Share dealing account and be damned until April 1st when I'll retrieve the cash and get interest on it until I buy in my ISA.

Dropping like a stone 2.4 c to 2.8c now! Below 2c is looking possible. I wonder who paid 4c last night? Trial and error to get someone to sell perhaps?

April 6th price could be interesting for IG ISA victims. 1c, 2c, 3c, 4c or more are all possible. £20k available to recover some ISA holdings if you have the cash that is. At least this is keeping my brain active - there is a limit to how many computer puzzles I can entertain my self with!

Interesting Chess challenge on TV! Place 8 Queens on a chess board so every square is covered by a Queen , but no two Queens can take each other!

Hint! The piece that can take a Queen with the Queen attacking it back is the Knight! So every Queen needs to be on a square where an attacking Knight might be. 4 of 5 players thought they got the answer but were wrong. Finally a Scottish lassie got it .... but it took quite a few minutes to solve it.

Colm is still oblivious to the IG / ISA fiasco - why doesn't he read these pages?

He thinks it is people selling because of the delisting - correct - but has not twigged we are buying back to our ISA , subject to having room to add the necessary cash.

Spread is currently 3.4c to 3.5c ...... as expected ..... but will it recover to 4c or drop below 3c? My cash stays put at IG in hope of the latter! I'll then buy into my Share Dealing account for 10$ which will hurt when I should be able to see that money in my ISA having bought below 1c.

Https://hotcopper.com.au/threads/ann-response-to-asx-price-query.8503293/

Download it - after 10:21 aussie time.

I assumed successful brokers did the swap in 2024 whilst TLOU.L was still on Crest and were still tradeable. IG went long into 2025. But none of us seem to know what was happening - which was deplorable in such a regulated business.

I was certain of a price rise , but last night's 3c to 3.9c spread was beyond my most optimistic hopes. I'd planned on buying into my ISA for under 2c in 2025 financial year. 4.1c market cap $53m was wild!

The favourite movement is backwards into the 3c stretch , but 4.1c is only 2p , and it could rise even further? But the highest gain on ASX at 122% was what I have guarded against for a decade or more. I thought about chasing CBA dividends for a few weeks but did not in case TLOU price took off!

Sports question! Which country is the only one to win GOLD medals in every Summer Olympics? USA boycotted the Moscow games so the obvious answer is not right.

Still cannot see my cash in the withdrawal box , but the cash is there , as it has been for days!

However I got an extremely pleasant email from Payments ....

"Dear ME,

Thanks for your email.

As you have been our valued client for a long time, I'm pleased to inform you that there is no need for any additional verification process for your withdrawal request.

You can proceed directly with your withdrawal and choose either of these options:

Withdraw to your card

Withdraw to your bank account

Please let us know which option you prefer, and we'll process your withdrawal immediately.

Thank you for your continued trust and loyalty. We truly appreciate having you as our long-standing client.

If you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Regards,"

Https://www.asx.com.au/markets/company/tou

I got all the allowable shares I could within the ISA for 2024.

So over 2m in my ISA before the inevitable price rise.

That leaves £3k in cash and some ASX shares in my Share dealing account that would have more than doubled in value without IG's interference! 0.8c to 4c is 500% gain! What a pity TLOU never twigged we were being scalded by IG.

Not TG's fault , I should have contacted TLOU when I was dirst concerned instead of relying upon Thornback. Not blaming TB either how was he to know?

I sent them this morning - same irritating story for me!

"Problems with withdrawals.

Yesterday I added a Debit Card for a withdrawal, because I wanted the cash in my Bank account not in my Credit Card.

Unfortunately I succeeded in replacing my Credit Card instead of creating a second card. I then added the Credit Card back in so both appear now.

I read that a deposit is required from a new card before it can receive a withdrawal. So I paid £10 minimum.

I also added my Bank and last night I had the Bank Account verified!

Today I saw BOTH cards need verifying , but I could not find statements containing the 3 mandatory fields you require.

The best I could do was download transactions between each card and my verified Bank Account! I submitted both and by fluke the transactions included deposits into IG which you can verify no doubt

My Debit card shows the £10 deposit , my Credit card show 2 x £50 when I found my minimum trade was greater than £50!

I trust this will be enough to complete all 3 verifications.

Yours truly

Me

PS A reply would be good - you have ignored 2 previous emails."

USA platforms Winni! Australia is unaffected.

$10+ is the commission for ASX trades under share dealing account.

Zero for ASX trades through a ISA for AUD deals, and as you say 0.05% FX commission for ASX deals using sterling.

Cannot see it lasting because using Manual FX option means AUD is you base currency so buying and selling is free! That opens up ASX to free day trading for people like me who hate paying commissions.