Trevor2522
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Portfolio Sub-Tab Removed From 'Start Trading' Page
BoM has just removed the portfolio tab from its main trading page to free-up memory on its servers. This means traders cannot view their balance, nor their active trades, as they scope out prospective new bets. BoM also recently started clearing expired trades from portfolios, obliging users to go into the long-winded, clunky 'Profit Tables' just to learn whether their last bet won or lost! Base server speeds are inadequate and fail to reflect the capability of modern fibre-optic connections such as my 20 MPbps.
One other recent quirk: BoM would not permit simple intraday up/down currency bets OUTSIDE of equity market hours. Someone obviously didn't realise forex is a 24/5 market. They seem to have backed-down from that silliness for now.
Do other traders feel these were retrograde moves, and that BoM ignores them as they try to input some logic and common-sense into the site's design? Failure to display one's balance on a place-bets page is pretty fundamental. Modern systems could readily display digital real-time profit-and-loss of active trades, yet BoM sticks to its antiquated 15-year-old format and even deletes functionality owing to inadequate memory. Frankly I'm amazed that no rival newcomers have not displaced this creaky, inflexible old dinosaur.
BoM has just removed the portfolio tab from its main trading page to free-up memory on its servers. This means traders cannot view their balance, nor their active trades, as they scope out prospective new bets. BoM also recently started clearing expired trades from portfolios, obliging users to go into the long-winded, clunky 'Profit Tables' just to learn whether their last bet won or lost! Base server speeds are inadequate and fail to reflect the capability of modern fibre-optic connections such as my 20 MPbps.
One other recent quirk: BoM would not permit simple intraday up/down currency bets OUTSIDE of equity market hours. Someone obviously didn't realise forex is a 24/5 market. They seem to have backed-down from that silliness for now.
Do other traders feel these were retrograde moves, and that BoM ignores them as they try to input some logic and common-sense into the site's design? Failure to display one's balance on a place-bets page is pretty fundamental. Modern systems could readily display digital real-time profit-and-loss of active trades, yet BoM sticks to its antiquated 15-year-old format and even deletes functionality owing to inadequate memory. Frankly I'm amazed that no rival newcomers have not displaced this creaky, inflexible old dinosaur.
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