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Below are my observationstoday of the inept webpages that provide trading data by our

biggest? online broker,Commsec.

		# of	% of	ASX / CXA	Period	Vol.	% of
1	Row	trades	Total			(mill)	Total
2			trades				Vol.
3	1)	42	16	ASX	Post 4pm	7.1	15
4
5	2)	71	27	ASX	Pre 4pm	8.2	17
6
7	3)	148	57	CXA	Pre 4pm	33.0	68
8
9	Total	261	100			48.3	100

From Row 1)

- # of brokertrades after 4pm is = to 1in 6of the total trades.

- Vol. for thesetrades is =to almost1/7^thof the total day's trades.

From Row 2)

- these are the only tradesM's & D's were able to place, i.e. roughly only 1 in 4 trades for the whole of the day.

From Row 3)

- The volume for these CXA(Chi-X) trades,
together with the volumeof Rows 1) & 2)
therefore comprises the Total Volume shown IN the Summarydata @ the top of the webpage
per each stock’s Quotes & Research Tab,

but for some strange reasonis Excluded from every stock’s Vol.total

- on a WatchList!! and

- from the data that makes upe.g. a Candlestick pattern, and the Vol. total that generates that pattern,

per their Charts’ diagram Tab!!

Having phoned Commsec to pointout these inconsistencies in their webpage reporting, I found myself talking tosomeone who might just as well have been my 18yo grandson. i.e. inadequately trained to answer customer's questions !

To illustrate this point – asmost of you probably know, CXA trades are often effected at a mid-point of an SP interval prescribed for ASX trades.

e.g. this morning, a 2.45c a CXAtrade took place @ 11.28.51am. The next trade after that, was a 2.40c CXA trade@ 11.41am.

I told the bloke I spoke toat Commsec, that as soon as I’d viewed this 2.45c mid-point trade having takenplace, I’d noticed that the Summary “last-trade” data above, on the Q & Rpage, quoted 2.4c as the trade price.

So he told me! to ring himagain! after I'd seen such an occurrence take place, to point out this Summary Data mis-reporting,cos only then would he understand what I was on about! Oh yeah. Yeah right.

Does everyone reading this postthink I’m wasting my time talking to them at all?

All my posts have the postscriptdescribing myself as a “hotshot” accountant. Maybe I should change “hot-shot”to eccentric.