Hi Recruiter10 -
I realise its a bit late in the day for this post, but no doubt you already know, that at the risk of missing out, if you'd placed a limit on your buy price - of say 50.5 - you'd join the queue of buyers already bidding at that price. Yes, you might have missed out if a buyer had placed a buy order after yours, at "Market" - i.e. to get everything he could @ whatever price, above 50.5.
One of the failings of Commsec's standard accounts is that they STILL!
have no "Depth" of buy & sell prices on the Chi-X market, unless of course you have traded 8 stocks in a calendar month, thereafter enabling to have a Depth listing of Buy & Sell Orders on both the ASX & CHi-X.
There are, I'd expect, a number of other online brokers who do provide such a Depth listing, that includes Chi-X orders as part of their standard accounts, but I only know of one - called Bourse Data (or Bourse Analyser - not sure which) - with which business you could open an unrestricted online account - in order to get this Chi-X data as well.
Their codes for BGS e.g. are BGS.ASX - for just the ASX trades; BGS.XAU for both the ASX & CHI-X trades, & BGS.CHIA for just the Chi-X trades.
If your Watch List includes just BGS.XAU - when you then look up the Depth page for this code, you can get a "Detail" listing of every Buy & Sell order on EACH of the ASX & CHI-X, in the chronological order in which those orders are placed.
For you, though, and anyone else who may not know this, can you believe
that if there are orders placed to either Buy or Sell any stock, at the same price, & on both Exchanges, the CHI-X orders are always satisfied first!! And we all know who those orderers don't we?
The best of British to you. Guata.
