18/5/09

P&L for 18/5/09

Football : 0.43

P&L since last post : 0.43


Football.

All trading done after 2000 as during the day was impossible to trade. I got 5 trades done on three matches. Twice I narrowly escaped a loss with the market suspending as the timer was counting down the 5 second delay to my back being entered into the market. Phew.

Despite there being a fair bit of Tennis and Football on during the day I could trade none of it due to work schedule and my 3G connection being utter crap during the day. I have a 3 mobile broadband dongle and it's never been amazing at peak times but I used to be able to count on at least half a meg. Over the last couple of months the daytime bandwidth has been diabolical. Today I was getting less than 0.1 meg, which is unusable. Even when the status box is saying full strength 3G or HSDPA it's still crap. I whipped out my Omnia, which I have from Vodafone, and fired up the browser using just 3G, having disabled the HSDPA, and it was loading the same webpages really fast. Unfortunately I have no surfing allowance on my contract as I didn't think I would need it having the 3 dongle, so I can't use it without incurring charges. When my contract with 3 is up in 2 months time I may switch to vodafone for my mobile broadband to see if they have better connectivity. They could hardly be worse. What is the point of paying £25 p/mth for a mobile broadband connection which is unusable for the purpose I bought it for?.

So despite there being a lot of football and tennis on tommorrow during the day I don't know how much I will be able to trade. Ho Hum.

Keep it green everybody.