Vamp Frequently Asked Questions

Why should I use the Firefox browser instead of Internet Explorer?

Whilst Vamp works with Internet Explorer we highly recommend that subscribers use the Firefox browser as the page load time is significantly faster.^*

The Firefox browser has become a major competitor to Microsoft's Internet Explorer with over 25 million people using it.

Apart from the fact that Vamp operates much quicker under Firefox we consider Firefox to be a much better browser overall and encourage everyone to try it.

Firefox is freely available at http://mozilla.com/firefox and can operate alongside Internet Explorer.

^{*Vamp makes extensive use of javascript. Firefox's javascript interpreter is much quicker than Internet Explorer's}

How up to date is the data within Vamp?

Vamp sources its data from the Australian Stock Exchange. When requesting an update the resulting data is the very latest information available.

What do the coloured backgrounds mean?

The coloured backgrounds indicate which data items have changed, and how they have changed, since the last requested update.

Value has increased

Value has decreased

Value has updated

Analysing the coloured backgrounds can provide a greater understanding of how the market is trading.

TLS - the last sale price, change and volume has increased. The last activity time has updated - Buyers paid more than previous sale, short term bullish signal
CBA - the buy, sell, last and change values have all decreased. The volume has increased and the last activity time updated - Buyers prepared to pay less, seller preapred to accept less, short term bearish signal
WOW - the buy has decreased, sell remained steady, last price and change decreased, volume increased and last activity time update - Buyers prepared to pay less, short term bearish signal
WBC - the buy price has increased along with the traded volume - Buyers prepared to pay more - short term bullish signal

Buy Side (Bid)

At the price break of 503, a new buy order has entered the market, which in turn has increased the bid price to 503 (note green background)
At the price break of 502, the number of orders (#) and volume of shares has increased. A new buy order has been added to the market.
Sell Side (Offer)

At the price break of 506, the volume available has dropped (note red background) and the number of orders (#) has decreased to 4. Most likely a sell order has been removed from the market.

Analysis

It appears that this stock is in short term demand with increasing buy orders and decreasing sell orders.

What does the Post Open button on the depth page do?

During Pre Open it's very common for the market to be overlapped, which makes it hard to ascertain what the market will look like after it opens. For this reason, when the market is overlapped, a Post Open button appears on the depth page. Clicking this button will reveal what the depth queue will look like as soon as the overlapped orders have been executed.

An overlapped market occurs when the highest bid price is greater than the lowest offer price. When the market opens the ASX enforces a trading algorithm which determines the priority in which orders are executed (details on ASX website.).

Why are there two Reload buttons on Vamp?

One button reloads the watchlist and the other reloads the trade and depth screens. Having two buttons allows each part of the screen to work independently and you can keep the context on a given part of the screen.

Example - You may request an update of the watchlist and notice several stocks have coloured backgrounds. A coloured background means these stocks have changed since your last update (see here). By clicking on each of these stocks you can inspect each change in turn.

Can I use the browser refresh and forward/back buttons?

No. Due to the way Vamp has been developed these buttons are redundant. Use Vamp's reload buttons to update the page.

How do I interpret the intraday chart?

The intraday chart is displayed on the Trade page.

The chart plots the on market intraday trading activity of a security The blue line plots the price of each trade. The left-hand axis shows the price (in cents). The horizontal axis shows the time. The grey line plots the VWAP. The blue vertical lines at the bottom of the chart show the volume of each trade. The right-hand axis shows the volume, M indicates millions, K indicates thousands.

The fat green, orange and red bars are 15 minute volume/direction indicators. The tallest bar indicates that, so far today, the most volume for the security was traded during that 15 minute period. The size of the other bars in proportion to the tallest bar indicate their respective cumulative volumes for their respective periods. The colours of the bar indicates the direction of the share price during the 15 minute period in relation to the VWAP. Green indicates the share price has risen, orange the share price remained steady and red indicates the share price has fallen in relation to the VWAP.

Can I rename the watchlists?

Yes, simply select the -- edit watchlist -- option in the watchlist drop down, click into the name area and type away.

Can I claim the cost of my Vamp subscription as an expense in my tax return?

Most likely, but as with all things tax related you should seek professional advice on this matter.

Wow, Vamp really is the best stockmarket website I've ever used. Why can't my broker provide me this level of service?

Please contact your broker and tell them about Vamp. Some broking firms are willing to "sponsor" their clients use of Vamp, so see if you can twist your brokers arm too.