It's time to start digging up those Squirrelled Nuts!!!!

Thrugelmir

Crabby said:

How many are going into the city to gamble on the markets?

Traded online for many years now. No need to walk the trading floors any more.

Username999

Difficult for the HFT to work from home when the main concern is Latency.

Sea_Shell

Username999 said:

Difficult for the HFT to work from home when the main concern is Latency.

Once more, in English!!?  

Crabby

michaels said:

Crabby said:

How many are going into the city to gamble on the markets?

I think most of us who remain invested are quite able to do that from home....

But most who post on here are "one man bands" so to speak. I was thinking more of the big boys employees.

Username999

Sea_Shell said:

Username999 said:

Difficult for the HFT to work from home when the main concern is Latency.

Once more, in English!!?  

Difficult for High Frequency Traders (HFT) to work from home when the main concern is the Speed of executing trades, physical location plays a large part of that Speed (Latency). 
Not all trades can be done over the standard 'Internet'.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/active-trading/042414/youd-better-know-your-highfrequency-trading-terminology.asp

Slinky

OH has gone to collect his mum so we will have her living with us for the forseeable. He said the M25 looks like a normal day it's that busy.

DairyQueen

Observations on the differences in the Covid-19 parallel universe:

- energy company kindly advised today that they want to increase my monthly DD buy 40%!

- cancellation of supermarket multi-buys and stock shortages have increased grocery bill by at least 25%.

Anyone else notice an immediate increase in personal inflation? 

shinytop

We moved from a large, old house to our temporary small newer one mid January so all our household related bills have gone down a lot.  I suppose they'd have gone down more if we weren't at home most of the time. Travel costs, normally high for us, are near-zero.  Petrol is much cheaper if I had any use for it.  And for something to do I washed both cars rather than pay someone else.  Thinking about it, maybe that was a bit selfish; the car wash will need the business later. 

I have bought more e-books and watched some premium tv content I probably wouldn't have.  And my garage full of toilet roll and dried pasta was quite expensive 

Sea_Shell

We haven't noticed any price rises yet.   Other than Sky's usual increases (but they have given us free SkyTalk calls to landlines for the next month - yay!)

We've probably spent about £10 a week extra on groceries over the last 3 months, just while we got a few extra bits in * (not loo roll - luckily we bought our usual 9 pack just before it went mad).  Some of that was alcohol!! - Needs must!!

As it looks like our holiday budget will remain intact this year  we could be on for a record low spend year...currently only spent an average of £775pm, of which £320 was some "one off" household purchases.  


*Edited to add - it would appear that "some" (not sure who exactly) are calling on people to use up ALL of their "stockpiled" resources before going to the shops again.   Which is fine, I get that, if you really have a "stockpile". 
  
Yes, we have an emergency bag of porridge, some UHT milk, a couple extra bags of pasta, crackers and cup-a-soups etc, but hardly a stockpile.   More like emergency rations!

But what if we do use all that now, and then when we do next get shopping, we catch this, (or just have unrelated symptoms) and have to self-isolate for at least 14 days, what are we then supposed to live on!!?   Having to then rely on neighbours to bring us our food, then puts them in harms way.    We've tried as hard as possible to be "self-reliant" during this crisis, and have only shopped once a week and now it feels like we're being made to feel like social lepers.   I haven't even tried to get an on-line shop, yet, as I know that we are (currently) fit and healthy enough to go to the shop, so have left those slots for someone else who needs it more.

Seems you can't do right for doing wrong these days.   

Anonymous101

Sea_Shell said:

We haven't noticed any price rises yet.   Other than Sky's usual increases (but they have given us free SkyTalk calls to landlines for the next month - yay!)

We've probably spent about £10 a week extra on groceries over the last 3 months, just while we got a few extra bits in (not loo roll - luckily we bought our usual 9 pack just before it went mad).  Some of that was alcohol!! - Needs must!!

As it looks like our holiday budget will remain intact this year  we could be on for a record low spend year...currently only spent an average of £775pm, of which £320 was some "one off" household purchases.  

"Monk Mode" as the Escape Artist put it in a recent article!
I'm trying to see the positives of this outbreak and one of which is such low spending. Our spending was already pretty low on discretionary items but with no commute or travel for hobbies and no opportunity for the odd trip to a cafe or pub we really are screwed to the floor. Just mortgage, utilities (including sky) and food.
My main concern is maintaining my employment. Providing I can do that I'm shovelling everything I can into my investment accounts with the hope of riding the recovery wave to financial independence.