Spot price bar question

[johnno]

Hi Peeps

Am I missing something with the spot bar. On mine when the price goes up I get a red down arrow and a price difference and then when thrice goes down I get a green arrow pointing up! should this not be the other ay round??

Also the green/red numbers/figures what period are they over?

Ta

[BrumChris]

6 minutes ago, johnno said:

Hi Peeps

Am I missing something with the spot bar. On mine when the price goes up I get a red down arrow and a price difference and then when thrice goes down I get a green arrow pointing up! should this not be the other ay round??

Also the green/red numbers/figures what period are they over?

Ta

I get the same. I just use it as a rough guide.

[Notafront4adragon]

6 minutes ago, johnno said:

Hi Peeps

Am I missing something with the spot bar. On mine when the price goes up I get a red down arrow and a price difference and then when thrice goes down I get a green arrow pointing up! should this not be the other ay round??

Also the green/red numbers/figures what period are they over?

Ta

Nope same. Sometimes it's in Australian dollars too! 

I've decided to think green means buy and red means hold off.

 

[ChrisSilver]

Moved to the questions section. There is also a specific section for reporting errors on the forum.

If you click the bar it will change currency. It should then remember the last selected currency it to your user account. Occasionally this may reset, e.g. if work has been done on the bar, you may need to click through to select your desired currency again. 

The price change is from the previous day, though note that it takes the worldwide spot price.

Please can you take a screenshot and share in this topic when you see an incorrect price movement indicator, as I haven’t noticed this. We can then fix it. Guessing it may be because there isn’t a neutral indicator when the change is 0.

And price increase should be represented by a green arrow pointing up, a price decrease should be represented by a red arrow down. If you notice this incorrectly being shown the opposite way please share a screenshot so we can look into it. Many thanks.

[Zhorro]

11 minutes ago, ChrisSilver said:

Moved to the questions section. There is also a specific section for reporting errors on the forum.

If you click the bar it will change currency. It should then remember the last selected currency it to your user account. Occasionally this may reset, e.g. if work has been done on the bar, you may need to click through to select your desired currency again. 

The price change is from the previous day, though note that it takes the worldwide spot price.

Please can you take a screenshot and share in this topic when you see an incorrect price movement indicator, as I haven’t noticed this. We can then fix it. Guessing it may be because there isn’t a neutral indicator when the change is 0.

And price increase should be represented by a green arrow pointing up, a price decrease should be represented by a red arrow down. If you notice this incorrectly being shown the opposite way please share a screenshot so we can look into it. Many thanks.

I am sure it should be red and not green.

[johnno]

Thanks for saving me a job @Zhorro

[ChrisSilver]

@Zhorro The screenshot that you have shown, shows the spot price bar working. Increases in price are represented in a green arrow upwards, a decrease in price would be represented as a red arrow down.

A standard candlestick chart for example represents down movements in red candles, and up movements in green candles. Though of course, depending on the software this can be changed; in general red represents down movements (decreases) in prices and green represents up movements (increases) in prices. 

Unless of course I am misunderstanding, and what you mean is that the gold price of £1419 is actually a decrease from yesterday's prices and should be displayed with the 19.29 as red and a down arrow as it has decreased since yesterdays price and not increased? I can't remember what it was displaying yesterday, but could well have been near the 1440, so would make sense if this is so. Please let me know if this is the case and I will ask the developer to look into it, perhaps there is an error in the calculation e.g. minuses a from b instead of b from a. 

[Zhorro]

1 minute ago, ChrisSilver said:

Unless of course I am misunderstanding, and what you mean is that the gold price of £1419 is actually a decrease from yesterday's prices and should be displayed with the 19.29 as red and a down arrow as it has decreases since yesterdays price and not increased?

Yes, the bar is working, but there has been a large fall in the gold price today, so I would have expected a red number with a downward arrow.  I think the numbers are correct it is just that the colour and direction of the arrow seem to be wrong, so yes, today I would have expected a red number and a downwards arrow.

[ChrisSilver]

Thanks @Zhorro, and thank you @johnno for spotting and brining to our attention as well as everyone else. I will contact the developer.

[johnno]

1 hour ago, ChrisSilver said:

Thanks @Zhorro, and thank you @johnno for spotting and brining to our attention as well as everyone else. I will contact the developer.

no worries @ChrisSilver. Thanks for helping. Just wanted to help point it out to make sure that it works correctly as its a good idea having it and helps when buying items off the forum close to spot at the time of looking to buy.

[arphethean]

I've been wondering that as well. Thanks for a great forum @ChrisSilver.

 

Got excited for a second this morning seeing this. Was just a blip and then went back down to £1416 after I'd scurried over to xe to check! 

[Spark268]

well in asia, red colours means the price has gone up, and green down