red tape

17 minutes and 19 seconds on the phone to Commsec later, I have my shares, and some information: they place limits on trades, even if you have the money in your account. and of course my trade was over that limit. so I had to do it on the phone, paying $54 instead of $30 for the purchase. I can open a new special trading account, for which I now have the forms. But there is still a limit, and the issue that it takes three days for funds to settle - more like four for earnings, too.

I suppose there is some nifty software somewhere that will do all this for me. But for the moment, I think I'll just go slowly, as long as the trend is upwards. at least I can sell as much as I like online.

one more thing for today: to subscribe to the Commsec IPO newsletter. the hardest thing will be finding a new stock every time I sit down to do this, which I thought would be every day but now looks like every 3-4 days.