Fast(er) access to ICICIDIRECT. Review on ICICI Securities

For those poor suffering souls (clients) of icicidirect, now there is a relatively faster option to log on to icicidirect (provided you can open their first page) - click on the link to log on with low bandwidth -

I am in fact a co sufferer in this regard. If you cant get even the first page then directly logon using the url:

*secure.icicidirect.com/trading/lbs/Logon.asp*

The interface is rudimentary.

The available functionalities are:

Equity

Buy / Sell

Fast Buy / Sell

Order book **(Modification / cancellation of order is not available, yet)*

Trade book

Demat Balance

Limit

Modify Allocation

Get Quote (Useful to monitor LTP)

Select Account

ICLICK-2-GAIN **(I dont know why this was important!)*

IPO

Portfolio

and of course

Logout

*Functionality not yet available *

Derivatives (**has since been added**).

Commodities

Buy and Sell allows both margin and delivery trades which is fine.

*Including the cancel / modify order in the order book is imperative. ** Without this feature the new facility is as good as use less. It can be used for panic selling or buying - which is what icicidirect probably want. **(This feature has also been added)*

Including Derivatives is also a must, because I mostly go in for derivatives trades - but implementation may be a problem because of the large no of contracts available.

Right now no IPOs are open - so I dont know whether this feature is functional or not.

*Last resort:

*I would recommend using this because when you are not able to get to the site - it at least gives you a means to place orders when in an emergency.

What surprises me is that ICICIDRECT have not publicized this feature through their newletters / email; I chanced upon this feature when I was able to get their first page by pure luck.There might be quite a lot of unlucky users who still do not know of this feature.

**I have changed my rating from 3 stars to 4 stars as the site now offers a lot of the functionalities.**

*Warnings / Disclaimers:

*This review and rating is only for the product for low bandwidth connections.

The features of the product since the time of writing this review may have increased.