what company to use to buy stocks /shares

mrpete

hey,

i want to buy some stocks/shares in companies on the london stock ex and nyse...what are the cheapest / best companies to do so with?

i was thinking of going with natwest as they are my bank, apparently its about £10 per transaction (of around £10k bought/sold)

J_Devon

Check out Hoodless Brennan:

£8 per transaction and easy to use.
Minimum £100 to open an account.

hopefulfooluk

Don't use Hoodless Brennan.

They're cheap, but you get what you pay for. Their system failed to buy when I instructed it to twice in the last three days. Would have been sat on a nice little profit if it had worked.

mrpete

anyone got any experience with natwests services?
also are there any decent uk stock/share forums worth joining?
thanks

ballyblack

Re Hoodless & Brennan

They provide a great cheap service. Only on one occasion I was unable to deal on line immediately, I phoned them direct and they dealt for me at the same cheap on-line rate with no problems


http://www.hoodlessbrennan.com/

MarkFromCornwall

I can recommend the Motley Fool sharedealing service.
http://www.fool.co.uk/share-dealing/share-dealing.aspx