Investing in stocks listed on NYSE

bowlhead99

I did see that mentioned on the IG site although it didn't say how much it was, only that there was a fee of some sort. A live feed of foreign market prices isn't something all brokers offer - e.g. some will place a trade on an overseas exchange if you call them up and request it, but may not display live charts etc and perhaps instead just show a list of bid/offer prices with a rolling 15 minute delay to give you a rough idea of what an order is likely to cost (cheaper for them to get the data like that).

I would be interested to know if the prices data feed is something you can opt out of, given your dabble in US shares is not something that requires you to be timing your trades to the exact second, and you'll get a general idea of prices from any number of places elsewhere on the net (Google finance shows NYSE and LSE prices pretty much in real time - albeit not both bid and offer, but last traded price I think).

But maybe its just something they bundle as standard for anyone who holds NYSE stocks; they have to cover costs somehow and maybe want to keep their standard prices to a minimum for people who only want regular UK trading services.

Anyway, I'd be curious how they work it and what it costs, so please let us know when you find out.

Robsson

I have found that investing as a retail investor could get manipulated, not so much from the people in that business, but from the market instead. A lot of info - non of it in one spot.
Lately I'm using stockmetrics (dot) net.

After you spend some time in retail investment, you will learn that retail investors are a red flag if they gather around at same stock. As soon as they start buying in - brokers are halting.

So, in my experience you should try to follow the markets behavior, and do opposite!