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merriemark wrote: »

Hi,

I am keen to get into this and would love to know which online trader you now think is the best! thanks guys! I love the site and it has saved me £££s!

The cheapest and best at the moment is www.iii.co.uk, if you set a trade in advance (even a day) on certain dates then theres NO TRANSACTION FEE, otherwise once this offer is up/you want real time trades its only £10.

vincentt

xyy123 wrote: »

1. Open a stockbroking account - make it a low cost one if you're only dealing with small amounts of money and one without an 'inactivity fee' - I use 1st direct and the execution seems pretty reasonable.

2. Do some research on trackers - I tend to use iShares - and if you can, get an Acc fund or a SCRIP divididend to roll up the distributions (assuming you don't want the income for whatever reason).

As a rule of thumb, I aim to keep total costs (include the cost to sell as well as the ETF fee below 1%).

You'll probably want to use your ISA allowance too if you haven't already.

3. Buy the security you want.

4. Make money (hopefully).

On a slight tangent, if you're a student, and this is long-long term money, you may want to consider a FTSE All Share or FTSE All Small tracker, small caps generally do better over the long long term than large/mega caps.

Hi there,
thanks for the detailed reply. I have been busy with uni work, but i have some time to start the trading now. Just wondering if you could recommend any brokers.
the only ones that i know of are:
HSBC
Barclays Stockbrokers
IG
I will probably want to trade 3-4 times a week and will start with about 500 (pounds, no pound sign on keyboard) and i will ideally like to grow my portfolio and diversify.

tradetime

I will probably want to trade 3-4 times a week and will start with about 500 (pounds, no pound sign on keyboard) and i will ideally like to grow my portfolio and diversify.

Trading 3-4 times a week with £500 capital base is wildly optimistic to put it lightly, I'd say unrealistic. Trading and "growing portfolios and diversifying" are two different concepts, traders are all about the short term booking profits they neither diversify nor build portfolios, Investors build portfolios and diversify.

With that sort of capital base I would suggest you look at something like Interactive Investor's Portfolio builder and look to build a portfolio over time either in quality shares, or in ETF's.
Alternatively you may be better going the fund route, but I don't deal in those so can't really say.

Davey2009

Im a client of Hargreaves Lansdown actually its a SIPP but I trade probably too often
I like some oil & resource stocks on Aim as they can move quickly (either up or down)
I was very tempted by Creat Resorces following an article in the Times on their prospects following a reverse takeover however they have fallen sharply following their failure to renew mining licences..... is this a buying opportunity maybe :eek: but to risky for me.
You may find "Sharecrazy" an interesting site lots of info & a good community board there dealing costs start at £10 per trade (I think) - the cheapest share dealer might be "The Motley Fool" if you register they bulk all the transactions & I think you pay about £3 to deal which can be good if you are buying something for the longer term for e.g property shares & don't need to trade instantly.
Finally Investment Trusts many run free dealing share purchasing schemes "Trustnet" is a good site to check all their prices & the Net asset value price which could be at a premium or discount.
Good luck

One tip I will give you is to be carefull about following people who tip shares do your own research look at fundementals study balance sheets & be patient it is far easier to lose money than make any

Everynamestaken

Has anyone got any opinions on Super Dry?

dwjohnno81

ok people, sorry if this has been asked before.....

im looking to get into trading and dealing with shares and im a complete novice, i would not know where to begin. i was wondering if some of you nice people could point me in a few directions to help me get started

any info would be great

many thanks

Procrastinator333

Being 50 pages long I haven't read this thread through, so apologies if covered already.

Why do you not use spreadbetting instead? No capital gains, lower costs, easier trades?

dwjohnno81

Procrastinator333 wrote: »

Being 50 pages long I haven't read this thread through, so apologies if covered already.

Why do you not use spreadbetting instead? No capital gains, lower costs, easier trades?

not 100% on spread betting either, wouldnt know where to start

Procrastinator333

dwjohnno81 wrote: »

not 100% on spread betting either, wouldnt know where to start

That was really just a general question for those who trade shares.

Spread betting is not hard. Plus you can have a play for a smallish amount of money. The only one I tried was tradefair. You can have a play with a practice account and when you want to trade, they match your first deposit up to a certain amount (Think it was £75 when I did it a while back).

I may be missing something, but I don't understand why you would buy shares instead of spread bet. Spread bet, you bet on a share or an index going up or down, by say £1 a point. If you bet up and they go up 10 points, you make £10. They go down 10 points you lose £10.

But as it is classed as gambling there is no CGT. Just trying to understand why peeps chose to actually buy and sell shares instead.

sabretoothtigger

Spreadbetting is high risk trading not investing . It works best when you guess exactly when a stock will move in just one direction



Try some fantasy share sites to see if you can predict at all

www.bullbearings.co.uk


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