Share Dealing Discussion Area

DireEmblem

try interactive investor if you dont trade too often.

sabretoothtigger

Monday April 09 

TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Volex 

Tuesday April 10 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Alumasc Group, Carclo, Colefax Group, Dechra Pharmaceuticals, Diageo, Hays, Oxford Instruments, Park Group, Quayle Munro Holdings, Renishaw, Ricardo 

QUARTERLY PAYMENT DATE 
Africa Opportunity Fund Ltd., Small Companies Dividend Trust 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Balance of Trade (GER) (07:00) 
Current Account (GER) (07:00) 
Factory Orders (GER) (11:00) 
Retail Price Index (GER) (07:00) 
Wholesales Inventories (US) (15:00) 

GMS 
Bank Audi SAL (Audi Saradar Group) GDR (Reg S) 

SPECIAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Independent Inv Trust 

EGMS 
Bank Audi SAL (Audi Saradar Group) GDR (Reg S), OJSC OC Rosneft GDRS (Reg S) 

AGMS 
Zhejiang Southeast Electric Power Co Ltd. GDR (Reg S) 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
RICS Housing Market Survey (09:30) 

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Brewin Dolphin Holdings, Domino Printing Sciences, Electronic Data Processing, Independent Inv Trust, TUI Travel 

Wednesday April 11 

INTERIMS 
Matchtech Group 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Galliford Try, Hargreaves Lansdown, Haynes Publishing Group 

INTERIM EX-DIVIDEND DATE 
Manchester & London Inv Trust, Northamber, Thorpe (F.W.) 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Beige Book Fed Survey (US) (19:00) 
Crude Oil Inventories (US) (15:30) 
Import and Export Price Indexes (US) (13:30) 
MBA Mortgage Applications (US) (12:00) 
Treasury Budget Statement (US) (19:00) 

IMSS 
Michael Page International 

EGMS 
Altona Energy, INA-Industrija Nafte D.D. GDR (Reg S), VietNam Holding Ltd. 

AGMS 
AFC Energy, Baronsmead VCT 3, Low Carbon Accelerator Ltd., Porvair 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
BRC Sales Monitor (00:00) 

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
CQS Rig Finance Fund Ltd., Manroy, Safestore Holdings 

FINAL EX-DIVIDEND DATE 
32Red, Berendsen, BG Group, Cenkos Securities, Charles Taylor Consulting, Chesnara, Communisis, Edinburgh UK Tracker Trust, EMIS Group, Filtrona PLC, Fisher (James) & Sons, Foreign and Colonial Inv Trust, Foresight 2 VCT, Foresight 2 VCT 'C' Shares, Fyffes, Goals Soccer Centres, IDOX, IMI, Kerry Group 'A' Shares, Logica, Merchants Trust, Mondi, Novae Group, Psion, Rotork, RPS Group, Smurfit Kappa Group, Ultra Electronics Holdings, Wood Group (John), WSP Group 

Q1 
X5 Retail Group NV GDR (Reg S) 

Thursday April 12 

INTERIMS 
Punch Taverns 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Casdon plc, London Finance & Investment Group, Wilmington Group 

QUARTERLY PAYMENT DATE 
GlaxoSmithKline 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Balance of Trade (US) (13:30) 
Bloomberg Consumer Confidence (US) (14:45) 
Continuing Claims (US) (13:30) 
ECB Report (EU) (09:00) 
Industrial Production (EU) (10:00) 
Initial Jobless Claims (US) (13:30) 
Producer Price Index (US) (13:30) 

FINALS 
Elektron Technology, Escher Group Holdings, JD Sports Fashion, Networkers International 

ANNUAL REPORT 
Fidelity European Values, Mam Funds 

IMSS 
Galliford Try, Hays, XP Power Ltd. (DI) 

SPECIAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
GlaxoSmithKline 

AGMS 
Baronsmead VCT 5, BP, Primary Health Properties, Smith & Nephew 

TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Mothercare 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
UK Trade (09:30) 

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Rio Tinto 

FINAL EX-DIVIDEND DATE 
Sagicor Financial Corp. 

Friday April 13 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Centaur Media, Dunelm Group, Go-Ahead Group, Tristel 

QUARTERLY PAYMENT DATE 
Schlumberger Ltd., Yamana Gold Inc. 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Consumer Price Index (GER) (07:00) 
Consumer Price Index (US) (13:30) 
U. of Michigan Confidence (Prelim) (US) (15:00) 

GMS 
Lochard Energy Group 

FINALS 
Norcon 

ANNUAL REPORT 
Dignity 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Producer Price Index  (00:00) 

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Chemring Group, Octopus Titan VCT 1, Octopus Titan VCT 2, RM 

FINAL EX-DIVIDEND DATE 
First Quantum Minerals Ltd.

Charlton_King

My elderly father has asked me to check with you nice people whether any lots of his old, low value shares (he used to buy them almost on a whim) still might have any worth over and above curiosity level!

He holds certificates for the following:

Scoot.com
COE Group
XKO Group
Provalis
Minmet

I'm assuming these are all liquidated companies or the like but I would be grateful if anyone could shed light.

Just_landed

DireEmblem wrote: »

try interactive investor if you dont trade too often.

ii at your peril. :rotfl:

Try

http://www.x-o.co.uk/

Biggles

I'm looking to open another dealing account (the aim being not to have all my eggs in my Barclays Stockbrokers basket).

Obviously, low costs would be good, as would a wide range of UK shares, and with that object I have pencilled in iDealing and X-O. But the other aspect, which probably saves far more money than a few quid off the commission, is how often they execute your buy or sell inside the quoted spread.

I have read that some are pretty poor in this area. Does anyone have any knowledge of the two I'm looking at, or indeed any better ones?

sabretoothtigger

xo will quote the price paid before you agree. For 15 secs you can decide, I dont think they are terrible.

If you deal very large amounts and spread really matters to you, a premium broker might be best. I believe selftrade argue they get very good spreads, depends which share


I deal small amounts, buy several times and get awful spread personally. The market itself will vary in its spread competitiveness, depends on time of day and many factors hence Im not fussed on brokers

srcandas

This year I want to use my ISA as my share playground. I had thought with a pot of only £11000 this may be too expensive but from the great stuff I have read above and visiting the links I get the feeling that X-O ISA could be a solution. No annual charge, low trade cost, and dividends handled. As sabretooth infers above I assume the trading is similar to hl if not identical.

I have been using HL outside ISA as a try out but that of course gives me problems with dividends (no capital gains issues as sadly I live within the allowance ) and trading cost (about £35 in and out on a £2000 deal).

I'm assuming holding cash in such an ISA between deals is not in breach of ISA rules?????

Just thought I'd ask if I've missed anything better or missed any pot holes I might fall down.

My strategy will be £2000 lumps in UK companies. And I have no problems with in and out quick if profits are to be had, or riding it out if need be.

:beer:

sabretoothtigger

If new to shares I think the best deal is the smallest commission and regular buying.
Buying once can be pretty bad if it keeps going down, look at iii as well as they deal for 1.50 if you schedule it and this lets you buy 1 share 10 times if you want, to get an average price

srcandas

sabretoothtigger wrote: »

If new to shares I think the best deal is the smallest commission and regular buying.
Buying once can be pretty bad if it keeps going down, look at iii as well as they deal for 1.50 if you schedule it and this lets you buy 1 share 10 times if you want, to get an average price

Tx sabre. Looked at iii but the simplicity of X-O attracts me. But I must study the detail before deciding

Do I need to be wary of this "It's even possible to hold cash in a self-select ISA, providing you intend to invest it at some point. The taxman doesn't have any set rules on how long you can leave money in cash so this provides a useful holding area while you decide where to invest."

If the market is tumbling I have no problem sitting it out.

:beer:

sabretoothtigger

You can use isa shares for saving cash, it just doesnt pay much usually. Of course what else can you do when selling, its only a problem if you wanted to hold foreign cash. That wouldnt be allowed, basically anything high risk is excluded from isa. However AIM companies can be bought if dual listed in Canada or elsewhere

XO is ok when Ive used them. Another approach is to buy a sector (not ftse ) and choose who is doing best vs price and why. Telegraph splits them by sector