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meinnit

Do Selftrade still offer the referral scheme?

gt94sss2

meinnit wrote: »

Do Selftrade still offer the referral scheme?

Yes, they do.

Here is Selftrade referral thread - my own details are in post 282.. where it is possible to get £80 for joining Selftrade.

Regards
Sunil

Lars_A

Hi anyone

I have been using Hoodless Brennan ( one of Martin's recommendations ) ... for investing £200 per month in stocks and shares ... but ... I have been finding that stocks / shares I am interested in ... I can not invest in as they are ' not available ' ...

Has anyone else out there found this with Hoodless ?

What I am now interested in is an online broker that allows investing into any and all the stocks listed on the stock exchanges ...

Cheers if you can help.

gt94sss2

Lars_A wrote: »

I have been using Hoodless Brennan ( one of Martin's recommendations ) ... for investing £200 per month in stocks and shares ... but ... I have been finding that stocks / shares I am interested in ... I can not invest in as they are ' not available ' ...

What I am now interested in is an online broker that allows investing into any and all the stocks listed on the stock exchanges ...

As you can probably tell from my previous posts I recommend Selftrade - especially with their referral scheme!

However, can you give some examples of shares that Hoodless Brennan state are 'not available'?

Regards
Sunil

JackassUK147

I was just about to join Hoodless Brennan. What is the trade price for Selftrade please gt94sss2?

Also, as a 40% tax payer I assume it is sensible that it is my wife who registers?

gt94sss2

JackassUK147 wrote: »

I was just about to join Hoodless Brennan. What is the trade price for Selftrade please gt94sss2?

Selftrade charge £12.50/trade and you can do them online or via the telephone for the same price.

(I have answered your other question elsewhere)

Regards
Sunil

King_Weasel

HB are only £6.50 per trade, though this might be for a limited period. This certainly covers all LSE stocks, and I believe AIM too. What shares wouldn't they do? I believe other charges come in if you don't trade every 6 months or so - check the details here, don't take my word for it.

They are very good on price but their website isn't the easiest to use.

I would also suggest the Share Centre, who have an excellent site, both for info and for trades. They levy a small quarterly admin fee, whether you trade or not. I would probably recommend the Share Centre over HB for anyone who hasn't done on-line trading before for the reasons given above. Can't comment on Selftrade.

danbUK_2

Been reading forum a while now, first post (so please be gentle!)

I just complained to Hoodless Brennan. Letter below. I will post their response when it comes. I think this kind of sharing of experiences is just what this forum is about. Feel free to disagree though!

Dear Sir/Madam,

Re: Account xxxxx

I would like to register a complaint regarding my recent application to open an online trading account. As I have mentioned in prior communication, your "Apply online and be tradding in minutes" is particularly misleading as it was 13 days form me applying online to when you informed me that my account was now active. Compare that to Natwest Stockbrokers, a direct rival to your online business; I opened and account with them and had purchased stocks within one hour.

Further, the department for vetting applications for money laundering were especially obstructive. I sent documents to you via registered mail and enclosed instructions for where to return my documents. This was apparently an issue and it took two phone calls and an email, for the application to proceed. My reasons for wanting the documents returned to a particular address do not appear to me as relevant to my application for a trading account, yet your department informed me that a detailed explanation was required. I duly supplied an explanation which was acceptable (please see earlier correspondence).

I was much aggrieved that after holding my original driver's license and other documentation for nearly two weeks, you had not managed to return them to me so I again contacted you. Several days later, the documents arrived at an address I had not specified and did not want the documents sending to.

Given that I enclosed return details for a specific address when sending oyu my documents, and that I then gave you written explanation why I required these arrangements, and further emailed you to request them once an unreasonable length of time had transpired, I would have hoped you would have understood a single, very simple instruction.

It is not for you to question my choice of return address and it is certainly not for you to overrule my request when hadling my personal documents. I see this as a violation of business-customer relations and I request a full explanation for the events. Given the explicit and repeated nature of my request, a claim of a simple mistake will not be accepted.

I look forward to your response and I should inform you that I intend to convey my complaint and your response both to the Financial Ombudsman and to the popular financial website and forum moneysavingexpert.com.

Yours sincerely,

efunc

Does anyone know of a place I can track After-Hours share price fluctuations?

I'm using Yahoo! to track Apple stock among others here:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=AAPL&t=1d&c=

but it only goes up to the close of market at 4pm even though trading continues. Even the Nasdaq site and Apple's own site don't track After-Hours trends but I notice that analysts continue to provide blow by blow commentry of after hours trading. so where are they getting their info??

danbUK_2

efunc wrote: »

Does anyone know of a place I can track After-Hours share price fluctuations?

I'm using Yahoo! to track Apple stock among others here:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=AAPL&t=1d&c=

but it only goes up to the close of market at 4pm even though trading continues. Even the Nasdaq site and Apple's own site don't track After-Hours trends but I notice that analysts continue to provide blow by blow commentry of after hours trading. so where are they getting their info??

Try https://www.natweststockbrokers.com they have a box a the bottom you can type the stock name into. No graphs or anything but ok.