Recent content by Gil3000

ok great, thanks

This is all after two years of inactivity though right?

Hi, After reading around the subject I finally decided to go ahead and open an account with IG for stockbroking. I've noticed there are inactivity fees: "We charge a £12 fee on the first of every month, if no dealing activity has occurred for two years or more." I'm yet to start trading, is...

with iweb the £200 one off account opening charge sounds pretty huge though considering im only looking to operate with £1,000 max and may be for a limited amount of time initially - unless I'm reading it wrong and it means that is the minimum deposit?

Literally in the middle of an account swap from HSBC to Santander but for various reasons am having to put this off for a month, with my official moving day not until 6th July (little far away for my liking, would prefer to be trading before that date). In this case presume IG would be the...

Ah that makes a lot of sense re: percentages. Brokers I've been looking at, I've probably been looking in the wrong places since it seems to be alot of sites which are heavily advertised or perhaps have affiliate costs with sites that review various platforms. I understand you might not be...

Hi, I am new to the forum and completely new to trading from the UK (yet to make my first purchase) and have put a fair amount of time into reading various posts about how the whole thing works, although my knowledge is still extremely limited. I've decided there are a few companies I want to...