Recent content by Brandycreek

Royal Mail Any thoughts regards sell off of Royal Mail? Short term it seems attractive. Potential strike action just after sale would be my major concern to driving down price when open for public trade.

Are there any suggestions for a good ECN broker? One someone has been using and is good?

Hi everyone. New to trading and was just wanting some advice on what type of trades would be best with £1000.00 to start with?

After much browsing of new post on this site a common theme seems to run through the majority. Most newbies like me start with something like this... " I have begun trading and am losing lots of money, I know I can make lots of money, please show me how I make lots of money rather than lose lots...

Can I ask what you have a warning for? what are you not allowed to say? Just interested because I dont have a clue as to what wouldnt be allowed.

Thanks ns1000, appreciated.

Thanks for your replies, as yet I haven't tried a dummy account, but it was easy to see that with the commission there was no way a profit was to be had by trading small quantities. As someone else has quoted on another T2W thread, profit= capital x risk x time. Can I ask a real newbie question...

UK equities. Its just that many on the net have suggested when starting out to start small with trades of 50-100 to get a feel of things. Even TD Waterhouse in their explanations say that you may put a bid in for 100 shares and only get 50. Doing my sums, if I purchase 50 or 100 shares of stocks...

Ok, so I'm a newbie as the title suggests. Would like to hear from more experienced members if that is a fair/good/average price for trades. I thought I saw posts from others on these forums that were suggesting they paid a whole lot less. Am I mistaken? It's just I thought I saw someone post...

Hi have just opened a trading account with TD Waterhouse but after reading some posts on this forum am now starting to wonder if they are too expensive, especially for day trading. They charge £12.50 a trade so a buy sell would cost £25.00. Higher volume price is £9.99 so still around £20.00...