Recent content by dmorris

Hi all, I'm just getting started and I'm unsure whether to go for SBs or CFDs. I plan to deal in UK stocks. From what I can see so far, though, I like the idea of trading at the "true" market price of a stock. I don't like the idea of a SB broker spreading the price to account for 3M interest...

Thanks Oh, that's good to know, thank you! It might have been a good thing for me to get the "bad news" that I might be restricted to a small subset of the LSE, because it's forcing me to improve the efficiency of my algorithmic triggers; I'm experimenting with deriving optimal open/close...

Thanks Thanks for the reply; All I have is historic EOD data; so I don't actually know the market caps of the ~3800 shares in my analysis set. In an effort to simulate IG's £10m market cap. min. I've restricted my full share-set by excluding stocks < 200p. This takes the ~3800 LSE stocks down...

Hi all! I'd like to know which broker has the biggest range of UK shares available as spread-bet products. The best I've found so far is IG with around 900, but my strategy works best with even bigger ranges. (My modelling has been based on all ~3800 of the LSE shares.) Does anybody have any...