Recent content by Lord Lister

Can't say about Florida I'm in Plymouth UK and its cold. I am interested because a stock I have been picking up went up 2.6% today on the volumes stated. Cattles PLC London ctt (I think) if your interested. I got in at 346 and have been adding a bit here and there. It closed today at 386. Just...

What would be considered as high volume? For example a stocks avaerage volume is 225000 today it traded 250000, whilst that is obviously higher than average (about 10%), would that be considered a high volume day or just typical swing volume? How mnay would need to change hands for this example...

Thanks chaps, this is very informative, still not sure what is the best option though. Let me get this straight, bearing in mind the size of my account, if I bought £1000 worth of a stock at £1 per share direct access, it would cost me £1010, thats £5 commission and £5 Stamp duty. That would...

TRADERguy Generally I am trading individual stocks from the FTSE100 over a period of a few hours to up to three weeks. This is not exclusive though, I am interested in intra day trading, but got seriously stung when I first tried this. See Below. scrosbie Originally I started with £1000 and...

Thanks TraderGuy, any thoughts on my other two queries anyone? Thanks

Sorry if this is a silly question (Chinese proverbs aside) but if you go direct access, what does that mean, what would you be trading? futures? actually buying stocks? Also, typically what sort of amount of capital would you need to start trading using direct access? I currently have £3600...

Thanks Tradesmart, dam you've blown my cover, on the run again.

Sorry if this has been covered before but I have searched but not found the info I need. Also I guess it's more of a computer teckie question than a trading question. Apologies made now the questions. :cheesy: I happen to have a spare monitor, a was wondering how I could set it up so I could...

can anyone tell me what a script dividend is, I was looking on the Yahoo insider trading lists and noticed this phrase comming up repeatedly.

Ahhh, thought that might be a bit easy. Thanks for your help, this is a superb site and an excelent forum, I am really please I stumbled across it. Back to reading through the threads.

What about on an SB platform? You wouldn't have to pay the dividend but the price is still likely to drop?

If you and me are both sb the dow at the same time with the same company, are we seeing the same price? or can the sb companies manipulate figures depending on who is trading and in what direction?

Thanks Skimbleshanks. So does that mean if you know a stock is going ex dividend tomorrow, it's worth going short on that stock?

Hi Everybody, first post and new to trading. When a company goes x dividend it seems to effect the price downwards (limited experience observation) why is this? what does x dividend mean? and is this an easy trading opportunity? Are my observations accurate or are these silly questions...