Recent content by tim3

Some good work being done by the mail on uncovering the dirty business of cold calling. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Katherine+Faulkner

Also got a call from these. I am on a "suckers" list and get calls like this all the time. They are very persistent phoned about 15 times (ignored) Decided to take the call the other afternoon as I was bored. Very slick sales talk typical of boiler type operations. Web site also looks...

could not agree more posting trades when they have gone right helps nobody,how often do you see a losing trade posted after the event! Also when people do post live find it "suprising" how even when it goes the oppisite way how many are stopped out for b/e :-0:-0:-0

Agree think they wanted to target people with other companys as well as newbies and there are plenty of forums talking about it.

Exactly that "trade" was little different to betting at a casino.

How private investors lose £1.2bn a year to fraudsters | Mail Online

To be fair the whole thing is much more realistic than that dreadful thing the bbc did a few years back. Not bad for an advert ;)

Re: Linsure Holdings, World wide Financial :clap::clap: nice one. I used to have a little game with them where I would try and get THEM to hang up on me without being rude or telling them I had no funds was great fun :cheesy:

Exactly. I watched that programme about phone marketing abuse and firms ignoring the tps restricted numbers register and the regulator was asked how much abuse there was and they said they had thousands of complaints a month when pushed to say how many firms had been fined for consistent abuse...

Yes read that brilliant

I have a simple rule just as I NEVER buy on the doorstep,I NEVER buy from cold callers on the phone either. Frankly I am already annoyed that they have disturbed me when I am doing other things or relaxing. Think of it this way if the phone company said do you want to opt into recieving sales...

I have also heard the americans are very jealous of some of the low spreads we have with no commision particularly on the Dow.

Lets be honest the "new platform" although slightlty better now than the dreadful thing it was is still light years away from the best out there like it finances advanced platform (used by ig) and as has already been said in many ways its still not as good as market maker was years ago!Thats...

I remeber ig charging 20 point spread for the dow out of hours with guaranteed stop pre 2000 mind.

I once had a scammer phone me he wanted to give me a stock to watch and said he would call me the next week when it had gone up to "prove himself" I was intrigued ( did not take him up on it as I don't believe a word they say) but I guess they just manipulate small stocks.