Reply to: Online share dealing sites

[bobspud]

These guys are good www.idealing.com (I helped found them in 2000!) Not that I ever saw any share value from the basterds either way a good (cheap) day traders option...

just stay away from CFD and spread betting they are options for the clinically insane

[rhubarb]

There were some good tips in here http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...d-betting.html

The thread was about spread betting, but I reckon that the same advice applies to any type of gambling.

Thank you.
And post number two in that thread:

Don't do it.

I guy I used to work with is about to lose his house from it.

Perhaps I'll stick with the digging up treasure idea.

[cojak]

There were some good tips in here http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...d-betting.html

The thread was about spread betting, but I reckon that the same advice applies to any type of gambling.

[Old Hack]

Is it something anybody can get into or does it need much skill?

It is: identify which shares are undervalued, buy them, wait for them to go up, then sell them.

[jlharris]

Buy low sell high is my usual modus operandi

HTH

Is it something anybody can get into or does it need much skill?

[KentPhilip]

Hello

Does anyone have any recommendations for decent online share dealing sites ?

I use:
http://interactivebrokers.com

It is more sophisticated than most of them, and is intended for semi-professional investors and traders.

Or just speeding up the process of my house being repossessed because I've lost everything.

You may joke, but newcomers to share trading with an attitude of hoping to be "making a few million on the stock market instead" are lambs to the slaughter in the markets.

Successful share trading is no easier than working for a living, and those who think it is are those who lose money.

[suityou01]

Very good advice, and I know I really do need to get myself trained up.
But I've spent over 25 years in IT, and have hated every minute of it.
Just cannot bear (bare? i dunno) the thought of paying thousands of pounds to train in something I don't want to know, to stay in an industry I don't want to stay in.
I need a career change. I want to dig up buried treasure for a living. I'm going to buy a spade.

You could always dig the treasure up yourself and get fit at the same time.

[DimPrawn]

Buy low sell high is my usual modus operandi

HTH

I prefer momentum. Buy high, sell higher.

[Troll]

Has anybody actually got any tips on share dealing?

Buy low sell high is my usual modus operandi

HTH

[SimonMac]

clinical neurophysiologist.
I can give it a try I suppose...

Go for it, its not exactly brain surgery

[Old Hack]

Very good advice, and I know I really do need to get myself trained up.
But I've spent over 25 years in IT, and have hated every minute of it.
Just cannot bear (bare? i dunno) the thought of paying thousands of pounds to train in something I don't want to know, to stay in an industry I don't want to stay in.
I need a career change. I want to dig up buried treasure for a living. I'm going to buy a spade.

I've got a career change coming up so can see what you mean. How about working in Sustainable/renewable energies, as it's going to be a big growth area, especially in the SW.

[rhubarb]

Or train up on something on the UK skills shortage list

http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/si...nlistnov11.pdf

clinical neurophysiologist.
I can give it a try I suppose...

[rhubarb]

Then don't spend the time gambling your money, but training in something else, that people need. Jeez, for 4k you could reinvent yourself as a DBA with the right training, then ensure your CV says DBA work in every gig you did.

Very good advice, and I know I really do need to get myself trained up.
But I've spent over 25 years in IT, and have hated every minute of it.
Just cannot bear (bare? i dunno) the thought of paying thousands of pounds to train in something I don't want to know, to stay in an industry I don't want to stay in.
I need a career change. I want to dig up buried treasure for a living. I'm going to buy a spade.

[jlharris]

Has anybody actually got any tips on share dealing? Always wondered how easy it is, how much money you need to put into it, etc?

[DimPrawn]

Or train up on something on the UK skills shortage list

http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/si...nlistnov11.pdf