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TRADING
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Interbank
dollarinvest.com
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No great surprise that some of the biggest
players in the forex and currency futures
markets online should be the Swiss banks. This
website of the First Securities and Trust
Company, based in Zurich, promises 'financial
stability and integrity' and offers the
customer 'peace of mind'. Whether you can
maintain peace of mind while gambling millions
of pounds on spot rises of half a penny all
depends on your psychological sang froid we
suppose.
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CMC Group plc
www.forex-cmc.co.uk
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Billing themselves 'the world leaders in
Internet, forex and derivatives trading,' CMC
is the first company in the world to offer
real-time Internet dealing in foreign exchange
(forex). Security is tight, the site using
128-bit encryption software. Dealing is not
actually via the web, but is a live direct
connection between dealer and client. Normal
deal execution time is two seconds. For
execution only, which means you make the
buying and selling decisions.
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Forex TRC
www.forex-trc.com
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Their mission? To help you learn or perfect a
unique way to earn an independent living
harvesting net profits from daily up and down
price movements within the global currency
markets - the world's most profitable trading
markets. In short, they're inviting the day
traders to get involved in a global market
with an annual daily turnover of $1.5trillion,
which makes the global equities market look
like a quiet day in Romford Woolworths.
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Gen-FX
www.gen-fx.com
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Nothing to do with picking up your drachma
before your trip to Greece, this site is
dedicated to the business of betting on minute
percentage point shifts in currencies around
the globe. Like so many financial products
forex is now being dragged out of the dealing
rooms of the City and onto the world wide web.
Dangerous stuff in the hands of amateurs you
may think, but could you do worse than some of
the professionals.
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Gold Eagle
www.gold-eagle.com
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The shine may have gone off this most
precious of metals recently, as the UK
Treasury has led the way in flogging the stuff
off. But doubters should heed the words of the
Gold Eagle Philosophy: 'Our credo is based on
the idea that knowledge is not only power, it
is money. For wisdom is a defense, and money
is a defense. But the excellency of wisdom is
that it will produce wealth for those who
possess the knowledge.'
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LIFFE
www.liffe.com
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Previously the preserve of stripy-shirted
financial terrorists, the futures and options
markets are increasingly being opened to the
braver small investor and day trader. LIFFE's
site provides all you need to get started with
its UK Private Investor Centre. After all,
since the trading pit gave way to electronic
dealing you can trade as easily from your back
bedroom in Brighton as in a chrome and glass
tower in EC1.
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Rating : 3/5
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Online Exchange
www.forex-mg.com
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Money Garden Financial Group is an
Internet-based company dedicated to
introducing the foreign exchange market to
self-traders and enabling them to trade
currencies online. Their aim? 'Providing our
customers with the highest quality of trade
execution and the tools to make intelligent
trades.' Of course, if you 'start trading
today' as Online Exchange invites, it's
questionable how intelligent your trading will
be, but there is a section on the risks of
forex trading.
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Reality Based Trading
www.rb-trading.com
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Some of the day traders betting the family
cat on the latest redhot Internet stock could
do a lot worse than sitting down and coolly
reading through Reality Based Trading for a
few hours. It's the legacy of the late Bruce
Babcock, professional futures trader and very
rich man. Bruce's thing was futures and
derivatives. Fiendishly complex? Not the way
Bruce talks about them, with his mission to
demystify for the masses.
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Shoplocator
www.shoplocator.com
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A pretty straightforward set of links to the
major players in online share dealing - E*
Trade, Charles Schwab and Nasdaq Techology
Stocks among them. Particularly useful if you
are planning to trade on the US markets, as
some of the biggest American firms are listed
here, and they tend, at present, to be a
little more competitive on price for their
home market.
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Daytrading Stocks
www.daytradingstocks.com
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Daytrading has been increasingly in the news
of late. Notwithstanding the failed trader who
walked into an Atlanta daytrading shop and
started blasting everything in site,
daytrading stocks and shares show no signs of
tailing off, as Americans and increasing
numbers of Brits dream of getting rich quick
through stocks and shares. Such is the quality
and accessibility of data on excellent sites
like this one that it's easy to get online and
deal.
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Find
www.find.co.uk/advice
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You'll discover that Find pops up again under
insurance companies, but we make no apologies
for a second appearance by this excellent
financial portal. It really does do the whole
job for you of finding a UK share dealing
service, whether it's the indies like the
Share Centre or global behemoths like Charles
Schwab. There's a brief editorial overview on
each, and a comparison of charges and features
at your fingertips.
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Freequotes
www.freequote.com
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The words 'non profit' jump out of this site
at you like a hamburger in a health food shop.
Freequote is a swiftly growing, non-profit and
research membership association for individual
investors. There are stock quotes and charts,
chat rooms, news and other investment tools
and software, all altruistically provided to
empower the new breed of small investor. And
there's a default portfolio to get you
started, so you can playing at investing
before you risk any money.
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Screentrade
www.screentrade.com
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Reduce premiums on the spot, then buy online
or by phone" invites the website. An
irresistible offer. Screentrade isn't an
insurance company but a broker, so it is able
to offer the best deal to fit your
circumstances from the thousands of policies
on the market. Brightly attractive site,
simple and quick to navigate and you can buy a
policy by tapping in your Visa, Mastercard or
Switch number. What could be easier?
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