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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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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.' |
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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: 3/5 |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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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