digitallook.co.uk

Advantages: Comprehensive financial markets site
Disadvantages: Pages can be slow loading

For the serious share person, this site is a tremendous tool to have in your toolbox. To learn of its complexities takes time and level headed removal of the wheat from the chaff, but the key serious advantages of this site are given below. Upon joining www.Digitallook.com, (which is free) you are given a "Home page" in which you can "Configure your account" to alter your personal profile, accept news alerts by e-mails, mobile options such as SMS ...
...so you have to enter a number of favourite stocks to watch in "My portfolio" first, so the logical order seems back to front to me, however, once you have selected a stock to watch ...click on it, and you get a huge range of company information and tools. Note you can be alerted from one to all companies you list, or mix and match. Included in "My Portfolio" are Company profile, Recent News articles, Sharecast News, Recent Tips, Recent News wires, ... Read review

Advantages: Comprehensive
Disadvantages: Loads of advertising

Digitallook.com is an interseting and comprehensive web site which provides invaluable information for the small investor. The site has a multitude of options some of which include; Tips page , a company reasearch page and details of the history of the share price of the company that you are interested in researching. One word of warning though. If you subscribe to their Email service where they keep you informed of latest developments they tend ... Read review

Advantages: Free Tools, news alerts
Disadvantages: popups, crowded page display

I have read the other reviews on this site, and I think they are missing one of the sites key attractions: stock picking. There are all too few sites which provide free tools to select stocks, and digital look is the only one I have found (although I have stopped looking as it does the job for me). From the login page (free to sign up), select the tools tab, stock screener and you can select shares from any sector of any UK index based on one or ...
...a whole lot. Essentially if you have read a book on share picking and want a site to throw up some lists of shares which will meet the criteriea discussed in the book, this is the tool to do it with. In addition, and as mentioned on another post here, the email alerts are very good, linking to the broadsheet newspapers and also magazines and online sites. Citiwire also provide this service and I receive them as well, but I think the digital look ... Read review

Advantages: Free emails with all the finance news
Disadvantages: No streaming prices

This website is a superb time saver as you can receive a whole host of emails on companies held in your portfolio or general market news. They even cover tips and analysis and stop one having to trawl the web for endless peices of research. I'm busy enough as it is, so to receive a daily email with all the news on my stocks is superb. They will also update you on things such as brands, share perks and both director and institutional share dealings ...
...Stock selection tools and charting are also pretty good. You can put in your own criteria for stock selection and it'll pop out the answers for you. For these more advanced tools you will have to register. There is also educational guides to mortgages and credit cards etc which I found useful. Basically a good all-round investor website which is still somehow free and appears popular. ... Read review