sharebuilder.com

Advantages: Cheap dealing costs
Disadvantages: You are tied to fixed days for dealing

OK, so you may consider that this is the wrong time to even think about buying shares since the stockmarket has dropd by about 30% in the last few months. Well, if you are an optimist and think that we may be at the start of a market recovery then you might be interested in opening an account with Halifax Sharebuilder. The Sharebuilder is new concept tht allows you to buy or sell shares for only £1.50 per deal which is considerably cheaper than ...
...I have accounts with TD Waterhouse, Comdirect and Selftrade and these costs range from £9 to £15 per deal. All you have to do to set up an account is go to www.halifax.co.uk/online and go to the Sharedealing/Sharebuilder homepage, choose the Sharebuilder tab and then open and fund your new account. You can fund your account by direct debit or by debit ard. You are then given a choice of four payment dates that you want Halifax to debit your account ... Read review

Advantages: enter the stock market game without risking a fortune
Disadvantages: fixed buying days,

HALIFAX SHAREBUILDER IS A FUN WAY TO INVEST IN SHARES WITH AS LITTLE AS £20.00 A MONTH.OPENING AN ACCOUNT ON WWW.HALIFAX-ONLINE.CO.UK WAS NO DIFFERENT TO OPENING A BANK ACCOUNT YOU NEED 3 ID'S TO VERIFY WHO YOU ARE .ECT.COULD TAKE A LITTLE TIME TO GET STARTED.ONCE YOU ARE UP AND RUNNING YOU CAN PAY AS LITTLE AS £20.00 A MONTH DIRECT DEBIT OR REGISTER A CARD FOR ONE OFF PAYMENTS.{CARD PAYMENTSTAKE 3-5 WORKING DAYS TO REACH YOUR ACCOUNT} THERE ARE ...
...BUY YOUR SHARES.THIS IS THE BEST WAY TO RUN YOUR ACCOUNT AS CHARGES ARE LOW £1.50 + 0.5% STAMP DUTY.{TAKE INTO ACCOUNT ONE OFF PAYMENTS TAKE LONGER TO REACH YOUR ACCOUNT. I.E SET DATE MON 12TH ONE OFF PAYMENT MUST BE MADE 3-5 WORKING DAYS BEFORE. REAL TIME DEALING CAN ALSO BE USED BUT CHARGES ARE HIGH. VALUE UPTO £250.00 FOR SELLING £5.00 + BUYING £11.95.. OVER £250.00 £11.95 FOR BUYING AND SELLING. ALTHOUGH YOU WILL BE CHARGED £5.00 FOR SELLING ... Read review

Advantages: Buying stocks on your time and budget
Disadvantages: None

WWW.SHAREBUILDER.COM If you are looking to invest on line this company online might just be your answer to investing. I recently was surfing the web when I came across this wonderful site. Sharebuilder allows you to purchase Stocks, Bonds, and other Funds via their site for low, low fees. What Sharebuilder does is it allows you to purchase stock on your budget and when you want to. The site allows you to set up an account for free. Once you have ...
...purchasing plan. The "plan" as it is called allows you to purchase stocks when you want to. You can use check, credit cards as forms of payment. The difference between Sharebuilder and other sites is that when you buy stock from them you buy at par value, this means that if a stock is $15 U.S.Dollars per share and you only want to spend $20 dollars a month you actually are buying 1.25 shares. Plus Sharebuilder works with your budget and only purchases ... Read review

Advantages: Drip money in to stockmarket, low charges
Disadvantages: Fixed dealing date

As someone with only a few investments, I thought this sounded like a great idea - you can invest monthly with as little as £20, dealing charges of only £1.50 per stock (so be careful not to put little amounts into lots of stocks) and all held online. And indeed it is - you set the account up with the usual hassles (all in the good cause of preventing money laundering and so on) of finding bills, bank statements etc., and then choose whether to ...
...found the one-off to be easier; that way I can invest different amounts each month depending on how well off I am (and that surely will be a consideration - people with ample funds don't need a service like this one). Timing is the one tricky part - you need to do your research in advance and then pick your shares, but of course don't want those shares to alter price radically when the time comes for them to be bought (you can pick from 4 "buying ... Read review

Online investment tools are excellent and easy to use. I would like to see stocks or funds selected from the internationational arena.