ukinvest.com

Advantages: Up to date comapny specific information - at your fingertips
Disadvantages: Unlikely to help me with a high yield stock portfolio

UK-invest [Background: Find out all the latest business news and views in detail at www.ukinvest.com - in association with Freeserve] I recently discovered the site UKInvest (www.ukinvest.com) via a search engine, whilst trying to find some information about a Building Society with which I hold a savings account. After finding an up-to-date article (a press release from that same day) that included all the pertinent information on the potential payouts ...
...receive, I decided to delve a little deeper. To my surprise I found that the site was overflowing with plentiful and pertinent business information. I am the first to admit that this type of site would not appeal to everyone. However, for someone like myself who likes to keep abreast of matters in the financial markets, and in particular a small range of companies in which I have an interest, UKinvest has proved to be a godsend. I can now see at ... Read review

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The single best feature about UKinvest is that it gives the user free access to real-time stock market quotes, it's worth using for this factor alone. Naturally, there's much more to it than that, UKinvest's home page gives you up to date access to major financial headlines and opinion from their wealth of technical writers, including Mike Walters, Alpesh Patel not forgetting Bernice Cohen. There's plenty of USEFUL links and a wealth of archive ...
...found, it offers a number of different views, you can combine more than on Portfolio, eg one for held shares and one for prospects, the facility to view company fundamentals can be very useful, the most widely used must be the 'Performance' option where you can see how much money you are currently losing. Be warned - if you are relying on the displayed data to act on transactions, ALWAYS check the information with at least one other site, none of ... Read review

Advantages: tech charts, loads of info
Disadvantages: sometimes a bit slow

UK-Invest is probably the best equipped site for stock market investment on the net. Sharepages is its only possible rival. If you are into your technical analysis (which I am) then it provides the greatest wealth of charting information. You can get your bollinger bands and various moving averages all plotted for you on this site which saves a lot of time and effort. Apart from that you can also get tons of other useful advice and reports. It's ... Read review

Advantages: absolutely essential for financial gurus and beginners alike
Disadvantages: none

UK Invest is one of the most comprehensive financial sites around and certainly worth a visit as a starting point to investing. Financial and Markets news is updated throughout the day. You can enter a stock's name and get a quote - delayed - but if you register you can get a real time quote. You have an excellent portfolio tool to log your stocks and shares, which you can check throughout the trading day. There are plenty of articles on investing ...
...to invest in. Fantasy Stock trading Competitions are also sometimes featured. Interviews with company CEOs. The days stocks on the move - and comments and analysis on why they have moved. Brokers tips updated weekly and news from World markets. The site also has links to it's sister site america-invest.com, so you can keep up to date throughout the day with what's happening on Wall Street and the Nasdaq. If you are not brave enough to be 'in the ... Read review

Advantages: easy , and in depth
Disadvantages: none

The editor of UKinvest is of course Tom Winnifrith . This is the well repected shares guru who helped front Show Me the Money channel four's daytime hit of the past two years . He is just part of a pretty big behind the scenes team howver at UKinvest which have got together to produce a pretty nifty site for private investors ! Much of the relevant share price information is free which is not always the case with other sites . The site also has ...
...easy and logical manner . The advice they give is not always right of course but then hey no one get's it right all of the time. All in all a good all rounder and a great place to start if you are just starting to reasearch and keep an eye on shares . ... Read review