Recent content by ChrisDragonKni

I'm looking for some information on the London Stock Exchange circuit breaker rules. What percentage drops trigger a break and how long do these last for? Are they linked to individual stocks or to the index as a whole? Thankyou in advance.

Yes I do agree with you that real estate has intrinsic value but what you cannot do is take it somewhere else if a government should decide to levy a wealth or land tax (or confiscate it all together). With gold these things are possible. Having said that I would prefer to invest in real estate...

Does anyone know of a simple realtime charting software which will plot the difference between 2 symbols? I have found lots of commercial software which is bloated for this simple requirement.

I am in a very similar situation. I am at university so dont have much spare money. I opened an account with oanda and put $300 in it. OK so I'm not exactly gonna make a fortune with such a small amount. But at least I am learning emotionally, to trade real money rather than just with the demo...