I dont know where the figure of 0.25% for stamp duty came from but the actual figure is 0.5% paid by the purchaser which is why cfd's and sb's and other derivatives are so popular. You only really want to be paying stamp duty if you are interested in the physical for an investment.
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5 years of paper trading !!!
wow thats a long time
remember real trading is nothing like paper
paper can't hurt you !
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you'll be hard pushed to find a website that'll do this
but QuoteTracker free software will do it for you, email alerts that you can copy and paste from excel
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Cancelled Orders Charges - yea depends on the exchange
obviously to try to reduce spoofing and good money for the exchanges that charge it
Point & Figure
Quote Tracker does P&F
But like all these things the tighter the timeframe or in this case the box size the less reliable it is...