I'm in the market to buy some shares and I have been looking for a decent UK stock broker. My top choices so far seem to be an IG stock broking account or a TD Direct Investing account.
I'm going to be relatively low activity trader so TD Direct Investing isn't idea as it has a £10 per quarter inactivity fee. IG stock broker is better as there is no inactivity fee (well there is if you are inactive for 2 years but I plan to be more active than that) but it doesn't offer shares on the NYSE.
So basically I'm looking at buying shares in the:
FTSE 100
FTSE 250
NASDAQ
NYSE
and maybe even in some Asian exchanges.
One thing I'd really really love is API access so I can write programs to query my holdings. From what I have read this normally requires direct market access which I am not adverse to getting if it means I can use it in my own programs. But that is a nice to have feature not a must have.
Can anyone recommend any decent stock brokers to me at all based on the above?
If you need any more information let me know.
Thanks!
I'm going to be relatively low activity trader so TD Direct Investing isn't idea as it has a £10 per quarter inactivity fee. IG stock broker is better as there is no inactivity fee (well there is if you are inactive for 2 years but I plan to be more active than that) but it doesn't offer shares on the NYSE.
So basically I'm looking at buying shares in the:
FTSE 100
FTSE 250
NASDAQ
NYSE
and maybe even in some Asian exchanges.
One thing I'd really really love is API access so I can write programs to query my holdings. From what I have read this normally requires direct market access which I am not adverse to getting if it means I can use it in my own programs. But that is a nice to have feature not a must have.
Can anyone recommend any decent stock brokers to me at all based on the above?
If you need any more information let me know.
Thanks!
