UK Direct Trading ? Real-time data?

[fgarcia]

I'm an experienced independent trader in US stock markets but I'm completely new to the UK market. I'm interested in:
- Direct trading US-like (say, 1/10 of a second order filling?) or the nearest aproach possible in UK brokerage. Note: In US I use IB. IB also covers UK, but only big caps).
- Real time stock prices. I presume the broker supplies this data, so nothing else is needed, is that so?
- Real time charts. Live charts preferably.
I would be thankful if someone could help me in this search.

 

[Jerry Medved]

Cannot help with the trading specific questions. As for live prices/charts, get Medved QuoteTracker:
http://www.quotetracker.com

Works with US as well as UK securities. For UK, your best bet is to use it in conjunction with MoneyAM datafeed:
http://www.quotetracker.com/moneyAM

 

[Lord Flasheart]

As far as i know IB do small caps as well

 

[fgarcia]

You can paste this address : http://www.interactivebrokers.com/cgi-pub/exchange_display_web.pl?einfo=ukLSE2&file=LSE.html and see for yourself the stocks they trade in LSE. Very few, really.