*** Look forwards to seeing some of you on Monday (15th) for the seminar! Those of you booked in please check you have the venue details....

Meanwhile for those of you who can't make it on Monday I have booked the next event which will be Friday November 30th. If you are interested mail me at robbiethetrader@aol.com with "November Seminar interested" in the subject line. More info further below.

And for those of you who have been to one of my seminars before there is a follow up seminar on November 16th where we go more in depth.. again more details below somewhere or mail me for details of that one with "follow up" in the subject line.

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All the hot dates for 2013, like ex dividend dates, likely company reporting dates, sporting events, and even an arrow for each day telling you whether that day has been strong or not in the past. There is also my thought of the week for each week of the year, and some looks at companies reporting on particular weeks.

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We're all getting excited here! At the end of next week we are off on our Florida roadtrip! (With thanks to the amazingly long half-term holiday our school has decided on)

Christopher is so excited he's already packed his bag ready to go though perhaps he doesn't quite get there is still some time to go...

His selection includes a football, cuddly toys, football mags, conkers, and a prized pencilcase.

I've been thinking about packing then realised well, all I need to pack is trousers, shorts, shirts and .. that's about it.

I can't even imagine what Mrs NT is packing but just as well we are going BA business class as if it was Ryanair I suspect her baggage alone would cost at least a grand...

Hotels all over Florida are booked, route is planned and we're beginning to get into holiday mode...

I am sure there will be the usual last-minute panics like how do we get to the airport... where the hell are the tickets and even worse where the hell did we put the passports but I guess as long as we get it together and have us, some clothes and some money we'll be just fine.

More on what we're doing and where we are off to in the next update.

Alpha dad football coach is cross.

The team lost 2-1 on Sunday. (Christopher scored our only goal).

I heard the "Proper" coach from the football place chatting to another saying it was because of the way alpha dad managed the defence. There is some bad politics going on between them....

However in his "match report" after, alpha dad blamed us the parents...

"Many of the players seemed tired before the game had even started"

Ah, so it is the parents' fault! We are sending our children to sleep too late and that's why the game was lost.....

Subtext I guess is if you are allowing them to stay up and watch the X Factor expect them to lose the game, it is nothing to do with my performance as a coach..

Hey, that could be yet another excuse for QPR manager Mark Hughes to use, he must be running out of them!
How about a little retail survey? Does this site just get any more excing.

I went for a little shopping trip to Putney.

I was after:

Waterproof bottoms for cycling.
A milk frother
Get a fun camera developed
Batteries

Here are the results:
Bottoms:

Local cycle shop: 1/10
One assistant busy with another customer. There was a collection of bike clothes but not a bottom to be seen except for shorts. I gave up.

Halfords: 0/10 - As usual Halfords totally useless. You might remember I tried to buy a bike back there a while back but despite having cash in my hand they refused to sell it to me half an hour before the shop shut "in case a customer missed it and they might miss a sale". I shorted the shares the next day and made a packet! A dysmal array of bike clothing worse than the bike shop and definitely no waterproof bottoms.

M and S: 3/10 Getting desperate I tried M and S. They didn't have any but at least someone asked me. The male clothing range looked awful.

SportsDirect 5/10 . Of course we all know the staff there are terrible. But we go there cos it's pile em high sell them cheap. No staff to be seen but found some potential waterproof bottoms. One Dunlop reduced to £14 from £40 and another one reduced to £12. They charged me £20 for the two. Whether either of these are really waterproof though remains to be seen. I fully expect to get wet.

Milk frother:

Rymans: 8/10. Easy peeasy, I found one close to the entrance. Checkout a breeze and they didn't even try and sell me a dud insurance policy! Or did I want a bar of choc for a pound...

Batteries:
Maplins: 10/10 The gold award surprisingly goes to Maplins. I picked up a box of 24 aaa batteries which looked cheap. The assistant at checkout kindly told me it would be cheaper to buy 4 normal packs plus something free and "the batteries were better". Goodness me that is service! She even went and got it all arranged for me. Impressed!!!

Fun camera development:

Jessops 0/10 - I literally tried three times - every time the one assistant there was busy with someone else and it looked like "a long one" - on every visit I could see I'd have to wait ages. I gave up.

Snappy Snaps: 10/10 . Walked in to their helpdesk, served right away, guided well through which snaps I could have and the prices. Picked them up on the way home. Great service.

So retail buys: Snappy Snaps and Maplins. Shorts and my bad service awards jointly to Jessops and Halfords.

I know many of you are thinking: Why on earth are you taking pictures with an old fashioned disposal camera and getting them developed in an old fashioned way - why are you not using an exciting I thing to take pictures with, huh you silly old fart?

Well okay here's why: I do take pictures with a digital camera - and I load them onto the computer and look at them. And there they stay because I can't be bothered to print them out.

With a disposable one I HAVE to get them printed out and over the years I have packets of photos. I can actually handle, put in photo frames etc. So there. Ha.

I look forwards to meeting some of you at the seminar on Monday

I always end up enjoying them. Every one ends up being a bit different as it all depends on who is there and sometimes there are some very different roads we end up in.

Often seminars are also great for my trading as inevitably in all that time some shares come up that I might not otherwise have spotted and researched.

In the years I've been doing them I remember some fantastic ones popping on screens, the best one was the seminar where Mulberry kept appearing at 250... I remember buying the following Monday and although I sold out too early at 950 it was a tremendous profit. And the other really good one was Dialight that was 150 at the seminar and pushes 1200 now. Microgen was also a goodie I remember.

So selfishly hoping to discover something new myself on Monday! Those of you coming doors open 9.30am... follow the signs to Naked Trader..

Please come and register first from 9.30am and then find a seat - coffees will be...(there waiting for you..... And there's another load of coffee and tea and snacks due to arrive at 11am.

Hopefully something nice for lunch and then more snacks a bit later.

Please do not worry if you are late, it's easy to get delayed Mrs NT will direct you to a seat.

Grab a coffee and just relax, I promise to be gentle with you all. I hope you all enjoy the day, as it's live from the markets who knows what will come up. And as you know I talk plain English with none of that idiotic jargon. See you there!

If you couldn't make this Monday's seminar the next one is on November 30th

if you are interested in a seat mail me at robbiethetrader@aol.com for details with November seminar interested" in the subject line.

And the good news is there is a decent early bookers discount! Beginners and improvers welcome! Come and spend the day with me, the markets and some lovely people - and of course, lunch!

If you mail me I will then send you details and a full agenda of what is covered. Also more details below somewhere.

My seminars are designed for beginners, dabblers and improvers and deals with everything from how to look for winners, how to research, spreadbetting, level 2 use how to time trades and short, how to use advfn properly and run your portfolio without having to spend money on systems and tipsters.. and tons more.

A lot of the day comes directly from the live markets and I show you many of the tricks I use to get good prices live. And there might even be the odd live trade or 2!

A follow up with me will be on Friday November 16th at Heathrow. This is for those who've been to a basic seminar with me but now want to improve. So we spend a day of live markets watching level 2, order books as well as researching new shares, coming up with new ideas for longs and shorts, and well, who knows what might happen. I love these days and it usually throws up some new ideas.

Sunday December 9th is the date for another technical analysis seminar with Susan who for many years has made decent money full time by using simple TA. She will teach you all about it in an easy and simple way to help improve buy and sell decisions.

If you're interested in either or both dates, email me at robbiethetrader@aol.com with "follow up", or "TA interested" or "both interested".

Lots of lovely feedback on the last event including this from Janet: "Thank you so much for what was a terrific 12 hour marathon on your part. I feel like I have been through a 12 hour therapy session that has given me back some confidence. I now feel I can indeed make trading work for me, after a few years of trying and testing and not quite comprehending and co-ordinating the right ingredients. The last late session researching various companies was a real help."

And Colin: "Highlights of the day for me were Level 2 and going through the selection process to choose shares. I have followed advice from your book in the past, and it really has worked for me before, but even though I understood the concept of Level 2 I never quite saw the real benefits of it. Two minutes into your explanation of how you use it I was kicking myself. I could not believe that I had done all my trades without it! Watching you check some shares was very useful, especially the speed which you can eliminate or shortlist the numerous possibilities out there. Just watching you doing it showed me how much time I had been wasting doing the same thing but by a much more torturous process."

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I hope you all enjoy it - and can tell I put a lot of effort into it and I really hope if it just stops one person from making the mistakes I did it will be worthwhile.

Indeed I hope the book is worth it even if you read about other people's stories, it is amazing how so many make exactly the same mistakes.

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Spreadbetting firm Tradefair Spreads has upped its offer exclusively to Naked Trader readers to a £100 credit. This offer is exclusive to me and not available anywhere else...
I've been using them for a few weeks to check that I'm happy with the service. As you know I don't take ads or allow referrals on the site unless it's a company I've used and I feel confident about.
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Many of you enjoy the cheap advfn toplists bronze deal through me as do many of you with the cheap level 2. However many of you say you want a half-way house to include real-time share prices always on.
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**** BOOKING OPEN FOR FRIDAY NOVEMBER 30TH *****
Fancy spending a day with me, learning all the ways I have learned over the years to find good shares and play the markets? Well, you can at one of my seminars!
Booking is open for the Naked Trader seminar on Nov 30th

Price is £590 plus vat. That includes three course lunch, coffees, snacks etc. There is currently a decent early bookers discount off that price - mail for details!
The seminar is mainly aimed at beginners and dabblers though improvers are welcome too.
Topics covered using live market feeds all day include: Market psychology, level 2 - a simple guide to how to use it for better timing; how to value companies; finding companies that are about to rise. I will also cover techniques for handling events such as the recent meltdown and volatility.
Spreadbetting: How to use it to gain an edge and go short. Market makers - how they work and how to beat them; how to stop losing money and make it instead and plenty more.
How to plan trade entries and exits - how to research companies and understand reports, plus all those niggly questions you always wanted to ask. How to set stop losses and targets. Charts and how to use them.
Also covered: Market maker tricks: How to spot tree shakes and use them in your favour, How to tell when NOT to buy a share. I use live ADVFN all day with lots of level 2 and looks at all kind of live market data.
The idea behind the seminar is SIMPLICITY. I don't use jargon or fancy words - everything is in PLAIN ENGLISH! No question is too stupid and the event is held in a friendly relaxed and supportive environment.
The idea is you will come away from the event I hope a wise and better investor with lots of new ideas. I try and translate complex topics into easy bite size pieces. I also aim for it to be entertaining as well as instructive.
If you are interested please e-mail me at robbiethetrader@aol.com with "Nov seminar interested" in the subject line and I will send you full details of the event including comments from those who have come to previous seminars and you can then decide whether you would like to come. See you there!
One seminar attendee Clare wanted to write a testimonial about her experiences at the seminar which follows now!
"I've just come back buzzing from one of Robbie's seminars. What a day! He's just brilliant, and manages to pack an awful lot into one day, and with his enthusiastic and humorous delivery the day just flies by. There are no gimmicks, no sell, no "˜get-rich-quick' promises, just his own solid, sound approach which he has learnt over the years and which works.
He shows you how to minimise the risks and maximise the profits and points out the banana skins on the way. Where the seminar really comes into its own is when he teaches using live level 2. Hearing him talk through his thought processes and reasoning is invaluable, and really brings home everything from the book. He has endless patience answering peoples' questions, and really seems to care that everybody understands.
On top of that, you meet some really nice like minded people and swap e mail addresses, you're plied with
chocolates and coffee all day, have a great lunch and spend the evening getting tiddled with Robbie in the
bar afterwards! You might even get to see the amazing crocodile boots . . . .
Don't worry about the cost, it's easily worth it, and you'll soon make it back with your new-found investment skills, and in what you're no longer losing. If you're thinking of going along to his next seminar, whether you're a novice or an experienced trader, don't hesitate ""just go!
Thanks Clare, did you want the tenner in cash, or will a cheque do?

I've started using Tradefair for spreadbetting - I like the auto generated stop losses which help to maintain discipline and that's good for beginners I think. And exclusively for Naked Trader readers they upped the offer to £100 credit.
So there's now a £100 credit on offer for anyone opening an account via me. You get that after 5 spreadbets (terms and conditions apply)
To get the offer, click here:
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Thank goodness the party conferences are over. I couldn't bear to watch any of them and I switch off whenever a politician appears now. I guess I've had enough...

Why is Boris so popular is the big question..

And I think the answer is, well, he says what he thinks. He doesn't necessarily "toe the party line".

Which really is what's wrong with politics at the mo and why nothing gets done.

And you get the feeling Boris might really get things done. He would do stuff, not just talk in soundbites.

And what a lot of soundbites we had from all the parties. But just words. Nothing behind them.

One thing we have to do urgently and stop access to the NHS from health "tourists". No other country allows this.

I heard one NHS worker who called a phone in to say it was much easier just to treat an obvious illegal.

She says the paperwork/time/hassle involved in a challenge etc is not worth it. Even worse, chances are she said she would just be deemed as a rascist. Terrible.

Great to have Homeland back. Though after a dearth of anything to watch they managed to schedule the 3 things I'd watch all together, Homeland, Dragons Den and Downtown Abbey.

Given you can only record two shows at a time on Sky, I did some fiddling around and set up to record the repeats!

Good though Homeland was I doubt it will be as good as the first series because we kind of know all about Brody's secrets now. So that won't make it as great and possibly you could feel there was no need for a second series.

But though not as good as first time round it is still one of the most watchable shows and we can settle in to watch it as does the President of the US himself.

Bates continues to look younger with every episode in Downton - I just wish I could spend a few weeks in that prison - I know how much younger I would look....

Good old Nucky is back in Boardwalk Empire on Sky Atlantic, if you didn't catch this first time up might be worth a catch up, especially if you like The Sopranos.

Duncan continues to give away no money whatsoever on Dragons Den. And no-one seems to want an offer from poor old Hilary. But then she looks a bit crazy at the mo.

Hotel GB proved a total disaster - all those Ch4 egos in one place. One has to suggest they are all second-rate entertainers rather than experts..

Lady Ga Ga followed Justin Bieber in puking up on stage. I presume while being sick she maintained a P P Poker face...

The spreadbetting firm I use for sports betting is here:
Via this link Open a Sporting Index account and there's £100 cash offer - please check terms and conditions which apply.

http://www.sportingindex.com/?tpid=6755
Do remember if you do bet you ought to treat sports spreadbetting as entertainment - and expect to lose! Also with spreadbetting work out what your max loss could be and make sure you can afford it! In other words if you say backed the favourite at 15 for a fiver and they come nowhere your max loss is £75.

Anne writes :
Agree about facebook - the youngsters who leapt onboard when it started,
posting dire photos of them doing things they shouldn't are now grown up and
getting on in their careers and errrrrr wondering if that photo of them
mooning in the disco in Majorca was a good idea!

Nice to think I am not the only unsociable grump to not want to follow the
minutiae of my friends and colleagues mostly boring lives!

I am in the states just now and feel the Starbucks asking name thing is just
more marketing bollocks to get them noticed. If they just speeded up the
service I might go there but americans seem to need all this 'service
bollocks' to make them think they are getting their moneys worth.

Thanks Anne,
well of course I agree, it's nearly all bollocks!

Duane writes:
Wanted to say a big thank you to you and Mrs NT for an amazing day of learning and fun at your seminar.

The way you explained the share trading from start to finish was understandable and really interesting, well worth the seminar fee!
It was great to hear such down to earth and honest assessment from a successful trader like yourself. The way you explained everything was good revision from your book and gave further insight into successful share trading.

I particularly liked your live trades and going through your accounts when you gave snippets of why you invested in certain shares and why you kept/dumped them. Also helpful was the way you searched for prospective shares and within minutes discounted them or put them on a short list for further examination and correct entry points. Amazing!
You could really tell that you loved doing what you do and your energy levels to keep going till 10pm was well....... I had to leave at 9pm I was shattered!

Thanks again Robbie I am keen to put into practice what you have taught me. Even though you make squillions from your trades and I am sure don't need to do the seminars for financial gain, but please keep doing those seminars for newbies like me!

Thanks Duane! Don't expect to be doing them foreever but very rewarding for me to help people so expect to carry on for a while longer.
Gabriel writes:
If you are reading this, you are perhaps considering going on one of Robbie's Seminars. You maybe asking yourself (like I did) the testimonials are all well and good but once the euphoria and excitement of attending a Seminar has died down ..... and I am back home in my normal routine and faced with the "graft" of putting it all into practice... will I become a better trader and be financially better off?
Let me tell you that in my case it certainly has!
Book your place pretty sharpish....... is what I say !

Thanks Gabriel!

Terry writes:
Fantastic seminar.

I have always been sceptical of the public testaments you see on web sites
saying how great an event was. Now I'm one of those people!. I
genuinely believe that the tips and techniques as well as the overall
approach you demonstrated will radically improve my trading performance

Thanks Terry, well all the testaments are real but know what you mean and glad you feel it was worth it!
Stephen writes:
I read your book and did the course - and I wasn't sure if I'd recoup the cost, it's been 2 years and I've made £38k + saved a loss transferring a Jupiter ISA heavily invested in BP. I can't tell you how important this is or how grateful I am. That's just me, who knows how much people have made with your help and saved by not making mistakes. I wanted to get into shares as they recovered after the crunch, but I assumed I had to put a large amount in one company I thought would make a big jump.
But what happens when you make £1m on the website, will you still do courses? I don't know how you do your ISA and SIPP investments, write the website, books, courses and answer e-mails. But please don't give it up. Couldn't you do the courses and have a standing website which gets updated with your trades say once a month so people can see what you do..

Stephen thanks so much for such a nice mail and much appreciated! Dunno about the future, I feel like I'm getting jaded. It's possible I might just reduce it all at some point to twice a month after going weekly - that would probably help. The other problem is other people's angst is getting to me and the email workload becoming overwhelming. I think after ten years it might be time for me to quit. Anyway good luck with your trades and hope you make a lot more.

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Well, looking at the FTSE it has been in a tight range for some time, roughly 5700-5900 though right now it seems to want to dip a bit.

Despite all the Euro gloom there is no big sign a meltdown is coming, however given October is notorious for big pullbacks.. a.. erm pullback would be no surprise. But again it would also be no surprise is a pullback was bought either. If only I knew I would tell you.

If someone writes somewhere or says they know and this is what will happen you are being bstted!

Hmm, I realised with a shock I am away in the States for some time from the end of next week!

And while I will have my laptop and access to the net, the time zone isn't very condusive!

Always a problem to know what to do when away. After all it is supposed to be a holiday. Trailing stops certainly help.

However what it must mean for me is some deleveraging, cut back anything that is volatile, topslice a few winners and probably resist buying very much till after the hols.

After all why be greedy? I already made much more this year than I ever thought possible at the start of it - so the main thing now is not to throw those profits away.

And the last thing I want to do is worry about shares while on holiday. And given October can be dodgy it seems a good time to bank some profits.

However one buy was one I could not resist and that was in St Ives (SIV) - a share I have looked at a few times before but always rejected as it looked a bit boring.

However, maybe not any longer!

St Ives seems to be transforming itself from a dull old fashioned printer into a new whizzy high tech one. And doing it fast. It's been buying up other companies to help its transition and it's got some decent contracts with the likes of Sainsburys and HSBC.

Its new strategy is paying off and the shares look very cheap to me even though they have already gone up quite a bit and I missed some of the boat I actually think they are worth 150-200 rather than a quid.

So the plan is to tuck them away for longer-term growth - and I bought some in two lots, at 93.5 and 97.25.

My target is to hopefully get at least 50% out of them in time, and maybe even a double over say a year.

Long-term hold Carclo started to get a battering and with sellers on the advance I topsliced some at 418.06.. however I could hardly resist buying those back at 345 when it seemed like a weird panic had set in. A reassuring statement calmed the market and I think it should now calm down - should be a nice calm long-term hold with several very promising streams of revenue. i closed out the last web trade to bank £328.

As I said above with holidays in mind I am in a selling mood. Not necessarily sell all - but some of the recent good gainers. With the rises some of them had built up into way too big stakes and I would rather go on hols holding some cash and smaller stakes to be on the safe side.

Candidates for the topslicing, part profit banking included shares with a good run that had stalled, and those where stakes had built up too much, so partly sold are:

Trinity (all) went at 64.5 for a profit of £720, Bvc at 17.3 for a profit of £480, Ftc at around 42 for a profit of £675 (Holding tightly onto a good chunk though). Ght refused to budge past 73 so went at 71.6 for a profit of £368 .Also some apr at 827 for a profit of £746.. and the Spt spreadbet is axed at 152 for a profit of £900.

Difficult to translate those into web trades (ie I am too lazy) so where there is more than one position on the site I sold the last one published.

All of which banked profits seals a profit for the site of £4,217

Some decent reports from some of the holdings in the last few days.

Telecom Plus made a statement - everything still looks good there - its high growth continues and even better it says dividends are going to shoot up which is great for me as I get massive cheques from thgis company in dividends and it is a great income. Website profits of well over £100,000 and personal profits of nearly £300,000. Just a reminder I am biased as a distributor for many years. If you are interested in residual income from selling its products do mail me. And if you want the cheapest gas,elec, phone, broadband, mobile all in one deal also contact me. You get cheap, I get residual income and as an extra you get my weekly email !

Also reporting was LOQ which announced a brilliant contract win in the Netherlands - massive profits in this one where I have trebled my money but I feel more to come!

Star iof the week award goes to recent top up CML which has risen very strongly and I think there is more to come! It seems to want to head over 400 and with a lot of buying coming in, one to stay on the right side of.

Sepura has rocketed skywards nicely with decent profits building - I would have thought at some point they should hit the 100 level.

Sporting Bet bid is still ongoing - should know by next time what happened! Still glad I sold a big chunk to take profits. I think I will probably sell most of the rest if nothing happens shortly. Doesn't seem to be any counter bids right now, so again I suspect the shares will either go to 60-65p or else back down to 40p! (Might well be a nice buy at lower levels if the bid doesn't come off)

Vectura reported more good news this week with another drug looking like a possible winner. It has zoomed up this week and brilliant profits building there now. Indeed it seems to be on another good day today and 100 beckons? Dialight continues its brilliant progress, and my profits are well over £100,000 on it. Trying to knock above 1200 at the moment, although it can't seem to hold that and it's struggling for that but continues to look a long-term winner with even more upside. I remember so well buying these at 150 ish at a seminar in 2009 ! I never thought I'd still have them three years later at near 12 quid. Averaging up in these has made me a real fortune.

Lavendon tries hard to get above the 150 level. Spreadbet Keller has done well, can it break up through the 550 though?

Chime continues to spike up on good volumes. Still in this from 50p so a nice times four and a great profit on the ones bought more recently in the 140s and the spreadbet.

In the shorts department Abcam can't seem to fall below 400, Carpetshite continues to devy gravity or any explanation as to why its shares are rated like a tech company's. Some profits building in the Dominos short and hoping for a bit more there.

Nichols continues to slowly rise day by day and profits are now rolling in nicely... I'm hopeful of a bid at around the tenner mark. It tries to push 800p today. If the Britvic- AG Barr merger is called off both will want to snap up Nichols.
Long termer Entertainment One surprised the market with the buying of Alliance .. but seems like a good move - still over doubled on the initial buys - and sticking in for much more upside will be the wise move I think.

Brilliant GB Group is rising again after coming back on profit taking. I have trebled and doubled on it now, I would hope it will gradually drift up to the 100p mark by year end.

Sitting on a very nice profit on Greencore which has soared higher and paid a dividend too! A reminder you can spend a day with me and live markets on November 30th. Email me at robbiethetrader@aol.com with "November seminar interested" in the subject line.
I've been getting e-mails regarding my use of direct market access and who I use. I've tried a few and for me the easiest system for me is here:
http://www.igmarkets.co.uk/?QPID=1079&QPPID=1
Direct market access means you can place orders directly onto the order book bypassing brokers and market-makers with a chance to buy at the "sell" price. I would suggest you ensure you know what you're doing first but IG does provide much education with its "tradesense" educational tool which comes with it.
I also use its spreadbetting service too along with other firms like Tradefair because it now provides trailing stops which to me is a pretty sensible way of trading. Also with this link there is an excellent education programme and it offers the biggest range of smaller shares.

www.Igindex.com/nakedtrader
As usual before opening accounts please read all the warnings on the sites. You can lose a lot of money if you're not careful so pay close attention to them and make sure you always understand what you are doing and what your potential losses are.

I've also started using Tradefair for spreadbetting - I like the auto generated stop losses which help to maintain discipline and that's good for beginners I think. And exclusively for Naked Trader readers they upped the offer to £100 credit.
So there's now a £100 credit on offer for anyone opening an account via me. You get that after 5 spreadbets (terms and conditions apply).
To get the offer, click here:
http://www.tradefair.com/promo/spreads/nakedtrader100/

If you want to get the contents of The Naked Trader website into your mailbox instead of waiting for the update to come through, plus exclusively news on the progress of my SIPP from the old Sunday Times column inc new higher risk Aim buys made for that, e-mail me at robbiethetrader@aol.com with SIPP in the subject line for details of how to get it.

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It's called residual income and is a far better way to enjoy a ripe old age than relying on a pension. Because even after you stop selling the money STILL comes in!
I still get paid EVERY MONTH for sales I made back in 1999! Every time a customer uses broadband or the phone or switches on a light you get paid.
It's a great business and backed by a stock market company (Telecom Plus), a dedicated team of advisors.. and me to help you on your way!
Not only do you get paid out every month for each customer you can take on distributors. encourage them like I do and get paid on their sales as well.
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You have to work at it, but if you do genuine repeat wealth could be yours. I did it. You can too. For full details, why not email me at robbiethetrader@aol.com.
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Trade tables follow! Trades are current open and recently closed trades. Closed trades feature the closing price and the amount I won or lost. All others are open. Trades get updated a little later than the narrative. Trading costs are ignored, however I also do not add in dividend payments and with the kinds of companies I buy, dividends tend to equal or outweigh costs. Spread rollovers ignored for web purposes. Tables as accurate as poss however a mistake or two can creep in and very occasionally if I forgot I sold or bought something it will be added at a later time.
Trades first reported Wednesday afternoons under "Markets" section..