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...a Bloomberg terminal for private investors.
MoneyWeek, October 2015
Phil's articles Step-by-Step GuideI was a City analyst for 13 years and then senior investment writer at MoneyWeek. My aim now is to teach users how to become confident analysts and successful stock pickers.
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Why do people invest their money rather than just save? It's not just about growing your savings so that you will have more money in the future. It's about growing the buying power of your money. You want the £1 that you are investing today to buy more things in the future than it does now.
If you are new to investing, you may doubt your ability to match or beat the performance of professional wealth managers or fund managers. But you'll often be paying for mediocre performance and, as a private investor, you have several advantages over the professionals to help you out-perform.
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| Access online anywhere | Yes | Yes | |||
| Compatibility | Tablet, Mac, PC | Tablet, Mac, PC | Windows PC | Windows PC | Windows PC |
| Format | Split-screen | Split-screen | Single window | Multi-window | Multi-window |
| Price updates* | Delayed | Live | Daily | Delayed | Live |
| Stock dashboard | Yes | Yes | |||
| Stock analysis | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Fund analysis | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Technical analysis | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 |
| Filtering (stock screening) | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
| Alerts | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Portfolio management | ISA/SIPP | ISA/SIPP | Any | Any | Any |
| ShareScript language | Yes | Yes | |||
| Telephone & email support | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |