ADVFN Review

ADVFN (which stands for Advanced Financial Network) is one of the leading providers of financial information on the internet. It is mainly targeted towards UK-based traders and investors but they also run country-specific websites to satisfy the needs of traders from all around the world.

Whether you are a short-term trader or a long-term investor, you will find pretty much all the financial tools and information you could possibly need at ADVFN. They offer free stock quotes, live streaming charts (and historical charts) on stocks, indices, commodities and currencies, streaming market news and real-time share prices. You will also find a whole wealth of financial information on all the companies listed on the stock exchange.

You can access a lot of these tools for free when you open a free ADVFN account, but for the more serious trader you will probably want to upgrade to one of ADVFN's premium services. These paid services enable you to receive live streaming prices and charts as well as full Level 2 data which is an invaluable service for many short-term traders because it allows you to view the actual order book of any share you want.

Overall I suggest to anyone that is interested in ADVFN's services that they sign up for a free account first of all because even this free service is well worth subscribing to. You can set up your own monitor with real-time share prices (albeit on a limited basis) and you can also access other useful features such as the free forums, which are very popular, the historic stock charts and the financial accounts and data of every listed company.

Also once you sign up for a free account and try out their full range of services, you will then have a good idea of what additional services you may wish to subscribe to in the future to satisfy all of your trading and investing requirements.

To find out more about ADVFN and to sign up for a free account, please click here.