ADVFN Help Center | Getting Started

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Help / Getting Started

Welcome to ADVFN! – the leading provider of real-time financial information to retail traders and investors around the globe. This guide is for someone who is new to ADVFN or even new to investing. We will try to show you how to navigate the site and use its most common tools. We won't cover everything but will do our best to provide enough information to get you started on your investing journey.

Monitor - Set up your watchlist

What is the Monitor? The monitor is the beating heart of ADVFN. It is basically a watchlist that allows you to view multiple quotes at once. You can create numerous lists with 110 symbols on each and watch the dynamic prices throughout the day. The page is fully customisable, you can add, remove, or create some alerts for any stocks on your monitor. You have complete control over the quote information shown on each page. You can view anything ADVFN has data for within a monitor list, be it shares, indices, forex rates, futures, options, or warrants. If ADVFN has a data feed from an exchange, you should be able to add the instrument from that exchange to your monitor.

IMPORTANT: Make sure you have pop-ups enabled for ADVFN in your browser. This will allow you to add new stocks to the list and customise the columns shown. Note: Price information displayed on your monitor will be either real-time, contended real-time, or delayed, depending on your level of service. Give us a call on 020 3879 4460 to find out more.

Quote - Stock summary

The Quote page allows you to have a general view of a stock. You can see the most important information about stock such as the current price, the change price, the bid and offer… To access this page, click on the second button QUOTE in the header at the very top of the page. You can then enter the name of the stock you are searching for. The Quote page also gives you access to the most recent news about the stock, an overview of the charts and the latest Message Board Discussions.

Charts - Technical analysis

The ADVFN Live charts, allow you to track stock prices in a graphical format, in real time. You can view data from 1-minute bars on intraday charts right up to 1-year bars on charts spread over decades.

Trades - See how the trades are going

To gauge the market sentiment for a share you need to see the trading activity. Check out our Trades page for individual live trades. Our useful colour scheme for Buy and Sell volumes will give you an instant indication of the market trend.

Alerts - Instant price, news and forum notifications

To stay up to date with your stocks set up alerts for instant notifications about news, price movements and forum discussions. Choose to receive an onscreen notification or an email while you are out and about.

News - Real time RNS feed

Every serious investor that wants to make money has to read company reports and have a reliable news feed. With ADVFN News you will get access to important company announcements via the LSE RNS service first hand. Stay up to date with the market thanks to the ADVFN news feed!

Forum – Active share chats

Free to anyone, ADVFN discussion boards are a perfect place for exchanging and gauging opinions on stocks before investing. With thousands of posts every day, you are practically guaranteed to find someone to talk to about any share. When it comes to share chats, ADVFN's community of investors are some of the most helpful, lively and informative around.

ADVFN Level 2 - Order Book

For more advanced traders, ADVFN Level 2 is a must-have tool. It lets you see all orders to buy and sell shares in a company. It shows you how many shares people want and what prices they want to pay or be paid. This Level 2 video below will get your started