5 Essential Tools for Investing in LSE & AIM shares

1. Streaming Charts

With our interactive streaming charts you can track share prices in real time, watching the share price of your favourite stocks as they move throughout the trading day.

Indicators and studies like MACD, Bollinger Bands and RSI are very easy to add to the charts, letting you spot stocks crossing thresholds and meeting your trading criteria immediately.

You can compare different stocks to each other as well as add your own lines, trends and notes directly onto the charts.

Best of all, the data streams live, completely free.

2. Real time share quotes

If you plan to be an active and effective trader you need to know what is happening on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and the Alternative Investment Market (AIM).

You wont be looking at only one stock, so will need a customisable watchlist, capable of showing you live streaming price data for over 100 stocks. ADVFN's Monitor is give you that for free.

As the price data streams live and in real time you don't ever have to hit refresh to get the prices to update. As soon as there is a change in a company's share price it will appear and be highlighted on your Monitor.

All watchlists you set up are automatically synced with the ADVFN app, allowing you to stay up to date wherever you are.

3. Toplists - The day's best and worst shares

Get an overview of the markets at a glance and stay up to date with what's hot on the LSE & AIM today.

When looking for new trading and investing opportunities, Toplists are a great place to start, showing you the stocks that have fallen the most today, the stocks that have risen the most and which shares are being traded the most, both inn terms of volume and overall value.

Toplists include the highest percentage gainers, lowest percentage losers, highest volumes of the day, largest numbers of trades, largest & smallest spreads and the most traded by value.

4. Share Discussion Forums & Chat

Discussion forums filled with knowledgable investors are critical to any successful trader. It is here that you learn how to invest, share your thoughts, discuss charts and learn from other traders' experiences.

Collective intelligence can be extremely powerful if you learn how to harness it.

5. Get all of this for free on ADVFN

To get all of these tools and a lot more, completely free, you just have to register for a free account on ADVFN.

Contact us on 0207 0700 961 and we will set up a free month's trial of Level 2 data at the same time as you sign up.

Happy trading!